371–19

Conversation No. 371-19

Date: October 23, 1972
Time: 8:34 am - 9:17 am
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

File of messages between Henry A. Kissinger and the White House
-The President’s request
-The President’s schedule
-Nassau

Vietnam
-Peace settlement negotiations
-Haig's conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin, October
22, 1972
-Possible additional changes
-Kissinger's Message
-Kissinger’s relations with Haig
-Haig’s conversation with the President
-Possible bombing halt and reduction of bombing
-The President's telephone call to William P. Rogers, October 22, 1972
-1972 election
-Importance for US Foreign Policy
-Soviet Union, the People's Republic China [PRC]
-Survival of South Vietnam
-Prospects
-The President’s view
-PRC
-South Korea
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)

-Taiwan, Republic of China
-Japan, Indonesia, Thailand
-1972 Election
-Appearance of influence
-Possible dumping [of Thieu]
-Kissinger’s views and efforts
-The President's Visit to Soviet Union May 1972
-Roger’s comments
-The President’s schedule, October 24, 1972
-Photograph session
-Kissinger's conversation with Thieu
-Kissinger’s possible trip to Hanoi
-Haig's conversation with Dobrynin
-Possible Paris meeting
-Le Duc Tho
- Pressure on Thieu
-The President's conversation with Rogers
- Thieu’s role
-Roger’s previous conversation with Haig
-U. Alexis Johnson
-William H. Sullivan
-Roger’s view
-PRC
-US Casualties
-The President’s view
-Communist domination of Eastern Europe after World
War II
-Gen. William C. Westmoreland's view
-Military's view
-Peace settlement negotiations
-Changes in possible settlement
-Thieu
-North Vietnamese forces in South Vietnam
-Possible US announcement of bilateral agreement with North Vietnam
-Kissinger
-Thieu
-Public pressure
-1972 Election
-Thieu’s leverage
-Kissinger’s view
-The President’s view
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)

-Terms
-Withdrawal if US forces
-Stopping of US bombing, mining
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-North Vietnamese withdrawal from Cambodia and Laos
-US aid to South Vietnam
-Soviet Union aid to North Vietnam
-Duration of War
-January 1, 1973
-Views of American People
-Thieu
-Thieu’s role
-Haig's conversation with Dobrynin
-Newspaper headlines
-Thieu’s distrust of Kissinger and communists
-Communist strategy
-Cease-fire
-Document capture
-Post-1972 election
-Possible ultimatum to Thieu by the President
-Kissinger
-Cease-fire
-Kissinger
-Possible presentation of fait accompli
-Haig's conversation with Dobrynin
-North Vietnamese actions
-Public relations
-Negotiation record
-The President’s request
-Kissinger conversation with Thieu
-U.S. Military Policy
-May 8, 1972 decision to bomb Hanoi and mine Haiphong Harbor
-The President's conversation with Kissinger
-The President's visit to Soviet Union, May 1972
-Possible cancellation of Soviet summit
-John B. Connally's previous views
-North Vietnamese Spring 1972 offensive
-The President’s view
-Kissinger’s view
-Views of Central Intelligence Agency [CIA], National Security Council
[NSC]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)

-Kissinger's Views
-John Negroponte’s views
-Winston Lord's view
-Kissinger's views
-Cambodia
-Compared with the President, Connally
-PRC. Soviet Union policy
-Bombing and mining
-effect on negotiations
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer's views
-CIA's views
-Effect on North Vietnam
-News stories
-Views of the American people
-Connally's view
-The President's conversation with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-PRC, Soviet Union

Kissinger
-The President’s view
-Associates

Vietnam
-Peace settlement negotiations
-The President's forthcoming meeting With Rogers
-Haig’s possible conversation with Kissinger
-State Department Bureaucracy
-Leaks
-The President’s view
-State Department
-Hanoi
-Kissinger's Views
-State Department
-Secrecy
-Marvin L. Kalb
-Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-The President's conversation with Rogers October 22, 1972
-Korean concerns
-Thieu
-Park Chung Hee
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)

-Fear of US abandonment
-Cease-fire
-Psychological importance
-Thieu
-Victory
-Haig's conversation with Kissinger
-Timing
-North Vietnamese troops in South Vietnam
-Thieu’s cooperation
-Settlement conditions
-North Vietnamese position
-1972 election
-Polls
-Possible release of settlement offer
-Haig's conversation with Dobrynin October 22, 1972
-McGovern’s campaign
-Thieu’s future
-Haig's conversation with Charles W. Colson
-The President’s schedule, October 22, 1972
-Announcement
-Rogers
-Timing
-Laird
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-North Vietnamese intentions
-Possible US bombing halt
-Assistance to South Vietnam
-The President’s instructions
-20th parallel
-North Vietnam
-Gen. John D. Lavelle
-Protective reaction
-The President's orders to Laird
-Falsification of records
-Targets
-Surface to air missiles [SAMs]
-Falsification of records
-The President’s instructions
-POWs
-Mining and Bombing
-Cambodia, Laos
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)

-POWs
-Cease-fire
-Peace settlement negotiations
-Control of territory provisions
-Thieu
-Communist representation in South Vietnamese National Assembly
-Compared to France, Italy
-Thieu
-Possible meeting with the President
-Timing compared with 1972 election
-Congress
-Funding

Football game
-Washington Redskins
-White House television capability
-Comparison with Dallas Cowboys
-Larry Brown

Haig left at 9:17 am.