937–15

Conversation No. 937-15

Date: June 12, 1973
Time: 11:17 am - 11:31 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft.

Vietnam negotiations

-Henry A. Kissinger’s meeting in Paris

-South Vietnam’s position

-Elections article in communiqué

-Terminology

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. June-2012)

Conversation No. 937-15 (cont’d)

-Wording of possible communiqué
-Statement on elections
-Scowcroft’s conversation with ambassador Tran Kim Phoung, June 13, 1973
-Validity of agreement
-Scowcroft’s forthcoming telephone call to Phoung
-President’s views

-Elections article

-Nguyen Van Thieu

-Letter
-Possible Congressional response

-North Vietnam

-Missing in Action [MIA]

-President’s possible statement
-Timing
-Kissinger
-Paris
-Kissinger
-Two-party document
-Value
-Potential failure to reach agreement
-Possible duration
-Popular interest
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Draft
-Forthcoming Leonid I. Brezhnev visit
-Implications of possible failure
-Congress
-Thailand, Cambodia, Laos
-Survival of South Vietnam
-Army
-Status of Paris meeting
-Communiqué
-South Vietnam’s view
-Elections

-Zones of control

-Partitions

-Psychology

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. June-2012)

Conversation No. 937-15 (cont’d)

-US neo-isolationism

-Impact on Europe

-Defense spending

-Effects

-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]

-President’s conversation with Phuong

-President’s messages to Thieu

-Congressional support

-Phuong’s role

-Kissinger’s meeting in Paris

-Communiqué

-North Vietnam

-Possible failure

-Congressional response

-North Vietnam’s depiction of meeting

-South Vietnam’s position

-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson

-Outcome

-Informing President


Scowcroft left at 11:31 am.