Edmund S. Muskie speech
-Ronald L. Ziegler rebuttal
-Melvin R. Laird
-Conversation with Laird
-Laird’s forthcoming statement
-North Vietnamese
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
-Impact of Muskie speech
-Media reaction
-Congressional rebuttals
-William P. Rogers
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s conversation with Kissinger
-State Department role
-Need for sharp rebuttal
-Haldeman
-Ziegler
-Buchanan rebuttal
-President’s role
-Eight Points
-Support for President
-Michael J. Mansfield Amendment
-Kissinger’s critique
Kenneth B. Keating and Ellsworth F. Bunker meeting
-Kissinger talk with Keating
-Updating of situation
-Kissinger’s possible talk with Lakshmi Kant Jha
-Backchannel or letter
-Testifying by Keating before Foreign Relations Committee
-State Department
-Jack N. Anderson papers
-US relations with India
-Charles Nelson aid
Contingency plan for Vietnam
-National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-Adm. Thomas H. Moore
-Briefing
-Muskie
-Laird role
-Need for toughness
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
-Military effort
-Bombing
-Extent
-North Vietnam
-Military augmentation
-Sorties
-Timing
-Carriers
-B-52’s
-A-1’s
-F-4’s
-Strategy
-South Vietnam
-Beginning of North Vietnamese offensive
-US response
-Bunker view
-South Vietnamese strength
-Lam Son
-Battlefield prospects
-Effect on negotiations
-Timing
-Senate
Public relations
-The President’s talks with Dr. W. Kenneth Riland
-India-Pakistan War
-Anderson papers
-Foreign relations committee
-Keating testifying
-Protection of White House
-Keating’s forthcoming talk with president
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