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382–17

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382–17
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Alexander M. Haig
December 17, 1972
Conversation No. 382-17

Date: December 17, 1972
Time: 2:24 pm - 2:45 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Vietnam War
-Haig’s schedule
-Trip to Saigon
-Departure
-Timing
-Draft of the President’s letter to Nguyen Van Thieu
-Meeting with Thieu
-Duration
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Conversation No. 382-17 (cont’d)

-Interpreter
-Tone
-Thieu’s view
-US-North Vietnam relations
-Henry A. Kissinger’s press conference
-The President’s letter to Thieu
-Tone
-Haig’s trip to Saigon
-Negotiations
-US-South Vietnam relations
-Bilateral deal
-Negotiations
-Kissinger’s press conference
-US-South Vietnam relations
-Thieu
-Bilateral deal
-Thieu’s view
-US bombing north of 20th Parallel
-Hanoi
-North Vietnam
-Haig’s view
-Statement, December 16, 1972
-October 1972
-Response to Kissinger’s press conference
-Distribution
-Pentagon
-US bombing north of 20th Parallel
-B-52s
-Weather
-TACAIR
-Escorts
-Surface to air missiles [SAMs]
-Possible problems
-Necessity
-North Vietnam’s possible reactions
-The President’s letter to Thieu
-Haig’s reading
-Tone
-Kissinger
-Haig’s reading
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Conversation No. 382-17 (cont’d)

-Final paragraph
-Final paragraph
-Negotiations
-US-South Vietnam relations
-Ultimatum
-Cooperation
-Settlement agreement
-Radio Hanoi
-Thieu
-Tone
-Thieu
-The President
-Haig’s meeting with Thieu
-Senators’ views on settlement agreement
-Barry M. Goldwater
-John C. Stennis
-“Hawks”
-Thieu
-Midway meeting with the President
-Relationship with the President
-Congressional relations
-Cut off of US funds
-South Vietnam survival
-Haig’s schedule
-Haig’s meeting with Thais, Cambodians, Laotians
-Cambodia
-Thieu
-Settlement agreement
-US ambassador
-Emory C. Swank

The President’s schedule

Haig left at 2:45 pm.
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