329–52

Conversation No. 329-52

Date: April 15, 1972
Time: 5:35 pm - 5:59 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Vietnam
-Kissinger’s conversation with Yuli M. Vorontsov
-Attack on Haiphong
-Haiphong operation
-Harbor
-Shore batteries

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 5:35 pm.

Food order

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 5:59 pm.

Vietnam
-Haiphong
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 329-52 (cont.)

-Shore batteries
-Bombardment
-Feasibility
-Damage
-US landing
-Harbor
-Naval operations
-Coastal artillery
-Air strikes
-B-52s
-Number
-Targets
-Truck parks
-Oil storage areas
-Shore batteries
-Kissinger’s message to Vorontsov
-Soviet reaction
-Helmut (“Hal”) Sonnenfeldt
-Views
-Blockade
-Blockade
-Cancellation of Kissinger’s Moscow trip
-Public reaction
-Compared with reaction to bombing
-Bombing
-Destruction of supplies
-Soviet summit
-Possible conciliation
-US reaction
-Soviet/German issue
-Possible meeting with [Franz J.?] Strauss
-Air strikes
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Conversation with Kissinger
-Negotiations
-Plenary meeting on April 27
-Meeting on April 24
-North Vietnam
-Soviets
-Meeting on April 27
-Benefit to US
-William j. Porter's views
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 329-52 (cont.)

-Bombing
-Private meeting on April 24
-Conditions
-Bombing
-William P. Rogers's statement
-Timing
-Porter
-The President's instructions to Kissinger
-Porter’s statement
-White house support
-Rogers
-An loc
-Current situation
-Rogers’s proposed statement
-Past negotiations
-October 1968 bombing halt
-North Vietnamese refusal to negotiate
-Negotiations
-Resumption
-Conditions
-US position
-Kissinger’s conversation with Melvin r. Laird
-Thanks for support
-Conflict with Rogers
-Negotiations
-Edmund S. Muskie's and Edward M. Kennedy's positions
-Value
-Air strikes
-Effectiveness
-Meeting on April 24
-Hanoi’s acceptance
-Vorontsov's message to North Vietnam
-Kissinger’s Moscow trip
-Naval bombardment
-Schedule
-Kissinger’s instructions to Thomas H. Moorer
-Kissinger’s trip to Moscow
-Cancellation
-US response
-German issue
-Strauss
-Blockade
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 329-52 (cont.)

-Timing
-Public support
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.'s report

Kissinger left at 5:59 pm.