Date: April 26, 1972
Time: 5:01 pm - 5:10 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.
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Vietnam
-The President's call to Kissinger
-Kissinger's trip to Paris
-Private talks
-Kissinger's call to Melvin R. Laird
-William P. Rogers
-Timing
-Leaks
-Message to Laird
-The President's speech
-Rogers's copy
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Kissinger’s talk with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Kissinger's meeting with Gerard C. Smith
-Rogers's role
-Credit
-Leaks
-Proposals
-Rogers's Vvew
-Issues
-Submarines
-Proposal
-Smith
-Rogers's knowledge
-Kissinger's call to Smith
-Rogers's presence at meeting
-State Department
Vietnam
-The President's speech
-Copy to Rogers
-Corrections
-Haldeman
-Rogers's call to Kissinger
-Meeting
-Copy to Rose Mary Woods
-Joseph C. Kraft
-Copy to Rogers
-Problems
-Changes
-State Department proposals
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
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SALT talks
-Leaks
-Chalmers M. Roberts
-Washington Post
-State department involvement
-Rogers
-Involvement
-Knowledge
-Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missiles [SLBMs]
-Interest
-Call to the President
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-The President's call
-Joint Chiefs of Staff and Department of Defense
-SLBMs
-US proposals
-Rogers
-National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-SLBMs
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Converstaion with Kissinger
-Conversation with Rogers
-SLBMs
The President's speech
-Copy to Rogers
-Key section
-Delivery
-Time
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.'s report
-Other sections