Date: July 27, 1972

Time: 4:46 pm – 4:56 pm

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Tape Subject Log

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Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Hugh Scott

-Thomas C. Korologos

-Compromise language on a bill or resolution

-Administration’s acceptance

The President’s press conference, July 27, 1972

-Kissinger’s view

-Kissinger’s attendance

-Kurt Waldheim

-Kissinger’s view

-Impact on North Vietnam

-Bombing

-Negotiations

North Vietnamese

-Comment

-The President’s press conference statement on bombing

-Dikes

-State Department

-Surface-to-air missiles [SAM] sites on dikes

-Melvin R. Laird

-Retaliation

-Condition

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[Duration: 49s ]

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The President’s press conference

-Bombing of North Vietnam

-Impact on negotiations

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Tape Subject Log

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-Possible effect on talks

-Delay

-Spiro T. Agnew as Vice President

-Harry S. Truman and Theodore Roosevelt

-Kissinger’s evaluation

-Oval Office

-Compared to television

-Comparison with Truman and Roosevelt

-Lyndon B. Johnson

-Mark Hanna’s assessment Theodore Roosevelt

-Thomas F. Eagleton

-Truman

-Major decisions

-Vice presidency

-Character

-Media coverage

Congressional relations

-Hugh Scott

-The President’s trip to the Soviet Union

The President’s press conference

-Question on health problems

-The President’s answer

-Psychiatrists

-[Eagleton]

-Details of clients’ cases

-Public release

-Lawyers

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[Duration: 56s ]

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Golf game

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Tape Subject Log

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-George Meany

-George P. Shultz

-William P. Rogers

-Laird

Vietnam

-State Department

-South Vietnamese Casualties

-Refugees

-An Loc

-Quang Tri

-South Vietnam

-Airborne Division

-Marines

-Future fighting

-Hanoi

-Negotiations

Scott

Senators

-Meeting with the President

The President’s next meeting

Kissinger left at 4:56 pm.