Date: November 15, 1972
Time: 9:08 am - 9:14 am
Location: Camp David Study Table
The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.
[See Conversation No. 225-9]
Vietnam negotiations
-The President’s forthcoming letter to Nguyen Van Thieu
-Substance
-Subtleties
-Delivery
-Wording
-Tone
-Use of “unalterable”
-Invitation to San Clemente
-Nuances
-Delivery to Kissinger
-Means
-Timing
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar.-08)
Conversation No. 153-28 (cont’d)
-Delivery to Thieu
-Thieu’s tactics
-Delays
-Task Force proposal
-Technical changes
-Meeting with Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Resumption of talks
-Context
-Settlement agreement
-Possible US-North Vietnamese bilateral deal
-Thieu’s attitude
-Problems
-Possible criticism
-US withdrawal
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Timing
-Vietnamization
-Effect on Laos and Cambodia
-Thieu’s tactics
-Purpose
-Yield
-Timing
-Thieu
-Relations with Bunker
-Relations with Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Relations with Gen. Frederick C. Weyand
-The President’s letter
-Tone
-Recent letter to the President
-US settlement agreement changes
-Number
-Study
-Timing
-Tactics
-Delays
-Relations with Bunker
-Technical changes
-Timing
-The President’s letter
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar.-08)
Conversation No.153-28 (cont’d)
-The President’s letter
-Contents
-US action
-Request of Thieu
-Settlement agreement
-Problems with North Vietnamese
-Concessions
-Compared to Saigon