Date: December 27, 1972

Time: 8:39 pm – 8:45 pm

Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Kissinger vacation

-California

-Weather

-Swimming pool

-Kissinger’s communications

US bombing of North Vietnam

-Message from North Vietnam

-Col. Richard T. Kennedy

-The President’s schedule

-Harry S. Truman’s death

-The President’s paying of respects

-Negotiations

-Timing of meetings

-Technical meetings

-Cancellation

-[Kissinger’s meeting with Le Duc Tho], January 8, 1973

-Publicity

-Technical meetings

-Bombing halt

-Kissinger’s message to North Vietnam, December 26, 1972

-Negotiations

-Conditions

-Bombing halt

-Timing

-Thirty-six hours

-Bombing halt

-Timing

-Announcement

-December 30, 1972

-January 1, 1973

-December 31, 1972

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-News magazines

-December 31, 1972

-New Year’s Day

-Reply by North Vietnam

-US military losses

-B-52s

-Effect on North Vietnam

-Kissinger’s view

-French foreign minister to US

-French Consul General to Hanoi

-Report

-Description of US raids on North

-Reply by North Vietnam

-Timing

-December 31, 1972

-Kissinger’s message to North Vietnam

-Incentive

-Bombing halt

-Effect on the North Vietnamese

-The President’s reputation

-US public reaction

-The President’s view

-Kissinger’s view

-Kissinger’s social contacts

-Press

-Reply by North Vietnam

-Future military options

-News magazines

-Coverage of war