Date: December 4, 1972
Time: 8:03 pm - 8:16 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
Vietnam negotiations
-The President’s recent conversation with Col. Richard T. Kennedy
-North Vietnam stance
-Possible break off of talks
-Henry A. Kissinger’s view
-Possible break off
-Possible television [TV] statement by the President
-The President’s view
-Possible failure
-Alternative
-Kissinger’s return
-Kissinger’s view
-Timing
-US bombing
-The President’s view
-Press relations
-Timing
-Kissinger’s return
-Bombing
-Newness of tactics
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Dec.-07)
Conversation No. 34-13 (cont’d)
-Public relations [PR]
-Hopes
-Kissinger’s view
-Haldeman’s view
-Newness of tactics
-Alternative
-Kissinger’s return
-The President’s view
-PR
-Continuation of bombing
-Kissinger’s possible statement upon return
-Kissinger’s recent public statement
-North Vietnam’s recent public statements
-The President’s recent conversation with Kennedy
-Instruction for Kissinger
-US stance
-Hard-line
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Domestic front
-Coalition government
Poll
-Timing
Vietnam negotiations
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-View
-PR
-Repeating past successes
-Kissinger and Haig
-Cambodia, November 3, 1969, May 8, 1972
-Resumption
-Timing
-Mood of meetings
-Kissinger’s December 3, 1972 message
The President’s schedule
-John B. Connally, George P. Shultz, Helene (Colesie) Drown
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