338–42

Conversation No. 338-42

Date: May 11, 1972
Time: Unknown between 12:04 and 12:51 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum for the files.


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Henry A. Kissinger entered at 12:51 pm.

Vietnam
-Air strikes
-Report
-Bridges
-Damage
-Soviet Summit
-Haiphong Harbor
-Instructions
-Soviet ships

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 12:53 pm.

-Damage
-Bridges
-Petroleum, oils, and lubricants [POL]
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr. cable
-USS Newport News
-Shelling
-Air strikes
-POL
-Power plants
-Destruction
-Impact
-Le Duc Tho (?)
-Blockade
-Soviet protests
-Mines
-Soviet shipping
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Propaganda efforts
-Leaflets
-North Vietnam offensive
-An Loc
-Casualties
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-Kontum
-An Loc
-Tanks
-Destruction
-Number

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 12:53 pm.

Refreshments

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 1:12 pm.

Vietnam
-Air strikes
-Intensity

Soviet Union
-German treaties
-Relations with Hanoi
-North Vietnam public statements
-Tone

Vietnam
-William P. Rogers
-Public statements
-Contents
-Kissinger’s view
-Press conference
-Meeting with the President
-Purpose
-Advisability
-Purpose
-Legality of blockade
-Soviet reply
-Legislation on Vietnam
-President's peace offer
-Soviet statements
-Melvin R. Laird
-Rogers
-Public statements
-Legality
-Criticism of Soviets
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-Peace offer
-Interpretation
-Kissinger’s view
-Forthcoming testimony on Capitol Hill
-Business Council
-Press conference
-Blockade
-Soviet ships
-Kissinger’s previous conversation with Jerzy Michalowski
-Soviet public statements
-Tone
-President's Soviet trip [Soviet Summit]
-Warsaw stopover
-Approval
-Significance
-Announcement
-Kissinger meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Summit
-Camp David
-Possible incident concerning Soviet ships
-President's meeting with Nikolai S. Patolichev
-Soviet response to President's previous speech
-US air strikes
-Limitations
-Air strikes
-Damage
-Soviet Summit
-Cancellation
-Likelihood
-German treaties
-Ratification
-Willy Brandt’s role
-Plenary sessions
-US position
-President's meeting with Foreign Trade Minister [Patolichev]
-Cancellation
-Likelihood
-President's meeting with Patolichev
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Significance
-Soviet Union, Iran comparison
-Mohammed Reza Tahlavi [Shah of Iran]
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-Kissinger meeting with Dobrynin
-Purpose
-Rogers
-Public statements
-Administration line
-Soviet response
-Advisability
-Kissinger’s view
-Effect

Kissinger left at 1:12 pm.

Vietnam
-Soviet Summit
-Cancellation
-Timing
-Soviet intentions
-President's position
-Cancellation
-US reactions
-Public opinion
-President's critics
-Haldeman’s view
-President's press conference
-Scheduling
-Timing
-Soviet summit
-News reports
-Robert B. Semple, Jr.
-John B. Connally
-New York Times
-John F. Osborne
-Wall Street Journal
-Effect


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President's schedule
-Camp David
-Meeting with Rogers
-Meeting with Wilbur D. Mills
-Camp David

Vietnam
-Support for the President

Haldeman left at 1:29 pm.