22–131

Conversation No. 22-131

Date: April 15, 1972
Time: 11:05 pm - 11:27 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Dinner for Latin American ambassadors

Vietnam
-Kissinger’s previous meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Message from the North Vietnamese
-Reply to Kissinger’s message to Yuli M. Vorontsov
-Reply to Kissinger’s previous talk with Dobrynin
-Content
-Transmittal by Soviets of message from North Vietnam to the US
-Contents
-Private and plenary meetings between North Vietnam and the US
-Dobrynin’s response
-American presidency
-Impact of Vietnam war
-Private and plenary meetings
-Scheduling
-Message from the North Vietnamese
-Contents
-Politburo
-Foreign Minister
-Moscow
-Paris
-Air strikes
-Intensity
-Hanoi reply
-Continuance
-Kissinger’s trip to Moscow
-Instructions from the President
-Chairman of the communist party
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-Relation to Vietnam settlement
-Air strikes
-Truck parks
-Number of trucks
-Ho Chi Minh trail
-Haiphong attacks
-Dobrynin’s meeting with Kissinger
-Kissinger’s trip to Moscow
-Possible US-Soviet Summit
-Soviet response
-Soviet-West Germany agreements
-[Franz Josef?] Strauss
-Willy Brandt
-Dobrynin
-Instructions from central committee
-Soviet intermediary role
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Hanoi
-Air strikes
-Timing
-North Vietnamese message
-Peace talks delay
-Melvin R. Laird
-William P. Rogers
-Previous talk with the President
-Response to critics
-Kissinger’s letter to someone
-Talking points
-Private talks
-The president’s directives
-Leadership meeting
-Rogers
-State department officials
-Advice
-Washington Special Action Group [WSAG] meetings
-Lack of attacks in South Vietnam
-An loc
-Kissinger’s view
-Air strikes
-Number of sorties
-Kissinger’s message to Rogers
-South Vietnamese air force
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-Extent of destruction
-Casualties
-B-52s
-South Vietnam
-Kissinger’s view
-Blockade
-Kissinger’s settlement with the Soviets
-Filibuster
-Forthcoming US-Soviet summit
-US conditions
-Strength of South Vietnam
-Failure of North Vietnam

US-Soviet relations
-Kissinger’s forthcoming trip to Moscow
-Schedule
-Politburo meeting
-Departure

Vietnam
-Air strikes
-Intensity
-Location
-Hanoi
-Haiphong
-Agreements
-Naval gunfire
-Limits
-20th Parallel
-Haiphong
-Air strikes
-Concentration
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-US discussions with the Soviets
-North Vietnamese interpretations
-Air strikes
-News reports
-B-52s
-Tonnage dropped
-Haiphong area
-Extent of destruction
-Visual strikes
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-Weather
-Johnson’s strategy
-Compared with the president’s
-Kissinger’s view
-Power plants
-Destruction
-Hanoi
-Intensity and plane capacity
-Compared with World War I and World War II
-Rogers
-Support of policies
-Forthcoming US-Soviet summit
-Possible settlement
-Kissinger’s forthcoming trip to Moscow
-Timing
-Meeting with North Vietnamese
-Administration strategy
-Laird strategy
-Results
-Kissinger’s view
-Impact on soviets
-Defense of an loc
-Blockade
-Aircraft carriers
-Air attacks
-Weather
-I Corps
-Panhandle
-Abrams

The president’s previous meeting with Latin American leaders
-Organization of American States [OAS]
-The President’s view
-Brazil

Vietnam
-Kissinger’s forthcoming briefing at the Pentagon
-Rogers
-Public statements
-Compared with Laird
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