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Conversation No. 830-2

Date: January 2, 1973
Time: Unknown between 3:35 pm and 4:19 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield at 3:35 pm. The White House
photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings
-New Years

Photograph session

Reception for freshmen Congress members
-Timing
-Thomas Hale Boggs memorial service
-Harry S. Truman memorial service
-The President’s absence
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Attendees
-“Big Five” Congressional leaders
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-Warren E. Burger

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:35 pm.

The President’s schedule
-[First name unknown] Browning [?]

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:19 pm.

Bipartisan Congressional leadership meeting
-Attendees
-Committee chairs
-Economics
-Wage and price controls
-Second-term reorganization
-George P. Shultz
-Secretary of the Treasury’s role
-Congressional relations
-White House staff
-Reduction
-Single contact

Bull and members of the press entered at an unknown time after 3:35 pm.

[Photograph session]

Mike Mansfield
-Football player
-Relation to Michael J. Mansfield
-University of North Carolina
-Linebacker
-Michael J. Mansfield’s football career

The President's football career at Whittier College
-Game in Pomona, California
-Kenny Baldwin
-Injury

Mike Mansfield
-Rose Bowl
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-Ohio State University
-Orange Bowl
-Sun Bowl
-University of North Carolina
-Texas Tech University
-Cotton Bowl
-Anthony Davis
-Baseball
-Ballet dancer

Bull and members of the press left at an unknown time before 4:19 pm.

Congressional relations
-Bipartisan Congressional leadership meeting
-Attendees
-“Big Five”
-Committee chairs
-Banking and currency
-Government organization
-Finance
-Ways and Means
-Pattern of future meetings
-Hugh Scott
-William E. Timmons
-Gerald R. Ford
-Minority
-Subjects of discussion
-Foreign policy
-Tradition of bipartisanship
-Domestic policy
-Second term reorganization
-Wage and price controls
-Bipartisanship
-Regular Republican leadership meetings
-Scott
-Ford
-Regular meetings with Mansfield
-Carl B. Albert
-John G. Tower
-Ford
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-Unknown person
-Bipartisan areas
-Senate
-Compared to House of Representatives
-Confirmations
-Foreign policy
-Mansfield’s advice to the President
-New approach
-Bipartisan meetings

Vietnam settlement
-Unrest in Congress
-Necessity
-The President's responsibility
-Laos
-Cambodia
-Senate Foreign Relations Committee
-Attitudes
-Reduction in bombing
-Mansfield's concern
-The President's policy
-Negotiations in Paris
-Length
-Detrimental statements
-Negotiations
-Bipartisan Congressional leadership meeting
-Possible statements by the President
-Fragility
-Henry A. Kissinger briefing of Mansfield
-Hugh Scott
-J. William Fulbright
-Need for confidentiality
-Status
-October 8, 1972 agreement
-Le Duc Tho
-North Vietnamese position before 1972 election
-Kissinger's “Peace is at hand” statement
-The President's response on television [TV]
-Cambodia, Laos
-Demilitarized Zone [DMZ]
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-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Cease-fire
-Cambodia, Laos
-DMZ
-Significance
-Lasting peace
-October 8, 1972 agreement
-Cease-fire in place
-Cambodia Laos
-South Vietnam’s position
-Withdrawal of North Vietnamese troops
-Return of POWS
-Free elections
-Supervisory body
-North Vietnamese rejection
-Kissinger’s return to Paris
-New conditions
-William H. Sullivan
-Kissinger’s reports
-Infiltration
-Latest developments
-Technical talks
-Protocols
-Meeting with Kissinger
-US position
-Caution
-Opening to North Vietnamese
-Outstanding issues
-Return to previous agreements
-October 8, 1972
-October 26, 1972
-Withdrawal of North Vietnamese troops
-South Vietnam’s position
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Return of Congress
-Mansfield's position
-Quick end to war
-Resumption of war
-Laos, Cambodia
-Mansfield's report to public
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-Concern
-Resumption of serious negotiation
-Substance
-Declining comment

Democratic Congressional caucus
-Mansfield's statement
-Vietnam settlement
-Relations with the President
-Congressional resolutions
-George M. McGovern
-The President’s appearance before Senate
-Mansfield’s response
-Seniority
-Vietnam negotiations
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Responsibility of Senate

The President's political career
-Length

Confirmations of Cabinet officials
-Double track
-The President’s schedule

Vietnam settlement
-Deadline
-Election
-Mansfield's conversation with Kissinger
-Mansfield’s desire
-Withdrawal
-Congressional relations
-Length of the war
-John F. Kennedy
-First combat troops

Mansfield left at 4:19 pm.
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