Date: December 30, 1972

Time: 10:04 am – 10:12 am

Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

[See Conversation No. 237-46]

Vietnam War

-Cessation of US bombing north of 20 Parallel

th

-Notification of Congress

-45-

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log

(rev. May-08)

-Kissinger’s conversation with Michael J. Mansfield

-Hearings

-J. William Fulbright

-Dr. Thomas E. (“Dee”) Morgan

-Negotiations

-Morgan

-House Foreign Affairs Committee

-Explanation

-Briefings

-Timing

-The President

-Negotiations

-Paris

-US bombing of North Vietnam

-Congressional relations

-Hubert H. Humphrey

-William B. Saxbe

-Humphrey’s statement

-Saxbe’s statement

-Cessation north of 20 Parallel

th

-Notification of Congress

-Kissinger’s telephone calls

-Humphrey

-Carl B. Albert

-Mansfield

-Hugh Scott

-F. Edward Hebert

-John C. Stennis

-Barry M. Goldwater

-Nelson A. Rockefeller

-Ronald W. Reagan

-Rockefeller’s reaction

-Mansfield

-Timmons’s telephone calls

-Timing

-Announcement

-Kissinger’s telephone calls

-The President’s decision

-Gerald L. Warren

-46-

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log

(rev. May-08)

-Meeting with the President

-Conversation with the President

-Press relations

-The President’s May 8, 1972 decision

-Bombing and mining north of 20 Parallel

th

-Suspension

-Negotiations

-Tone

-October 1972

-Resumption

-Press relations

-Los Angeles Times editorial

-Public relations [PR]

-Saxbe, Humphrey

-Kissinger’s location

-Palm Springs, California

-The President’s television [TV] appearance

-Condition

-Continuation of bombing

-Emotion

-Liberals

-Kissinger’s attendance at dinner party

-Michael Wallace

-View

-The President’s TV appearance

-Timing

-Debate

-Announcement

-Cessation north of 20 Parallel

th

-Statement

-Avoiding “gloating” about victory

-Congressmen and Senators

-Negotiations

-North Vietnam

-Kissinger’s telephone calls

-Necessity

-Notification

-William P. Rogers’s schedule

-Melvin R. Laird’s schedule

-47-

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log

(rev. May-08)

-[David] Kenneth Rush

-Warren

-Congressmen and Senators

-Notification

-Announcement

-Kissinger’s telephone calls

-The President’s call to Kissinger