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Conversation No. 397-5

Date: January 19, 1973
Time: 9:35 am - 10:55 am
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Raymond K. Price, Jr.

President's Inaugural speech
-Past accomplishments
-Peking, Moscow, Vietnam
-Wording
-Revisions
-Great powers' relations
-Vietnam references
-Bold initiatives
-Vietnam
-Wording
-New directions
-Vietnam
-Peking, Moscow, Vietnam
-Saigon
-New relationships
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Soviet Union
-Wording
-Development of new policies
-Vietnam references
-Foreign policy in general
-Change
-Peking, Moscow
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-Vietnam War
-New initiatives
-Great powers' relationships
-1972 accomplishments
-Wording
-World War II
-Peking and Moscow trips
-New relationships
-Wording
-Revisions
-Paternalism reference
-Wording
-Self help
-Style
-Simplicity
-Liberty reference
-Government references
-Wording

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 10:05 am.

Kissinger's schedule
-Paris
-Meeting with Price

President's Inaugural speech
-Review of foreign policy portions
-Wording
-Tone
-John F. Kennedy's Inaugural speech
-Portions for Kissinger's review
-Domestic issues

President's schedule
-Meeting with Price

Price left at 10:12 am.

Price's work
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-Quality

Florida trip
-Weather

Vietnam settlement
-Status
-Barry M. Goldwater, John C. Stennis
-Prospects
-President's Inaugural speech
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Kissinger's statement
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Ending the war
-Thieu
-Resignation
-Compared to October 1972 agreements
-North Vietnamese text
-Public statements
-Press reaction
-Changes since October 1972
-[First name unknown] Leeks [?]
-Michael J. “Mike” Mansfield
-Concessions
-Impasse
-North Vietnamese position
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-December 1972 bombing
-Effects
-Breakthrough
-Press response
-Thieu
-Haig's schedule

President's schedule
-Meeting with Haig
-Inaugural activities
-Inaugural speech
-Swearing-in ceremony
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-Parade
-Balls
-Worship service
-Family reception
-Cease-fire announcement
-President's preparation

Vietnam settlement
-Cease-fire announcement
-Thieu
-Press coverage
-National assembly
-Changes to agreement
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Possible trip to Saigon
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Bombing

Agnew
-Relationships with President
-Role of Vice President
-Clinton Rossiter's book
-President's work as Vice President under Dwight D. Eisenhower
-1958
-Caracas
-Moscow trip
-Nikita Khrushchev
-Eisenhower's heart attack
-Interests
-Travel
-William P. Rogers
-Possible results
-Iranian oil companies
-Peoples Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Moscow trip
-Possible trips
-Southeast Asia
-Saigon
-Moscow
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

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-Pre-negotiations
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John N. Mitchell
-President's travels under Eisenhower
-Korea
-Message
-Negotiations
-Trip around world
-John Foster Dulles
-Eisenhower's attitude
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Harry S. Truman
-State Department preparations
-North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Afghanistan
-Results
-Compared to Agnew
-Inauguration of Arturo Frondizi
-Dulles
-Ghana
-State Department
-Central America in 1955
-Latin America in 1958
-Initiative
-Soviet Union
-Initiative
-Dulles, Christian A. Herter
-Trips
-Purpose
-Role of negotiator
-Kissinger
-Agnew
-Press conferences
-Possible action by President
-Possible trip
-Southeast Asia, India
-Cambodia, Laos, South Vietnam
-Thailand
-Indonesia
-Southeast Asia
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

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Conversation No. 397-5 (cont’d)

Vietnam settlement
-Kissinger's schedule
-President's announcement
-Timing
-Preparation
-Press questions
-Agreement
-Haldeman
-Thieu
-Press statements
-Thieu's position
-Haig
-Press relations
-Columbia Broadcast System [CBS]
-Coverage
-Withdrawal for Prisoners of War [POWs]
-History books
-Haig’s trip to Saigon
-Possible Thieu meeting
-Concessions
-Sale option
-Agnew
-President
-Travel
-Announcement
-Timing
-Kissinger's schedule
-Possible announcement by the President
-Thieu's position
-Rejection
-President's attitude
-Possible signing and initialing
-Follow-up
-Kissinger’s role
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-State Department
-Haig
-Thieu
-National assembly
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

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Conversation No. 397-5 (cont’d)

-Haig
-Goldwater, Stennis
-Congressional support
-Announcement
-Unanimous agreement

Kissinger's schedule
-Meeting with Price
-Timing
-Meeting with friends
-Meeting with Price
-Meeting with Marshall Green and U. Alexis Johnson
-Possible follow-up with President
-Message
-Meeting with Price
-Timing

Kissinger left at 10:55 am.