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On August 2, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, unknown person(s), White House operator, and George P. Shultz met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:20 am to 9:50 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 553-003 of the White House Tapes. Topics include: The President met with Henry A. Kissinger. US Foreign Policy - People's Republic of China [PRC] - United Nations [UN] representation - Kissinger's talk with William P. Rogers - Announcement - Taiwan, Republic of China - Response - Marshall Green's memorandum - PRC United Nations [UN] membership - Chiang Kai- Shek - Green - Proposed letter to Taiwan - Rogers - Aide memoirs - US statement - US letter to Taiwan - Policy - Taiwan's view - Probable UN vote count - PRC - Taiwan - UN Security Council - PRC - Green - Majority vote - Taiwan - PRC - Green - Kissinger's conversation with Chou En- Lai - PRC propaganda - US press BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [National Security (B) withdrawal reviewed under MDR guidelines case number LPRN- T- MDR-2014-030. Segment exempt per Executive Order 13526, 3.3(b)(1) on 05/08/2019. Archivist : MAS] [National Security] [553-003- W001] [Duration: 59s] PRC END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 US foreign policy - People's Republic of China [PRC] - United Nations [UN] representation - Announcement - Forthcoming trip by President to PRC - Democrats - Sequence of events - Timing - Tricia Nixon Cox - Warsaw - James B. ("Scotty") Reston's article - Chou En- Lai's comments to Kissinger - Possible press conference by President - Conditions for trip - Kissinger's forthcoming trip - Communique - Le Duc Tho Vietnam War - Le Duc Tho - Possible meeting with Kissinger - Possible US action - Adm. Thomas H. Moorer - Demilitarized zone [DMZ] - Negotiations US press - Views - President's forthcoming trip to PRC - Soviet Union - President - PRC visit - Henry Brandon - Reston - President - Vietnam - Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] Vietnam - Negotiations - Le Duc Tho - Talks with Maurice Schumann - Meeting with Kissinger - Defensiveness - Nguyen Van Thieu PRC - US announcement - Possible reaction - Impact on PRC trip - Kissinger's conversation with Chou En- Lai - Press - US announcement - Impact on PRC trip - William F. ("Billy") Graham's call to Kissinger - Graham's Father- In- Law - Howard Pugh [?] - Forthcoming briefing by Kissinger - Participants - Conservatives - Graham, Hobart D. ("Hobe") Lewis, Jeff Hart (?), William S. White - Conservatives - UN admission for PRC - White - William F. Buckley An unknown person entered at an unknown time between 9:20 am and 9:42 am. Unknown activity The unknown person left at an unknown time between 9:20 am and 9:42 am. - Taiwan - Peking - Hard line - Consequences - Position on defense spending - Buckley - Michael J. Mansfield - Anti- Ballistic Missiles [ABM] - Spending cuts - Buckley - Kissinger's talk - Liberals - Soviet Union - Congress - Defense budget - Melvin R. Laird - View of Ronald W. Reagan and Barry M. Goldwater - Kissinger's forthcoming talk with White - Cambodia - Laos - ABM - Jordan - Brandon book on foreign policy - Administration response - Jordan - Kissinger's forthcoming briefing - SALT - PRC - Vietnam War - Analogy to Korean War - Dwight D. Eisenhower - Threat - News - PRC - Hanoi Kissinger's forthcoming meeting with PRC - Issues - Renunciation of force - Appointment of special emissary The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:20 am and 9:42 am. [Conversation No. 553-3A] [See Conversation No. 7-41] [End of telephone conversation] PRC Kissinger's forthcoming meeting with PRC - Special emissary David K.E. Bruce The President talked with Shultz between 9:42 am and 9:45 am. [Conversation No. 553-3B] [See Conversation No. 7-42] [End of telephone conversation] US foreign policy - Issues - PRC - SALT - Berlin - Middle East - Refugees - Pakistan - India -"The Beatles" fundraising efforts - India - US economic aid - Refugees - Pakistan - US food aid - Distribution - UN - Experts - Maurice J. Williams - India - President's talk with Rogers - Kenneth B. Keating - PRC - Possible conflict with India - East Bengal - Possible status - Autonomy - Timing - India - Famine - Refugees - Relationship to peace - India - Possible military action - US aid - State department - Joseph J. Sisco - Philip H. Trezise - PRC trip Conference, August 4, 1971 - India and Pakistan - PRC - India and Pakistan Kissinger left at 9:50 am. Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.; [Unknown person(s)]; White House operator; Shultz, George P.