Date: November 18, 1972
Time: 12:02 pm – 12:08 pm
Location: White House Telephone
Henry A. Kissinger talked with the President.
Kissinger’s location
-Washington, DC
President’s schedule
-Dictation
David Ben-Gurion
-Letter to the President
-Sense of history
-Vietnam
-The President’s People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Acquaintance with Kissinger
John J. McCloy
-Letter to the President
-Comparison with Abraham Lincoln
-Civil War
-Doves
Vietnam negotiations
-South Vietnamese response
-Telephone call from Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Message
-US response
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-Memorandum to Bunker
-Objection to settlement agreement
-William H. Sullivan
-Presidential response
-Possible letter
-Paris
-Settlement agreement text
-Bunker
-Negotiations
-Delay
-Hanoi
-Nguyen Van Thieu’s Options
-Settlement agreement
-US options
-Bilateral action
-Cease-fire
-Laos, Cambodia
-South Vietnam’s bargaining position
-Kissinger’s forthcoming trip to Paris
-Announcement
-Bunker’s response
-Cambodia
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-Norodom Sihanouk
-Relations with North Vietnamese
-Comment to Algerian ambassador
-Soviet Union
-Settlement agreement
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr’s position on South Vietnam
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