Date: March 15, 1973

Time: 12:11 pm-12:25 pm

Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

President’s press conference

-Vietnam

-Questions

-President’s handling

The President talked with Ralph H. Cake between 12:11 pm and 12:12 pm.

[Conversation No. 880-6A]

[See Conversation No. 37-118]

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[End of telephone conversation]

Ralph H. Cake

-Illness

President’s Press conference

-Watergate

-Questions on Donald H. Segretti

-President’s handling of questions

-Dwight L. Chapin

-President’s demeanor

-Watergate

-Ed Kempler’s question

-Press double standard

-Alger Hiss case

-Harry S Truman

-Hiss case

-President’s involvement

-Reasons

-John N. Mitchell

-Committee to Re-elect the President

-Involvement

-Mitchell’s involvement

-Kissinger’s view

-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

-People’s Republic of China [PRC] liaison office announcement

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 12:15 pm.

Greetings

Press statements

-North Vietnam

-India

-Pakistan

India

-US aid

-Suspension

-Commitments

-Lyndon B. Johnson

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-Sales

-Policy

-State Department

-Tanks

-Johnson

-Personnel carriers

-Lethality

-PRC

-Military expenditures

-Indira Gandhi’s comments to Daniel P. Moynihan [?]

-Arms race

-Poverty

-Comparison with Pakistan

-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]

-Arms production

President’s trips

-Plans

-Africa

-Latin America

-Latin America

-Value

-William P. Rogers

-Requests

-Commitments

-Japan

Vietnam

Dr. David K. E. Bruce

-US liaison office to PRC

-Lead story

-Alfred L. Jenkins

-John H. Holdridge

Kissinger left at 12:18 pm.

Press relations

-Vietnam

-Watergate

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