Secret White House Tapes

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36–21
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Henry A. Kissinger
January 20, 1973
Conversation No. 36-21

Date: January 20, 1973
Time: 9:32 am - 9:59 am
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

1973 Inaugural concerts
-Symphony concert
-Kissinger’s attendance
-The President’s view
-Eugene Ormandy
-Edvard Grieg
-Van Cliburn
-Compared to previous Inaugural
-1969 Inaugural
-Constitution Hall
-Kissinger’s view

Vietnam settlement
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-New letter
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

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(rev. Jul-08)

Conversation No. 36-21 (cont’d)

-Conditions
-South Vietnamese officials
-Foreign Minister
-Meeting with Kissinger in Paris
-Kissinger’s view
-Message to Thieu
-William H. Sullivan
-Agreement details
-Police force
-The President’s meeting with Congressional leaders
-Unilateral initialing
-Thieu
-Peace agreement acceptance
-Timing
-Haig
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-The President’s message to Thieu
-The President’s meeting with Congressional leaders
-Barry M. Goldwater, John C. Stennis
-Thieu’s acceptance of agreement
-Possible ramifications
-South Vietnam aid
-Haig’s message
-Bunker
-Tran Van Lam
-Trip to Paris
-The President’s message to Thieu
-Lam’s trip to Paris
-Congress
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Trip to South Vietnam
-Signing of agreements
-Need for Thieu’s acceptance
-Negotiations
-North Vietnamese
-Thieu
-Protocols
-Washington Post
-Sullivan
-Pistols
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jul-08)

Conversation No. 36-21 (cont’d)

-Police force
-Officers, enlisted men
-Protocols
-North Vietnamese troops in South Vietnam
-Kissinger’s response
-Messages
-Thieu
-The President’s view
-The President’s experience
-Trips in the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China
[PRC]
-Corps commanders
-US aid
-William P. Rogers
-Previous statements
-Vietnamization
-The President’s view
-Response to the President’s message
-Deadline
-The President’s meeting with Congressional leaders
-Selected leaders
-Goldwater
-Contingencies
-The President’s public statements
-Details of final negotiations
-US bureaucracy
-Allies
-Australia
-Informing
-Marshall Green
-Message
-Australia, New Zealand
-Canada
-Pierre E. Trudeau
-The President’s view
-The President’s instructions
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jul-08)
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