314–9

Conversation No. 314-9

Date: January 13, 1972
Time: 3:55 pm - 4:15 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Melvin R. Laird's press conference
-Performance
-The President’s role
-Announcement
-US troop withdrawals from Vietnam
-Questions
-US troop withdrawals
-Laird's handling

Camp David
-Work on State of the Union message
-Draft

Henry A. Kissinger
-Forthcoming foreign policy report, February 9, 1972
-Credibility with the press
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Statement to the press
-The Soviet Union
-Haig’s view

Russian student [Merab Kurashvili]
-Defection in New York
-Return to Soviet Union
-Tunnel
-State Department and Immigration and Naturalization Service [INS]
-Soviet view
-Yuli M. Vorontsov's call to Haig
-Aeroflot
-Haig’s call to State Department
-Interrogation
-State Department
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Tape Subject Log
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Kissinger
-State of mind


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-Negotiations with the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Tenure in office
-Possible resignation
-Possible Administration action
-Timing
-Possible results
-Timing
-PRC and Soviet Union trips
-The President’s possible handling
-1972 campaign
-Attacks on Kissinger
-Senate
-Kissinger's possible reactions
-Haig’s view

John V. Brennan entered at 4:06 pm.

Status of First Family departure for Camp David
-Briefcase

Brennan left at 4:07 pm.

PRC and Soviet trips
-Outcome
-Détente
-Europe
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 314-9 (cont.)


-West Germany

PRC

Kissinger
-The President’s instruction to Haig
-Message
-Support
-Further attacks
-Haig’s handling
-Overreaction to attacks
-Personal life

Brennan entered at 4:08 pm.

First Family's schedule

Brennan left at 4:09 pm.

Kissinger
-Tenure in office
-Possible book
-Press coverage

Haig left at 4:15 pm.