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798–11
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Henry A. Kissinger
October 14, 1972
Conversation No. 798-11

Date: October 14, 1972
Time: Unknown between 11:01 am and 11:17 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Vietnam negotiations
-Agreement
-Public statements
-Effect on Saigon
-Possible television appearance by the President
-Nygyen Van Thieu
-Settlement provisions
-Vietnam
-Recognition of independence
-Cease-fire
-US
-Mine removal
-Views of agreement
-William H. Sullivan
-Melvin R. Laird
-Comment to aide at the Pentagon
-Robert LaFollette
-Withdrawals
-Timeframe
-US advisors, military attaches, civilian personnel
-US bases
-Vietnam
-Laos, Cambodia
-Military aid
-Replacements
-North Vietnam
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Christmas
-Missing in Action [MIAs]
-Prisoners held by South Vietnam
-Thieu
-Length of time for potential settlement
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)

-South Vietnam
-Self-Determination
-National Council of National Reconciliation and Concord
-Functions
-Consultations
-Coalition government
-Thieu
-[Committee of National Reconciliation] [NCR]
-Thieu
-National Liberation Front [NLF]
-Provisional Revolutionary Government [PRG]
-Recognition
-Meeting with the President
-Midway Island, Hawaii, Asia
-Timing after the election
-Kissinger’s possible trip to Hanoi
-San Clemente
Timing of meeting
-Reunification
-International Commission of Control and Supervision [ICSS]
-North Vietnamese
-Motives
-Bombing, mining
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Soviet Union
-PRC supplies
-Bombing
-Troops in South Vietnam
-Le Duc Tho
-Previous conversation with Kissinger
-Haig
-NLF
-Views
-Demobilization
-Haig
-Message
-Armistice compared to permanent peace
-Moscow

The President's schedule
-Soviet official [Timofey B. Guzhenko]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)

-Peter G. Peterson
-Peter M. Flanigan
-US-Soviet Union maritime agreement

Kissinger left at 11:17 am.
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