File scanned from the National Security Adviser's Memoranda of Conversation Collection at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
SECRET/NODIS/XGDS
MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION
- PARTICIPANTS:
- President Nixon
Vadim A. Trapeznikov, Soviet Academician
Dr. Guyford Stever, Science Adviser
Major General Brent Scowcroft, Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
Amb. Anatoli F. Dobrynin, Soviet Ambassador to the United States - DATE AND TIME:
- Tuesday, March 20, 1973
12:00 Noon - PLACE:
- The Oval Office
[The press came in for photographs.]
The President: Here, take the seat of honor. General-Secretary Brezhnev sat there. Ambassador Dobrynin sets there [indicating].
I am sorry to hear about Mr. Kirillin.
Trapeznikov: He had an operation. He is getting better.
The President: Give him my regards.
Trapeznikov: He sends his best wishes.
Stever: Trapeznikov has done a great job in taking over as chairman. We will have a heart agreement in six months.
Trapeznikov: The work we are doing is very important, based on the important agreement signed in Moscow.
Stever: This agreement has triggered a great deal of cooperative interest in many areas.
SECRET/NODIS/XGDS
CLASSIFIED BY Brent Scowcroft
EXEMPT FROM GENERAL DECLASSIFICATION
SCHEDULE OF EXECUTIVE ORDER 11652
EXEMPTION CATEGORY 5 (b) (1,3)
AUTOMATICALLY DECLASSIFIED ON Imp. to det.
