Date: September 15-16, 1972
Time: Unknown between 11:43 pm, September 15 and 1:01 am, September 16, 1972
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Henry A. Kissinger and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Greetings
Kissinger’ schedule
-William P. Rogers
US-Soviet Union relations
-Lend-Lease agreement
-Trade agreement with Soviet Union
-Negotiations
-Peter G. Peterson
-Export-import credit
-Most Favored Nation [MFN] status
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Politburo
-Lend-Lease payments
-Schedule
-Five Year Plan
-Brezhnev’s efforts
-Commercial agreements
-Maritime Minister
-Trade Minister
-Kirill T. Mazurov [?]
-Deadline
-October 10, 1972
-Discussion of trade agreement
-Elements of the agreement
-Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions [MBFR]
-Helmut Sonnenfeldt
-European Security Conference
-US allies
-European Security Conference
-Jacob D. Beam
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-Andrei A. Gromyko
-Vasily V. Kuznetsov
-Meeting
-MBFR
-Schedule of events
-Sonnenfeldt
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] council
-Nixon diplomacy
-European reaction
-Edward R.G. Heath
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Rogers
-Leaks
-The President’s announcement
-State Department’s response
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] schedule
-November 15, 1972
-Soviets’ announcement
-Communique
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Schedule
-Trade agreement
-MBFR talks
-European Security Conference
-Joint announcement
-The President’s role
-State Department’s role
-Heath
-Sir Alexander F. (“Alec”) Douglas-Home
-SALT progress
-Signing of SALT
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Gromyko visit, October 2 or 3, 1972
-Brezhnev
-Pompidou
-Relations with North Vietnamese
-Soviet trade agreement
-Disclosure of details
-Rogers
-The President’s press conference
-Peterson’s press conference
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-Explanation of negotiations
-The President’s role
-Rogers
-Kissinger’s press conference
-The President’s formulation of trade package
-Possible leaks about negotiations
-Peterson
-Moscow
-Press conference
-Media attention
-Kissinger consultations with Rogers
-Lend-Lease agreement
-Soviet negotiators
-Lend-Lease agreement
-Monetary figures
-Peterson
-Rogers
-Consultations
-Repayment schedule
-Amount
-Message to Kissinger
-Haig
-Brezhnev
-Negotiations
-Politburo
-Vietnam
-Kissinger’s meeting of September 15, 1972
-Vietnamese attitude
-Kissinger’s view
-Possible announcement
-Peace negotiations
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