878–15

Conversation No. 878-15

Date: March 13, 1973
Time: Unknown between 3:01 pm and 3:12 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Kissinger's meeting
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Conversation No. 878-15 (cont’d)


People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Charles H. Percy's trip
-Children
-State Department
-Note to Chou En-lai
-Affront to President
-Trip
-Percy's presence
-Effect
-Senators and Congressmen
-State Department channels
-Invitations by PRC
-Compared to nomination by Administration
-Percy
-Arrangements
-Percy’s wife
-Harvard Club of Chicago
-Music
-Discussions with Kissinger
-Chou
-Invitations
-Involvement of State Department
-William P. Rogers
-Administration’s selection of Senate invitees
-Senators and Congressmen
-Percy
-Administration supporters

Prisoners of War [POWs]
-President's talk with Col. Robinson Risner and Capt. Jeremiah A. Denton, Jr.
-Reactions to bombing
-North Vietnam
-Kissinger’s visit to Vietnam
-US aid

Aid to North Vietnam
-Public reaction
-Poll
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
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Conversation No. 878-15 (cont’d)


-Vietnam settlement
-Violations

Cambodia
-US bombing
-Emory C. Swank
-Dismissal


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-Richard M. Helms
-Dr. James R. Schlesinger

Vietnam
-Ho Chi Minh Trail
-Bombing
-Infiltration
-Kissinger's paper
-Withdrawal of troops
-Options
-Risk management
-President’s unpredictability
-North Vietnam’s reactions
-Cambodia
-Cease-fire
-Troop withdrawal
-North Vietnam
-Confusion
-Khmer Rouge
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2010)
Conversation No. 878-15 (cont’d)


-Control
-Laos
-North Vietnam withdrawal
-Deadline
-Political conditions
-New government
-Aid to North Vietnam
-Presence in Laos
-Infiltration
-North Vietnam
-Troops in Cambodia
-South Vietnam
-Number
-Infiltration
-POWs
-Bombing
-1974
-Buildup

Kissinger left at 3:12 pm.