Date: December 6, 1972
Time: Unknown between 6:30 pm. and 8:16 pm
Location: Camp David Hard Wire
The President dictated a memorandum to Henry A. Kissinger.
Draft message to Henry A. Kissinger
-Typing instructions
-Vietnam negotiations
-Kissinger’s performance
-Forthcoming meeting
-6-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-08)
Conversation No. 234-6 (cont’d)
-Kissinger’s meeting with the President
-The President’s reading of messages and transcripts
-North Vietnamese
-October 26, 1972 commitments
-Minimum positions
-Issues
-Withdrawal of North Vietnamese troops from South Vietnam
-North Vietnam’s response
-Record
-Historians
-Final offer
-Report to the President
-Forthcoming meetings
-Breakdown
-[Option Two]
-Withdrawal of North Vietnamese troops from South Vietnam
-Effect
-Responsibility
-Ultimatums
-Forthcoming meetings
-Kissinger’s cable
-Option One
-Approval
-US military action
-Kissinger’s cable
-Option One
-North Vietnam’s acceptance
-Breakdown
-Responsibility
-US domestic situation
-Presidential statement on television [TV]
-Continuation of war
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Advisability
-“Propaganda organs” of North Vietnam and US
-[October 1972] deal
-South Vietnamese intransigence
-Option Two
-Kissinger’s meeting with the President
-US bombing of North Vietnam
-7-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-08)
Conversation No. 234-6 (cont’d)
-Pace
-Duration
-POWs
-George S. McGovern
-South Vietnam’s survival
-Congressional relations
-US military and economic aid to South Vietnam
-Cut off
-South Vietnam’s instransigence
-Option One
-Settlement agreement
-POWs
-South Vietnam’s survival
-Option Two
-US bombing of North Vietnam
-POWs
-Effect
-Congressional relations
-US domestic situation
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Soviet Union
-Forthcoming meeting
-Settlement agreement
-Breakthrough
-Possibility
-US bombing of North Vietnam
-Pace
-Presidential statement on TV
-Draft
-Casualties
-Public relations [PR]
-“Washington establishment”
-Duration of bombing