Date: February 21, 1973
Time: 9:06 am - 9:23 am
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with William P. Rogers.
[See Conversation No. 859-3]
Vietnam settlement
-Rogers’ Congressional testimony
-Economic aid to North Vietnam
-Multilateral aid
-Multilateral organizations
-Shared responsibility
-The Soviet Union
-The People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-South Vietnam, North Vietnam
-Effect on domestic budget
-House of Representatives
-Defense budget
-Laos
-Isolationists
-Germany and Japan
-World War II
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Aug.-08)
Conversation No. 43-135 (cont’d)
-Laos cease-fire
-Timing
-PRC communiqué
-Timing of the President’s press conference
-South Carolina
-Senators
-Rogers’s possible testimony
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Hugh Scott
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
-The President’s view
-Scott, Mansfield, George D. Aiken
-Herman E. Talmadge
-Edward M. Kennedy, George S. McGovern, Edmund S. Muskie
-Laos peace agreement
-Rogers’s view
-The President’s view
-Vietnam settlement
-Bombing
-Mansfield
-Comparison of Hanoi and Saigon
-Henry A. Kissinger, William H. Sullivan, Frank Sieverts
-Rogers’s testimony
-The administration record
-Arms control
-PRC and the Soviet Union
-Middle East
-Vietnam settlement
-Economic aid
-Demonstrators
-Jesse Jackson
-The President’s view
-Returning servicemen
-Jacksonville
-USS Saratoga
-South Carolina
-POWs
-Sieverts
-Credit for settlement
-Rogers possible testimony
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Aug.-08)
Conversation No. 43-135 (cont’d)
-The President’s view
-Reaction
-Public
-Senators, media
-Dinner for the President’s supporters
-Congress
-Rogers
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-Evening at the White House
-Church services
The President’s schedule
-Girdiron dinner
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-McGovern
-1973 Inauguration
-Oxford, England
-George H. W. Bush
-Alfalfa dinner
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew