Secret White House Tapes

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17–142
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Henry A. Kissinger
January 2, 1972
Conversation No. 17-142

Date: January 2, 1972
Time: 12:39 pm - 12:48 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.
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[See Conversation No. 311-41]

Kissinger's schedule
-Kissinger going to California with President
-Kissinger returning to Washington, DC
-Kissinger meeting on Laos
-Kissinger and Gerard C. Smith to meet with President, January 3rd
-Smith
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Vienna
-Submarine missiles
-Total numbers
-Anti-ballistic missiles [ABM] Treaty
-Executive agreement
-Possible concessions

Laos and Cambodia
-Duration of US air activities
-Troops
-Laos and Cambodia
-Infiltration
-Defense of Cambodia and Laos
-Degree of US commitment
-Vietnam and Vietnamization
-Defense of Cambodia
-Tet offensive
-Negotiations on Vietnam

India and Pakistan
-Movement of US carrier force
-Reasoning
-Evacuation
-American lives
-Contingency planning
-John Freeman's (former US ambassador to India) comment to Henry Brandon
-India's foreign policy concerning the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
[USSR] in 1967
-Role of US
-Indira Gandhi's speech
-Unaggressive in nature
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-Future Indian foreign policy
-US aid
-Possible refusal by India
-US public reaction

Armed forces
-Deserters
-Amnesty question
-President's decision
-No action at present time
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-US termination of Vietnam involvement
-Issue will then be dealt with
-Robert A. Raft, Jr.’s amnesty resolution
-POWs

Situation room
-Kissinger
-Quiet

Laos
-Shelling
-Long Tien [sp?] area
-Defeat in January
-Victory in July
-Weather
-Results
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