297–28

Conversation No. 297-28

Date: November 12, 1971
Time: 12:33 pm - 12:59 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Vietnam
-The President's forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 12:36 pm.

Butterfield left at 12:37 pm.

-Possible press questions
-Troop withdrawal
-Rate
-White House staff leaks
-Clark MacGregor
-Charles W. Colson
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-Negotiations with North Vietnam
-Deadline
-Residual force
-Rate of withdrawal
-1972 election
-Melvin R. Laird
-Informing people
-The President's conversation with H. R. Haldeman
-Congress
-Timing
-MacGregor
-Cabinet
-Gerald R. Ford and Hugh Scott
-Possible reaction
-Laird
-Statements
-Saigon
-Residual force
-William P. Rogers
-Statements
-Possible press questions
-Residual force
-Negotiations
-State Department
-Casualties
-The President's opponents
-Possible motivations
-The President's successes
-Casualties
-Troop withdrawal
-The President’s press conference of September 16, 1971

India-Pakistan
-Possible press questions
-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan's efforts
-Civilian government
-United Nations [UN]
-Observers
-Relief supplies
-Possible pullback
-[Indira Gandhi]
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-Refugees
-US policy
-War
-US foreign aid
-India

The President's schedule
-Willy Brandt
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Arthur K. Watson
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Azores
-Europe
-Brandt
-Edward R.G. Heath
-Pompidou
-[Gen. Charles A.J.M. De Gaulle's] funeral
-Possible meeting at the Azores
-Martinique
-Watson's possible conversation with Rush

Watson
-Relationship with State Department
-Rogers
-Publicity

Walter H. Annenberg

Watson

Rush

John J. McCloy
-Conversation with Kissinger, November 11, 1971
-Kissinger’s meeting with Rogers

Vietnam
-The President's forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement
-Kissinger's forthcoming call to Rogers
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Laird
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-Notification
-Timing
-Leaks
-Press
-Informing people
-MacGregor
-Kissinger's previous conversation with Rogers
-Subsequent announcements
-Timing
-Possible peace campaign
-Congress
-North Vietnamese negotiations
-Prospects
-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with Rogers
-Laird
-Leaks
-Negotiations
-US air power
-Cambodia and Laos
-Possible press questions
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Negotiations with North Vietnam
-US position
-Kissinger’s staff
-Meeting
-Questions about Vietnam
-1972 campaign
-POWs
-The President's forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement
-Timing
-Negotiations with North Vietnam
-POWs
-Bombing of North Vietnam
-Timing
-The President’s forthcoming trips [to People’s Republic of China
[PRC] and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]]
-Negotiations

Kissinger left at 12:59 pm.
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