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Conversation No. 399-2

Date: January 22, 1973
Time: Between 8:15 am and 9:10 am
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Vietnam settlement
-Kissinger’s trip
-Negotiations
-Status
-Prospects
-South Vietnam
-Kissinger's schedule [?]
-Signing Announcement
-William P. Rogers
-Press relations
-Newspapers
-Washington Post
-Newsweek
-Skepticism
-Withdrawal
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield [?]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Apr.-09)

Conversation No. 399-2 (cont’d)

-Congressional relations
-Laos and Cambodia
-Public Relations [PR] strategy
-Critic’s response
-Public opinion
-Prolonging war
-Kissinger’s statements
-Bombing halt
-The President’s opponents
-Destruction
-Kissinger’s role
-The President’s work on domestic issues
-Herbert G. Klein
-John A. Scali
-David K. E. Bruce
-Reassignment
-Ambassadorship
-Australia [?]
-Great Britain [?]
-Melvin R. Laird
-Medal of Freedom
-George W. Romney
-John A. Volpe
-Walter J. Hickel
-Bruce
-PR Strategy
-The President’s opponents
-Effect on peace
-Haig
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-December 1972 bombing
-Effect
-Le Duc Tho
-Sovereignty
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-South Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Announcement
-Expected public response
-Timing
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Apr.-09)

Conversation No. 399-2 (cont’d)

-News reports
-Initialing
-Washington Post
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Haig
-South Vietnam
-North Vietnam
-Protocals
-Thieu
-North Vietnam
-Economic aid
-Request
-Signing
-Congressional approval
-Publicity
-Kissinger’s trip
-US – Democratic Republic Vietnam economic commission
-South Vietnam
-Troop withdrawal provisions
-POWs
-Possible statement by Kissinger
-Mansfield
-Frank F. Church
-Cambodia, Laos
-North Vietnam
December 1972 bombing
-The President’s achievement
-Practical solution
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman [?]
-George S. McGovern memorandum
-October 1972 statements
-Thieu
-October 8, 1972 agreement
-National Council of National Reconciliation and Concord (NCRC)
-South Viertnam
-Rogers
-North Vietman
-Announcement
-Timing
-Kissinger’s briefing
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Apr.-09)

Conversation No. 399-2 (cont’d)

-Press relations
-Haldeman
-Charles H. Percy
-Charles McC Mathias, Jr.
-Mansfield
-North Vietnamese
-Congressional relations
-Resolution
-War powers
-Democrats
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
-Jacob V. Javits
-Republicans
-Rogers
-Paris
-State Department
-Presidential authority
-Thieu
-Saigon
-Rogers
-Economic aid
-Elections
-North Vietnam
-Rogers
-Briefing
-Congressional leaders
-Elliot L. Richardson and Rogers
-Kissinger's role
-The President's role
-Capitol Hill
-Cabinet
-Richardson
-Rogers
-Signing
-Congressional briefing
-Press briefing
-Chou En-Lai
-Japan
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Thieu
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Apr.-09)

Conversation No. 399-2 (cont’d)

-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Thieu
-Reliability
-Response
-International conference
-France
-Maurice Schumann
-Location
-Paris
-Copenhagen
-Vienna
-Schumann
-Location
-Paris
-Helsinki
-South Vietnam
-Denmark
-Socialists
-Copenhagen
-Paris
-Opposition to The President
-South Vietnam
-Germany [?]
-Vienna
-Communications
-Signing
-Timing
-Letter to Thieu
-Haig
-Compared to Col. Richard T. Kennedy
-Thieu

Kissinger left at 9:10 am.