Date: January 12, 1973

Time: 8:19 am – 8:28 am

Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Col. Richard T. Kennedy.

[See Conversation No. 395-19]

Vietnam negotiations

-Henry A. Kissinger’s report

-Plans

-Request for delivery to the Executive Office Building [EOB]

-Settlement agreement

-William E. Timmons

-List of people to inform

-Informing William P. Rogers and Melvin R. Laird

-Kennedy’s recent note to Kissinger

-The President’s role

-Schedules

-Kissinger

-Telephone calls

-Kennedy’s role

-The President’s schedule

-Florida

-Kissinger

-Meeting

-Previous meeting with Peter B. Johnson and [David]

Kenneth Rush

-Timing

-US bombing of North Vietnam, December 18,

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1972

-Settlement agreement

-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s trip to Saigon

-Timing

-January 14, 1973

-Kissinger’s view

-Announcement

-Cessation of US bombing

-Ronald L. Ziegler

-Cessation of US bombing

-News coverage

-Timing

-January 15, 1973

-Kissinger’s return to Paris

-The President’s schedule

-Florida

-Kissinger and Haig

-Cessation of US bombing

-Announcement

-Haig’s trip to Saigon

-Announcement

-Kennedy’s conversation with Ziegler

-Effect

-News coverage

-Cessation of US bombing

-Ziegler’s announcement

-Timing

-January 15, 1973

-Informing Congressmen, Senators, Rogers, Laird

-Informing Rogers and Laird

-Timing

-January 14, 1973

-Kissinger’s return from Paris

-The President’s schedule

-Florida

-The President’s role

-Kennedy’s role

-Kissinger’s return from Paris

-Announcement

-Breakthrough

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-Haig’s trip to Saigon

-Kissinger’s return from Paris

-Ziegler’s announcement

-Timing

-Haig’s trip to Florida

-Informing Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

-Kennedy’s role

-Haig’s and Kissinger’s meeting with the President in Florida

-Haig’s trip to Saigon

-Informing Rogers and Laird

-Cessation of US bombing

-Timing

-Informing Congressional leaders

-Timing

-Kennedy’s role

-Hugh Scott

-Gerald R. Ford

-Kissinger’s return from Paris

-Developments

-Haig’s trip to Saigon

-Progress of negotiations

-Haig’s trip to Saigon

-Announcement

-Developments

-Tone

-Kissinger’s report

-Delivery to EOB