Date: December 12, 1972
Time: Unknown between 2:20 pm and 3:17 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Vietnam negotiations
-Henry A. Kissinger’s message
-Kissinger’s return from Paris
-US bombing of North Vietnam
-Summary
-Recess
-Timing
-Haig’s message to Kissinger
-US bargaining position
-Risks
-US military pressure
-Instructions for Kissinger
-Recess
-US interests
-The President’s possible actions
-Options
-Settlement agreement
-Political considerations
-US military action
-Delay
-Reaction
-Soviet Union, People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-US
-Options
-Peace
-Price
-Type
-Timing
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-08)
Conversation No. 820-21 (cont’d)
-Haig’s message to Kissinger
-Understandings
-Kissinger’s return from Paris
-Consultations
-Delays
-Consultations
-Peace
-Type
-Timing
-Kissinger’s message
-Kissinger’s return from Paris
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Possible speech by Barry M. Goldwater
-Instructions for Kissinger
-Peace
-Type
-Timing
-North Vietnam’s reneging on previous positions
-Kissinger’s return from Paris
-US concessions
-Understandings
-Recess
-Interests
-Resumption of talks