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    "ocrText": "TELCON\nSheinman/Kissinger\n3:02 p.m.\n9/7/71\nK: Sorry to bother you. Kandy Stroud just in taking pictures of me and she\npassed up jokes on allogation. I didn't intend it for quotation. Just denying it.\nS: I think it came up that way. I have the story including a denial from Jill\nSt. John. Never been a romance, just a good friendship and always been that\nway. Hope you are not disappointed.\nK: She can say --\nS: Of course I am not married. Do you believe everything you hear on TV? How\ncan I be married to Jill St. John when I am married to Candy\n11\nK: That must go. Never said on TV.\nS: I will just quote \"I am not married. Do you believe everything you hear on\nTV?\" Is that fair?\nK: That's fair.\nS: OK. Did they get the pictures?\nK: Yes. OK.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.\nTELECON\nJerry Schecter\n9/7/71 p.m.\nS: I met a Yugoslavian journalist named\nhe was in Peking for 10 years. I don't know if you have met him, but he\nwas talking to me about receptions in Peking and the fact that he has got\na whole set of slides about his stay there and he thought he'd like to meet\nyou and talk with you about the President as someone who thought he might\nhave something to offer in terms of preparation. I recommend it.\nK: Okay. How long is he here?\nS: Permanently. He left Peking in 167. He is S very bright guy.\nHe's a good Communist, but he is a Yugoslavian communist, and I found\nhim fascinating. He knows the Chinese and understands the subtlties\nand the places where people should be taken. And he knows what the\nChinese are looking for. He suggested certain things I thought you\nwould want to know/,\nK: Let me see if I can set something up for the next few weeks.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.\nTELCON\nPresident/Kissinger\n5:35 p.m.\n9/7/71\nP: How did you get along with Connally?\nK: Very well. I gave him a preview of what's coming.\nP: About the event?\nK: Yes and China and so forth and very pleased.\nP: Just as well to tell him. No problem on that.\nK: Absolute confidence.\nP: How did the Soviet thing impress him?\nK: Tremendous. He thinks you are k home free. He said\nwill be a\npin-prick now. He thought at one time get rid of it as soon as possible but he\nthinks we are home free now.\nLater Conversation :\nP: Cx I just spoke with Connally and he said he talked with you about the\ngeneral ideas.\nK: I couldn't talk about it with Peterson in my office.\nP: He doesn't feel we have in the government the tools to deal with the problem.\nK: He is right.\nP: I said in my speech I will keep things open. We shouldn't walk in and be\nnicey nice.\nK: I think we should use this opportunity for a fundamental change.\nP: He agrees?\nK: Yes.\nP: Is his thinking sound?\nK: I was very impressed. We have to think how to set it up.\nP: It really can't be handled by Peterson group. It's bigger.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.\nPresident/Kissinger\n5:35 p.m.\n9/7/71\n-2-\nK: I am coming to that view.\nP: It involves not only economics but politics. Call Brandt and --\nK: I said that. I said every decision more political then economic and he agreed.\nP: That's why we cannot do thisx in the usual way.\nK: We discussed a method of getting at it and I thought you and he and I might\nget together after your speech and organize it.\nP: He thinks very practically.\nK: And strongly.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.\nTELCON\nSenator Kennedy/Mr. Kissinger\n6:51 p.m., September 7, 1971\nHK:\nHello, Ted.\nK:\nHello, Henry. I didn't know whether you had any time -- a chance\nto chat for a few minutes. You are probably --\nHK:\nI would like to see you.\nK:\nI am leaving on Thursday evening to go out of the country for\nten days with the Subcommittee. Is there any time in the next\ncouple of days?\nHK:\nI never have my calendar here -- what's a good time for you?\nK:\nTomorrow mid-morning -- 11:00 or 11:30, or I can do it at -\nHK:\n11:30 is fine. Where should we meet?\nK:\nAny place suitable for you, I can come by there.\nHK:\nWell, I see no reason -- we are not going to announce anything,\nare you?\nK:\nNo. I saw Secretary Rogers\n(couldn't hear -- office noises)\nHK:\nI am delighted in any event to see you.\nK:\nNo, I am not. I do have some thoughts on it.\nHK:\nI would like to see you in any event. Let's say 11:30.\nK:\nThat will be perfect.\nHK:\nYou could come in West Executive Avenue or you can use the\nfront entrance.\nK:\nCome in on that side, that would be fine.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.\nTELCON\nJohnson/Kissinger\nmorning\n9/8/71\nJ: On the NSDM, the textile business is confused. I spoke with the Secy. this\nmorning. Dave Kennedy is on his way to Williamsburg to talk to --\nK: I tried to turn it off.\nJ: What's your understanding of where you stand?\nK: The President will talk with Fukudo about it. See what can be arranged. We\nwill tell them it's a serious problem and we might have to do some unilateral\nsteps.\nJ: That's what it says in here. If the NSDM comes out it's addressed to\neverybody. Stans and Kennedy talking from this.\nK: I will put out a memo that except for Dave Kennedy's discussion today,\nthe textile issue will be discussed by no one except the Secy.\nJ: That's fine. What will Kennedy do?\nK: Peterson tried to UXIX turn it off. Fukuda requested the meeting as an old\nassociate. And Kennedy only plans to say ? ? ? . I will see Ushiba this\nafternoon at his urgent request and I will call you.\nJ: What is his reading of what Fukuda plans to bring up with the President?\nK: Shall I try that?\nJ: Why don't you?\nK: Who will put together the Japanese side? Fukuda alone?\nJ: He asked for Fukuda without cabinet colleagues. Whether Ushiba, I don't\nknow.\nK: I recommended that you, Bill and I represent our side. Do you think that's\ntoo heavy?\nJ: Let's see what Ushiba says of F ukuda's desires. Not necessarily.\nK: I think the Secy. should sit in.\nJ: Only question of whether I should be there. In some ways I would like to be.\nK: You decide. You are invited. Whatever your judgment of the situation is.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.\nJohnson/Kissinger\nmorning\n9/8/71\n-2-\nJ: You find out from Ushiba. Is he coming up?\nK: Where is he?\nJ: Williamsburg. Secy. called and told him last night about meeting with\nPresident.\nK: That should please him.\nJ: It does. He called to a pologize on the leak. He knows it makes it impossible\nfor us to deal with them on a confidential basis.\nK: I will call you immedated afterwards. One other thing because bewill raise\nthis. The way I have handled my visit to Japan is if it's an unofficial group.\nIf any govt. official wants to meet me I will stay a few days.\nJ: Have you said anything to the Secy. about this?\nK: No.\nJ: I haven't either.\nK: They have raised it twice.\nJ: Ushiba?\nK: ON the phone. I don;t know if he will come back to it. I won't come back to it.\nJ: As far as timing is concerned.\nK: About two months before Peking. Certainly not before much later this year.\nJ: I have no problem with that.\nK: I will xx not raise it and if it comes up by him it's sufficiently vague\nthat I can say scheduling problems.\nJ: I will tell the Secy.\nK: And tell him (it came) through Ushiba and\n.\nJ: About special agency mission and it's understandable why it's not there.\nI will usggest a subcabinet meeting in Japan where there's previous precedent\nwith these and copies keeps it in the framework.\nK: That's fine.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.\nJohnson/Kissinger\nmorning\n9/8/71\n-3-\nJ: The Secy. will make that proposal during the meetings.\nK: Good way of finessing that issue. If you stone wall it it will be approved on\nan ad hoc basis.\nJ: I will suggest it in the framework of subcabinet meeting. I don't know if the\nJapanese will accept it but it's what we will propose.\nkkxstxhad\n[Secy. Johnson called back adtold typist that they had just received telephone\ncall from Tokyo that the Japanese press there this morning has a story playing\nthe fact that he is going to visit Tokho as a fact. ]\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.\nJohnson/Kissinger\n11:47 a. m.\n9/7/71\n-6-\nJ: Anyone informed knows it's not trye. Problem of finding someone in hall and\nsay, isn't it so -- -\nK: When it happens once you can ignore it but three times in two weeks it's the\nsemi-annual syndrone. They haven't won and should give it up.\nJ: Fukoda wants to see the President. I will talk with the Secy. about this todya.\nI have talked to Ushiba about this for before or after dinner. It's agreeable\neither time to them. I think good if one theer.\nK: We will do it before dinner. I don't trust the President's willingness to go\nthrough after dinner in any way acceptable to the Japanese. It might only be\n10 minutes. I think in the Oval Office 45 minutes before dinner and fits in with\nestablished practice. Then you and I and the Secy. and any Japanese you think.\nJ: Will there be outsiders at the dinner?\nK: I will check into it.\nJ: I will check over here. Let's plan on that. See you this afternoon at 4:00.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.\nTELCON\nJoe Kraft/Kissinger\nmorning\n9/8/71\nK: I have a whole lot of little things on my agenda. One thing I had with John\nHoldridge -- does the visit to Alaska have anything to do with Cannikin?\nNAK: No.\nK: Not decided?\nHAK: Not firmly.\nK: Not a\nnote for the emperor.\nHAK: I don't know.\nK: You wouldn't encourage speculation. Have you made any efforts to find an\neconomics man for yourself with a deeper political field?\nHAK: It's something I have on my mind. I have an intereskingx interest, as you\ngethered from my conversation.\nK: A new man?\nHAK: Or a new procedure. A new man or a series of consultants on different\naspects.\nstatement\nK: Is there going to be a ************************* on\nand compensation policy this\nweek?\npaper in\nHAK: Not this week. We have a xxxxxxxxxxx the process. Fairly soon.\nK: k Did you talk with Letelier about this?\nHAK: I have talked to him but don't want to go into substance.\nK: I heard there was a conversation before the Ex-Im Bank. Boeing thing which\nI assumed they leaked.\nHAK: They leaked.\nK: Japanese talks going to be the usual tiny detailed stuff.\nHAK: It looks like that but we are trying to push in the opposite direction.\nK: How?\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.\nJoe Kraft/Kissinger\nmorning\n9/8/71\n-2-\nHAK: General decision on fundamental directions.\nK: Isn't it too big for that?\nHAK: Probably.\nK: Ministers concerned with little things.\nHAK: It may be inherent in the thing. The President will see Fukudo.\nK: Chirep and stuff like that?\nHAK: I don't want to - -\nK: Are you going to Anchorage?\nHAK: I think so.\nK: Should I do it?\nHAK: No.\nK: I will be in Japan at that point. Scoop Naxx Jackson has been telling me that\n????. Soviet hull digging. SST9 he announced sometime ago.\nHAK: I will put it this way. They won't stop unilaterally until there's an\nagreement.\nK: No concern.\nHAK: Not one batch but can't keep ignoring.\nK: What's the outlook between SALT and Kosygin?\nHAK: I don't see the connection.\nK: Looking for a meeting with the President and occasion of tying the package\nwouldn't seem possible?\nHAK: No.\nK: When is Chirep in the UN?\nHAK: Nov. But some discussion that it will come up sooner but I think\nend of October until middle of Nov.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.\nJoe Kraft/Kissinger\nmorning 9/8/71\n-3- -\nK: On Vietnam, how much is American military morale lessening? Are you\nthe only one standing in the breach? I think the American military want to end\nit.\nHAK: And I am continuing it?\nK: Leave yourself out of it. My question is the attitude of the military and morale.\nHAK: If the military want to put it behind them they haven't made a proposel to us\nformally or informally. When this administration is written into history it will\nbe that the press reports were done by ESP because there was no communication.\nK: I have felt that the military cannot get it up on\n.\nHAK: I don't deny that.\nK: What's your feeling on ?2????\nHAK: That could happen. To get back to your previous question I think it's\na complete misreading that some are pushing for a fast exit and some for a\nslow exit. That has never been the problem and it will be seen as ridiculous\nlater. The recommendations we get from the military -- those that make\nrecommendations -- are actions you wouldn't approve of.\nK: That still exists. Right. I think that's it. Hope we can get together soon.\nHAK: Befor you go off.\nK: Around for awhile.?\nHAK: Next week. In fact until Anchorage.\nK: Going from here or California. ?\nHAK: We will leave from the West Coast for Anchorage becuase it's too long\na day but ixtx the points on the West Coast isn't deicded. Calif. or other state.\nI may go to San Francisco a day early.\nK: A speech?\nHAK: I have been two reasons. One, to meet with Sex China scholars\non the West Coast and meet with the Commonwelth Club if it can be done off\nthe record.\nK: Thanks. And also for seeing Jean Lacouture.\nHAK: I like him.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.\nJoe Kraft/Kissinger\nmorning\n9/8/71\n-4-\nK: I am sorry that what he wanted to say wasn't better formulated. Sihanouk's\nview of Peking/\nrelations is interesting. Peking is not interested in a\nHx unified Vietnam. Will get away with cutting down Hanoi but keeping up\nto the mark. Making them stand and deliver by asking ifthey are for the\nrevolution or against it. Not much slippage but there's tension.\nHAK: That's plausible.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.\nTELCON\nZeigler/Kissinger\n11: - a.m. 9/8/71\nZ: Does the President plan a meeting with Fukuda before the dinne r?\nK: Yes.\nZ: Johnson wants us to announce it. I said we don't want to build it up. Let\nit ooze out.\nK: I think I would mention it in a low key way.\nZ: OKay.\nK: Wrap it in a lot of other activities.\nZ: Tomorrow.\nK: When it will be amongst economic matters.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.\nTELCON\nGerard Smith/Kissinger (secure phone)\n11:32 a. m.\n9/8/71\nS: Is message I sent to you in the\n?\nK: I got it this morning.\nS: Do you think it's all right to follow that way?\nK: That's good. Good to follow that line.\nS: Send me a message so I can confirm it with the others.\nK: Let me see. Proposing two and two might be acceptable.\nS: Our initial reaction in Washington is positive but no definite reaction until\nwe have the facts.\nK: Let me check with the President. I will get word to you tomorrow.\nS: That will be very helpful. Do I understand the signature on agreements\nwill be made in Washington?\nK: 30th.\nS: and I assume other considerations are more important than\nthat.\nK: His man wanted to sign in Washington with Rogers.\nS: Just want you to know that Semonov made this pitch to me.\nK: We get the opposite from Dobrynin. Wewant you back.\nS: I will be back on thex 24th.\nK:: You will be at the signing.\nS: ???? in preamble the ultimate aim on both sides would like to see a total\nban - -\nK: A total ban?\nS: A total ban as an ultimate aim. Disagreexxeukxandx Disarmament and\nreductions and say we are still shooting for it.\nK: No personal objection but will check that too.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.\nGerard Smith/Kissinger (secure phone)\n11:32 a. m.\n9/8/71\n-2-\nS: Want a delegation reaction on proposal?\nK: Very much.\nS: I will see what I can get at all at once. That's my rist. Look forward to WEEX\nseeing you on 25th.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.\nTELCON\nPresident/Kissinger\n3:05 p.m.\n9/8/71\nP: Any problems today?\nK: Everying is quiet. Nothing of consequence happening. Yahya made an\nanmesty in E. Pakistan. Ted Kennedy in to weep about India/Pakistan situation.\nI figured he is too dangerous to turn him down. Essentially what it was at\nthe press club. He has been to see Rogers.\nP: Not making much with that.\nK: Can't do anything with it.\nP: Not much of a story.\nK: People don't want to be involved.\nP: That's the problem. Haldeman says that for the first time in 6 bxex years no\ncasualties.\nK: Yesterday. Military axx activity is all time low. It only takes one helicopter\ncrash. Le Duc Tho wasn't at the National Day atexex celebration in Hanoi so\nmaybe on his way to Paris. Then it would be clear something will happen. I\nnotice on a draft of your speech \"When America ? ? ? ? ? \". I wonder if\nwe can drop that before the meeting?\nP: Yeah. We have changed that. I will have Ray run by the next copy. We have\nmodified it some. Hold it over their heads.\nK: Especially in a speehh we don't need it.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.\nTELECON\nSecretary Laird\n9/9/71 8:35 a. m.\nL: Wanted to check a few things out with you. I understand you're\ngetting increasing pressure on the papers that have leaked on the Under Sec-\nretaries Committee on this test of ABM warhead.\nK: Don't worry about it.\nL: The problem is if you change the position.\nK: We won't.\nL: Well, if you do, just give me a day or two warning.\nK: We have no intention of changing it. We are just avoiding a firm\ndecision in order to leave as little time for demonstration as possible. But\nyou do n't want it done, do you?\nL: Sure. That's why I called on as many Senators as I could. They\nwere trying to write a prohibition in the law on it. Second item, we have got\nto stand together on appropriations on foreign aid for the next 5-year period.\nK: The first time I heard about that was in the News Summary on\nRogers' testimony yesterday. The President wouldn't sign a letter if he\nwanted to\non it.\nL: I am going to call Bill and tell him that I don't appreciate his\nnot standing with me on it -- I'm going to do that this morning.\nK: You were doing what the President wanted you to do.\nL: I think in the Ways and Means Committee yestedday there was an\nindication thakx from Connally that the President has bought a bill to further\nexpenditure limitation for defense. I can't go with any more cuts.\nK: There won't be any more.\nL: In expenditure limitations the only one it affects is Defense. I'm\ngoing to oppose it.\nK: You'll have my support.\nL: I just don't want it to come as a surprise to anyone.\nK: I wooxx want you to oppose it and the President does too.\nL: Okay, thank you Henry.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.\nTELECON\nDave Packard\n9/9/71 8:50 a.m.\nK: I wanted to ask you about this Commonwealth Club. They are\nafter me to meet with them and I thought on the occasion of the Presdient's\nvisit I might do it.\nP: It's a good forum. It's leadership and business people around\nthe Bay area. A civic affairs of all kinds group with emphasis on international\naffairs.\nK: How many people attend?\nP: I don't know, but it might be as many as 500. You're sure of\na good turnout.\nK: They proposed a special meeting for 3:00 in the afternoon. They've\nalready got someone for the evening. I can't see how they will get a good turnout\nfor that.\nP: No, that/ doesn't make much sense. They have got these small\nstudy groups.\nK: And in that case I might as well wait till I get to the West Coast again.\nP: I doubt that it would be worthwhile with a small group.\nK: So you don't think one hunderd= is worthwhile?\nP: I don't know, but I don't think the kind of people you'd meet with in\na small group would be effective. It would be none of the business leaders; they\nC ouldn't take the time out for that kind of meeting.\nK: That's what I think, and the students and junior professors are\nusually\n-\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.\nTELCON\nSen. Javits/Kissinger\n9:50 a. m.\nk 9/10/71\n9\nJ: I wanted to talk to you about the matter of going to Israel. If I am to\ngo immediately it would be on the 14th. If that's too precipitate I can go on\nthe Foreign Relations Committee anytime.\nK: This time with Kennedy and Health Committee? I think it's a good idea.\nJ: Well, you are holding a breakfast for me after that date.\nK: I have been raising hell with my staff. How about tomorrow? 8:15 a.m.\nhere tomorrow.\nJ: That will be fine. We will decide this then.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.\nTELECON\nRomanian Amb. Bogdan\n9/9/71 10:45 a. m.\nB: I hope you got my message.\nK: I didn't get any message.\nB:\nhigher level. Agreed with your suggestion.\nK: When did you send the message?\nB: Friday.\nK: I never got it, but they only notify me of nuclear war within\n24 hours. Okay, and you will say you have a message to deliver?\nB: Yes.\nK: Okay, and we'll put it on the schedule for some time next week.\nB: Okay, and you will let me know and we can work out the details\nof the announcement.\nK: It will be brief.\nB: Yes, very brief.\nK: We'll just make it at 11:00 after you've had the appointment.\nB: Wonderful.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.\nTELCON\nGov. Reagan/Kissinger\n12:10 p.m.\n9/9/71\nK: Ron I have to -- on my way out of the office to go with the President for\nState of Economy address. I settled the airplane yesterday.\nR: You are wonderful.\nK: But tell Nancy ixlx at least 50% was done for her.\nR: I will tell her it was all done for her. It willbe diplomatic. I hear that\nJohn Holdridge is briefing on what to do and the PM of S. Korea has called\nand said what is it about and John Holdridge has said the President has asked\nhim to come.\nK: I will straighten it out. I will miss the motorcade if I don't go. I will call\nyou in 2 hours.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.\nTelCon:4:58-9/9/71\nMr. Kissinger\nSenator Barry Goldwater\nK:\nHello Barry. How are you. I am getting too devious for you. Don't\nworry it is going to go forward.\nG:\nI sort of read between the lines.\nK:\nThese are eager beavers. We have about 500 recommendations along the\nsame lines but we wanted to cut down the screaming. Nothing is changed.\nI don't know who leaked this story.\nG:\nI read this but I was going on your assurances of the other day.\nK:\nYou can count on them.\nG:\nThank you Henry.\nK:\nThank you and goodbye.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.\nTelCon: 00-9/9/71\nMr. Kssinger/\nMr. Phil Geyelin\nK:\nHello Phil, how are you.\nG:\nI have been away for a month. I have not been able to keep\nup with what you have been doing.\nK:\nWere you XR on M\nIsland?\nG:\nYes, it is a nice place and I saw some of your friends there.\nK:\nNelson?\nG:\nhe is interested in the Japanese situation. I didn't\nhave a long time to talk to him. I would like to talk to\nyou and sort of catch up if you are available?\nK:\nCertainly.\nG:\nI haven't even caught up with our paper.\nK:\nLet me call you tomorrow and find a breakfast time sometime\nnext week.\nG:\nThat will be fine. Goodbye\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.\nTĘLCON\nConnally/Kissinger\n6:12 p.m.\n9/9/71\nK: I was talking with the President a few minutes ago and the directive sent\nout to you. Let me explaine what happened. I think your people are at fault.\nC: It doesn't make a difference.\nK: No directive will come thru my office effecting you that you and I don't\nagree on. I wanted to keep people from talking all over. I knew Tresize was\nfor devaluation of the yen. We wanted to make it that you could only speak\nand ? ? ? ? with Volker. What the tactics are, we could care less. 45% is\nyour business.\nC: There ivas a misunderstanding.\nK: I read the paragraph to Volker. He said he might want 45 and I said it's\nno problem so long as no one except the Secy. talks about re-valuation.\nC: I made that point with him and he shouldn't have mentioned it. He wanted\nto point out what will happen.\nK: I understood that. I took the liberty of discussing our conversation and how\nyou and I see the thing alike. I want you to understand.\nC: Chance to get a good visit with it. On the same wavelength?\nK: On the exact same wavelength. A little more strong feeling that we did that\ninitiating anything xxxx should be formal and wants to рикли participate in it.\nShultz, you and me and himself. He thinks we four would see it the same way.\nWhen are you going abroad?\nC: Monday afternoon or Tues. Waiting until the last minute. Good speech and\ndelivered well. Really knocked a whole\n.\nK: None of the Ambassadors applauded which was a good sign.\nC: You see what the Congress did when he talked about U.S. interest.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.\nTELCON\nThe President/Mr. Kissinger\n7:10 p.m., September 9, 1971\nP:\nI wondered if you were able to get hold of Connally.\nK:\nYes, I talked to Connally. He is completely straightened out now\nand has agreed. It was Volcker who dropped the ball on this.\nP:\nBut he knows there is running room on this?\nK:\nThis was an attempt to put the reins on State.\nP:\nThe main thing is I didn't want him to think I had signed something\nto him. I wasn't trying to restrict him, you see.\nK:\nI have talked to him and told him that was your main concern. He\nsaid the matter was not of any great importance. I said that wasn't the point,\nif you get a directive out of the White House\nyou have a\nchance to go to the President first.\nP:\nHe was glad you called?\nK:\nOh, yes, he was very pleased. Mr. President, we got an answer to\nthe Brezhnev letter the letter you sent to Brezhnev some weeks ago. It\nis a very long letter and I won't bother you with it.\nP:\nThey are travelling all over the world now.\nK:\nThey are launching the diplomatic\nbut so are we.\nevent earlier we appreciate what has been done by you, Mr. President, on the\nnegotiations in Berlin. A good and useful job has been done. That's more than\nthe New York Times has been able to get itself to say.\nP:\nWhat did they say? Whine?\nK:\nKleinman had an article that you were not instrumental, that it was\ndone over your dead body.\nP:\nWhat did they say about the Brandt statement?\nK:\nThere hasn't been a peep out of them. The Brandt statement was on\nSunday, this was on Saturday.\nP:\nIsn't that something. What have been the reactions since the Brandt\nstatement?\nK:\nThat cooled them. Actually, we have gotten a better ride out of\nBerlin than I thought we would.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.\nTELCON\nThe President/Mr. Kissinger\n7:10 p.m., September 9, 1971\nP:\nWhat about the leaking?\nK:\nThe leaking at State has stopped. The Brandt statement\nWe have got that pretty well on the track. We are going to announce on\nTuesday that we got the Accidental War Agreement.\nP:\nAnnounce it here?\nK:\nAnnounced here.\nP:\nThat is where it ought to be.\nK:\nWe will announce it at the White House and shift some d the technical\nquestions to State. We have got other countries -- is that a bad day for you?\nP:\nOh, no, no. I may do something with the press on Thursday. I\ncould sort of start my conference with that -- you know, the announcement\nhas been made and do you have any questions. Gould you move it to\nThursday?\nK:\nI will check it.\nP:\nAre you going to come there tonight?\nK:\nNo, I won't, Mr. President.\nP:\nYou won't miss anything.\nK:\nRight, Mr. President.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.\nand\nBerlin\nBy ROBERT KLEIMAN\nThe effort in the White House and\nby American Ambassador Kenneth\nRush to portray the historic new Ber-\nlin agreement as a personal triumph\nfor President Nixon brings a wry\nsmile to the lips of Western diplo-\nmats. White House skepticism during\nthe seventeen-month Berlin negotia-\ntion was a continuous burden for\nWest German Chancellor Willy Brandt,\nwhose imaginative initiatives paved\nthe way for the new accords.\n\"Ambassador Rush has postponed\nhis vacation.\" This sly comment was\nthe answer a high French official gave\nin July when asked why he had pre-\ndicted that an early Berlin agreement\nhad suddenly become \"probable.\"\nMr. Rush's long summer and win-\nter vacations last year, which had as\nmuch to do with White House strategy\ntoward Moscow as with Mr. Rush's\nfondness for his Nassau retreat, had\nbecome the symbol of American foot-\ndragging at critical moments of the\nBerlin talks.\nThe dilatory negotiations, with meet-\nings every third week, took a ten-\nnature of other aspects of the new\nagreement depends on the entire con-\ntext of East-West relations in Europe\nMr. Nixon's global strategy, iron-\nweek break in July, 1970, just as com-\nically, has been more aided by Chan-\ncellor Brandt's Soviet negotiations than\nthe reverse. But unless Mr. Nixon suc-\nceeds in achieving an over-all Soviet-\nAmerican accommodation, the stability\nof the provisional settlement now in\nsight in Central Europe will remain\npletion of the Soviet-West German\nTreaty opened the door to progress on\nand the world.\nBerlin. In December, a six-week re-\nprecarious.\ncess set off a major crisis in Bonn-\nWashington relations.\nMr. Brandt had been pressing all\nfall to turn the desultory talks into a\n8-F\ncontinuous conference. His conversa-\ntions with Soviet Communist party\nSecretary Brezhnev and Premier Kosy-\nain in August, plus other indication he\ngot later, had convinced him that the\nRussian leaders wanted a Berlin agree-\nment before their party congress in\nMarch. Bonn had made that agreement\nthe pre-condition for ratification of\nthe Soviet-German Treaty, a major\nKremlin objective.\nWest Germany's Chancellor sent\nGermany-a long step toward admis-\nsion of both Germanys into the United\nMoreover, no agreement can alter\nthe geographic location. of West Berlin,\n110 miles within the Communist East.\nIt remains hostage to future pressure,\nfor agreement car be infringed or\nWestern occupation rights,\nnumerous emissaries to Washington\nto urge a faster tempo. Instead, lead-\ning members of the American foreign\npolicy establishment who opposed\nwhich are inalienable pending a peace\ntreaty and are reaffirmed in the new\nBerlin settlement, remain the basis for\nWest Berlin's security. The lasting\nBonn's Eastern policy-Dean Acheson,\nJohn McCloy. Lucius Clay, Thomas\nDewey-were invited to the White\nNations.\nHouse. Mr. Acheson emerged with\na public admonition to Mr. Brandt to\n\"cool off\" his \"mad race to Moscow.\"\nBehind this conflict was a reverse\ntwist on President Nixon's old thesis\nabout diplomatic \"linkage.\" In 1969,\nhe was convinced that Moscow's de-\nsire for agreement in the projected\nstrategic arms limitation talks (SALT)\nwould enable him to extract conces.\nsions on the Middle East and Vietnam.\nHe added Berlin to that list, at the urg-\ning of then Chancellor Kirt Kiesinger\nduring his February 1969 visit in Bonn.\nBut in 1970 Mr. Nixon found him-\nself in a series ci confrontations with\n\"They have to make their Berlin deal\nBonn muttered about \"Nixon's gio-\nbal strategy\" blocking Germany's vital\nneed for a Berlin settlement. But Mr.\nNixon reportedly believes that his tac-\ntics in the end advanced both objec-\ntives. Delay in the Berlin talks helped\nhim extract in May a Soviet summit\nagreement to negotiate a first-stage\nSALT pact this year. Soviet acceptance\nof a NATO proposal to negotiate mu-\ntual force reductions in Central Europe\ncame that same week. From then on,\nwith both Moscow and Washington\nseeking accord, the Berlin talks moved\nThe terms of the Berlin settlement\nthe Soviel Union ever the Middle East.\nundoubtedly are significantly better\nthan would have been predicted a\nyear ago. The delay may have made\nMoscow more amenable. But, in return\nfor concessions on \"unimpeded\" ac-\ncess, travel to the East by West Ber-\nliners and a presence for Bonn in\nWest Berlin, Moscow has achieved its\nobjective of virtua! recognition of East\nSoviet help in achieving peace in Viet-\nnam had not been forthcoming. Soviet\nwith us.\"\nmissile submarines were calling at\nrapidly.\nCuban ports. And the SALT talks were\nbogged down. But the Soviet conflict\nwith China had eased off a bit and\nMoscow was negotiating with Bonn\nfor a provisional settlement in Cen-\ntral Europe, based on the territorial\nstatus quo.\n\"The Russians can't have détente\nwith Europe, semi-détente with China\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nand confrontation with the United\nDECLASSIFIED\n\"This document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.\nTHE PRESIDENT'S SCHEDULE\nFriday - September 10, 1971\n10:00\nLabor Union Representatives.\n(90 min.)\nThe Cabinet Room.\nTC\nTC\n12:00\nPromotion Ceremony for Brigadier General\n(5 min.)\nAlbert Redman, Jr.\nThe Oval Office\n12:15\nMr. Ernst G. Breitholtz, President of Rotary International.\n(10 min. )\n(Mr. George I. Bell).\nThe Cval Office.\n12:30\nView Podium.\nFamily Theater - East Wing.\n7:30\nJapanese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Takeo Fukuda\nand Secretary William P. Rogers. (Dr. Henry A. Kissinger).\nThe Treaty Room - The Residence.\n8:00\nBLACK TIE Dinner in - Honor of the Joint U.S. - -Japanese\nCommittee on Trade and Economic Affairs in the\nState Dining Room.\nAt 8,00 p. m., the First Lady will attend the Dinner in Honor of\nthe Joint U.S. -Japanese Committee on Trade and Economic Affairs.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.\nTELCON\nThe President/Mr. Kissinger\n7:10 p.m., September 9, 1971\nP:\nI wondered if you were able to get hold of Connally.\nK:\nYes, I talked to Connally. He is completely straightened out now\nand has agreed. It was Volcker who dropped the ball on this.\nP:\nBut he knows there is running room on this?\nK:\nThis was an attempt to put the reins on State.\nP:\nThe main thing is I didn't want him to think I had signed something\nto him. I wasn't trying to restrict him, you see.\nK:\nI have talked to him and told him that was your main concern. He\nsaid the matter was not of any great importance. I said that wasn't the point,\nif you get a directive out of the White House\nyou have a\nchance to go to the President first.\nP:\nHe was glad you called?\nK:\nOh, yes, he was very pleased. Mr. President, we got an answer to\nthe Brezhnev letter the letter you sent to Brezhnev some weeks ago. It\nis a very long letter and I won't bother you with it.\nP:\nThey are travelling all over the world now.\nK:\nThey are launching the diplomatic\nbut SO are we.\nevent earlier we appreciate what has been done by you, Mr. President, on the\nnegotiations in Berlin. A good and useful job has been done. That's more than\nthe New York Times has been able to get itself to say.\nP:\nWhat did they say? Whine?\nK:\nKleinman had an article that you were not instrumental, that it was\ndone over your dead body.\nP:\nWhat did they say about the Brandt statement?\nK:\nThere hasn't been a peep out of them. The Brandt statement was on\nSunday, this was on Saturday.\nP:\nIsn't that something. What have been the reactions since the Brandt\nstatement?\nK:\nThat cooled them. Actually, we have gotten a better ride out of\nBerlin than I thought we would.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.\nTELCON\nThe President/Mr. Kissinger\n7:10 p.m., September 9, 1971\nP:\nWhat about the leaking?\nK:\nThe leaking at State has stopped. The Brandt statement\nWe have got that pretty well on the track. We are going to announce on\nTuesday that we got the Accidental War Agreement.\nP:\nAnnounce it here?\nK:\nAnnounced here.\nP:\nThat is where it ought to be.\nK:\nWe will announce it at the White House and shift some d the technical\nquestions to State. We have got other countries -- is that a bad day for you?\nP:\nOh, no, no. I may do something with the press on Thursday. I\ncould sort of start my conference with that -- you know, the announcement\nhas been made and do you have any questions. Gould you move it to\nThursday?\nK:\nI will check it.\nP:\nAre you going to come there tonight?\nK:\nNo, I won't, Mr. President.\nP:\nYou won't miss anything.\nK:\nRight, Mr. President.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.\nTELCON\nSecy. Johnson/Kissinger\nearly morning\n9/10/71\nK: I just wanted to find out since the President will ask what are the stories\nof clashes at the meetings?\nJ: No clashes. The Post story I thought was fairly accurate. Frank, friendly,\nand differences of view expressed. No clashes. Japanese have come forward\nwith very little, virtually nothing. As you know, Fukuda before coming tried\nto come with a forthcoming Japanese package but not successful. In the\nbriefing MITL X package for the President this evening it was because Tanaka who\nis a midi-minister is a rigal of Sato's. It's by far the best meeting. They are\nnot making speeches with each other. It's really give and take across the\ntable. Trying to give out what they take but they know they are on the\ndefensive.\nK: Are you coming to the President's meeting tonight?\nJ: Yes. I asked Marshall Green this morning - I have been discussing with\nFukuda's man how we handle the meeting. Fukuda said he would not make any\npresentation of Japanese internal problems. It took him 35 mins with an\ninterpreter yesterday and I said the President would be briefed. He wants\nto talk about China. Have you seen my memo on this? I have tried to give\nyou and the President a formula.\nK: Did you send it last night?\nJ: Yes.\nK: It will show up in the next hour, I am sure.\nJ: Jim Wickler. The President knows him. He is taking Ushiba and Akarani.\nAnything from your meeting with Ushiba?\nK: I should have called you! Gave his account of Nx Japanese domestic\nsituation. Everything in a total turmoil as a result of China. Don't know\nwhether to sponsor resolution and thought we would throw k over Formosa.\nI said your sponsorship will prevent Formosa from being overthrown so why\ndo you fail to sponsor? He said no reason.\nJ: The Secy. had the same conversation with Fukuda. Very good conversations\nwith Fukuda. Last evening at the opera and supper last night and lunch today.\nVery good go-rounds. Hehandled himself very well.\nK: We are all set for this evening.\nJ: In that memo I cover a number of subjects. China is really the one.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.\nKissinger/Johnson\nearly morning\n9/10/71\n-2-\nK: If I have any questions, I will call you.\nJ: I will be in meetings x all day but they can get me out anytime.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.\nTELECON\nFrank Lincoln\n9/10/71 8:35 a.m.\nL: We had a great meeting. You did a great job yesterday; everyone\nwas very happy.\nK: Thank you.\nL: The reason I'm calling you now is on our policy with Egypt. They\nhave come to me to buy amount of surplus wheat. I have put in a call\nto Bill - - haven't talked to him yet. I wanted to know if there was any reason\nnot to pursue this.\nK: No, there is no reason.\nL: Thanks a million. As I said, the Board was very happy with\nwhat you did yesterday and\nyou're terrific.\nK: Thank you.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.\nTELCON\nVice President/Kissinger\n9:50 a. m.\n9/10/71\nK: Where are you?\nVP: IN NY. What I wanted to ask. I talked to A1 Haig about the Iranian thing\nand off shoots because I ran into a memo from the Secy. who was making\na recommendation which I thought wasn't in the right direction.\nK: That must have been a great suprise to you.\nVP: Since it's in the planning stages and not that far away I want to get a\nreading from you as what's a possibility of cancelling?\nK: Absolutely not. Tell them to go to hell. You can talk about it when you get\nkexex there.\nVP: The\narrival will make my mission worthless.\nK: I haven't heard anyone say the President should raise with Chou En-lai\nthat they should have democratic elections.\nVP: I want to be sure I know where I stood before I make a lot of work on\nsomething that will not happen.\nK: We have an understanding you will go there and no prior conditions.\nVP: The companion country to that one next door to the east --\nK: Turkey?\nVP: Do you think that would be wise?\nK: They might take off the heat.\nVP: Expecially since Cyprus situation isn't getting better.\nK: It's getting worse.\nVP: Especially since they want to know what my grand scheme is.\nK: Hel thinks it's a good idea. I will let you know Monday. I had some bitter\ncomplaints about your endurance on the tennis courts from Dinha Shore.\nVP: Lots of endurance but not much skill.\nK: I must admit she didn't mention skill but she said you kept them on courts\n8 hours.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.\nVice P resident/Kissinger\n9:50 a. m.\n9/10/71\n-2-\nVP:\nstayed and played 9 sets with us. Maybe we can get out there\ntogether. It would be fun.\nK: That would be great fun.\nvp; Basically I am thinking of those 3.\nK: When are you travelling?\nVP: Go directly to Shàraz. Oct. 12 or 13. Those other two possibly with\na final stop at NATO headquarters.\nK: That sounds fine except NATO might be a problem. Laird will be there\non the 20th. Would you be back by then?\nVP: I could go on the way in.\nK: We can work thqt out. I think it's a good idea.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.\nTELECON\nCharles Walker (Treasury)\n9/10/71 10:17 a.m.\nW: I talked to the Secretary and he doesn't care who gives the word\nto the Chileans. The message is simply that if you\nwe\ncan open credit; if\nwe'll cut it off.\nK: And the threatening part is the most important part of it?\nW: Yes.\nK: Okay, you tell him it will be delivered that way.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.\nTELCON\nAmb. Johnson/Kissinger\nxxxxxxxixx\n9/10/71\nafternoon\nJ: I got your word on the sale of nuclear fuel. We cannot take it out.\nIt's\nof long standing agreement.\nK: Not taking it out but why draw attention?\nJ: They asked for it.\nK: In all previous communications?\nXX J: Yes.\nK: OK, fine. I wonder how it looks to third parties.\nJ: It's used is for\nand power reacters. You can see how it looks if you\ndidn't use it. They can't use if for anything else. Word from Akatani is that\nFukuda would like 5 minutes with the President alone to ask him foxxx if we\nare serious about going to dual representation in the Diet. The Secretary\nhas said everything that needs to be said. We have told them its up to them if\nthey want to take the blame. Secy. can bring him up to date. Just got a\ntelegram from Dick Snyder that Soviet Minister and KGB agent mentioned thex\nat a reception yesterday/and to him Rich of NBC \"President Nixon's arrangements\nto Moscow agreed to. 11 When questioned he said that \"all that remains is whether\nbefore or after Peking. 11\nK: Nonsease.\nJ: But Rich has it. Just passing it along.\nK: What do you suggest?\nJ: I don't know what to do.\nK: Ignore it, don't you think?\nJ: Yes but whether NBC will go on it.\nK: I will drop a word to Vorontsov when, if, I see him.\nJ: Everything willgoing well, relatively speaking. I am delighted with it.\nI am disappointed with the Japa nese that they are not more forthcoming but\nfacts are there and spirit good. Connally and Stans behaved reasonably well\nbut Tanaka is a good opposite of Stans.\nDECLASSIFIED\nK: Except that Stans will not become President.\nE.O. 13526, Section 3.5\nNLN08-50/12346 Per Hr. 11/8/2013\nBy R) 11WH NARA, Date 6/3/2019\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\n[p.lof 2]\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.\nAmb. Johnson/Kissinger\nafternoon\n9/10/71\n-2-\nJ: Confident of that and the other fellow may and it would not be good news\nfor us. One of these Japanese types -- isolationist, extremeist, and not good\nnews for us. Everyone is very attracted by Fukuda.\nK: Look forward to seeing him tonight.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.\nTELECON\nMr. Kissinger/Secretary Connally\n2:53 p. m., September 10, 1971\nK:\nWe have a recommendation here that Latin America be\nexempted from the 10 per cent cut in foreign aid -- it's something\nless than $20 million. Considering the fact that we haven't done any-\nthing for Latin America, I wonder if it would be a good symbolic\nstep to take.\nC:\nI would like to see who would benefit.\nK:\nNo particular country because the sums are too small. But\nit would enable us to claim we are paying special attention to Latin\nAmerica.\nC:\nI can't do it without exempting Mexico and Canada.\nK:\nNo -- I am talking about the 10 per cent cut in foreign aid.\nC:\nOh, I'm sorry. I didn't understand it. I see nothing wrong\nwith that.\nK:\nIt would be a cheap gesture we could make. In fact, it has\nbeen explained to me\nthe way they are working it, it would be a\nmaximum of $20 million.\nC:\nWithout having it analyzed, offhand I see nothing wrong with\nit. It would be good. We would be helping some of these countries\ndown there.\nK:\nWe may have to make a decision on it before Sunday. There\nis a meeting of the IA-ECOSOC and it would be good to announce it.\nC:\nGood. We are obviously setting a precedent.\nK:\nThat's what we want to do.\nC:\nI would think that would be good.\nK:\nGood.\nlds\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.\nTELCON\nVorontsov/Kissinger\n4:40 p.m.\n9/10/71\nK: I have just had a report that the counselor of your embassy in Tokyo at\na Bulgarian Day celebration in the presence of an NBC correspondent said he\nknew the visit of the President to Moscow was set and only a question of\nwhether before or after the visit of the President to Peking. Since we haven't\nsaid anything to anybne in our govt., I said to State that he probably had to\nmany drinks.\nV: Probably. We know only high officials know and it's not true and he says\nit without any knowledge whatsoever. He will be reprimanded.\nK: We are safe in maintaining our position of absolute aloofness?\nV: It happens on both sides. My friends at the Hungarian embassy said that\nSecy. Blount in Hungary said he thought the President would be going soon\nto Moscow.\nK: He knows absolutely nothing.\nV: It's the same with our counselor in Tokyo or any other place in the world.\nK: I am not saying it critically. Only that we will maintain our position here.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.\nTELCON\nRogers/Kissinger\n5:00 p.m.\n9/10/71\nR: I was just talking to Alex about Chinese representation quesiton. I under-\nstand Fukuda will take it up with the President.\nK: Only concern was that the President personally told him this.\nR: IHe probably will xlx tell Sato.\nK: So long as it's not in\nShimbun.\nR: Or we don't have a prayer of winning. It's going to be close anyway.\nJapanese co-sponsorship is going to be the key.\nK: I hear you nearly say \"Jap\", Mr. Secretary.\nR: No, I said Japanese. I XXIXIX stumble but I am careful.\nK: President plans to take him aside for 5 mins. and say Taiwan not end\ntheir support.\nR: I talked with Fukuda about confidentiality and I will say that President going\nto speak privately and any conversation is for his use and PM Sato's and no\none else's.\nK: That's good.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.\nTELCON\nSchreiber/Kissinger\n5:12 p.m.\n9/10/71\nS: On Oct. 24 --\nK: Sept. --\nS: Right.\nK: I agreed to the Commonwelath Club and then they had a snafu in their\nschedule and they want me to come in the afternoon and I don't think it's\nconsistent with my position to XXX just meet with a small group XIX of people.\nI don't want to make stops with the President and would like to go to (San\nFrancisco or Los Angeles).\nS: You tell Finch I called you. We have a meeting of\nwhich we\nwant you to come to talk about China. Firestone and GANAXXTXI Cummings\nwill be there.\nK: You won't be?\nS: No. We will get out the right-wingers. That's better then Israel bonds.\nK: I don't want Israel bonds but not all right=wingers.\nS: No. Just have you come out with a stating of\nabroad and Peking.\nStatus with Russians and etc. 24th lunch and we need you here.\nK: You call Finch. I appreciate it. It's a big help. I don't want to pre-\njudice the bigger thing you mentioned. I talked with the President and he\nthought that was good.\nS: We are off and running campaign wise. I want 400-500 people.\nK: A little bit ahead of campaign period but close enough to get their attention.\nS: We were thinking of a fund-ràiser. Heads of universities co-hosting with us.\nWe are thinking of Dec.\nK: End of Nov. or early Dec. That's good for me. The other one is a help\nto me.\nS: I will call Bob in a few minutes and get it done. Tell him I call you and you\nsaid call Finch.\nK: I will call you on the other matter. I am working on it.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.\nTELECON\nCharlie Meyer\n9/10/71 5:20 p.m.\nK: You can inform your colleagues in Panama that we are exempting\nLatin America from the 10 percent foreign aid cut.\nM: O bless your heart. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.\nK: As a result of our special interest in Latin America. Will you\nmake a play out of it so the President gets the credit.\nM: Damn right. Thank you very much. I just saw the letter from\nFulbright; he is scheduling hearings on a sense of the Senate resolution\nabandoning our isolation of Cuba.\nK: That hits the President's rawest nerve.\nM: I wanted you to know.\nK: On this subject it is almost impossible to talk to the President.\nM: I know.\nis obvious.\nK: It is n't extraordinarily logical to say we want to talk to China\nbut we won't talk to Cuba.\nM: That's how it came up.\nK: It would help if you make some noises that come to the President's\nattention opposing it.\nM: We have no private session; this is a public session.\nK: Okay. Thank you.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified.\nTELCON\nPeterson/Kissinger\n6:15 p.m.\n9/10/71\nP: I am having some pretty major concerns about this economic plan on\nnegotiations, surcharge EXEXXX and everything else. I want to talk with you\nabout it. A lot is over in Treasury. I talked with Connally a few days ago\nand he thinks we need something. I don't think our playback is worth a damn\nin foreign policy.\nK: How about Treasury? I am going out of town. Let me get some one to\ncall your office to set a time for Tuesday. 8:15 for breakfast?\nP: I think imputs are luusy. Volker was talking about political stuff. I didn't\nget much and likewise from State. Maybe a small group could go to Europe\nand work out attitudes. Just trying to get it at a fundamental level.\nK: Just do it.\nP: Want to be coordinated.\nK: I would send someone from my office with you.\nP: I want to do it with your full cooperation. I want to talk on how to get\nready. Really don't know what terms are for getting rid of surcharge. We\ntook defense and monetary into same bag. Some long terms and shox some\nshort and we don't know what we want.\nK: I know I don't want to go back to the old system.\nP: I know that but as I told John we have to find how we will negotiate out of this\nthing.\nK: Let's have breakfast at 8:15 on Tues.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified."
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