838–11

Conversation No. 838-11

Date: January 11, 1973
Time: Between 9:04 am - 9:42 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Col. Richard T. Kennedy at 9:04 am.

Vietnam negotiations
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Protocols
-William H. Sullivan
-Le Duc Tho
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Agreement with Hanoi
-Thieu

The President talked with Peter JOHN Brennan between 9:08 and 9:09 am.

[See Conversation No. 35-128]

Vietnam negotiations
-Presidential announcement schedule
-Haig
-Thieu
-Haig's role
-President's inauguration
-Thieu
-Kissinger
-Thieu
-Timing
-North Vietnamese position
-Briefings
-Spiro T. Agnew call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Haig
-Kissinger's cable
-President's instructions
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Conversation No. 838-11 (cont’d)

-Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Secretary of Defense
-Security Concerns
-Haig
-Abrams
-Details of agreement
-Haig
-Kissinger
-Melvin R. Laird
-Abrams
-Haig
-William P. Rogers
-Sullivan
-Shanghai Communique
-Moscow Summit
-Rogers's call
-Kissinger
-Content
-Agnew
-Possible purpose of visit
-Haldeman
-Security concerns
-Rogers's staff
-Laird
-Rogers
-Response of Col. Kennedy to inquiries
-Rogers's position
-Kissinger
-Press reaction
-Washington Star
-Murrey Marder
-Haig
-Trip to Saigon
-Bombing
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Alternatives
-Public relations problem
-Bombing halt
-\"Protective reaction\"
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Conversation No. 838-11 (cont’d)

-Laird
-Haig's arrival in Saigon
-Thieu
-Bui Diem
-Tran Van Do
-Rogers
-Thieu
-Kissinger
-Signing of agreement
-Schedule
-Financial assistance to North Vietnam
-Legislative leaders
-Calls to inform of developments
-Kissinger
-Haig to Saigon to inform Thieu
-Bombing in North Vietnam
-Wording
-US goals
-Cease-fire
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-South Vietnamese self-determination
-Kissinger
-Congressional pressure for consultation
-Calls to leaders
-Read statements
-Schedule
-Timing of announcement about bombing halt
-Kissinger phone calls
-Timing
-Ronald L. Ziegler announcement
-Content
-Calls to Congressional leaders
-Schedule
-Kissinger
-Amount of information
-List of foreign heads of state
-Pierre E. Trudeau
-Kakuei Tanaka
-Alaf Palme
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Conversation No. 838-11 (cont’d)

-Edward R. G. Heath
-Georges J. R. Pompidou
-Maurice Schumann
-State Department
-Trudeau
-Foreign ambassadors
-Kissinger
-Marc Cadieux
-U. Alexis Johnson
-Rogers
-Australian ambassador
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-President's visit to Canada
-Trudeau
-Giulio Andreotti
-Heath
-Mitchell Sharpe
-Tanaka
-Marshall Green
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Heath
-Courage
-Golda Meir
-Relationship with US
-Aid from US
-Golan Heights
-Austrians
-South Vietnamese
-Historical view of US Vietnam policy
-Peter J. Brennan
-Kissinger
-North Vietnamese
-Thieu


The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:09 and 9:42
am.

[Conversation No. 838-11]
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Conversation No. 838-11 (cont’d)

Vietnam negotiations
-Thieu
-Cease-fire
-Political implications
-US Senate resolution
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Thieu

Kennedy left at 9:42 am.