395–15

Conversation No. 395-15

Date: January 10, 1973
Time: Between 4:30 pm and 5:55 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Greetings

Second-term reorganization
-List of appointments

Vietnam settlement
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Conversation No. 395-15 (cont’d)

-Message to Haig from Henry A. Kissinger
-Gen. Creighton Abrams, Melvin R. Laird
-Instruction for Haig’s response
-Bombing

Quotas
-Problems
-Change in executive order
-Edward L. Morgan
-Charles W. Colson [?]
-John D. Ehrlichman
-J. Stanley Pottinger
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-The President's position
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Executive order
-Origin
-Change
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-University of California faculty hiring
-Blacks

Vietnam negotiations
-Bombing
-Public opinion
-Press
-Necessity

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 4:30 pm.

Refreshments

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:55 pm.

Vietnam negotiations
-Kissinger's scenario
-Meeting with the President at Camp David
-Settlement agreement
-Location for initialing ceremony
-Rogers
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Conversation No. 395-15 (cont’d)

-Kissinger
-Congress
-Bombing suspension
-Congressional relations
-Haig’s trip to Saigon
-Congressional relations
-Haig's conversation with Hugh Scott
-Response

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Quotas
-Executive order
-Origin
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Enforcement
-Pottinger
-Pottinger
-Jews
-Campaign committee
-Richardson
-Compared to affirmative action
-New executive order
-Ehrlichman
-Buchanan
-The President's position
-Campaign statements
-Compared to affirmative action
-Funds to universities
-Blacks
-Charles J. Hitch
-University of California
-Faculty hiring
-The President’s position

-Second term reorganization
-John N. Mitchell’s recommendations
-Donald A. Webster
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC] [?]
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Conversation No. 395-15 (cont’d)

-Webster
-Mitchell
-Ehrlichman [?]
-Colson [?]
-Engman
-Timing
-Compared to Webster
-Clients
-Tax returns
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Colson
-Compared to Miles W. Kirpatrick [?]
-Ehrlichman
-Frederic V. Malek
-Federal Trade Commission chairman [FTC]
-Mitchell
-Ehrlichman

Vietnam settlement
-Signing of agreement
-Haig
-Kissinger
-Location
-Le Duc Tho
-Haig’s trip to Saigon
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Announcement
-The President
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Timing
-Initialing
-Kissinger
-The President’s television [TV] appearance
-Formal signing
-Presidential statement
-Bombing
-Importance
-Kissinger
-Haig’s trip to Saigon
-Timing
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Conversation No. 395-15 (cont’d)

-Purpose
-Thieu
-The President’s position
-Best possible agreement
-Cooperation
-Haig’s opinion
-Cut off of aid
-Signing

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Refreshments

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:55 pm.

Vietnam settlement
-Timing
-1973 Inauguration
-Thieu's position
-The President's TV appearance
-North Vietnam
-Expectations
-William P. Rogers, Laird
-Responsibility
-Kissinger
-The President
-Congress
-Press
-North Vietnamese
-Haig's trip to Saigon
-Haig's responsibility
-Paris-Hanoi scenario [?]
-Congress [?]
-Bombing
-Saigon
-Kissinger
-Haig's trip to Saigon
-Duration
-Thieu
-Technical work
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Conversation No. 395-15 (cont’d)

-Timing
-Kissinger's attendance at 1973 Inauguration
-Haig's meeting with Thieu
-Kissinger's Trip to Paris
-1973 Inauguration
-Tho
-Announcement
-Kissinger's role
-Haig's meeting with Thieu
-The President’s role
-North Vietnam
-Final deal
-Kissinger
-Thieu
-Previous actions
-Importance of Haig's Meeting
-Announcement (page 16)
-Haig’s trip to Hanoi
-Thieu
-The President’s role
-Ziegler
-Kissinger’s trip to Paris
-Initialing
-The President's position
-Kissinger
-Haig's trip to Saigon
-Thieu’s cooperation
-The President's role
-Congressional Leaders [?]
-Option 2
-The President's announcement
-Television [TV]
-Timing
-1973 Inauguration
-Kissinger
-Call to Joseph Kraft
-Column by Kraft
-Telephone logs
-Haig's trip to Saigon
-Kissinger's schedule
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Conversation No. 395-15 (cont’d)

-The President’s announcement
-Timing
-Haig's trip to Saigon
-Kissinger
-Ziegler
-Inaugural functions
-Concert
-Kissinger's response
-Military action
-Thieu
-Bombing of North Vietnam
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Timing
-Kissinger
-Military action
-Signing
-US position
-Thieu's position
-The President’s announcement
-Timing
Leaks
-1973 Inauguration
-Kissinger’s “Peace is at hand” announcement
-1972 election
-Kissinger’s travel to Paris
-Signing
-Timing
-Message to Thieu
-Press relations
-Congressional relations
-Content
-Cease-fire
-Thieu
-Political situation
-Military situation
-Thieu
-Cooperation
-Pressure
-Options
-Influence of others
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Conversation No. 395-15 (cont’d)

-Haig’s trip to Saigon
-Four stars
-Demilitarized Zone [DMZ] Provision
-Thieu
-Compared to 1954 Geneva Accords
-US Support for South Vietnam
-Thieu’s opposition
-Alternative scenario
-Symbolism
-Initiative
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Announcement
-Length
-Content
-Cease-fire
-Gratitude
-Support for the President
-Kissinger’s travel to Paris
-Tho
-Thieu
-Announcement
-Timing
-Thieu
-Cooperation
-1973 Inauguration
-Kissinger’s travel to Paris
-Thieu’s response
-Haig’s travel
-Cambodia
-Vientienne
-Bangkok
-Seoul
-Timing
-Military action
-Kissinger
-1972 election
-Haig’s schedule
-Thieu
-1973 Inauguration
-Kissinger
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Conversation No. 395-15 (cont’d)

-Thieu’s response
-Options
-1973 Inauguration
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Paris
-Haig's meeting with Thieu
-Congressional relations
-Edmund S. Muskie
-1973 Inauguration
-Expectations
-The President's support for South Vietnam
-Effect
-DMZ
-Timing
-Congressional leaders
-Schedule
-1973 Inauguration
-Timing
-Haig’s schedule

Haig left at 5:55 pm.

John B. Connally [?]
-Meeting

Haldeman left at 5:57 pm.