Date: January 2, 1972
Time: 3:40 pm - 3:50 pm
Location: White House Telephone
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Tape Subject Log
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The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.
[See Conversation No. 311-46]
Kissinger's note sent over by Patrick J. Buchanan
Weekend News Summary
-Washington Star's article of US's bombing of North Vietnam
-Effect on Laos
-Prisoners of War [POW] wives
-Effect on their husbands
-Objection to bombing
-India-Pakistan conflict
-Heavy press coverage
POW wives
-US policy
-Every proposal turned down by the North Vietnamese
-Getting POWs back
-Deadline for US withdrawal from Vietnam
-North Vietnamese negotiators
-US aid
-Cutoff
-Political structures of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia
-Deadline for US withdrawal
-congress
-North Vietnamese negotiator's response
-US proposals consistently turned down
Newspapers
-John B. Connally
-Foreign economic policy
-Duration of story
-Connally
-Year-end summaries
-News items not mentioned
-Moscow summit
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-Berlin
-Accidental war
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-New York Times
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Editorial
-US dealings
-US
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-New York Times and Washington Post
-Credibility problems
-Los Angeles Times
-Improvement [?]
Kissinger's schedule
-Kissinger to meet with conservatives in California
-Kissinger's interviews with Los Angeles Times
India-Pakistan
US bombing of Vietnam
Man of the Year
-Time magazine
India-Pakistan
-US policy
-PRC
-US relations with India
-Aid
President's interview with Dan Rather
-President's style and ability
-Aggressiveness
-Rather and Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-Rather
-President's knowledge of foreign policy
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