The President met with Souvanna Phouma, Prince Khammao, Alec Toumayan, Alexander M.
Haig, Jr.; members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting.
[The recording began while the conversation was in progress]
Vietnam
-Military leaders
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
-North Vietnam
-Period after Dien Bien Phu
-1962 and 1963
-Situation
-Laotian soldiers
-Captured North Vietnamese soldiers
-Handling
-Economy of the North
-Bombing
-Floods
-Hanoi
-Red River Delta
The President's forthcoming visit to he People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Reaction
-Effect on Southeast Asia
-Great power relationships
-Expectations
-Differences between the US and the PRC
-Rapprochement
-Future foreign relations with the PRC
US relations with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Issues
-Berlin
-Strategic arms limitation
-Middle East
The President's forthcoming visit to the PRC
-Reaction of North Vietnam
-Relations between the PRC and North Vietnam
-French Colonial rule, North Vietnamese
-South Vietnam
-Cambodia
-Laos
-Pathet Lao
-Role
-Analogy to Central Europe and Moscow
-Possible events after end of Vietnam War
-The Prime Minister’s conversation with the Secretary of State
-Thailand And North Vietnam
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