Date: March 7, 1973
Time: 11:52 am-12:09 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Rolf Pauls and Henry A. Kissinger; members of the press and the White
House photographer were present at the beginning of the meeting.
Photographs
US-West Germany relations
-Pauls’s tenure as ambassador to US
-Need for confidentiality
-Need for communication
Pauls’s assignment to People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Peking
-Isolation
-Time of change
-West German diplomacy with PRC
-US diplomatic presence in PRC
-Pauls’s conversation with William P. Rogers [?]
-US liaison office in Peking
-US liaison officer’s contacts with Pauls
-Ambassadors to PRC
-West Germany, Great Britain, France
-France
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European Economic Community [EEC]-US relations
-Trade relations
-Military affairs [?]
-Danger to cohesion of alliance
-Need for common grounds with US
-Common market
-President’s support
-Great Britain’s entry
-West German support
-Consultations
-Economic, monetary issues
-Military issues
-Military, economic linkages
-Criticism of US
-Tariffs
-Inflation
-Economic cooperation with US
-West Germany’s role
-Willy Brandt’s visit to US in April 1970
-Impact of France’s election
-Dialogue with US
-Common interests
-Strength of dollar
-World trade, special drawing rights
-Identity of interests with US
-NATO and economic issues
-George P. Shultz’s visit
-Attention to Europe
US policies toward Europe
-Isolationism in US
-Bert Carr [?]
-Unilateral withdrawal of troops from NATO
-Need for European cooperation
-Criticism of US
-Europe
-Japan
-Reasons
-Impact on isolationists
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-Domestic political pressures
-Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction [MBFR]
-Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe
-Economic problems
-Impact on MBFR
-Military, economic linkages
-USSR
-Political framework
-US relations with the Federal Republic of Germany
-Cooperation
-Isolationists
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
-Support for President
-Berlin Wall
Pauls and Kissinger left at 12:09 pm.