310–30

Conversation No. 310-30

Date: December 26, 1971
Time: Unknown between 12:16 pm and 1:43 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

President's call to Adm. Thomas H. Moorer, December 26th

Vietnam
-Weather
-Bombing raids
-Plane losses

India-Pakistan conflict
-Zulfikar Ali Bhutto


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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 310-30 (cont.)


Haig
-Opinion on Vietnam

Bangladesh
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] forces
-Strength

Kissinger
-People's Republic of China [PRC] and USSR trips
-Relations with the press
-Proper role
-Press backgrounder
-Highly charged
-Emotional
-Relations with State Department
-Personality
-PRC and USSR trips
-Relations with the press
-Azores trip
-Reaction from the Administration
-Personality
-Haig’s view
-Press relations
-“Off the record” comments by Kissinger
-Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Cincinnati newspapers
-Washington Post
-“No one gets hurt” stance
-Kissinger
-Possible overexposure
-President’s schedule
-Potential for more press conferences in upcoming year
-President's relations with the press
-Advice for Kissinger
-William P. Rogers and William H. Sullivan
-Unknown backgrounder
-John A. Scali
-Assistance [?]
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Kissinger
-PRC trip
-Scale
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 310-30 (cont.)


-Bangladesh
-Rogers' press conference
-Kissinger’s concern over press conference
-Vietnam
-Hard-line stance
-Story in the New York Times and the Washington Post
-John F. Kennedy memorandum
-Non-binding
-Vietnam
-Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope
-Attempt to free the Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Vietnam
-John F. Kennedy
-Kissinger's world report
-Importance of report
-Press backgrounder
-Backgrounder’s skill
-India-Pakistan War
-West Pakistan's military strength
-US relations with PRC
-US credibility
-USSR
-Show of strength in the Middle East [?]

President’s instructing
-Kissinger
-Haig's relations with Rogers
-Kissinger’s attitudes
-Press
-Methods
-President’s past experiences
-Upcoming Summit meeting with Great Britain and USSR [?]
-Kissinger’s presence at meetings
-Possible risks
-Economics
-Kissinger's meeting with Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Kissinger’s role
-Valery Giscard D'estaing
-Rogers
-John B. Connally
-Maurice Schumann [?]
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 310-30 (cont.)



Yeoman Charles E. Radford incident
-Security officer
-President's call to Moorer, December 26th
-Haig upcoming talk with Moorer
-Moorer's call to Haig, December 25th
-Moorer
-Relations with White House
-Cooperation
-Vietnam
-Bombing
-Timing

Tricia Nixon Cox entered at an unknown time after 12:16 pm.


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Vietnam
-Laos
-Cambodia
-South Vietnamese
-Role for Kissinger
-Preparation from upcoming events
-Southeast Asia
-USSR
-John A. Volpe
-Support
-Bob hope
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 310-30 (cont.)


-Paris
-President’s upcoming European trip
-Christmas eve
-Christian Democrats
-Volpe’s talk with Haig, December 24th
-Volpe’s upcoming conversation with an unknown person

President’s instructions
-Haig to work with state department
-PRC and USSR
-Unknown woman
-Preparation of talking points
-Letters
-The president's note
-Preparations

David D. Newsom, Deputy Assistant Secretary, African Affairs, State Department
-African
-Trip
-Kissinger


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Haig left at an unknown time before 1:43 pm.