Date: September 8, 1972

Time: 11:49 am – 12:12 pm

Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

The President’s meeting with Gen. Marader Panggabean

George S. McGovern

-Statement

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 11:49 am.

Refreshment

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

Rowland Evans

-Recent telephone conversation with Kissinger

-McGovern

-The President

-Israeli issue

Foreign affairs

-The Murder of Israeli athletes at Olympic Games in Munich, Germany

-News summary

-Marvin L. Kalb

-The President’s actions

-McGovern’s position

-The President’s view

-Kissinger’s view

-US�Egypt relations

Israel

-Lebanon

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-Border

-McGovern’s statement

US-Soviet Union relations

-Secrecy of negotiations

-Clarence G. Palmby

-Resignation after deal

-Amount of grain purchased from US

-Negotiations

-Price

Israel

-McGovern

-The President’s telephone conversation with Leonard Garment

-Appearance before rabbis

-The President’s view

-Possible Jewish reactions

-Kissinger’s view

US�Soviet Union relations

-Soviet troops

-Egypt

-US position

US�Egypt relations

-Negotiations

-State Department position

-Anwar el-Sadat

-Negotiations with US

-State Department relations

-Kissinger’s actions

-Timing

-Sadat’s assistant to the United Nations [UN] delegation

-New York

-Israel

-Kissinger

-Forthcoming meeting

-Timing

-Effect on Egypt

Murder of Israeli athletes at Olympic Games in Munich,

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Germany

-Public relations

-Kissinger’s view of the President’s actions

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The People’s Republic of China [PRC]

-Political figures traveling to PRC

-Michael J. Mansfield

-Bipartisan delegation

-Hugh Scott, Charles H. Percy

-Number of people on trip

-Mansfield

-Mansfield

-Reasons

-Senate Foreign Relations Committee

-Date of trip

-Timing

-1972 Election Day

-Announcement of trip

-Visit with the President

-Mansfield’s position

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US�India relations

-Debt relief

-Amount

-Kissinger’s efforts

The hydrofoil presented to the President by Leonid I. Brezhnev

-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

-Rug

-Wood carvings

-Letter

-Pictures

-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins

US�Soviet Union relations

-Negotiations

-Letter to the President

-Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions [MBFR]

-William P. Rogers

-Peter G. Peterson, Peter M. Flanigan

-Draft communique

-Negotiations

-Trade agreements

-Wording

-Future negotiations

-Summit

-Timing

-Effect of 1972 election

-US consulate building in Leningrad

-Construction

-Dobrynin

-Brezhnev

-Soviet Union consulate in San Francisco

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-Le Duc Tho

-Trip to Moscow

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:49 am.

The president’s schedule

-Robert L.F. Sikes

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:12 am.

Kissinger’s trip to visit PRC

-New York

US�Soviet Union relations

-Trade negotiations

-Agreement

-Flanigan and Peterson

-Amount of money

-Lend-lease

-Export-Import bank

-Delegation to US

-Conclusion of comprehensive trade agreement

-Gasoline

-David Rockefeller and private credit

-European Security Conference

-MFBR

-Announcements of two conferences

-Date

-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] II

-Date for negotiations

-Announcement

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-SALT

-Kissinger’s conversation with Mansfield

-Senate ratification

-Meeting between the President and Andrei A. Gromyko

-Senate ratification

-Signing ceremony

-Gromyko’s possible attendance

-William P. Rogers’s possible attendance

-The President’s schedule

-Gromyko

-Sir Alexander F. (“Alec”) Douglas-Home

-Date for Gromyko’s visit

-Timing

-Gromyko’s preferences

-The President’s schedule

-Trip to California

-Return date

-Dinner with Gromyko

-Date

-Meeting

-Time

-Type

-Discussions

-Rogers

-Dobrynin

-Yuli M. Vorontsov

-Number of people

-The President’s view

-Trade announcement

-Date

-Senate ratification of SALT

-European Security Conference

-SALT

-Announcement

-Date

-1972 election

-Trade and SALT announcements

-MBFR

-Maritime agreement

-Trade and SALT announcements

-Impact

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-MBFR

-The President’s view

-Timing of announcements

-European Security Conference

-Date

Vietnam

-Nguyen Van Thieu

-Louis P. Harris poll

-Administration policy

-Bombing

-Peace settlement

-Cease-fire

Kissinger left at 12:12 pm.