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OCR Page 1 of 32TELCON
The President
Mr. Kissinger
7-18-69
12:30 PM
K said he was gx calling about Chinese thing and would be useful if
we could announce tomorrow. E Richardson has now recommended three
things - tourist purchases, easing travel restrictions for certain categories
and grain sales. K said he has checked with Mundt who agrees to first
two but not third. Pres said first two were O. k. but not the third.
Pres said he wanted K to call Mansfield personally on that. K said he would
d o SO.
K said secondly, a private meeting took place today which indicated that
perhaps the last private meeting of six weeks ago may have been a response
to note to Dobrynin as K suspected it might have been. They were very
specific and asked 12 questions about P's speech of May 14. K told P the
questions. K said he has taxx talked to some people and mood in Congress
has shifted very much in favor of P. P and K discussed Rogers'
appearance
on hill. K said he talked to someone who accompanied Rogers and
they were surposed by degree to which FAC took position in P's favor.
P said txxxxxxxxck it could be they have gone too far. K said they propse
establishment of working group and what we will have to watch now is
to make sure State will not run with this enterprise. K said message
P sent this week was very well timed. P asked if he would deliver it Monday
and K said he told him he would call him tonight to let him know whether
he could go ahead.
P said in K's backgrounder if question comes up, be sure to say we have been
disappointed in Russians insofar as ME and VN are concerned K filled
President in on Borman-Keldish exchange.
Pres asked if Shakespeare called on K. K said not yet, he will see him this
afternoon. P filled in K on what Shakespeare had told him. Discussed
ABM and K said it may be that opponents of ABM are getting worried.
Mathias called for appt with K and is coming in today - said he had to see
him today. P said he heard Jackson was superb in private session -
demoralized Symington. P and K agreed Senators are getting scared
after hearing intelligence briefgins. Opponents have shifted line on SS9.
P said he thinks intelligence community is shaping up - K agreed, saying
we have them scared. K said both XX he and Mitchell have refused to go
over drafts - we do not want them to accept our dictates.
P said for K to call Mansfield and say Pres personally asked him to call and
say wwhen we return P will fill M in on conversation with Yaya.
Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library
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