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  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Henry A. Kissinger
June 29, 1972
Conversation No. 135-2

Date: June 29, 1972
Time: 11:07-11:18 am
Location: Camp David Study Table (telephone)

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

[See also Conversation No. 195-5]

Kissinger's trip to New York
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-President's letter on Vietnam
-US-North Vietnamese relationship
-Kissinger’s discussions with the PRC
-North Vietnamese troops

Vietnam War Peace Negotiations
-North Vietnamese response to President's proposal
-Timing and schedule
-Invitation to Joseph C. Kraft
-Compared to Anthony Lewis
-George S. McGovern

Vietnam military action
-The President’s statements on the draft
-Kissinger’s view
-Residual forces
-Future
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-Casualties
-Missing in action [MIAs] number
-Quang Tri operation
-Bombing
-Compared to Verdun battle in World War I
-Naval operations
-North Vietnamese preparations for ceasefire
-Kissinger’s assessment
-The President’s view
-Possible effect

Foreign policy
-Democrat platform
-Kissinger’s view
-Vietnam
-Withdrawal of US forces
-Peace proposals
-Israel
-Kissinger’s view
-Defense
-McGovern
-W. Averell Harriman
-Kissinger’s view
-Israel
-Yitzhak Rabin
-Jerusalem as capital
-Defense funding
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Soviet Union, PRC, Japan
-Administration policy
-The President’s view

Kraft
-Trip to Vietnam
-Kissinger's forthcoming meeting
-The President’s policies
-McGovern
-Importance of trip
-President's term in office
-Israel
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

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Grain sale with the Soviet Union
-Earl L. Butz and Peter G. Peterson
-Credit
-President's role
-Letter from Leonid I. Brezhnev
-The President's efforts
-Announcement
-Location for announcement
-The President’s possible role
-Timing
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