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Abshire, David M., Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations from April 8, 1970
Agnew, Spiro T., Vice President of the United States from January 20, 1969
Aichi Kiichi, Japanese Foreign Minister until July 5, 1971
Aldrich, George H., Acting Deputy Legal Adviser, Department of State, from January until October 1969; Deputy Legal Adviser

Barger, Herman H., Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Affairs, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State, from 1970
Barnett, Robert W., Deputy Assistant Secretary for Far Eastern Economic Affairs, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State, from February 1963 until May 1970
Bergsten, C. Fred, member, National Security Council staff from 1969 until 1971
Brewster, Robert C., Deputy Executive Secretary, Department of State, from July 1969 until August 1971
Brown, Winthrop G., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs until April 1972
Bundy, William P., Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs until May 4, 1969
Burns, Dr. Arthur F., Counselor to the President from January 1969 until January 1970; Chairman, Federal Reserve System Board of Governors, from 1970
Bush, George H.W., member, U.S. House of Representatives (R–Texas) until January 1970; Representative to the United Nations from February 16, 1971
Butterfield, Alexander P., Deputy Assistant to the President from 1969
Butz, Earl L., Secretary of Agriculture from December 1971

Cargo, William I., Director of the Policy Planning Staff, Department of State, from August 4, 1969
Chafee, John H., Captain, USN; Secretary of the Navy from January 31, 1969, until May 4, 1972
Chapin, Dwight L., Special Assistant to the President from 1969 until 1971; Deputy Assistant to the President from 1971
Chapin, Frank, member, National Security Council staff and staff secretary to the 303/40 Committee
Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi), President of the Republic of China; Director-General, Kuomintang
Chou En-lai (Zhou Enlai), Premier of the People’s Republic of China; member, Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party’s Political Bureau
Chow Shu-kai (Zhou Shukai), Chinese Ambassador to the United States until May 1971; Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1971 until 1972; Minister without Portfolio from 1972
Chung Il-Kwon, Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea until December 19, 1970
Cleveland, Paul M., Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State, from September 1968 until February 1970; Special Assistant and Staff Director, NSC Interdepartmental Group, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, February 1970 until July 1973
Cline, Ray S., Director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State, from October 26, 1969
Connally, John B., Jr., Secretary of the Treasury from February 1971 until May 1972
Cronk, Edwin M., Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Trade Policy, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State, from October 1969 until June 1972; U.S. Ambassador to Singapore from June 27, 1972
Curran, Robert Theodore, Deputy Executive Secretary, Executive Secretariat, Department of State, from August 1970 until September 1972; Deputy Director of Personnel for Management from September 1972

Davis, Jeanne W., Director, Staff Secretariat from 1970 until 1971; Staff Secretary, National Security Council Staff Secretariat, from 1971
De Palma, Samuel, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from February 7, 1969
Denney, George C., Jr., Deputy Director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State, until April 1970; Deputy Director, Directorate for Management, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, April 1970
Donelan, Joseph F., Jr., Assistant Secretary of State for Administration from June 14, 1971
Doolin, Dennis J., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs responsible for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Douglas-Home, Sir Alexander Frederick, British Foreign Secretary from June 19, 1970

Eagleburger, Lawrence S., member, National Security Council staff from 1969 until 1970
Eberle, William D., Special Representative for Trade Negotiations from 1971 until 1975; member, Council on International Economic Policy, from 1971
Ehrlichman, John D., Counsel to the President from January until November 1969; Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs from November 1969
Eliot, Theodore L., Jr., Special Assistant to the Secretary and Executive Secretary of the Department of State from August 10, 1969
Ericson, Richard A., Jr., Country Director Japan, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State, from July 1970

Finn, Richard B., Country Director Japan, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State, from January 1969 until July 1970
Flanigan, Peter, Consultant to the President on Administration and Staffing, January 20, 1969, until April 15, 1969; Assistant to the President and Executive Director, Council for International Economic Policy from February 1972
Ford, Gerald R., member, U.S. House of Representatives (R–Michigan); House Minority Leader
Froebe, John A., Jr., Desk officer, Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Islands, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State; member, National Security Council staff from 1971
Froehlke, Robert F., Captain, USA; Assistant Secretary of Defense for Administration from January 1969 until June 1971; Secretary of the Army from July 1, 1971
Fukuda Manabu, Department of State interpreter
Fukuda Takeo, Japanese Foreign Minister from July 5, 1971, until July 7, 1972
Fulbright, J. William, Senator (D–Arkansas), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Gandhi, Indira, Indian Prime Minister
Getz, John I., Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Department of State, from January 1969 until February 1972
Gleysteen, William H., Jr., Director, Office of Research and Analysis for East Asia and the Pacific, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, from September 1969 until June 1971; Deputy Chief of Mission, Taipei, from June 1971
Godley, George McMurtrie, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs until May 1969; U.S. Ambassador to Laos from June 13, 1969
Grant, Lindsey, member, National Security Council Operations Staff/East Asia, from February 1969 until August 1970; member, Planning and Coordination Staff, Department of State, from June 1971 until November 1972
Green, Marshall, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from May 1, 1969
Gromyko, Andrei A., Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union

Habib, Philip C., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs until May 1969; member, U.S. Delegation to meetings on Vietnam in Paris until October 1971; U.S. Ambassador to Korea from September 30, 1971
Haig, Alexander Meigs, Jr., Major General, USA; Senior Military Assistant to the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs from June 1969 until June 1970; Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs from June 1970
Haldeman, H.R., Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff from January 20, 1969
Halperin, David, member, National Security Council staff 1971
Halperin, Morton, National Security Council Assistant for Programs, 1969 and 1970
Handley, William J., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs until April 1969; U.S. Ambassador to Turkey from May 1, 1969
Hannah, John A., Administrator, Agency for International Development, from March 28, 1969
Hardin, Clifford M., Secretary of Agriculture from January 1969 until December 1971
Harlow, Bryce N., Assistant to the President for Congressional Relations from 1969 until 1970; Counselor to the President from 1970
Heath, Edward, British Prime Minister from June 19, 1970
Helms, Richard M., Director of Central Intelligence
Herz, Martin F., Political Counselor in Saigon to June 1970; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, Department of State, from June 1970
Ho Chi Minh, President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
Hodgson, James D., Secretary of Labor from July 1970
Holdridge, John Herbert, Director, Office of Research and Analysis for East Asia and the Pacific, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State, until July 1969; member, National Security Council Operations Staff/East Asia from July 1969
Hormats, Robert, member, National Security Council Operations Staff/International Economic Affairs from 1970 until 1972
Howe, Jonathan T., Lieutenant Commander, USN; member, National Security Council staff from 1970 until 1972
Hughes, Thomas L., Director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State, from April 28, 1963
Hummel, Arthur W., Jr., U.S. Ambassador to Burma until July 22, 1971; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from February 1972

Ingersoll, Robert Stephen, U.S. Ambassador to Japan from February 29, 1972
Irwin, John N., II, Under Secretary of State from September 18, 1970, until July 12, 1972; Deputy Secretary of State from July 13, 1972 (Note: The Foreign Affairs Reauthorization Act of 1972 created the position of Deputy Secretary, replacing the Under Secretary post as the second-ranking officer in the Department.)

Jenkins, Alfred le Sesne, Director, Office of Asian Communist Affairs, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State, from July 1970
Jiang Jieshi, see Chiang Kai-shek
Johnson, Lyndon B., President of the United States until January 20, 1969
Johnson, U. Alexis, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from February 7, 1969
Jurich, Anthony J., Special Assistant to the Secretary for National Security Affairs, Department of the Treasury

Karamessines, Thomas H., Deputy Director for Plans (Note: Title changed to Deputy Director for Operations after Karamessines’ tenure)
Katz, Julius L., Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Resources and Food Policy, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State
Kendall, Donald M., President and CEO of Pepsi-Cola (renamed Pepsi Co); friend of Richard Nixon; Chairman of the Emergency Committee for American Trade
Kennedy, David M., Secretary of the Treasury from January 1969 until January 1971; Ambassador at Large for Foreign Economic Development from February 11, 1971; Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization from March 17, 1972
Kennedy, Richard, Colonel, USA; member, National Security Council staff from 1970 until 1972; Director of the National Security Council Planning Group in 1971 and 1972
Khan, Agha Muhammad Yahya, President of Pakistan from March 31, 1969, until December 20, 1971
Kim Il-sung (Kim Il Sung), Premier (Chairman of the Council of Ministers) of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea until December 28, 1972; President (Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly) of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea from December 28, 1972; and General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea
Kishi Nobusuke, former Japanese Prime Minister
Kissinger, Henry A., Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs from January 20, 1969
Klein, Herbert G., White House Director of Communications from January 1969
Kleindienst, Richard G., Deputy Attorney General from January 1969; Attorney General from February 1972
Kosygin, Alexei N., Chairman, Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union
Kotschnig, Walter M., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs until 1971

Ladd, Bruce C., Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Commercial Affairs and Business Activities, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State, from 1971
Laird, Melvin R., member, U.S. House of Representatives (R–Wisconsin); Secretary of Defense from January 22, 1969
Lake, W. Anthony, member, National Security Council staff from 1970 until 1971
Le Duc Tho, member, Democratic Republic of Vietnam Politburo; head of the Demcratic Republic of Vietnam delegation to Paris Peace Talks
Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore
Lon Nol, General and Prime Minister of Cambodia from 1969 until 1972; President of the Khmer Republic from 1972
Loomis, Henry, Deputy Director, United States Information Agency from 1969
Lord, Winston, Office of International Security Affairs, Department of Defense until 1969; member, National Security Council Planning Staff in 1969 and 1970; member, National Security Council Operations Staff/UN in 1970 and 1971; member, National Security Council staff from 1971

Malik, Yakov Alexandrovich, Permanent Representative of the Soviet Union to the United Nations
Mansfield, Michael, Senator (D–Montana) from 1952 until 1976; Senate Majority Leader
Mao Tse-tung (Mao Zedong), Chairman of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
McCain, John S., Jr., Admiral, USN; Commander in Chief, CINCPAC, from July 31, 1968, until September 1, 1972
McClellan, Robert, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Domestic and International Business
McCloskey, Robert J., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Press Relations, and Special Assistant to the Secretary, from July 1969
McCormack, John W., member, U.S. House of Representatives (D–Massachusetts) until 1970; Speaker of the House of Representatives until 1970
McCracken, Paul W., Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers, from January 1969 until November 1971
McGovern, George, Senator, (D–South Dakota); Presidential candidate in 1972
McManis, David, member, National Security Council staff in 1970 and 1971; Director of the White House Situation Room in 1971 and 1972
Meyer, Armin H., U.S. Ambassador to Iran until May 30, 1969; U.S. Ambassador to Japan from May 27, 1969, until March 27, 1972
Meyer, Francis G., Assistant Secretary of State for Administration from September 26, 1969, until May 31, 1971
Miki Takeo, Japanese Foreign Minister from 1966 until 1968; Prime Minister from December 1974 until December 1976
Mitchell, John, Attorney General from January 20, 1969, until February 15, 1972
Miyazawa Kiichi, Japanese Minister of International Trade and Industry from January 14, 1970, until July 5, 1971
Monjo, John C., Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 1969 until 1971
Moore, Jonathan, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from September 1969 until June 1970
Moorer, Thomas H., Admiral, USN; Chief of Naval Operations until July 1, 1970; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from July 2, 1970
Moose, Richard, member, National Security Council staff from 1969 until 1970
Morris, Roger, member, National Security Council staff from 1969 until 1971
Mosbacher, Emil, Jr., Chief of Protocol, Department of State, from January 28, 1969, until June 30, 1972
Moynihan, Daniel P., Assistant to the President for Urban Affairs from January until December 1969; Counselor to the President from January 1970 until January 1971

Nakasone Yasuhiro, Director General of the Japanese Defense Agency from September 1970
Neubert, Joseph W., member, Policy Planning Staff, Department of State, until June 1970; Acting Deputy Director for Planning, Planning and Coordination Staff, from June 1970
Nguyen Van Thieu, President of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam)
Nixon, Richard M., President of the United States
Noyes, James H., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs from 1971
Nutter, G. Warren, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from March 4, 1969

O’Connor, Roderic L., Assistant Administrator for East Asia, Agency for International Development, from August 1969 until June 1971; Coordinator for Supporting Assistance from July 1971 until September 1972
Ōhira Masayoshi, Japanese Foreign Minister from July 7, 1972
Osborn, David Lawrence, Deputy Chief of Mission in Tokyo until July 1970; thereafter Consul General, Hong Kong
Osgood, Robert E., Assistant for Programs, National Security Council, in 1969 and 1970; Director of the National Security Council Planning Staff in 1970 and 1971

Packard, David, Chief Executive Officer, Hewlett-Packard Co.; Deputy Secretary of Defense from January 24, 1969, until December 13, 1971
Paik Doo Jin, Prime Minster of the Republic of Korea from December 19, 1970, until June 3, 1971
Park Chung Hee, President of the Republic of Korea
Pedersen, Richard F., Counselor, Department of State, from January 23, 1969
Peterson, Peter G., Assistant to the President for International Economic Affairs, and Executive Director of the Council on International Economic Policy in 1971 and 1972; Secretary of Commerce from January 27, 1972, until December 8, 1972
Platt, Nicholas, Chief, Asian Communist Areas Division, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, from February 1969 until January 1970; Chief, North Asian Division, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, from January 1970 until March 1971; Deputy Director, Executive Secretariat Staff, from March 1971 until June 1972; Director, Executive Secretariat, from June 1972
Pollack, Herman, Director, Office of International Scientific and Technological Affairs, Department of State
Pranger, Robert J., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Near East and South Asia, 1970; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy Plans and National Security Council Affairs, 1971
Prentice, Colgate S., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations from October 1969
Pursley, Robert E., Lieutenant General, USAF; Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense

Renner, John C., Director, Office of International Trade, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State, from August 1970 until July 1972; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Trade Policy, Bureau of Economic Affairs, from July 1972
Resor, Stanley R., Secretary of the Army until June 30, 1971
Richardson, Elliot L., Under Secretary of State from January 23, 1969, until June 23, 1970; Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare from June 1970
Rodman, Peter W., member, National Security Council staff from 1970 until 1972
Rogers, William P., Secretary of State from January 21, 1969

Samuels, Nathaniel, Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs from March 28, 1969, until May 31, 1972
Satō Eisaku, Prime Minister of Japan until July 6, 1972
Saunders, Harold H., member, National Security Council staff from 1969 until 1971
Scali, John, Chief Diplomatic Correspondent for ABC News until 1971; Special Consultant to the President from 1971
Schlesinger, James R., Assistant Director, Bureau of the Budget, from January 1969 until June 1970; Assistant Director, Office of Management and Budget, from July 1970 until August 1971; Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission from August 1971
Scott, Hugh, Senator (R–Pennsylvania); Senate Minority Leader
Seaborg, Glenn T., Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission until 1971
Seamans, Robert C., Jr., Secretary of the Air Force from February 15, 1969
Shakespeare, Frank, Director, U.S. Information Agency, from February 7, 1969
Shimoda Takeso, Japanese Ambassador to the United States from June 28, 1967, until September 1970
Shoesmith, Thomas P., Country Director, Republic of China, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State, from October 1967 until August 1971; Deputy Chief of Mission in Tokyo from August 1972
Shultz, George P., Secretary of Labor from January 20, 1969, until June 10, 1970; first Director of the Office of Management and Budget from June 1970 until May 1972; Secretary of the Treasury from May 16, 1972
Sihanouk, Prince Norodom, head of state of Cambodia until 1970; leader of a government-in-exile in Peking from 1970
Sisco, Joseph J., Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs until February 9, 1969; Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs from February 7, 1969
Smith, K. Wayne, Director, Policy Analysis Branch, National Security Council, 1971 and 1972
Smyser, W. Richard, member, National Security Council Operations Staff/East Asia from 1970 until 1972
Sneider, Richard L., member, National Security Council Operations Staff/East Asia from May 1969 until September 1969; Deputy Chief of Mission in Japan from September 1969 until July 1972; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from August 1972
Spiers, Ronald I., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs from August 15 until September 18, 1969; Director, Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs from September 18, 1969
Stans, Maurice, Secretary of Commerce from January 20, 1969, until January 27, 1972
Steadman, Richard C., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, 1969
Stein, Herbert, member, Council of Economic Advisers from January 1969 until November 1971; Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers from January 1972
Stevenson, John R., Legal Adviser, Department of State, from July 8, 1969
Sullivan, William H., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from April 1969
Symington, Stuart, Senator (D–Missouri)

Tanaka Kakeui, Minister of International Trade and Industry July 1971; Prime Minister of Japan from July 6, 1972
Tarr, Curtis W., Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Manpower and Reserve Affairs from 1969 until 1970; Director, Selective Service System, from 1970 until 1972; Under Secretary of State for International Security Affairs from May 1, 1972
U Thant, Secretary General of the United Nations
Thayer, Harry E.T., Asian Communist Affairs, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State, until August 1970; National War College from August 1970 until June 1971; advisor on political affairs at USUN from June 1971
Torbert, Horace Gates, Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations until October 1970
Trezise, Philip H., Representative to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris, until July 7, 1969; Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs from July 8, 1969, until November 27, 1971

Ushiba Nobuhiko, Japanese Ambassador to the United States from September 21, 1970

Volcker, Paul A., Under Secretary of the Treasury for Monetary Affairs from January 1969

Wakaizumi Kei, Professor at Kyoto Sangyo University and confidant of Japanese Prime Minister Sato; used the alias “Yoshida” in secret telephone conversations with Henry Kissinger
Walters, Vernon A., Lieutenant General, USA; Military Attaché to Paris until March 1971; Deputy Director of Central Intelligence from May 2, 1972
Wheeler, Earle G., General, USA; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff until July 2, 1970
Wickel, James J., Interpreter for the Department of State; Special Assistant in the Executive Section of the Tokyo Embassy; Political Officer from July 1972
Wilson, James Harold, British Prime Minister until June 19, 1970, and from 1974
Wilson, James M., Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from August 1970; Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary, February 1972; U.S. Representative for Micronesian status negotiations from November 1972
Wright, W. Marshall, member, National Security Council Operations Staff/African and UN Affairs from June 1970 until April 1972; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations from April until December 1972; thereafter, Acting Assistant Secretary from December 1972

Yost, Charles W., U.S. Representative to the United Nations from January 22, 1969, until February 25, 1971

Zhou Enlai, see Chou En-lai
Ziegler, Ronald, White House Press Secretary from 1969
Zumwalt, Elmo R., Jr., Admiral, USN; Chief of Naval Operations from July 1, 1970

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, Volume XIX, Part 2, Japan, 1969-1972

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