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Conversation No. 571-8

Date: September 13, 1971
Time: 4:18 pm - 4:36 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Negotiations
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Vietnam War settlement
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Date of announcement
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-Dates for the President's visit
-Kissinger's visit
-Public announcement
-Date
-Chinese
-Vietnam
-North Vietnamese
-Cambodia
-Laos
-Strategy towards the US
-Negotiated settlements
-Status on negotiations
-Moratorium
-Norodom Sihanouk
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Election
-Effect of PRC trip announcement
-Political situation in Saigon
- Position on Thieu
-George S. McGovern's trip to Paris
-Kissinger
-Hanoi
-Soviet Union
-PRC situation
-Status of Vietnam War
-US public opinion
-US withdrawal
-Prisoner of War [POW] wives event
-POWs
-Release
-Laos, Cambodia, South Vietnam
-Possible events
-Vietnamization
-US withdrawal
-1972 Elections
-Hanoi
-Bombing
-Laos
-Cambodia
-Security situation
-North Vietnamese
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-Saigon
-Psychology
-Political situation in Saigon
-Possible outcome
-Needs
-Stability
-Administration's action
-POWs
-Announcements
-End of combat
-Troop withdrawal
-Kissinger’s rationale
-North Vietnam's demands
-Paris negotiations
-POWs
-Soviet Union
-Hanoi
-Provision of agreement
-Pressure from Soviet Union
-North Vietnamese demands
-Thieu
-South Vietnam
-Elections
-US role
-The President’s November 3, 1969 speech
-Cambodia
-Laos
-Support for the war in the US
-The President's speeches
-Public reaction
-US withdrawal
-Stability
-Effects
-Casualties
-Numbers
-US Army
-Morale
-Discipline
-Laos participation
-Effect on US military forces
-Military actions
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-I and II Corps areas
-Effect
-Da Nang shelling
-Civilian casualties
-PRC reaction
-Haig’s view

The PRC
-Floods
-Devastation

Kissinger's schedule
-Return
-Time

Haig's report
-Kissinger
-Optimism in negotiations
-Need for caution
-The President's previous experiences
-Nikita S. Khrushchev
-PRC
-Soviet Union

Accidental War Agreement
-Newspaper story
-Tad Szulc
-Soviet Union
-Reporter covering the State Department
-London Observer
-Newsday
-Washington Post
-White House
-Washington Post's call to the State Department
-State Department's call to Haig
-Release of story
-Szulc
-State Department, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency [ACDA]
-Haig's call to State Department
-Leak
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
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-Szulc
-Soviet response
-Agreement
-US role
-Defense budget
-Draft

Haig left at 4:36 pm.