Date: December 30, 1972
Time: 12:45 pm - 12:59 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table
The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.
[See Conversation No. 238-18]
Weather
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-08)
Conversation No. 158-55 (cont’d)
Vietnam War
-Cessation of US bombing north of 20th Parallel
-Kissinger’s telephone calls
-Congressional relations
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Carl B. Albert
-Liberals
-“Doves”
-Hugh Scott
Vietnam negotiations
-The President’s possible report
-Advisability
-Scott’s view
-Timing
-Kissinger’s meetings [with Le Duc Tho]
-Scott’s view
-1973 Inauguration
-Prospects
-Anticipation
-Delay
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Kissinger’s return from Paris
-Timing
-Announcement
-Advisability
-Scott’s view
Vietnam War
-Cessation of US bombing north of the 20th Parallel
-Kissinger’s telephone calls
-Congressional relations
-Scott
-John C. Stennis
-Albert
-Media relations
-Secret Service
-Jerrold L. Schecter
-Charles W. Colson
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-08)
Conversation No. 158-55 (cont’d)
-Howard K. Smith
-Richard (“Dick”) Wilson
-US bombing of North Vietnam
-Media relations
-Smith
-The President’s schedule
-Dinner, December 18, 1972
-Commentary on television [TV]
-Public reaction
-Telegrams
-Number
-Tone
-Critics of the President
-McGeorge Bundy
-Relationship with Kissinger
-Telephone calls
-Congressional relations
-Scott
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Negotiations
-US bombing of North Vietnam
-Explanation
-Congressional relations
-J. William Fulbright
-“Doves”
-Necessity
-Timing
-Effect on North Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Kissinger’s meetings [with Le Duc Tho]
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Notification
-Timing
-Negotiations
-Thieu
-Ellsworth F. Bunker’s view
-Settlement agreement
-Fait accompli
-Settlement agreement
-Paris
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-08)
Conversation No. 158-55 (cont’d)
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s possible trip [to Saigon]
-Tone
-Cessation of US bombing north of 20th Parallel
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Briefing by Col. Richard T. Kennedy
-Statements
-Inconsistency
-Lack of criticism or support
-Agnew
-Character
-Possible trip to Saigon
-Advisability
-Contributions
-The President’s May 8, 1972 decision
-US bombing of North Vietnam
-Media relations
-Smith story
-Telegrams
-Tone
-Press relations
-Washington, DC newspapers
-Kissinger’s conversation with Otis Chandler
-Cessation of US bombing north of 20th Parallel
-Kissinger’s telephone calls
-Stennis
-Kissinger’s call from Key Biscayne
-F. Edward Hebert
-Goldwater
-George D. Aiken
-John Chancellor
-Washington, DC reporters
-Compared to New York reporters
-Walter E. Cronkite, Jr.
-David Brinkely
-Chancellor
-Cronkite
-[Arnold] Eric Sevareid
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