Date: December 12, 1972
Time: 8:31 pm – 8:38 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Vietnam negotiations
-Henry A. Kissinger’s message
-Length
-Tone
-Compared to telephone call
-Protocols
-Work by experts
-Washington Star article
-Kissinger’s return
-Military plan
-Gradualness
-Wire to Kissinger
-Reconnaisance
-Demilitarized zone [DMZ]
-Le Duc Tho
-Politburo difficulty
-Message exchange
-Telephone call from Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Trip [by Tricia Nixon Cox and Edward R. F. Cox]
-Possible cancellation
-Avoidance of embarrassment
-Haig’s recent conversation with Dobrynin
-Kissinger’s message
-Settlement agreement
-Prospects
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Dec.-07)
Conversation No. 34-54 (cont’d)
-Exchange of messages
-North Vietnamese delays
-Call to Dobrynin
-Trip cancellation
-US bombing
-Timing
-Kissinger’s message
-Tone
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew’s and Haig’s possible trip
-Exerting pressure on Thieu
-Withdrawals
-Effect on Hanoi
-Financial assistance
-Melvin R. Laird
-Public comment
-Thieu
-Message for Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Kissinger at Paris
-William J. Porter
-Thieu’s speech to the South Vietnam National Assembly December
12, 1972
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] analysis
-Call to Dobrynin
-Trip cancellation
-Leonid I. Brezhnev