371–21

Conversation No. 371-21

Date: October 23, 1972
Time: 9:55 am - 10:38 am
Location: Executive Office Building
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The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.


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The President’s schedule

Henry A. Kissinger
-The President’s recent meeting with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Haig

Vietnam
-Peace settlement negotiations
-Possible bombing halt
-Timing compared with 1972 election
-John D. Erlichman’s view
-Haldeman’s view
-Kissinger's itinerary
-Possible North Vietnamese statements
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Coalition government
-Coalition government
-North Vietnamese statements
-Soviet Union
-Victory celebrations
-Kissinger’s efforts
-Haig
-Haig’s role
-Accompanying Kissinger on trips as opposed to speaking for the
President
-Military compared to political problems
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-Haig’s and Kissinger’s view
-1972 Election
-George S. McGovern
-Nguyen Van Thieu

1972 campaign
-Public relations
-White House role
-Alvin Snyder
-Questions of television programs
-Response to McGovern’s debate issue
-Clark K. MacGregor
-Instruction for Charles W. Colson
-Kissinger
-Colson
-Vietnam
-Magazines
-Schedule
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Vietnam
-Peace settlement negotiations
-1972 election
-Thieu's reaction to proposed settlement
-Patrick J. Buchanan and Raymond K. Price
-North Vietnamese
-Soviet Union
-Kissinger
-William L. Safire
-Public statements
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-Caution
-Coalition government

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The President's schedule
-Radio broadcast
-White House
-Camp David
-Kissinger
-Library
-Sound
-Kentucky

Haldeman left at 10:38 am.