Date: March 8, 1973

Time: Unknown between 11:55 am and 12:05 pm

Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

National Security Council [NSC] meeting

-Kissinger’s schedule [?]

-NSC group

-Qualities of members

-Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

-Kissinger’s opinion

-President’s questions

-Private negotiations

-Summit

-President’s handling of meeting

-Kissinger’s paper

-Need to focus on the “big picture”

-Rolf Pauls

-Comments about President

-Compared with John B. Connally, Nelson A. Rockefeller

-Handling of meeting

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-Compared to Rockefeller, Connally

-Decision making

-Nuclear Test ban Treaty

-President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board

[PFIAB] [?]

-Meeting

-Study

President’s meeting with Analoliy F. Dobrynin

-Purpose

-Meetings at San Clemente, Camp David

Pakistan

-President’s meeting with Mustafa Kahn and Aziz Ahmed

-Release of contracts

-President’s commitment

-Notification of India

-India’s reaction

-Existing contracts

-Aid package

-People’s Republic of China [PRC]

-Rogers’s reaction

-India’s production of tanks

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PAKISTAN

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Meeting with NSC

-Television [TV] broadcast

-President’s handling

-Subject

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-William P. Rogers, [David] Kenneth Rush

-Elliot L. Richardson

-Discussion

-William P. Clements, Jr.

-Spiro T. Agnew

-Points raised

-Technology

-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] negotiations

-Throwweight of missiles

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THROWWEIGHT

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-Missile program

-Public relations

-Throwweight, launching

-MIRVs

-Verification

-Testing

-Test ban

-Throwweight advantage

-MIRV

-Trident

-USSR’s objection

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 11;55 am.

President’s meeting with Kahr and Ahmed

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-Press photographs

Pakistan

-Embassy functions

-State Department

-Ecuador, Uruguay

-President’s attendance

-Spiro T. Agnew

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 12:05 pm.