Date: November 14, 1972

Time: 9:36 am – 9:48 am

Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

[See Conversation No. 224-11]

Taiwan, Republic of China

-William F. (“Billy”) Graham’s forthcoming trip

-Tokyo

-Taipei

-(Madame) Chiang Mayling Soong

-The President’s message

-Kissinger office cable

-Walter P. McConaughy

-Talking points

-Purpose

Kissinger’s schedule

-Dinner [with Ch’iao Kuan-hua] at Century Club

-Location

-New York

Kissinger’s recent meeting with Ch’iao Kuan-hua

-Prime Minster’s message to the President

-The President’s opening to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]

-The President’s reelection

Vietnam negotiations

-Settlement agreement

-Timing

-PRC influence

-6-

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log

(rev. Mar.-08)

-PRC position

-Tone

-PRC position vis-à-vis North Vietnam

-Le Duc Tho’s forthcoming trip to Peking

-PRC position

-Tone

-Gifts

-PRC influence in Cambodia

-Soviet-Union-PRC

-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s post

-Future US role

-Resistance to hegemony

-Second term

-Post-settlement period

-Peripheral wars

-Africa

-Cambodia

-US attitude toward Norodom Sihanouk

-PRC Query

-Communications

-Tranquility

-Presidential correspondence

-Absence of diplomatic relations

-Settlement agreement

-Sihanouk return

-Possibility

-Timing

-Cease-fire

-Soviet Union-PRC relations

-Toast to the President by Ch’iao Kuan-hua

-Soviet Union-PRC relations

-Ch’iao Kuan-hua’s attacks in United Nations [UN]

-Nonuse of force

-Renunciation of nuclear weapons

-Nonuse of force

-Mongolia

-Japan

-Soviet possession of northern islands

-US-Japan relations

-Military arrangement

-7-

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log

(rev. Mar.-08)

-The President’s conversations with Chou En-Lai

-William P. Rogers’s conversation with PRC foreign minister

-PRC-Japan relations

-Trade

-Previous attempts at colonization

-Tone

-Vietnam War

-Possible visit by Julie Nixon Eisenhower and [Dwight] David Eisenhower, II to

PRC

-Possible visit by Michael J. Mansfield to PRC

-The President’s assistance

-Tone

Soviet Union

-Kissinger’s forthcoming conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

-Possible visit by Tricia Nixon Cox and Edward R. F. Cox

-Role

Vietnam negotiations

-Nguyen Van Thieu’s letter to the President

-The President’s forthcoming reply

-Tone

-Substance

-North Vietnamese troops in South Vietnam

-The President’s reply

-North Vietnamese troops in South Vietnam

-Dangers

-US commitments

-Addressing Thieu’s concern

-Principle

-North Vietnamese claims

-Demilitarized zone [DMZ]

-Demobilization of troops in South Vietnam

-North Vietnamese claims

-US protocol

-Recognition of right to troops in South

Vietnam

-Points made

-Cosmetic nature

-Importance to Thieu, North Vietnamese

-8-

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log

(rev. Mar.-08)

-Attainability

-The President’s reply

-Timing