Secret White House Tapes

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  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Henry A. Kissinger
  • Ronald L. Ziegler
January 19, 1973
Conversation No. 398-3

Date: January 19, 1973
Time: Unknown between 4:12 pm and 4:29 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

[Conversation No. 398-3A]

Vietnam settlement
-Current situation
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan.-09)

Conversation No. 398-3 (cont’d)

President's Inaugural speech
-Peace reference
-Broader context
-US allies
-Compared to friendships
-Israel
-Europe
-Latin America
-Peking and Moscow references
-Length

Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Report from Bangkok

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 4:15 pm.

Vietnam settlement
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Timing
-Consequences
-Barry M. Goldwater

[End of telephone conversation]

President's Inaugural speech
-Final draft
-Release
-Preliminary notes and outline
-Timing
-William E. Timmons
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Hugh Scott
-Gerald R. Ford
-Character
-Price
-Final draft
-Release
-Embargo
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan.-09)

Conversation No. 398-3 (cont’d)

-Timmons
-Press relations
-Scott and Ford
-Timmons
-Copies
-Ziegler's time commitment to wire services

Vietnam settlement
-Announcement
-Historical significance
-Library
-Haig’s report

Press relations
-Press questions
-Press conference
-Date
-Signing

1973 Inauguration events
-Announcement
-Concerts
-Ziegler’s wife
-Frank Sinatra
-Christmas

President's schedule
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Ziegler left at 4:29 pm.
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