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.
[Conversation No. 349-1A]
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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