337–16

Conversation No. 337-16

Date: May 10, 1972
Time: 12:36-1:02 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Vietnam
-Blockade
-Melvin R. Laird
-A press story
-Source
-John B. Connally
-Connally
-Confrontation with Democrats
-Laird statement
-North Vietnam
-Xuan Thuy
-Moscow
-Le Duc Tho
-Soviets
-Meeting in Paris with US official
-Statement on US-Soviet meeting
-New proposals
-Kissinger's message
-Tenor
-North Vietnam offensive
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-B-52 strikes
-Kontum
-Targets
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-Hue area
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] analysis
-Long Binh
-Number of divisions
-Quality
-B-52 strikes
-Number
-Hue
-North Vietnamese failure to take
-US retaliation
-Methods
-Damage to North Vietnam
-Mining
-Railroads
-Air strikes
-Petroleum, Oil, and Lubricants [POL]
-Haiphong area
-Accuracy
-Damage
-Bridge
-Soviet Summit
-Cancellation
-Ronald L. Ziegler statement
-Blockade
-Press reaction
-New York Times
-Washington Post
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
-Motives
-Stewart J.O. Alsop
-Soviet Summit
-Conally (?)
-Cancellation
-Possibility
-Soviet actions
-US response
-Vietnam
-Middle East
-Agreements
-Conditions
-Connally statement
-Press reports
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-US stakes in Vietnam
-North Vietnam offensive
-Consequence of US defeat
-Southeast Asia
-Blockade
-Success

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 12:36 pm.

Food order

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Vietnam
-Blockade
-Mobilization of Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN] support
-Nguyen Van Thieu’s statement
-Vietnamization policy
-President's decision
-Timing
-Election year
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Soviet Summit
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Kissinger's Georgetown friends
-Consequences of US defeat
-Domino Theory
-Thailand
-Blockade support
-Marshall Green
-Malaysia
-Cambodia
-Australia
-New Zealand
-Philippines
-Japanese

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A delivery

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Vietnam
-Blockade support
-British
-Letter to George R.S. Baring [Earl of Cromer]
-Summit
-Cancellation
-Compared with US victory in Vietnam
-Future Summits
-North Vietnam offensive
-Consequences for US
-President's opponents
-North Vietnam offensive
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Soviet Union
-Blockade
-Soviet Union
-PRC
-Soviet Summit
-European Security Council
-Soviet Summit
-Possible postponement
-Kissinger’s view
-North Vietnam offensive
-Hue
-Soviet Summit
-Possible postponement
-Press
-Columnists
-Kissinger's press conference
-Laird's press conference
-Clifford P. Case-Frank F. Church amendment
-Provisions
-Effects for administration
-Compared with Michael J. Mansfield proposal
-Chances of passage in House
-Effect of polls
-A memorandum
-Charles W. Colson
-Public opinion
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Washington Post
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-New York Times
-John Kenneth Galbraith
-Kennedy
-Newsweek
-Henry Hubbard
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Meeting with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Criticism of the President
-North Vietnam offensive
-South Vietnam defeat possibility
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Soviet Summit
-President's attendance
-Possible public impression

A vote on the German treaties
-Time

Vietnam
-Possible South Vietnam collapse
-Air strikes
-An Loc
-Destruction
-Kontum
-Casualties expected
-Hue
-Ground action
-North Vietnam reserve strength
-Peace offers
-Negotiations
-Kissinger’s meeting with columnists

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