17–125

Conversation No. 17-125
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Date: January 1, 1972
Time: 10:57 am - 11:19 am
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

[See Conversation No. 311-14]


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Kissinger's location

World developments
-Newspapers
-Malta
-Dominic Mintoff
-Call to the President
-Call to Robert F. Ellsworth
-British
-Libya
-Potential economic problems
-Ellsworth
-Deadline
-Edward R.G. Heath
-Message from the President
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India
-Indira Gandhi
-Parliament
-Similarities to the Hawks
-Foreign aid
-Kissinger’s view
-John Freeman's talk with Henry Brandon
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] and Pakistan
-1967
-Communist Party
-USSR influence
-Supposed strength
-East Bengal
-Pakistan
-Similar problems
-Lack of food and a strong government
-Calcutta and Dacca
-Martial law enactor
-Bangladesh
-Bhutan and India
-Recognition
-US position
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] comparisons
-Tibet and unknown name
-USSR, India, and Bhutan
-US Consul in Dacca
-Kenneth B. Keating

India

Vietnam
-Bombings
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Close to “moment of truth”
-Press
-POW wives
-President's upcoming interview with Dan Rather
-Potential questions
-POWs
-North Vietnamese
-US negotiating offers
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-Kissinger's comments to POW wives
-Plea from POWs
-American surrender
-Administration’s commitment
-Wives
-Patriotism
-Polls
-Support for war in US
-Australian Ambassador's comments to Kissinger
-Stance on war
-President’s stance
-More “Hawkish”
-November 1969
-Cambodia
-Air strikes
-US elections
-US casualties
-US involvement
-Kissinger’s view
-Gauging US public reaction
-Air strikes in Vietnam
-The war
-US media
-Air power
-Duration
-Vietnam
-Polls
-US perception on Vietnam War
-Size potential of issue
-Negative
-Louis Harris
-George H. Gallup
-Potential response from Democrats
-Amount of USSR military aid per year
-US bombing of Vietnam
-Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu
-Possible overthrow
-Timing
-President's conversation with Kissinger, December 31, 1972
-June 1972
-Administration’s attempt to remove Vietnam issue from public debate
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-Duration
-Bombing halt
-Political move
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Election of 1968
-US foreign policy
-Vietnam
-Moscow Summit
-Timing
-President’s schedule
-The President's next Vietnam announcement
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Humphrey's announcement
-New Hampshire's delegations letter
-Thieu
-US peace program
-Affect in Asia
-Thailand
-President's next Vietnam announcement
-Timing
-Date of Humphrey's announcement
-US peace program
-Bunker
-Thieu
-New Hampshire
-Congress convenes
-Opportunity to make Vietnam announcement
-State of the Union Address
-President's insistence to discuss Vietnam before State of the Union Address
-Kissinger’s view
-Response of North Vietnamese negotiators
-Reaction
-President's PRC trip
-Negotiations
-State of the Union address
-Timing of announcement
-Haldeman
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-Planning date of President's upcoming Vietnam announcement
-Between January 10 and 20th
-Thieu's reaction to peace proposal
-President’s view
-Factors included in peace proposal
-Curtail of military aid
-South Vietnam foreign policy
-Neutrality