Secret White House Tapes

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136–31
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Henry A. Kissinger
July 23, 1972
Conversation No. 136-31

Date: July 23, 1972
Time: 3:27 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table (telephone)

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

[See Conversation No. 196-30]

Weather
-Washington, DC
-Camp David
-Henry Brandon's pool
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President's forthcoming meeting with Japanese
-Announcement
-Timing
-Arrangements
-Location
-The President’s view
-Hotels
-Reception
-Pearl Harbor
-Kakuei Tanaka
-Age
-Possible meeting with John H. Holdridge
-Leaks
-Robert S. Ingersoll
-Trade pact
-William D. Eberle
-Timing of announcements
-Final negotiations

President's schedule
-Italians
-President of Italy [Giovanni Leone]
-Timing of visit
-The President’s view

Vietnam military activities
-North Vietnamese military dispositions
-Military Region I
-Quang Tri
-Need for South Vietnamese troop withdrawal
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
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-Possibility of defeat
-Kissinger’s view
-The President’s instructions
-Kissinger's meeting with Melvin R. Laird and
Thomas H. Moorer
-North Vietnam troop movements
-Kissinger’s view
-Compared to Stalingrad and Battle of Bulge
-Kissinger's cable to Frederick G. Weyand
-Possible press reaction
-Bombing
-North Vietnamese casualtes

President's previous conversation with Haig
-Press reports
-South Vietnamese troop withdrawal
-The President’s view
-Weyand and John W. Vogt, Jr.
-South Vietnamese retreat
-President and Kissinger
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Quang Tri
-Effect on negotiations
-Responsibility
-Lam Son
-Tchepone
-Dispersal of effort
-The President’s view
-Concentration of forces
-Weyand
-Kissinger and Haig
-B-52s

Vietnam military activities
-Peace negotiations
-Weyand
-North Vietnamese capability
-Weather
-Effect
-Sir Robert Thompson's statement
-Timing of North Vietnamese offensive
-Motive
-US election
-US-Soviet Union summit
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