783–18

Conversation No. 783-18

Date: September 19, 1972
Time: Unknown between 12:22 pm and 12:46 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Henry A. Kissinger's schedule
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)

Bull left and Kissinger entered at 12:25 pm.

US-Soviet Union trade deal
-1972 election
-William P. Rogers
-Soviet-Jewish emigration
-Jews
-Votes
-Bangladesh
-Biharis
-Burundi
-Deal size
-Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with Yitzhak Rabin
-Bureaucracy
-Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with Rabin
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Anniversary of creation of Soviet Union
-Forthcoming speech
-Detente

Vietnam War
-News summary
-South Vietnam’s military situation
-Quang Tri
-Press and media coverage
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Demilitarized Zone [DMZ]
-Vietnamization
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s view
-Inflicted casualties
-Capture of arms
-North Vietnamese divisions
-Bombing of dikes in North Vietnam
-Possible hearings by the Senate
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Evidence
-Flood

1972 campaign issues
-Vietnam
-[George S. McGovern]
-College campuses
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)

-Amnesty
-Labor unions, Catholics
-Vietnam negotiations
-Meeting with North Vietnam
-Forthcoming announcement
-Progress
-Press coverage
-William L. Safire's recent meeting with the press
-Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with Le Duc Tho

Release of three prisoners of war [POWs]
-Public relations
-McGovern’s possible exploitation
-Hanoi
-Brainwashing
-Peace group involvement
-US domestic policy
-Copenhagen and Sweden
-Moscow
-Aeroflot
-Special Air Services [SAS]

Foreign policy
-The President's meeting with Theodore H. White on
September 18, 1972 and at the Hotel Pierre in December 1969
-Administration objectives
-Vietnam
-Soviet Union
-Middle East
-Relations with Europe
-The People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Opposition
-Vietnam
-Opposition
-Time
-Newsweek
-New York Times
-Washington Post
-Major networks
-Intellectual community
-As campaign issue
-Vietnam, media
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)

-Media coverage
-New York Times
-Washington Post
-McGovern
-Europe, Japan
-New York Times
-Editorial
-Abram Chayes
-Allies in Europe
-Japan
-McGovern
-View of leaders
-View of leaders
-1960 election
-John F. Kennedy
-Arnoud de Borchgrave article
-Edward R.G. Heath
-Conversation with Kissinger
-Chathem House
-Compared to Council of Foreign
Relations
-Unknown friend of Kissinger
-McGovern’s campaign
-Briefing of Paul C. Warnke
-Letter to Kissinger
-Warnke’s security clearance
-Haig
-The President’s instructions
-Soviet Union
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Israel
-Poll on Vietnam war
-McGovern’s election prospects
-North Vietnamese
-Josip Broz Tito
-Nikolai V. Podgorny [?]
-PRC
-Kissinger’s forthcoming trip to New York
-Kissinger’s conversations in Moscow

Vietnam
-Kissinger’s schedule
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)

-Paris peace talks
-The President’s International Monetary Fund [IMF] speech
-Announcement
-Frequency of meetings
-Press
-Possible settlement
-Press
-Coalition government

US-Soviet Union trade deal
-Israel
-Jacob K. Javits and Abraham A. Ribicoff
-Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with Rabin
-Kissinger’s trip to the Soviet Union
-Syria
-Lebanon
-Tone
-State Department
-The President and [National Security Council]
[NSC]
-Political effect of Israeli action
-American Jewish community
-McGovern
-Max M. Fisher
-Taft Schreiber
-Jewish contributors
-Kissinger’s role
-Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with Rabin

Congressional relations
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Dr. Thomas E. (“Doc”) Morgan's conversation with
Kissinger
-Carl B. Albert
-Behavior
-Presidency

The President’s decisions
-May 8, 1972 decision on bombing Hanoi and mining
Haiphong harbor
-Menu strikes
-Cambodia
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)

-November 3, 1969 speech
-Laos
-Middle East crisis of September 1970
-The President’s location
-Troop movements
-State Department
-Israel

US-Soviet Union trade deal
-Israel
-Rabin
-Kissinger’s forthcoming conversations with Javits and Ribicoff
-Charles H. Percy

Kissinger left at 12:46 pm.