Date: July 20, 1972

Time: 12:04 pm – 12:20 pm

Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger. This recording began at an unknown time while the

conversation was in progress.

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:04 pm.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:20 pm.

Kissinger’s schedule

-Washington Special Actions Group [WSAG]

George S. McGovern

-Briefing by Henry Kissinger

-Location

-McGovern’s office

-Compared to White House

-Press corps

-Picture

Kissinger talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 12:04 pm and 12:20 pm.

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Briefing

-Fred Dutton

-Location

-McGovern’s office

-White House

-Press corps

[End of telephone conversation]

Briefing

-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Kissinger’s trip

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The President’s previous meeting with Armand Hammer

-Hammer’s recent trip to the Soviet Union

-Hammer’s previous trip to the Soviet Union

Peter M. Flanigan

-Relations with Kissinger

-Desire to put negotiations in writing

-Memorandum

-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]

-View of Hammer deal

-Hammer deal

-Value

-Peter G. Peterson

-Bureaucracy

-Haldeman

-Leaks

-Kissinger’s handling of negotiations

-Berlin

-[David] Kenneth Rush

-Memorandum to President about Hammer

-The President’s desire for secrecy

-Staff

-Kissinger’s handling of National Security Council [NSC] files

-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

-Helmut (“Hal”) Sonnenfeldt

-Middle East affairs

President’s meeting with Hammer

-Sonnnenfeldt

-Kissinger

Joseph C. Kraft’s call to Kissinger

Vietnam

-Negotiations

-Deadline

-September 1972

-The President’s recent talk with Kissinger

-Military situation

-Military Region [MR] 1

-Training division

-Negotiations

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-North Vietnamese possible strategy

-McGovern

-Nguyen Van Thieu

-Continuance in office

-Japan, Indonesia, Thailand, People’s Republic of China [PRC], Soviet

Union

-Government of Vietnam [GVN]

-Negotiations

-Possible deal

-Thieu

-Thieu

-1972 election

-GVN

-Negotiations

-Possible deal

-1972 election

-House and Senate

-Defense budget

-Leonid I. Brezhnev proposal

-July 1971 proposals

-Thieu

-Possible candidacy

-Pace

Middle East

-Anwar el-Sadat

-State Department

McGovern

-Briefings by Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

-Compared with Barry M. Goldwater in 1964

Vietnam

-Negotiations

-North Vietnamese strategy

McGovern

-Briefing

-Timing

Kissinger left at 12:20 pm.

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