Date: June 22, 1973

Time: 9:20 am – 9:43 am

Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Leonid I. Brezhnev’s visit

-Talking point memorandum

-President’s forthcoming briefing of Congressional leaders

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-Preparation

-Kissinger’s forthcoming briefing

-President’s conversation with Brezhnev, June 21, 1973

-Forthcoming agreement [Prevention of nuclear war]

-State department

-[David] Kenneth Rush, William P. Rogers

-Review

-Legal language

-Congressional resolution

-Obligation

-Use of force

-Congressional resolution

-War

-Prevention

-Conduct

-Threat or use of force

-Kissinger’s talking points

-President’s foreign policy goals

-President’s briefing of bipartisan Congressional leadership

-Structure of peace

-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]

-Basic Principles of Relations between the United States of America and

the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

-SALT

-Basic Principles

-Moscow

-Specific agreement

-Treaty on conduct of war

-Media coverage

-Agreement on the Prevention of Nuclear War

-Substance

-Opponents

-Obligation for Soviet Union

-“Hard line”

-Kissinger’s talk with Andrei A. Gromyko

-Gromyko’s plans

-Topics of discussion

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-President’s meeting with Brezhnev

-Dobrynin’s conversation with Kissinger

-Grain deal

-People’s Republic of China [PRC]

-Middle East

-Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction [MBFR], Vietnam

-Steven [?] Prichard

-President’s relations with Brezhnev

-Brezhnev’s purpose

-President’s leadership abroad

-Watergate

-France’s opinion

-Soviet Union concessions

-Prediction

J. William Fulbright

-Invitation to White House

-Haig

-Support for President

-Kissinger’s briefing of Foreign Relations Committee

-Conversation with Kissinger

-Cambodia

-Watergate

-Foreign policy

-Brezhnev

-Nguyen Van Thieu

-Peace agreement

-Signature

-President’s role

-Foreign Relations Committee

-Kissinger’s briefings

PRC

-Madam Mao’s invitation to Dr. David K. E. Bruce

-Mao Tse-Tung’s relationship with US

Fulbright

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-Future relations

-William E. Timmons

Brezhnev’s visit

-Agreement on the Prevention of Nuclear War

-Congressional action

-Rogers’s view

-Comprehension

-State Department

-Editing

-Prerogative

-Nuclear war

-Gromyko’s conversation with President, 1973

-Brezhnev’s relations with President

-Politboro approval of policies

-Positive statements

-Brezhnev’s prestige

-Significance

-Media coverage

-Kissinger’s statement

-SALT [?]

-1974

-Commitments

-Kissinger’s forthcoming press briefing on agreements

-“Structure of peace”

-Threat of war

-Crisis management

-Strength

-Agreements

-SALT

-Restraint

-Basic principles

-Agreement on the Prevention of Nuclear War

-President’s meeting with Brezhnev

-Gromyko

-Universality

-Post-World War II-era

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-Historical turning point

-Hostility

-Allies

-PRC

-Possible response

-US and Soviet relations

-President’s letter to Chou En-Lai

-Agreement on the Prevention of Nuclear War

-Article 4

-US consultation with USSR

President’s foreign policy

-Successor’s policy

-Compared to Otto von Bismark

-US Congress

-Post-1976 election

Brezhnev’s visit

-Public opinion

-Compared to PRC trip

-Watergate

-Public’s perspective

Nancy S. Maginnes

-President’s assessment

Nelson A. Rockefeller and Ronald W. Reagan

-Experience

-Presidential aspirations

Rockefeller

-Support for President

-Conversations with Kissinger

Brezhnev’s visit

-PRC

-Forthcoming television speech

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-Timing

-Coverage

-New York Times, Washington Post

White House staff

-Meeting

-Morale

Kissinger left at 9:43 am.