659–2

Conversation No. 659-2

Date: January 28, 1972
Time: 11:17 am - 11:27 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Time magazine
-Cover
-Kissinger’s appearance
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)



-The President’s appearance
-Kissinger’s call to Henry A. Grunwald and Hugh S. Sidey
-Kissinger’s view
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the People’s Republic of China
[PRC]

Vietnam negotiations
-The President’s efforts
-Kissinger’s talk with Sidey
-Forthcoming story
-North Vietnamese strategy
-Meeting excerpt releases
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Response
-Selective excerpting of record
-As issue
-Troop withdrawal
-POWs
-Record
-Criticism
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
-Cease-fire
-Clark M. Clifford
-Problem
-Points made
-Compared to enemy’s points

Forthcoming meeting with Rainer Barzel
-Opposition to treaty [West Germany’s non-aggression treaties with Poland and
Soviet Union]
-W[illiam] Averell Harriman’s view
-Democrats’ support for Michael J. Mansfield Amendment
-Kissinger’s view of strategy
-US position
-[Christian Democrats]
-Relationship to the administration
-Lack of pressure
-Pressure
-Deal with Soviet Union
-Willy Brandt
-Backgrounder
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 659-2 (cont.)


-Ambassador [Rolf Paul’s] reports
-William P. Roger’s talks with Barzel, January 27, 1972
-Neutrality
-German domestic problem
-Berlin
-Treaty
-Linkage
-Brandt
-US interests
-Soviets
-Moderation of Barzel
-Timing

Criticism of cease-fire terms
-Reston
-Kissinger’s view
-Leaders’ reaction
-Kissinger phone call
-Discussion of cease-fire
-Surrender
-Reston
-Misunderstanding
-North Vietnam’s position
-Reston’s view
-Vietnam as an issue
-Florida primary
-Reston’s schedule
-Florida
-Candidates
-Los Angeles Times
-Sidey’s view
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Schedule
-Houston
-Forthcoming briefing
-Barzel
-POWs
-Selective excerpting of record
-Proposals
-May 31, 1971, October 11, 1971
-North Vietnam
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 659-2 (cont.)


-Call for surrender, communist government in South Vietnam

Kissinger left at 11:27 am.