Date: October 5, 1972

Time: 9:16 am – 9:50 am

Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Nguyen Van Thieu

-Negotiations

-Recalcitrance

-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

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Soviet Jewry

-Emigration

-The President’s forthcoming press conference

-[William P. Rogers]

-Senate

-US relations with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

[USSR]

-US public relations

-George S. McGovern

-Senate

-Public debate

-Kissinger’s schedule

-Senate Foreign Relations Committee meeting, October 4, 1972

-Jacob K. Javits

-US-Soviet relations

-Kissinger’s points

-J. William Fulbright

-John Sherman Cooper

-John J. Sparkman

-William B. Spong, Jr.

Andrei A. Gromyko

-Helicopter

Vietnam

-Possible settlement

-The President’s forthcoming press conference

-Ronald L. Ziegler

-Thieu

-South Vietnamese government

-North Vietnam

-Unknown persons comment

-Watergate

-Negotiations

-Hanoi

-Cease-fire and bombing halt

-1972 election

-1972 election

-Saigon

-Hanoi

-Bombing

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-Prisoners of war [POWs]

-Hanoi, US peace movement

-Thieu

-September 11, 1972 publicity

-August 29, 1972 proposal

-The President’s January 2[5], 1972 proposal

-McGovern’s Vietnam speech

-Response

-The President’s instructions

-Negotiations

-Hanoi

-Status of talks

-Kissinger’s view

-Timing of possible settlement

-Possible settlement

-Thieu

-North Vietnamese in South Vietnam

-US troop withdrawal

-POWs

-Haig

-Possible US withdrawal

-POWs

-Cease-fire

-Timing

–1972 election

-Bombing

-North Vietnam

-Withdrawal

-Cease-fire

-Unilateral basis

-Prisoner exchange

-Thieu

-Haig

-Role

-Message

-Ellsworth F. Bunker

-Bombing

-Negotiations

-Timing

-1972 election

-Haig

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-The President’s conversation with Gromyko, October 2, 1972

-McGovern’s position on issues

-Peace offer

-Kissinger’s schedule

-The President’s forthcoming press conference

-The President’s forthcoming press conference

-Busing

-Negotiations

-McGovern

-Kissinger’s view

-Moscow

-Press treatment

-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

-1972 election

-Amnesty

-Legalization of marijuana

-Unknown issue

-Federal spending

-Welfare programs

-Europe

-Asia

-US bases

-Speech, October 4, 1972

-Isolationism

-US allies

-Indira Gandhi

-Pham Van Dong

-Haig

-Rogers

-Involvement

-McGovern’s forthcoming speech

-Negotiations

-1972 election

-Thieu

-Roscoe Drummond

-McGovern

-W[illiam] Averell Harriman

-Settlement

-North Vietnamese

-Kissinger’s concern

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The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 9:16 am and 9:50

am.

[Conversation No. 355-21A]

Request

[End of telephone conversation]

-Bombing

-Bunker

-Possible involvement

-Kissinger’s possible role

-Americans

-Thieu

-US economic aid

Kissinger’s schedule

-William F. Buckley, Jr.

-Upcoming conversation with Kissinger

-The President’s schedule

-Proposal

-John N. Mitchell

-Stephen B. Bull

Kissinger left at 9:50 am.