Date: February 20, 1973

Time: 7:30 pm – 7:41 pm

Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Foreign relations

-Kissinger’s conversation with William P. Rogers

-PRC

-Liaison office

-Possible leak

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-The President’s instructions

North Vietnam

-Preparation of Rogers’s Congressional testimony

-Multilateral aid

-The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

[UNESCO]

-Bilateral aid

-Barry M. Goldwater, James F. Buckley

-Rationale for aid

-Leverage

-Withdrawal of troops from Cambodia and Laos

-Liberals’ position

-Humanitarianism

-South Vietnam

-Senate support

-Media

-Patriotism

-Bombing

-Issue of foreign aid

-Rationale for aid

-National interest

-Romania and Yugoslavia

-Natural disasters

-North Vietnam

-Alternatives

-Possible reaction

-Bombing

-Senate

-Buckley

-Goldwater

-Hubert H. Humphrey

-George S. McGovern

-Media

-Washington Post

-[Arnold] Eric Sevareid

-Responsibility

-Importance of aid

Foreign relations

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-The President as world leader

-Europeans

-Edward R. G. Heath

-Domestic priorities