Date: March 1, 1973

Time: 9:47 am ­ 10:44 am

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Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Prisoners of war [POWs]

-List

-Dates of release

-Release

-Transportation

-Starting time

President’s press conference

International Conference on Vietnam

-Signing of documents

-Kissinger’s handling

-William P. Rogers

Berlin Wall crises

-Malcolm E. Smith, Jr.’s book [Kennedy’s 13 Great Mistakes in the White House]

-John F. Kennedy

-Skybolt decision

-Nassau meeting

-France, Great Britain

-[Maurice] Harold Macmillan, Gen. Charles A. J. M. de Gaulle

– De Gaulle’s veto of common market entry

-Withdrawal from NATO

-Kennedy’s handling

-Kissinger’s article in Reporter

Kennedy’s handling of foreign policy

-Cuban missile crisis

Italy, Turkey, Great Britain, France

-Skybolt

-Nassau meeting

-Public relations

-Compared with President

-Jordan crisis

-India-Pakistan war

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-Cien Fuegos

National Security Council [NSC] meetings

-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

-Frequency

-Subject

-George P. Shultz and Richard G. Kleindienst

-Attendance

-John N. Mitchell, John B. Connally

-European Economic Community [EEC]

-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]

-New European policy

-Pentagon

-Elliot L. Richardson, Rogers

-Changes

-William P. Clements, Jr., [David] Kenneth Rush, Rogers

-attendance

-precedent

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

-Deputies

-Richardson

-Balance of views

-Meeting on Latin America

-Rush

-Subjects

-SALT, Europe, Latin America

-Kissinger’s report

World report

-Completion

-Kissinger’s trips

Treasury Department

-Shultz

-Under Secretary candidate

-Helmut (“Hal”) Sonnenfeldt

-Sonnenfeldt

-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

-Intelligence

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-Hard-line attitude

-Replacement

-Lawrence S. Eagleburger

-Desire to leave

-Promotion

-Transfer to new position

-Defense Department

-Richardson

-International Security Affairs [ISA]

-Candidate

-Chuck Cooper

-Relations with Kissinger

Treasury Department

-Shultz

-East-West trade

-William E. Simon

-Prospects

-Shultz

-Value to administration

-Toughness

-Compared to Connally

-Public relations finesse

-Thoughtfulness

-Loyalty

-Peter G. Peterson

-Departure

-Behavior since departure

-Job offer

-Comments against administration

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 9:56 am.

POWs’ release

-Press relations

-Henry A. Kissinger’s call to President

-Governors’ dinner

-Kissinger, Haldeman, Ziegler, President’s knowledge

-Relations with North Vietnam

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-Behind the scenes action

-Rogers

-Troop withdrawals

-Messages

-Compared with Jordan crises

-State Department

-Compared to India-Pakistan negotiations

-Air craft carrier

-West Pakistan

-Press relations

-Headlines

-Washington Star

-Ziegler’s briefing

-President’s call to Ziegler

-John C. Arbuckle

-Associated Press [AP]

Vietnam settlement

-Press questions on President’s reaction to settlement

-Statement for press

-Implementation of agreement

-POW release

-Highest priority item

-US position

-Linkage with other issues

-Troop withdrawals, mines

-North Vietnam’s adherence

-Cease-fire

-Nguyen Van Thieu

-Rationale for war

-POWs

-Ziegler’s press briefing

-President’s reaction

-Thieu

-POWs release

Ziegler left at 10:05 am.

Golda Meir’s visit

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-Crisis

-United Nations [UN] condemnation of airliner destruction

-Meir’s visit to US

-Election in Israel

-John A. Scali

-Conversation with Israel’s UN ambassador [Yosef Tekoah]

-Yitzhak Rabin

-Tekoah’s partisanship

Negotiations and weapons

-Meir’s position

-Interim agreement

-Running in election

-Interim settlement

-Private talks

-President’s request

-Anwar el-Sadat

-Egypt, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]

-Initiative

-Airplanes

-Briefing paper

-Defense Department recommendations

-US aid

-Purchase, production

-Kissinger’s recommendations

-Number of airplanes

-F-4s and A-4s

-Meir’s political position

-President’s dealings with Meir

-Airplane production, purchase

-Numbers

-State Department

-Area of discussion

-Delivery

Alliance For Progress

-Disaster

-Latin America

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-Results

-Brazil

-Communist

Kennedy’s foreign policy

-Smith’s book

-Europe

-Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

-Konrad Adenauer, Ludwig Erhard

-De Gaulle

-Opinion of Kennedy

-Roland Evans

-Adenauer

-Jacquelline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis’s statement

-Pierre Salinger’s statement

-Opinion of Kennedy

-Germany’s domestic politics

-Willy Brandt

-Chancellor

-Christian Democratic Party

-Adenauer, Erhard’s departure

-Offset agreement

-Socialist parliamentary coalition

-Brandt, Karl Schiller

-Brazil

-Joas Goulart

-Indonesia

-Achmed Sukarno

-Relations with Europe

-Eisenhower

-Compared with John Foster Dulles

-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]

-Adenauer, Germany

-De Gaulle

De Gaulle

-American press reports

-Kennedy

-President’s opinion

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-Charles E. (“Chip”) Bohlen

-Reaction to France’s withdrawal from NATO

-Economics

-EEC

-Brussels

World leaders

-Edward R. G. Heath

-People’s Republic of China [PRC]

-Leonid I Brezhnev

-US relations

-Mao Tse-Tung and Chou En-lai

-President’s dealings

Golda Meir’s visit to US

-President’s talk with Mrs. Marvin Mandel

-Middle East

-Airliner incident

Airliner incident

-UN resolution

-Investigation

-US vote

-Condemnation of Israel

-Kissinger’s opposition

-Meir’s visit to US

-Scali

-Vote in UN

-President’s knowledge

-Preoccupation with POWs

-State Department

-Israel’s action

-Meir

Golda Meir’s visit to the US

-US aid

-Airplanes

-Numbers

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-Meir’s support

-Negotiations

-Interim agreement

-General Principles

-Private talks

Kissinger’s call to Rabin

Bay of Pigs

-Smith’s book

-Congress

-Briefing

-Cabinet meeting

-Dean Rusk

-Robert S. McNamara

-Douglas Ddillon

-Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer

-Allen W. Dulles

-David Bissell

-McGeorge Bundy

-Paul H. Nitze

-Thomas Mann

-Adolf Berle

-Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

-Richard Goodwin

-J. William Fulbright

-Compared to President’s meetings

-William L. Safire, Raymond K. Price, Jr., Patrick J. Buchanan

-US Air Force

-Fulbright

-Kennedy’s approach

-Compared to President’s approach

-Removal of Fidel Castro

-US involvement

-Denial

-Loss of surprise

-Rumors of US action against Castro

-Chester Bowles

-Anger

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-Rusk

-Leaks to press

-Kennedy’s comment to New York Times publisher

-Pentagon Papers

-Damage to US government

Smith’s book

-Quality

-Analysis of mistakes with Europe

-Kennedy

-NSC staff

US relations with Europe

-Arnold Bordstram [?]

-President’s policies

-USSR

-NATO

-Leaders

-Quality

-US consultation

-Dwight Eisenhower

-EEC

-Domestic politics

-Criticism of US

-President’s policies

-Berlin

-Modernization of NATO

-New Program

-Haig

Gen. Andrew J. Goodpaster [?]

-NATO

-Donald H. Rumsfeld

-Great Britain

-Complaints

-Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions [MBFR]

-USSR

-Build-up of forces

-Missiles

-Dr. Edward Teller

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-MBFR

-SALT meeting

-Richardson

-Clements

-Negotiations

-Anti-ballistic Missile [ABM]

-Multiple Independently-Targeted Reentry Vehicle [MIRV]

-US domestic support

-Areas of discussion

Kissinger’s call to Rabin

Kissinger talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:05 am and

10:36 am.

[Conversation No. 866-4A]

[See Conversation No. 37-13]

[End of telephone conversation]

Bay of Pigs

-Smith’s book

-Leaks

-Kennedy’s press conference

-Policy planning meeting

-Goodwin

-Confidentiality

-Air cover

-Naval cover

-Air strikes

-Effects on Cuban air force, shipping

-Amphibious landing

-Anti-Castro Cubans

-Demoralization

Kissinger talked with Rabin at an unknown time between 10:05 am and 10:36 am.

[Conversation No. 4B]

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[See Conversation No. 37-14]

[End of telephone conversation]

President’s press conference

-Ziegler

-Kissinger’s opinion

-Timing

-POW issue

-East-West trade

-Announcement

-Ziegler

-Shultz, Frederick B Dent

-Questions

-Vietnam cease-fire

-Violations

-Meeting with Meir

-US military restraint

-Infiltration

-Civil war

-Evolutionary process

-Nguyen Van Thieu government

-International Commission of Control and Supervision [ICCS]

-Joint Military Commission

-Cease-fire violation

-US helicopter

-ICCS

-Laos

-Bombing strikes

-Cease-fire

-US position

-Cambodia and Laos

-Cease-fire agreement

-Withdrawal of North Vietnam’s forces

-Timing

-Bombing

-Comments on military activities

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-B-52 strikes

-Cambodia

-News reports

US observers

NATO

-Haig as commander

-Possible appointment

-Promotion

-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS] chairman

-Navy, Air Force

-Strategic thinkers

Adm. Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr.

-Retirement

-Opportunism

-McNamara, Nitze

-Performance in office

-Chile

-Navy morale

Adm. Thomas H. Moorer’s and Clements’s opinion

-Handling of racial problems

-Compared with marines

Unknown person entered at an unknown time after 10:05 am.

John W. Dean, III

Unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:35 am.

Meeting with Meir

-Conclusion

-Israel’s ambassador to us [Yitzhak Rabin]

John W. Dean, III entered at 10:36 am.

Richard G. Kleindienst

Kissinger left at 10:37 am.

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End of meeting

Kleindienst

-Conversation with Dean

-Talk with L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III

-Change in Gray’s position

-Fedearl Bureau of Investigation [FBI] files

-Gray’s offer to Congress

-Attorney General’s approval

-Attorney General’s criteria for turning over to

Congress

-Hiss case

-No cooperation from F.B.I.

-Six Crises

-Executive privilege

-Clark Mollenhoff questions

-Cooperation of FBI and Justice Department

-Ziegler

An unknown person entered at an unknown time before 10:37 am.

Copy of Six Crises

-Delivery

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:44 am.

FBI

-Smith’s book Kennedy

-Harassment of newsmen during steel crisis

-Material for publicity

-Robert F. Kennedy misuse of authority

Amnesty issue

-Carl Sandburg on Abraham Lincoln

-Lincoln’s position

-Amnesty for South

-No amnesty for number of deserters

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An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 10:36 am

Hiss case

-President’s 1950 or 1951 speech

The unknown man left at 10:44 am.

Hiss case

Dean left at 10:44 am.