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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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct.-07)
-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