406–22

Conversation No. 406-22

Date: January 30, 1973
Time: 6:15 pm - 6:45 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

Press relations
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Mood
-Conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler
-Conversation with Haldeman
-White House plans
-Memorandum
-Transcript
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
-Leaks
-President's response
-Motives of foreign governments
-Distortions
-Quote on bombing
-Loyalty
-Quote on bombing
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar.-09)

Conversation No. 406-22 (cont’d)

-Peter Lisagor
-President's opponents
-Ziegler
-\"Peace is at hand\" press conference
-References to President
-December 1972 press conference
-References to President
-Motives
-January 23, 1973 press conference
-Vietnam settlement
-References to President
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Negotiations
-Concerns
-Washington Post
-Purpose of Haldeman's conversation
-Reston
-Joseph C. Kraft
-Relations with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-January 23, 1973 press conference
-\"Peace with honor\"
-Vietnam settlement
-Relations to President's policy
-Reston
-Kraft
-John F. Osborne
-George S. McGovern
-Statements on President's policy
-Reston
-Bombing
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Public relations
-Stories on relations between President and Kissinger

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 6:15 pm.

Delivery

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 6:45 pm.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar.-09)

Conversation No. 406-22 (cont’d)


-Bombing and negotiations
-Stories on Vietnam settlement
-Effectiveness
-Cost
-Stories on President's role
-Kissinger's role
-Jerrold L. Schecter
-Bombing
-Communications with political left
-Motives
-Bernard Gwertzman
-Reston
-Conversation with Haldeman
-President's role in peace process
-Kissinger's role
-President's role in Vietnamization
-1968 campaign statements
-Melvin R. Laird
-Defense Department
-President's role in PRC trip
-Writing
-President’s views on Soviet Union
-President's decisions
-November 3, 1969
-Cambodia, Laos
-May 8, 1972
-December 1972
-Kissinger's role
-Future statements by Kissinger
-Hanoi trip
-\"Peace with honor\"
-Liberal establishment
-Destruction
-President’s critics
-US as world power
-\"Peace with honor\"
-Results
-US credibility
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar.-09)

Conversation No. 406-22 (cont’d)

-President's role in peace process
-Congress, the media
-Courage
-Wisdom
-President's decisions
-November 3, 1969
-Cambodia, Laos
-May 8, 1972
-December 1972 bombing
-Consequences of premature US withdrawal
-“Bloodbath”
-Communist takeover
-December 1972 bombing
-Results, justifications
-President's and Kissinger's roles
-Targets
-“Terror bombing”
-Liberal establishment's credibility
-President's achievements
-Bureaucracy, Congress, opinion leaders
-Liberal establishment
-Consequences of views
-Vietnam, allies, enemies
-Statements
-Television [TV]
-Vietnam settlement
-Defense
-January 23, 1973 press conference
-President’s role
-Press contacts
-Reston
-White House PR plan
-Haldeman’s conversation with Ziegler
-Kissinger
-Evaluation of TV appearances
-Press reaction
-President's role in December 1972 bombing
-Negotiations
-Announcement
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar.-09)

Conversation No. 406-22 (cont’d)

-Importance
-Kissinger's dissemination of story
-Trip to Hanoi
-POWs return
-Kissinger
-January 23, 1973 press conference
-Amnesty
-President's conversation with Kissinger
-Sweden
-Canada
-Possible penalty
-Peace Corps
-Domestic Council
-Moral issue
-Kissinger
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Purpose
-Ziegler
-Memorandum
-Kissinger
-Conversation with Haldeman
-John A. Scali, William P. Rogers
-Kissinger
-Motives
-\"Georgetown Set\"
-Choices

Haldeman left at 6:45 pm.