Date: December 13, 1972
Time: 8:55 pm - 9:07 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Vietnam negotiations
-Henry A. Kissinger’s arrival
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Dec.-07)
Conversation No. 34-69 (cont’d)
-Haig’s meeting
-Communication breakdown
-Kissinger’s memorandum
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew’s trip
-Purpose
-Compared to the President’s possible television [TV] statement
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-The President’s view
-US military action
-Options
-Agnew
-Option Two
-Resumption of talks in Paris
-Timing
-January 1973
-Possible public relations [PR] effort
-Deceit charges
-Negotiation record
-Peace issue
-Effectiveness
-Option One
-Agnew’s trip
-Appearance
-North Vietnamese stance
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Congress
-Delays
-US military action
-Melvin Laird, William P. Rogers
-Pressure on Thieu
-US public opinion
-The President’s previous decisions
-Thieu
-Pressure on Thieu
-Agnew’s trip
-Option One
-US military action
-Timing
-Agnew’s trip
-Thieu
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Dec.-07)
Conversation No. 34-69 (cont’d)
-PR
-Haig’s conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler
-Ziegler’s possible briefing
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Mexico
-Ziegler’s possible briefing
-North Vietnamese reneging, lack of goodwill
-Communications
-US military action
-Peace with honor
-US military action
-Timing
-Congress
-Kissinger
-Reseeding mines
-Reconnaissance
-Bombing
-PR
-Tricia Nixon Cox and Edward R. F. Cox
-Trip to Soviet Union
-Possible cancellation
-US military action
-Duration
-Bargaining position
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Congress
-Cut off of funds
-Kissinger
-Haig’s forthcoming conversation with Kissinger
-Tone
-People’s Republic of China [PRC], Soviet Union initiatives
-Laird
-Rogers
-US military action
-Rogers
-Laird
-Defense budget
-National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-Public notification
-Rogers, Laird, Richard M. Helms, Agnew
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