Date: April 10, 1973

Time: Unknown between 11:10 am and 12:18 pm

Location: Oval Office

The President met with Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, Ambassador Ernest S. Monteiro, and

Henry A. Kissinger.

Greetings

Photographs

-Arrangements

-Rose Garden

-Types of plants

President’s re-election

-Margin of victory

-Compared to Yew’s election

Photographs

-Arrangements

The President et al. left at 11:11 am.

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[Photograph session in Rose Garden]

The recording cut off while the President et al. were in the Rose Garden.

The recording system re-engaged.

The President et al. entered at 11:13 am.

Photographs

-White House photograph

-Distribution

Vietnam

-President’s decisions

-Difficulties

-Protest marches

-Number of marchers

-Cambodia, May 8th decision

-Blockade

-December bombing

-December bombing

-Public reaction

-Press reaction

-Press relationship with Democrats

-Portrayal of President

-North Vietnam perception

-December 1972

-“Universal criticism” of President

-Compared to Cambodia

-“Genocide,” “insanity”

-Lee’s reaction

-Location

-Paris, from London

-Conversation with Georges J. R. Pompidou

-Setback

-Ceasefire agreement

-Ceasefire agreement

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-US withdrawal, return of Prisoners of War [POWs]

-Incentives

-Violations

-Failure to withdraw from Cambodia and Laos

-South Vietnam

-Hanoi’s intentions

-US public statements contrasted with private concern

-US-Soviet Union relations

-Politburo

-US withdrawal

-North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos

-Legal justification for continued US involvement

-Bombing of Cambodia

-Violations of ceasefire agreement

-Agreement compared to treaty

-US Senate

-Difficulties

-Press reaction

-US Congress

-Senate

-Need for withdrawal

-Timing

-Kissinger’s assessment

-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield

-Troop drawdown

-J. William Fulbright

-Credibility

-Mansfield

-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.

-Press

-Motives

-US withdrawal

-Southeast Asia

-Journalistic standards

-Lee’s speech to National Press Club

-Technology

-Globalization

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-Disengagement with Vietnam

-US sphere of influence

-US withdrawal

-Press coverage

Neo-isolationists

-US withdrawal

-Southeast Asia, Korea

-Implications for South Vietnam

-Treaty with Japan

-“Asia for Asians”

-Europe

-Unilateralism

-Arms limitations negotiation

-“Old internationalists”

-Marshall Plan

-Point Four

-US responsibility

-US isolationism

-Domestic issues

-Education, housing

-Contrasted with Defense Department spending

-Congress

-Veto

-Water and sewer program

-“Leader class”

-Great Britain

-Intellectual leadership

-Contrasted with Edward R. G. Heath

-France, Germany, Western Europe

-Global responsibilities

-Soviet Union, People’s Republic of China [PRC]

-Europe

-Lee’s assessment

-“Men in authority” contrasted with “establishment intellectuals”

-Heath, Henry A. Carrington, Sir Alexander F. (“Alec”)

Douglas-Home

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-Pompidou

-Lord Rees-Mogg [editor of London Times]

-Conversation with Lee

-US withdrawal

-US nuclear response

-Credibility

-Rees-Mogg’s response

-France, Great Britain

-PRC, Soviet Union

-Competition

-Future president [?]

-Winston S. Churchill

-Biography by Charles McMoran Wilson [Lord Moran]

-Candid quality

-Triumph and Tragedy

-Franklin D. Roosevelt

-Soviet Union

-Geopolitical perspective

-Compared to Roosevelt

-Soviet intentions

-Yalta Agreement

-Charles E. (“Chip”) Bohlen’s conversation

with President

-Adherence

-Poland

-Compared to Indochina

Vietnam

-Threats, incentives

-North Vietnam compliance with peace agreement

-US Congress

-US aid

-Military strike

-Incentive, leverage

-South Vietnam military strength

-US influence on Soviet Union and PRC

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Southeast Asia

-Lee’s advice

-Conversation with Kissinger

-Confidence in President’s policies

-US Congress

-Press

-Realization of proposals

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 11:13 am.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:18 pm.

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 11:13 am.

Southeast Asia

-South Vietnam

-Non-Communist government

-Lee’s assessment

-Leadership

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:18 pm.

Vietnam

-US withdrawal

-Honorable disengagement

-South Vietnam

-Leadership

-“Great power politics” compared to small nations

-Power relations

-US compared to PRC, Soviet Union

-Change

-Orthodoxy compared to reform

-Possible economic and social policy changes

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-South Vietnam

-Possibility for success

-Reliance on military strength

-Communist preference

-Communists

-Compared to North Vietnam

-Viability

-Social, economic base

-North Vietnam’s support

-Assimilation

-Municipal government

-Police, army

-Distinction between North Vietnam and South Vietnam

-North Vietnam

-Autonomy

-Viet Cong

-Possible effects

-US aid

-Allocation

-Funding for social and economic policy compared to

North Vietnam military spending

-Hanoi, Viet Cong

-Military expenditures

-Effects

Refreshments

Southeast Asia

-Danger for South Vietnam

-North Vietnam

-Hanoi

-Compliance with peace agreement

-US aid

-PRC, Soviet Union

-South Vietnam

-Arms support

-Expenditures

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-War

-Nguyen Van Thieu

-Peace agreement

-Power-sharing with North Vietnam

-Municipal government

-Peace agreement

-North Vietnam acceptance

-Incentives

-Stick and carrot

-Certainty

-US intentions

-Miscalculations

-Statements by press, US Congress

-Possible miscalculations

-Leadership

-Lee’s assessment

-Disconnection

-Exposure

-Kissinger

-President’s assessment

-Contrasted with Le Duc Tho

-President’s conversation with Prisoners of War

[POWs]

-Experience in prison

-Kissinger’s experience

-Dinners

-Cambodia

-North Vietnam aims

-Compared to South Vietnam

-Risks

-Strategy

-Military troops

-Khmer Rouge

-Likelihood

US foreign policy

-US Congress

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-Intellectual class

-Weakness

-Neo-isolationism

-Withdrawal from Europe, Asia

-Korea, Vietnam

-Outcome

-Non-communist state

-Compared to Great Britain

-Heath, Douglas-Home, Carrington

-Intellectual class

-Compared to France

-Pompidou

-Compared to Germany

-US leadership

-Need for strength

-Support of Congress, public

-Framework

-Attitudes about global role

-World War I

-Great Britain, France

-Kaiser Wilhem II

-World War II

-France, Great Britain

-Japan, Germany

-Great Britain, France

-Reluctance

-US rise to power

-Intentionality

-Mao Tse-tung [?]

-Effect on policy

-Vietnam War

-Conduct

-US entry

-Gradual escalation

-President’s doubts

-Completion

-Honor

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-US Senate proposal

-POWs, withdrawal

-Effect on US reputation

-Trust, respect

-Cost

-Effect on US role in world affairs

-Isolationism compared to participation

-President’s previous conversation with Lee in Singapore

-Soviet Union, PRC

-Superpower status

-Relations with US

-Desirability

-Relations with Soviet Union, PRC

-Opportunity

-Strategy

-Compared to confrontation, uneasy negotiations

-US position

-Strength, trustworthiness, respect

-Nixon Doctrine

-Interpretation

-State Department

-Mansfield

-Vietnam involvement contrasted with self-reliance

-Asia, Latin America

-Nuclear deterent

-Isolationism

-Press coverage

-Public opinion

-Faculty of Ivy League universities

-Editorial staff of New York Times, Washington Post, Time,

Newsweek

-Leadership at television [TV] networks

-American Broadcasting Company [ABC], National

Broadcasting Company [NBC], Columbia Broadcasting

System [CBS]

-White House Press Corps

-Magnitude of problem

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-President, Kissinger

-Agreement

-Leadership

-Kissinger’s assessment

-Europe

-Monetary policy

-Balance of payments

-Currency parity

-Timetable

-End of President’s term

-Scope of planning

-Vietnam

-Effect on public opinion

-Vietnam

-Opponents of President’s policy

-George S. McGovern

-Resilience

-Relations with Communist powers

-Weakness

-Effect on global stability

Japan

-President’s previous meeting with Lee

-Location

-Ambitions

-Compared with Germany

-United Nations [UN] Security Council

-Role in world affairs

-Vietnam peace talks

-Desires

-Kissinger’s preference

-Western alliance

-Western alliance

-Monetary and economic interests

-US relations with Europe

-Monetary and trade policy

-Inclusion of Japan

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-Economy

-Size

-Military capability

-Hypothetical nuclear capability

-Possibility of offensive weapons

-Independence of Japan foreign policy

-Global stability

-Economy

-Trade relations with Western Europe, US

-Report from institute in Brussels

-Trade with Southeast Asia

-Percent

-Growth

-Imports

-Raw materials

-Exports

-Manufacturing

-Trade with US compared to Western Europe

-Opportunity

-Possibility for peace, prosperity

-Tariffs

-Possible effect

-Need for inclusion

-Role in Western security

-Trade surplus

-Western Europe

-Kakeui Tanaka

-Domestic market

-US

-President’s previous meeting with bipartisan Congressional leaders

US trade legislation

-Trade imbalance with Japan

Singapore

-Exports to US

-Textiles, shoes

-Difficulties for US

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-Colonial legacy

-Great Britain

-Exports

-Shoes, textiles

-Dependence

-Problems

-Europe, US

-Computers

-Japan markets

-Imports

-Performance

-Response to challenges

Indonesia

-Lee’s forthcoming visit

-Importance

-Leadership

-Jakarta

-Decentralization

-Military generals

-Inclusion

-Technocrats

-Civilians

-Compared with Thailand

-Ruling military generals

-Relationship between power and wealth

-Islamic tradition

-Exception

-Dr. [Unintelligible name]

-Corruption

-Mohammed Hatta’s remarks

-Culture

-Effect on development

-Seminar at Southeast Asia Institute

-Role of corruption

-Rationalization

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Meeting agenda

PRC

-Lee’s vantage point

-US policy

-Lee’s assessment

-Boundary

-Chou En-lai, Mao Tse-tung

-Longevity

-Possible effect on foreign relations

-Trade relations

-Technology

-Soviet Union

-Boeings from US

-Great Britain

-Boeing

-Diversification

-Japan

-Common market

-Soviet Union

-Second-strike capability

-Compared to US

-Conscience

-Military

-Second-strike capability

-Ground forces

-India

-Population

-Relations with Soviet Union

-Military aid

-Relations with Pakistan

-Southeast Asia

-Vietnam settlement

-Role of North Vietnam

-Japan

-Peaceful direction

-Respect

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-Fear

-US, Hawaii

-Objection to capitalist system

-Conscience

-Historical relations with Mexico

-Texas annexation

-Spanish-American War

-Twentieth-century foreign policy

-World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War

-Territorial expansion

-Perception of threat

-PRC’s propaganda

-Relations compared to Europe, Soviet Union

-US role in Japan, Taiwan

-Future prospects

-Japan, PRC

-Succession

-Consolidation

-Trade relations

-Technology

-Dependence on US

-Compared with balance between US, Western

Europe, Japan

-Supply

-Current leadership

-Lessons

-Soviet Union

Golf

-Lee’s handicap

-Compared to President’s handicap

-Course around official residence

-Benefits

-Physical exertion

-Trees, fresh air

-“Antidote to the Committee Room”

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Presidential golf balls

-Compared to Lee’s free advice

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 11:13 am.

Golf balls

-Donald McI. Kendall

-Wilson brand

Request for box of golf balls

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 12:18 pm.

Golf balls

-Waterholes

Forthcoming State Dinner

-Irish opera singer, Mary Costa

-Prettiness

Presentation of Presidential gifts

-Golf balls

The President et al. left at 12:18 pm.