44–34

Conversation No. 44-34

Date: March 27, 1973
Time: Unknown between 5:46 pm and 5:56 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

[See also Conversation No. 424-6]

Press relations
-President’s conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler
-Cambodia
-Questions on legal authority to bomb
-Kissinger’s instructions to Ziegler
-Cease-fire agreement
-Article 20
-President’s March 29 speech
-Vietnam
-Cease-fire agreement
-North Vietnam violations
-Troop withdrawals
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar.-09)
Conversation No. 44-34 (cont’d)



-Enforcement
-South Vietnam
-International Commission of Control and Supervision
[ICCS]
-Southeast Asia Treaty Organization [SEATO]
-Opponents of President’s policy
-Denial of funds by Senate
-Blame
-Cease-fire agreement
-Opponents of President’s policy
-Future of Vietnam
-President’s popularity

US-Soviet Union relations
-Scheduling of Soviet summit
-Delay
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] meeting
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Kissinger’s call
-Note to President on military equipment
-Kissinger’s trip to Acapulco
-NATO meeting
-William P. Rogers
-Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft
-Nuclear treaty
-Exchange of drafts
-Delay
-European Security Conference
-Andrei A. Gromyko’s schedule
-Scheduling of Soviet summit
-US domestic situation
-NATO meeting
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Rogers

Cambodia
-Kissinger’s talk with Ziegler
-President’s opponents on Southeast Asia policy
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar.-09)
Conversation No. 44-34 (cont’d)



-Laos
-Vietnam
-Congress
-Effects of bombing

Ziegler
-Press relations
-Watergate

Foreign policy plans
-Latin America
-NATO meeting
-Soviet summit
-Chou En-lai visit

Ziegler