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Conversation No. 154-3

Date: September 23, 1972
Time: 4:50 pm - 5:10 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table


The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

[See Conversation no. 213-6]
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Greetings

The President's schedule
-Reception in Texas
-Kissinger's analysis
-Television
-Size of crowd
-Number of Democrats


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Negotiations With North Vietnam

Vietnam War
-Peace negotiations
-Sorties
-Number of bombing raids
-Similarity to May 1972
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Report
-Number of missions
-Rationale
-Melvin R. Laird and Moorer
-Budget
-Kissinger's meeting with Maurice Schumann
-Soviet ambassador
-Kissinger's negotiation with North Vietnamese
-Soviets' reactions
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-The President's message to Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Laird
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Kissinger's analysis
-Press coverage
-Possible solution
-POW situation
-Return to US
-Issue
-Kissinger’s previous meeting with POW families
-Reaction toward North Vietnam
-Press coverage

US press
-The President’s view


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The President's schedule
-The President's reception in Texas
-Meeting at noon with laborers
-Visit to Camp David
-Time

Kissinger's schedule
-Trip to Paris
-Announcement
-Breakfast with David Rockefeller
-Announcement
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-Timing

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Jewish leaders in New York
-Possible quotes
-Kissinger’s view
-Soviet Union
-Kissinger's conversation with Yitzhak Rabin
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Question of meeting with Rabin
-The President's conversation with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Haig's presence at meeting
-Kissinger's conversation with Jacob K. Javits
-US policy
-Israel

US foreign policies and 1972 campaign
-The President’s forthcoming meeting with Jewish leaders
-Israel and Soviet Union
-US relationship
-Emigration
-US election
-Possible results
-Support by Israel
-Rabin
-Max M. Fisher
-Adlai E. Stevenson, III
-George S. McGovern
-Kissinger's negotiations with Soviet Union
-Rabin
-Conversation with Kissinger
-Haldeman's conversation with Kissinger
-Support of the President
-R. Sargent Shriver
-Speeches made by Shriver's wife
-Issue of trade with Soviet Union
-Armand Hammer's firm


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-The President's position after the 1972 election
-Kissinger’s view
-Press, electoral establishment
-Riots from inherited war

Vietnam war
-Sorties
-The President's conversation with Haig
-Number of missions
-The President's observation
-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]

US foreign policies
-Burundi
-[Robert L. Yost]
-Return to U.S.
-William P. Rogers
-Report
-State Department
-Massacre
-Relationship with African leaders
-Rogers speech at United Nations
-Self-determination
Mozambique
South Africa
-Africa
-Number of countries
-Burundi
-Ambassador's schedule
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-Report to the President on situation