742–6

Conversation No. 742-6

Date: June 26, 1972
Time: 8:57 am - 9:40 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Kissinger's health

Vietnamese military situation
-North Vietnamese attack on Hue
-Bombing
-Quality of tank crews from North Vietnam
-News reports
-Intelligence information
-South Vietnamese offensive
-Kissinger’s view
-Quang Tri
-Army of the Republic of South Vietnam [ARVN]
-New reports
-Gloria Emmett
-New York Times
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Reporting

Vietnam peace negotiations
-Meeting schedule
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.'s trip
-Length
-Purpose
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
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Gen. John D. Lavelle
-Possible replacement
-Defense Department report to Kissinger
-Attacks on North Vietnamese targets
-Term \"Protective Reaction\"
-Signal to North Vietnamese
-Bombing
-Melvin R. Laird
-The President's role
-Kissinger’s view

Press
-Lavelle
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Watergate break-in
-Bugging
-Lawrence F. O'Brien, Jr.'s talk with Stewart J.O. Alsop
-George S. McGovern
-Lavelle
-The President’s view


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Washington Post article
-Massive retaliation
-McGovern and Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Impact
-Effect
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-Kissinger’s view
-Jordan
-Vietnam
-Kissinger’s view
-Intellectuals' opinion of defense policy

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 8:57 am.

The President's schedule
-Press conference
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-John D. Ehrlichman

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:40 am.


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Vietnam
-McGovern's proposals
-The President’s view
-Kissinger’s view
-Effect
-Eisenhower's policy on Korea
-Kissinger's conversation with Chou En-lai
-Korea
-Division
-Administration's position in campaign
-McGovern’s proposals
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Defense spending
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-Administration actions
-President’s statements
-Negotiations
-Effect of US election
-Withdrawal date for US offer
-McGovern
-US election
-Moscow
-Peking
-Rationale
-George W. Ball's articles in New York Times
-Moscow's view of election
-The President's conversation with Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Agriculture
-Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union [TASS] reports
-Statement by William P. Rogers

Kissinger's conversation with Alsop
-The President
-Alsop’s view
-McGovern
-Policies
-The President's opponents
-Liberals
-Barry M. Goldwater
-The President
-Reaction to the President's re-election
-Clark M. Clifford
-Cyrus R. Vance
-Ball

Vietnam
-The President’s efforts
-The President’s view
-South Vietnamese military
-Lam Son
-Thieu
-Larry Stern
-Press
-Time and Newsweek
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-Vietnam War coverage

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Defense budget
-Laird statements
-The President’s view
-Anti-Ballistic Missile [ABM] Treaty
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Tactics
-Increase in program expenditures
-Kissinger’s view
-Timing
-\"Doves\"
-ABM Treaty
-Previous briefing for Congressmen
-ABM
-The President’s statement
-Laird

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Defense policy
-The President’s efforts
-Robert S. McNamara
-Press
-Katharine L. Graham

Commonwealth Club speech by Rogers

Kissinger's schedule
-Possible television appearance
-The President’s view
-Marvin L. Kalb
-Prime time
-Today show
-Major network importance
-Length
-Timing


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The President’s schedule
-Henry Cabot Lodge
-Kissinger
-Possible appointment
-Ambassador to France
-Arthur K. Watson
-The President’s view

Kissinger left at 9:40 am.
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