401–26

Conversation No. 401-26

Date: January 11, 1973
Time: 2:30 pm - 3:15 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Col. Richard T. Kennedy.

Vietnam settlement
-Kennedy report
-Graham Martin
-Saigon
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Paris
-Schedule
-Meeting with the President
-1973 Inauguration
-Church service
-Family reception
-Agreement
-Announcement
-Ronald L. Ziegler’s statement
-Details
-The President’s speech
-Proposed dates
-Ziegler’s statement
-Tone
-Date
-Television [TV]
-Kissinger
-The President’s speech
-Initialing
-Date
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Ziegler’s statement
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Conversation No. 401-26 (cont’d)

-Tone
-Date
-1973 Inauguration
-Bipartisan Congressional leadership meeting
-Paris negotiations
-Final meeting
-Details
-Date
-Thieu
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Thieu
-Negotiations
-Meetings
-Press coverage
-Announcement
-Impact on Thieu
-Haig
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Thieu’s actions

An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time between 2:30 pm and 3:15 pm.

-US position
-Signing without Thieu
-Risk
-Thieu’s response
-Haig
-Initialing
-Ziegler’s statement
-Thieu’s actions
-The President’s actions
-Public statement
-Case-fire
-Kissinger
-Content

An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time between 2:30 pm and 3:15 pm.

-Bipartisan Congressional leadership meeting
-Kissinger
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Conversation No. 401-26 (cont’d)

-Technical details
-The President’s TV appearance
-Kissinger’s work
-Hanoi
-Initialing
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Return
-Schedule
-Shuttle between Hanoi and Saigon
-Thieu
-Timing of Hanoi Trip
-The President’s opinion
-Ziegler statement
-Thieu’s position
-Options
-Ziegler’s statement
-Kissinger
-Paris
-Details
-Bipartisan Congressional leadership meeting
-Advantages
-Saigon
-Kissinger
-Paris
-Kissinger
-North Vietnamese proposals
-US relations
-Cease-fire
-Date
-Agreement
-Cease-fire
-Thieu’s response
-Announcement
-Cease-fire
-Timing
-Initialing
-Thieu’s response
-Hanoi
-1973 Inauguration
-Leaks
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Conversation No. 401-26 (cont’d)

-Announcement
-Kissinger

The President’s schedule
-Key Biscayne
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Kissinger
-Work on speeches
-Kennedy
-Date of departure
-Kissinger
-Away from Washington, DC
-Press relations
-Intentions
-Contacts
-Relationship with the President
-The President's wishes
-Kissinger
-Haig

Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Briefing
-William P. Rogers, Melvin R. Laird
-Negotiations
-Questions
-Press relations
-Robert Pierpoint
-Call from Moorer
-Possible Response
-Consultation

Press relations
-William E. Timmons
-“Meet the Press”
-Gerald R. Ford
-Hugh Scott
-Kennedy’s role
-Bombing
-Negotiations
-No comment
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Conversation No. 401-26 (cont’d)

-Vietnam settlement
-Negotiations
-Current Status
-Responsibility of the press
-Agreement with North Vietnam
-No discussion
-Congressional relations
-Secretary of State
-Bombing
-May 8, 1972 policy
-POWs
-Cease-fire
-Congressional briefing
-Timing
-Negotiations
-October 26, 1972 agreement
-Kissinger’s briefing
-Haig’s and Kissinger’s schedules
-Press relations
-Kennedy’s role
-Progress of negotiations
-Two announcements
-Haig’s departure
-Bombing halt
-The President’s view
-Kissinger
-Concurrent announcement
-Thieu

Haig
-Kennedy’s report
-Input

Confidentiality
-Ziegler
-Kissinger
-Gerald L. Warren
-Bombing halt
-Timing
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Conversation No. 401-26 (cont’d)

Kennedy left at 3:15 pm.