President: When will the aid bill get to the floor?
Scowcroft: In a week or two.
Kissinger: Tyler will be back next Monday.
We could stay in the background; get Cypriot communal talks going and Geneva at the same time, but with a more assertive U.S. role to provide a framework. I could meet separately with the Greeks and Turks to lay out the terms for Geneva, but I won't know until Tyler returns.
Sadat wants me to come out. I don't see how I can do that.
President: Could you combine Greece and Turkey with the Mideast?
Kissinger: Yes, but I promised Indira also. That would take 10 days at the end of October.
Just after I leave Moscow, you could announce the Vladivostok meeting.
President: That would be politically and substantively helpful.
Kissinger: We could tell the Soviets we would do it if progress warranted it.
After you leave Vladivostok, maybe I should break off and go to Peking. That would stick it to the Soviet Union and make the Chinese feel good.
President: I would like to go.
Kissinger: You can't go until we settle Taiwan. On this trip I would say what we plan. Then you could settle it. We have to have an iron-clad agreement against military action. Because we have to drop the defense treaty.
President: Can we do it? There will be a storm.
Kissinger: The other thing would be to let you go and try to settle it. It would be a hell of a meeting to get you stuck with.
President: Does that involve economic deals and everything?
Kissinger: It's no problem economically. We could do it like Japan. But we would recognize Peking as the sole government and give Taiwan some fuzzy status. We could do it for a trip by you in the spring of 1976 or fall of 1975.
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