Date: August 21, 1972
Time: 10:26 am – 10:41 am
Location: Camp David Study Table
Henry A. Kissinger talked with the President.
[See Conversation No. 207-3]
Richard N. Goodwin’s call to Kissinger
-George S. McGovern’s interview
-Attacks on Kissinger
-The President’s election prospects
-Goodwin’s previous article
-Goodwin’s possible efforts with Democrats to end Vietnam War
-Possible meetings with North Vietnamese
-Eugene S. McCarthy
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Possible meeting with McCarthy
-McCarthy’s possible meeting with North Vietnamese
-The President’s view
-Kissinger’s view
-Judgment of McGovern
-Peace
-The President’s view
-McGovern
-1972 election
-Post-election period
-Peace terms
-Publicity
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Kissinger forthcoming meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Acceptance of hydrofoil
-Public relations
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Cadillac
Kissinger’s meeting with Chinese
-Kissinger’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Forthcoming US-Soviet Union agreement
-Chinese reaction
-Chinese press
Goodwin’s efforts
-Reaction to McGovern’s attacks on Kissinger
-Political reasons
-Vietnam strategy
Vietnam
-Nelson A. Rockefeller’s attack on McGovern
-Administration’s attacks on McGovern
-The President’s role
-Perception of public
The President’s forthcoming acceptance speech
-Foreign policy section
-Changes
-Initiatives at home
-Domestic Council proposals
-Poverty, cities, environment, welfare reform
-Kissinger’s view
-Peace related to problems at home
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William P. Rogers’s interview
-Press reaction
-Knight-Ridder papers
-Herbert G. Klein
-Kissinger’s conversation with Haldeman
-John McCartney
-The President’s view
Vietnam
-Bombing halt
-Perception by North Vietnamese
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Public opinion
-Negotiations
-Nguyen Van Thieu’s role
-Negotiations
-Perception by North Vietnamese
-1968 tactics combined with 1972 tactics
-W[illiam] Averell Harriman
-McGovern
-Da Nang Valley military situation
-North Vietnamese
-South Vietnamese
-Kissinger’s view
-Gen. Frederick C. Weyand
-Gen. John W. Vogt, Jr.
-Fighting ability of North and South Vietnamese
-Citadel [in Quang Tri city]
Kissinger’s schedule
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-Possible meeting with McCarthy