Secret White House Tapes

33–89

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33–89
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Henry A. Kissinger
November 18, 1972
Conversation No. 33-89

Date: November 18, 1972
Time: 12:02 pm - 12:08 pm
Location: White House Telephone

Henry A. Kissinger talked with the President.

Kissinger's location
-Washington, DC

President's schedule
-Dictation

David Ben-Gurion
-Letter to the President
-Sense of history
-Vietnam
-The President's People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Acquaintance with Kissinger

John J. McCloy
-Letter to the President
-Comparison with Abraham Lincoln
-Civil War
-Doves

Vietnam negotiations
-South Vietnamese response
-Telephone call from Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Message
-US response
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY

Tape Subject Log
(rev. June-07)

Conversation No. 33-89 (cont’d)

-Memorandum to Bunker
-Objection to settlement agreement
-William H. Sullivan
-Presidential response
-Possible letter
-Paris
-Settlement agreement text
-Bunker
-Negotiations
-Delay
-Hanoi
-Nguyen Van Thieu's Options
-Settlement agreement
-US options
-Bilateral action
-Cease-fire
-Laos, Cambodia
-South Vietnam’s bargaining position
-Kissinger’s forthcoming trip to Paris
-Announcement
-Bunker's response
-Cambodia


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-Norodom Sihanouk
-Relations with North Vietnamese
-Comment to Algerian ambassador
-Soviet Union
-Settlement agreement
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr's position on South Vietnam
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY

Tape Subject Log
(rev. June-07)

Conversation No. 33-89 (cont’d)

-South Vietnamese position
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