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823–1

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823–1
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Ronald L. Ziegler
  • Stephen B. Bull
  • Henry A. Kissinger
  • Alexander M. Haig
  • White House photographer
  • H. R. Haldeman
December 14, 1972
Conversation No. 823-1

Date: December 14, 1972
Time: 9:59 am - 11:46 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

The President’s schedule
-Photograph session
-Meeting with Henry A. Kissinger
-Meeting with Hugh Scott
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Meeting with Scott
-Timing
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Timing

Vietnam negotiations
-Settlement agreement
-Press relations
-Tone
-Uncertainty
-Speculation
-South Vietnam
-Nguyen Van Thieu’s concerns
-Sovereignty
-Cease-fire in place
-Third party signature
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Public relations [PR]
-POWs
-US bombing of North Vietnam
-Pace
-“Peace was at hand”
-North Vietnamese intransigence
-Settlement agreement
-Timing
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-[The President’s May 8, 1972 decision]
-US mining of North Vietnamese harbors
-POWs
-Settlement agreement
-[Kissinger’s] “Peace is at hand” [Statement, October 26, 1972]
-Timing
-Press relations
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
-Washington Post
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
-Effect
-PR

Politics
-News summary quotes
-1972 election
-Tone, George S. McGovern
-Haynes B. Johnson’s view
-Edward M. Kennedy’s speech in Los Angeles
-W[illiam] Averell Harriman’s view
-Kennedy’s motives
-1976 Presidential campaign
-Attacks on the President, 1972-1974
-Risks
-McGovern
-Cooperation with the President
-Benefits
-Risk of underestimating the President


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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]

1972 election campaign
-George S. McGovern
-Statements
-Thomas F. Eagleton

[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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The President’s schedule
-Recommended telephone call to Apollo XVII astronauts
-Timing
-Necessity
-The President’s previous call, December 5, 1972

Second term reorganization
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Ziegler’s conversation with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Anne Armstrong
-White House staff
-Possible title
-Special Assistant to the President
-Compared to Assistant to the President
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s view
-Peter M. FLanigan
-Leonard Garment
-Assets
-Barbara H. Franklin
-Toughness
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Press relations
-Marge Byers
-Relationship with Mrs. Nixon and Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Life magazine

Press relations
-Ziegler’s conversation with Barbara Walters
-Christmas events
-Television [TV] coverage
-The President’s role

Stephen B. Bull entered and left at an unknown time before 10:08 am.

Press relations
-Cabinet dinner
-Toast
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Kissinger and Alexander M. Haig, Jr., entered and Ziegler left at 10:08 am; the White House
photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Kissinger’s schedule

The President’s schedule
-Hugh Scott

Congressional relations
-Congressmen and Senators

[Photograph session]
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins

Vietnam negotiations
-Kissinger’s reports
-Tone
-North Vietnam’s actions
-The President’s meeting with Kissinger and Haig
-Possible duration
-End of war
-Press relations
-Reston’s article
-Tone
-Networks
-PR
-Difficulties
-Communists
-Thieu
-Consciousness of war
-TV
-Casualties
-POWs
-Wives
-Timing
-Thieu
-The President’s meeting with Nguyen Phu Duc, November 29, 1972
-Congressional relations
-Cut off of funds
-North Vietnam’s views
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-Congressional relations
-POWs for US withdrawal
-North Vietnam’s rejection
-US bombing of North Vietnam
-Possible duration
-Thieu
-The President’s meeting with Duc
-Kissinger’s report
-Possible infiltration of South Vietnam by North Vietnam
-Cut off of funds
-North Vietnam’s awareness
-Melvin R. Laird
-Defense budget
-Left wing
-US options
-Kissinger’s report
-The President’s recent conversation with Haig
-Second guessing
-Kissinger’s efforts with North and South Vietnamese
-The President’s meeting with Congressman or Senator
-First term
-First term
-Demonstrators
-Cambodia, Laos
-The President’s May 8, 1972 decision
-May 1, 1971
-May Day riot
-The President’s speech, November 3, 1972
-Congressional and press relations
-Management of war
-Bureaucracy
-The President’s trips to the People’s Republic of China [PRC] and the
Soviet Union
-Settlement agreement
-Pace
-1972 election
-US bombing of North Vietnam
-Soviet Union
-Cambodia
-Christmas
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-1973 Inauguration
-Peace theme
-War theme
-North Vietnamese tactics
-Treatment of US
-Length of sessions
-Press relations
-Kissinger’s return from Paris
-Substance
-December 9, 1972
-Haig’s return from Paris
-Kissinger’s view
-November 20-25, 1972 meetings
-Le Duc Tho
-Thieu’s changes
-Number accepted by North Vietnam
-1972 election
-Concessions
-Settlement agreement
-November 22, 1972 message
-Request for success
-Le Duc Tho’s demands
-November 22, 1972 message
-Kissinger’s analysis
-North Vietnam’s infiltration
-The President’s meeting with Duc
-Kissinger’s conversations with local ambassadors in
Paris
-Tho’s demands
-Release of North Vietnamese political prisoners
-Withdrawal of US civilians
-Effect
-Air Force
-Radar
-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN]
-Kissinger’s request for a recess
-Thieu
-The President’s meeting with Duc
-North Vietnam’s position
-South Vietnam
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-Behavior
-Relations with US
-Thieu
-Saigon Radio’s broadcasts
-Concessions
-December 4-13, 1972 meetings
-Tone
-Settlement agreement
-Pace
-Kissinger’s meeting with Tho, December 4, 1972
-The President’s and Kissinger’s meetings with Duc
-Effect on North Vietnam
-Settlement agreement
-December 4-13, 1972 meetings
-Agenda
-Schedule, trip to Hanoi, speech, cease-fire
-North Vietnam
-December 4, 1972
-Tone
-Tho
-Issues
-Concessions
-Tho’s withdrawal
-October 1972 agreement
-Tho’s private and public statements
-Peace
-US action
-December 4, 1972
-Concessions
-Tho’s withdrawal
-Cancellation of December 5, 1972 meetings
-PRC, Soviet Union
-October 1972 agreement draft
-Acceptance
-Effect on Thieu
-North Vietnamese bad faith
-Schedule
-International machinery
-December 6 1972
-Tho’s concessions
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-December 7, 1972
-December 8, 1972
-Tho’s concession
-Length of sessions
-“Administrative structure”
-Withdrawal of US civilians, release of North Vietnamese political
prisoners
-US position
-Haig’s return from Paris, December 9, 1972
-Tho’s concession
-Tho’s reintroduction as understanding, December 11, 1972
-Settlement agreement
-October 1972
-Effect
-Air Force
-Significance
-Compared to Tho’s concessions
-December 9, 1972
-Haig’s return from Paris
-Demilitarized zone [DMZ]
-Haig’s return from Paris
-Haig’s and Vice President Spiro T. Agnew’s possible trip to
Saigon
-Tho’s health
-Settlement agreement
-North Vietnam’s interest
-Breakdown
-Timing
-Record
-William H. Sullivan
-Protocols
-December 9, 1972
-DMZ
-North Vietnam’s concession
-Timing
-North Vietnam’s position
-Abolition of dividing line between North and South
Vietnam
-Effect
-Intervention
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-Legitimacy
-Thieu
-Sovereignty
-Thieu
-Reston’s article
-Cease-fire
-Settlement agreement
-North Vietnamese troops in South Vietnam
-Border
-Movement
-Abolition
-December 10, 1972
-Experts’ meetings
-Settlement agreement text
-Introduction of issues
-People’s Revolutionary Government [PRG]
-Preamble
-December 11, 1972
-Lack of North Vietnamese instructions
-US-Soviet Union relations
-The President’s conversation with Dobrynin
-Haig’s report to Kissinger
-Haig’s conversation with Dobrynin
-North Vietnam-Soviet Union relations
-Compared to US-South Vietnam relations
-Soviet Union’s efforts
-Leonid I. Brezhnev’s trip to the US
-Middle East
-US-PRC relations
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Kissinger’s view
-December 11, 1972 meeting
-Settlement agreement
-Signing proposal
-December 12, 1972
-DMZ withdrawal of signing proposal by Le Duc Tho
-Hanoi
-Issues
-Timing
-Protocols
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-Settlement agreement
-International Commission of Control and
Supervision [ICCS]
-Study time
-Protocols
-ICCS
-Number of members
-Teams
-Liaison officials
-Communication, transportation
-Communists
-DMZ team
-Location
-Cua Viet River
-Quang Tri
-Two-Party commission
-National Council of National Reconciliation and Concord [NCRC]
-Communists
-International members
-District capitals
-Vietcong [VC]

The President talked with Haldeman at an unknown time between 10:08 am and 11:46 am.

[Conversation No. 823-1A]

The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Scott
-Haldeman
-John D. Ehrlichman
-William E. Timmons
-General Services Administration [GSA]
-[Arthur F. Sampson]
-Vietnam War
-Democrats
-State of the Union message
-Timing and format
-Timmons
-Talking papers
-1973 Inauguration
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-Congressional relations
-The President’s meeting with Kissinger and Haig
-Duration

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam negotiations
-Kissinger’s view
-December 12, 1972
-Settlement agreement
-NCRC
-Language changes
-North Vietnam’s position
-“Direct,” “supervise,” “promote”
-December 13, 1972
-Texts
-Linguistics
-Cambodia, Laos
-Weapons replacements
-“Destroyed”
-Tho
-Saigon
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Dobrynin
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-North Vietnam’s strategy
-DMZ
-Signing language
-Language changes
-Cambodia, Laos
-Protocols
-Thieu’s tenure
-Understandings
-Kissinger
-Vanity
-Tho
-Tho’s concessions
-Hanoi
-Politburo
-Settlement agreement
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Conversation No. 823-1 (cont’d)

-Laird’s view
-US yielding
-US military action
-Haig’s recent conversation with Laird
-Haig’s conversation with the President
-Laird’s memorandum
-Settlement agreement
-Settlement agreement
-Terms
-The President’s speech, November 3, 1969
-Cambodia
-The President’s May 8, 1972 decision
-William P. Rogers’s view
-Sullivan
-Sullivan’s view
-Settlement agreement text
-Concessions
-Settlement agreement
-Kissinger’s view
-North Vietnam’s tactics
-Tho’s possible return to Hanoi
-US-South Vietnam relations
-Pressures
-Settlement agreement
-Schedule
-Pace
-Pre-November 7, 1972
-Kissinger’s responsibility
-Soviet Union
-PRC
-November 7, 1972
-Schedule
-Pace
-Responsibility
-Kissinger’s conversation with Haig
-India-Pakistan War
-Press relations
-Press relations

1972 election
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Conversation No. 823-1 (cont’d)

-The President’s supporters
-Education
-Victory margin
-PR
-Left-wingers
-Relationship with Kissinger
-Vietnam War
-The President’s conversation with Haig
-US military action
-Timing
-Warning
-Analyses
-Louis P. Harris
-Peace, progress
-Richard M. Scammon
-The President’s image
-Vietnam War
-McGovern
-Compared to the President

Vietnam negotiations
-Recent past
-Deadline to North Vietnamese
-Compared to protracted talks
-Thieu
-Responsibility
-Position
-Importance
-Position
-October 21-23, 1972
-Kissinger’s trip to Saigon
-Coalition government
-Veto
-North Vietnam
-US relations with North Vietnam and South Vietnam
-Settlement agreement
-North Vietnam’s position
-Incentives
-January 1973
-South Vietnam’s position
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Conversation No. 823-1 (cont’d)

-Proposals
-Thieu’s Christmas truce
-Removal of military pressure
-Kissinger’s possible briefing
-Tone
-Timing
-Haig’s view
-Ziegler
-Kissinger’s previous statement
-Tone
-“Peace is at hand”
-October 1972 status
-Interval
-North Vietnam’s actions
-Cease-fire
-International machinery
-Intelligence reports
-Intended military action
-Settlement agreement
-Translation
-NCRC
-Coalition government
-Function
-“Direct” compared to “promote”
-Instruction to Haig
-Ziegler
-Cease-fire
-Intelligence reports
-Settlement agreement
-Translation
-NCRC
-Coalition government
-Cease-fire
-International machinery
-Sabotage
-Supervision
-North Vietnamese troops in SouthVietnam
-Demobilization provision
-De facto understandings, time limiti
-Continuation of war
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-Perpetual war
-South Vietnam
-Peace in North Vietnam
-Imposition of Communist government in South Vietnam
-Reneging on agreements
-Settlement agreement
-Timing
-Meetings
-Compared to exchange of messages
-South Vietnam
-Interest in total victory
-Survival
-North Vietnam’s position
-Tone
-Ziegler
-North Vietnam compared to South Vietnam
-South Vietnam
-Concerns
-May 8, 1972 proposals
-Cease-fire, return of POWs, internationally supervised elections
-Back-off
-Withdrawal of North Vietnamese troops from South
Vietnam
-Interests
-Communists
-Settlement agreement
-Minimum conditions
-North Vietnam acceptance
-US bombing of North Vietnam
-Timing
-Publication of record
-Duration
-POWs for US withdrawal
-Timing
-Congressional reconvention
-Resolution of political problems
-South Vietnam’s self-defense
-Record
-Questions and answers [Q&A]
-US withdrawal and cessation of bombing and mining
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-Return of POWs
-US-North Vietnam bilateral deal
-US aid to South Vietnam
-North Vietnam’s position
-US bombing of North Vietnam
-Duration
-Congressional relations
-Purpose
-Return of POWs
-Record
-Duration
-Two weeks
-New Year’s Day
-Paris
-POWs for US withdrawal
-Vietnamization
-Cessation of US bombing
-Six months
-Rejection of terms by North Vietnam
-Interest in settlement agreement
-US bombing of North Vietnam
-Kissinger’s relationship with Tho
-Accusations, belittling, the President’s threats
-Experts’ meetings
-Hand-shaking
-Press relations
-Leaks
-Kissinger’s return from Paris
-Tho’s return to Hanoi
-Agnew’s possible trip to Saigon
-Haig
-Thieu
-Haig’s possible trip to Saigon
-South Vietnam
-US bombing of North Vietnam
-Relations with US
-North Vietnam
-POWs for US withdrawal
-Timing
-Congressional reconvention
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-US residual forces
-Haig’s possible role
-Pentagon
-Task force
-[Adm. Thomas H. Moorer]
-Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff [ICS]
-Navy
-Saigon
-Charles Whitehouse
-Gen. John W. Vogt, Jr.
-US military action
-Kissinger’s possible briefing
-Timing
-Tho
-Paris
-Tho
-Moscow
-US bombing of North Vietnam
-Timing
-Paris
-Propaganda
-The President’s conversation with Haig
-Ziegler
-Bombing announcement
-Understanding of negotiations
-Press relations
-Peace
-Prevention
-Communist responsibility
-Breakdown
-Compared to impasse
-Settlement agreement
-North Vietnamese responsibility
-Resumption of talks
-Language, translation problems
-South Vietnam
-POWs
-Christmas
-US bombing of North Vietnam
-North Vietnam’s position
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-October 1972
-Military action
-POWs
-Protocol
-Points
-Instruction for Kissinger
-Imposition of Communist government in South Vietnam
-POWs
-US military action
-US bombing of North Vietnam
-Timing
-Ziegler
-Weather
-North of 20th Parallel
-Cessation
-Resumption
-Ziegler
-North Vietnam’s military buildup
-Settlement agreement
-POWs
-Post-January 1, 1973
-North Vietnam’s military buildup
-Breakdown
-US bombing north of 20th Parallel
-Air Force
-Targets
-Power plants
-Docks
-Haiphong
-Ships
-Smart bombs
-The President’s meeting with Moorer and Rush
-Rush’s view
-Settlement agreement
-Targets
-Airfields
-Israeli Air Force’s actions
-Civilian and military
-PRC and Soviet Union planes
-Timing
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-Smart bombs
-Weather
1971
-Weather
-Congressional reconvention
-B-52s
-Timing
-Moorer
-US military performance and administration of war
-JCS
-Budget categories
-The President’s May 8, 1972 decision
-Jurisdictions
-National interest compared to service interests
-The President’s May 8, 1972 decision
-John B. Connally’s view
-Gen. Frederick C. Weyand
-Compared to Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Vogt
-Authority
-Maj. Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes
-Separation of commands
-Administration reorganization
-Timing
-Reaction
-Pentagon
-Strategic compared to fiscal point of view
-Saigon
-Strategic point of view
-Message to North Vietnam
-Timing
-Resumption of talks
-Settlement agreement
-Timing
-Settlement agreement
-Prospects
-POWs for US withdrawal and cessation of bombing[, mining]
-Timing
-End of December 1972
-Paris plenary session
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-Congressional relations
-Recent proposal
-US bombing of North Vietnam
-Duration
-North Vietnam’s tactics
-Refusal to “break”
-Reasons
-Delay
-US bombing of North Vietnam
-Delay
-US “peaceniks”
-Effect on the President
-US bombing of North Vietnam
-Interest in settlement agreement
-Instructions to cadres
-October 1972
-US mining of North Vietnam
-Timing
-US bombing north of 20th Parallel
-Timing
-Haig’s possible trip to Saigon
-Agnew’s possible trip to Saigon
-Thieu
-Haig
-Agnew’s possible conversation with the President
-Record
-Thieu
-Relations with US
-Lack of gratitude
-Competence
-US withdrawal for POWs
-Letter
-POWs for US withdrawal
-North Vietnam’s acceptance
-Timing
-US military action
-Compared to acceptance of settlement agreement
-Pre-January 1,1 973
-US military action
-Timing
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-US-Soviet Union relations
-Dobrynin
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Tricia Nixon Cox’s trip to the Soviet Union
-North Vietnam
-Dobrynin’s conversation with Haig
-US bombing north of 20th Parallel
-Kissinger’s possible briefing
-Ziegler
-Kissinger’s possible briefing
-Points
-Press relations
-PR
-The President’s supporters
-1972 election
-POWs
-Treachery
-Language changes
-Imposition of Communist government in South Vietnam
-Thieu’s position
-North and South Vietnam
-South Vietnamese self-determination
-Timing
-US-Soviet Union relations
-Dobrynin
-Brezhnev
-Possible conversation with the President
-The President’s possible TV appearance
-Kissinger’s view
-US-Soviet Union relations
-The President’s relationship with Brezhnev
-North Vietnam
-Briefing of US officials
-The President’s conversation with Haig
-Rogers, Laird, Moorer, Helms, Agnew
-Timing
-Orders
-Kissinger’s possible meeting with Agnew
-Agnew’s possible trip to Saigon
-Timing
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Conversation No. 823-1 (cont’d)

-Thieu
-Guatemala
-Haig
-Kissinger’s possible meeting with Rogers
-The President’s meeting at Camp David
-The President’s briefing of US officials
-Rogers’s relationship with Kissinger
-Criticism of the President, Kissinger
-Future
-Presidential action
-TV appearance
-US military action
-EC-121 incident
-US-Soviet Union relations
-Press relations
-Cartoons, editorials, articles
-PR
-Christmas
-Photographs
-Casualties
-Missing airplanes
-War as issue
-Reston
-Kissinger’s possible briefing
-Peace
-Surrender
-Imposition of Communist government in South Vietnam
-US bombing north of 20th Parallel
-North Vietnam’s military buildup
-Power plants
-North Vietnam’s infiltration
-Compared to 1971
-POWs for US withdrawal
-Timing
-Cost
-Laird’s concern
-December 1972-June 1973
-Second term reorganization
-Defense Department
-Intelligence departments
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Conversation No. 823-1 (cont’d)

-Tactical air forces
-Haig
-Settlement agreement
-North Vietnam
-October 1972
-Quality
-Observation
-Withdrawal of North Vietnamese troops from South Vietnam
-Enforcement
-Kissinger’s possible briefing
-The President’s conversation with Haig
-Ziegler
-Conviction, authority
-Knowledge
-US bombing north of 20th Parallel
-Status quo
-US bombing north of 20th Parallel
-Press relations
-News magazines
-[Arnold] Eric Sevareid
-Dan Rather
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
-Christmas
-Christmas truce
-Message to Thieu
-New Year’s Day
-PR
-World Wars I, II
-Kissinger’s briefing
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Enemies
-Press, Establishment, professors

Press relations
-Richard (“Dick”) Wilson
-Howard K. Smith
-Patriotism
-1972 election
-Enemies
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Conversation No. 823-1 (cont’d)

Vietnam negotiations
-US bombing north of 20th Parallel
-Liberals, conservatives
-February 1973
-Kissinger’s possible meeting with Rush
-Laird
-State Department
-Rush’s loyalty
-Haig’s return from Paris
-Rush’s analysis
-South Vietnam’s and North Vietnam’s interests
-Compared to US interests
-Settlement agreement
-Kissinger’s possible meeting with Moorer
-Kissinger’s possible meeting with Helms

Second term reorganization
-Helms
-Ambassadorship to Iran
-Visits to Middle East sheikhdoms, Saudi Arabia
-Helms’s loyalty
-The President’s conversation with Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Oil
-Ambassadors
-Joseph S. Farland
-Middle East
-Loyalty
-Robert C. Hill
-Middle East
-Loyalty
-Farland
-Latin America
-Hill
-Spain
-Latin America
-Farland
-Farland
-Middle East

Vietnam negotiations
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Conversation No. 823-1 (cont’d)

-Briefings
-Rogers
-Participants
-Kissinger and Haig
-Location
-White House
-Compared to State Department
-Possible National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-The President’s schedule
-Reception for 1972 election supporters
-Telephone calls
-US bombing north of 20th Parallel
-Laird
-Statements
-Vietnamization
-The President’s trip to the PRC
-Departure
-Credit
-Congressional reconvention
-Proposals
-Current plan
-Compared to POWs for US withdrawal and cessation of
bombing, mining
-Confidentiality
-POWs for US withdrawal and cessation of bombing, mining
-Current plan
-Tone
-Vietnamization
-Rejection
-US bombing, mining
-US economic and military aid
-South and North Vietnam
-Congressional relations
-Senate
-Rejection
-US bombing, mining
-Duration
-Congressional relations
-Cut off of funds
-Tho
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-08)

Conversation No. 823-1 (cont’d)

-Thieu
-Democrats
-National interest


Kissinger and Haig left at 11:46 am.
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