Date: April 11, 1972
Time: 7:41 pm - 7:54 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.
Kissinger’s location
Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon’s meeting with Irini Dobrynin
-Gift
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Vietnam
-Message
Vietnam
-Melvin R. Laird
-B-52 strikes
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Forthcoming trip to Southeast Asia
-Length of trip
-Talk with Kissinger
-John B. Connally
-Previous talk with the President
-Talk with Armand Hammer
-Message to the President
-Advice concerning Russians
-Blockade
-US activity
-Russian ships
-Aircraft
-Submarines
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer’s instructions
-Blockade
-The President’s view
-Timing
-Necessity
-Prisoners of war [POWs] for withdrawal deadline
-Election
-Public response
-Moorer
-Previous talk with Kissinger
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-Briefing of Congressmen
-Report on Congress’s mood
-Compared to 1967
-Laos
-Son Tay raid
-Cambodia
-Support for administration
-Max Frankel
-Previous talk with Kissinger
-Support for Administration
-Interest in Israel
-The President’s strategy
-Haig’s comment
-Kissinger’s views
-North Vietnamese tanks
-Washington Star report
-Destruction
-B-52s
-Haig’s report
-South Vietnamese responsibility
-B-52s
-Capabilities
-Military Region One [MR1]
-Results of the war
-The President’s view
-Honor of US and its military establishment
-Support of Congress
-Moorer’s report
-Forthcoming briefing
-Attendance
-Moorer
-Laird
-Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
-Kissinger’s handling of briefing
-Moorer
-Laird
-Length
-Rogers
-Negotiations
-Presence at briefing
-Moorer
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-Laird
-Laird
-Presence
-Vietnamization
-Cambodia
-Saigon
-Tactical aircraft [TACAIR]
-The president’s instructions to Moorer
-Ship deployment
-Distance to Hanoi
-Current movement
-Haiphong
-Air strikes
-TACAIR
-Weather
-B-52s
-Moorer arrival
-Statement
-Weather
-Clearance
-North Vietnamese trucks
-Hanoi
-Destruction
-TACAIRr
-Capabilities
-Timing
-Connally’s advice
-Public opinion
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-State Department
-Communication with Kissinger
-Kissinger’s view
-William H. Sullivan
-Washington Special Action Group [WSAG]
-Frankel
-Synchronization
-Comments on the President’s policies
Foreign policy
-Dobrynin
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Michael J. Mansfield and Hugh Scott
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Kissinger’s schedule
Vietnam
-Air strikes
-Public response
-The President’s talk with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Polls
-Influence
-Democrats’ response
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Connally observation
-Kennedy
-George S. McGovern
-The President’s instructions to Moorer
-Ships and planes
-B-3 area
-Naval attacks