Time: 6:35 pm - 6:44 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.
[See Conversation No. 311-54]
Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Patrick J. Buchanan's note to President
-Mike Wallace's \"60 Minutes\" show, January 2nd
-POW wives
-Their views on President's administration
-End of war
-Negotiations
-Wallace
-Responses from POW wives
-President's interview with Dan Rather, January 2nd
-President's trips to Moscow and Peking
-Democrats
-Deadline
-Report from Pentagon
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Letter
-POW
-POW wives
-Unknown numbers
-Dissidents
-Maj. Gen. James D. Hughes
-Deadline
-Possible rescheduling of President’ Vietnam announcement
-US negotiations
-Statement President can make to Rather
-President's trips to People’s Republic of China [PRC] and Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics [USSR]
-Raising issue on POWs
-POWs held by PRC
-January 24th or 25th
-Networks and politicians
-Risks involved
-Response in Saigon
-Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu
-Delay decision on when to make announcements
-North Vietnamese
-Channels of Communication
POWs
-Kissinger's call to Hughes
-POWs and POW wives
-CBS
-Call to the President