Date: December 4, 1972
Time: 8:23 pm - 8:32 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Col. Richard T. Kennedy.
Vietnam negotiations
-Message to Henry A. Kissinger
-Instructions
-Option Two
-Break off of talks
-North Vietnamese responsibility
-Explanation for record
-Political issues
-Reneging on meaning of agreement
-Translation problem
-Military issues
-North Vietnamese forces in South Vietnam
-Possible television [TV] statement by the President
-Alternative
-Kissinger’s return
-US bombing
-The President’s view
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Dec.-07)
Conversation No. 34-15 (cont’d)
-Possible conversation with Kissinger
-North Vietnamese publicity
-Briefings by Kissinger
-Blame on North Vietnam
-Recent call from Kissinger
-Meeting
-Timing
-Soviet Union, People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Message to Kissinger
-Negotiations
-The President’s possible actions
-B-52s
-Hanoi-Haiphong complex
-Timing
-Continuation
-Appearance
-Bombing
-Break off
-Kissinger’s return
-North Vietnamese publicity
-Briefing by Kissinger
-Possible TV statement by the President
-Compared to the President’s Cambodia and May 8, 1972 statements
-Public hope for success
-Bombing
-Recreations
-Soviet Union
-PRC
-Domestic front
-Saigon