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  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Henry A. Kissinger
August 11, 1972
Conversation No. 137-2

Date: August 11, 1972
Time: 4:16 pm - 4:25 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Travel arrangements [for flight to Miami, Florida, August 22, 1972]
-Rose Mary Woods
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Alice Roosevelt Longworth
-Stewart J.O. Alsop
-Timing of travel

US foreign policy
-Kissinger's meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Vietnam
-North Vietnamese
-Egypt’s expulsion of Soviet military advisers
-US reaction
-Soviet withdrawal
-Equipment maintenance
-Anwar el-Sadat
-Pipeline
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Peter G. Peterson
-Flanigan
-John D. Ehrlichman's meeting with Howard K. Smith
-Vietnam
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-Kissinger's forthcoming trip to Paris
-W. Ramsey Clark
-North Vietnam trip
-Possible offer from the North Vietnamese
-Possible release of prisoners of war [POWs]
-Cessation of US bombing
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Previous offer
-1972 election
-Smith
-George S. McGovern
-Trip to Paris
-North Vietnamese
-Objectives
-1972 election
-US withdrawal
-Bombing
-Thieu
-Memorandum
-POWs
-Clark
-Possible use as conduit
-Kissinger’s view
-Solution of military problems
-Compared to political problems
-Proposal
-Publication
-US proposal of May 31, 1971
-Possible consequences
-Forecast
-September, October 1972
-Military situation
-Possible October 1972 attack
-Hue
-Casualties
-Report from North Vietnamese prisoner from 304th Division
-B-52 attack
-Possible North Vietnamese strategy
-October 1972
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