Date: October 24, 1972
Time: 12:10 am and 12:17 am
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with William P. Rogers.
The President’s return from New York
-Previous meeting with Henry A. Kissinger
Vietnam
-Forthcoming meeting with Kissinger and Rogers
-Time
-Settlement
-Information from Kissinger and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Paranoia
-1972 election
-Importance compared with US efforts in Vietnam
-Kissinger, Haig
-US conditions
-The President’s view
-1972 election
-Kissinger
-Attitude
-Thieu’s response
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-Accusations
-US conspiracy with the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-The President’s manipulation of the US press
-William H. Sullivan’s activities in Saigon
-The President’s view
-US response
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Changes in terms
-Submission to North Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Meeting in Paris
-North Vietnamese message
-North Vietnamese position
-Need for a settlement
-North Vietnamese concessions
-North Vietnamese prisoners of war [POWs]
-Cambodia
-Laos
-Sullivan
-Knowledge
-US position
-The President’s view
-Thieu
-Thieu’s confidence in Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.’s efforts with Thieu
-Bunker’s and Wendall Wyatt’s view
-North Vietnamese concession
-May 8, 1972
-US position
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Vietnam
-Settlement
-Thieu’s position
-Kissinger’s response
-US position
-Stakes
-Viability of Thieu and South Vietnam
-US sacrifice in Vietnam War
-Possibility of communist takeover
-US foreign policy
-South Korea
-Thailand
-Japan
-Europe