Date: October 31, 1972

Time: 9:28 am – 9:50 am

Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Greetings

Vietnam negotiations

-The President’s letter to Nguyen Van Thieu

-Ellsworth F. Bunker

-Terms of agreement

-South Vietnam’s seven points

-News summary

-Criticism

-Left compared to right

-Concessions

-William F. Buckley, Jr., Robert B. Semple, Jr., Colm [sp?] [First

name unknown]

-Settlement text

-Publication

-US foreign policy

-Press coverage

-Clayton Fritchey, Joseph W. Alsop, Rowland Evans,

Thomas W. Braden

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-Time

-Jerrold L. Schecter

-Hugh S. Sidey

-US posture

-North Vietnamese position

-October 30, 1972 message

-Possible meaning

-Break-off of talks

-Resumption of talks

-Future message

-Forthcoming North Vietnamese ­ US meeting

-Expectations

-US position

-Kissinger’s schedule

-Timing of meeting

-1972 election

-Terms of agreement

-North Vietnamese troop removal from South Vietnam

-Analogy to Soviet Union troops in Poland

-US strategy

-Post-1972 election

-Bombing

-Hardline approach

-Bombing

-Demilatarized zone [DMZ]

-B-52’s

-19 parallel

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-20 parallel

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-Hanoi reaction

-Post-1972 election

-Radio

-Thieu position

-Effect of actions on 1972 election

-Victory claim

-US public relations stance

-Kissinger’s possible briefing

-Tone

-Timing

-Usefulness

-The President compared with Kissinger’s briefing

-Difficulties

-Kissinger briefing, October 26, 1972

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-Points

-Coalition government

-Reason for the US not signing

-Quality of agreement

-Compared to Laos, 1962

-Reaction in US

-Moral issue

-Right

-Tone

-Stress on negatives rather than positives

-News summary

-Charles W. Colson’s conversation with Louis P. Harris

-Harris

-Political preference

-Liberals

-Support

-Conservatives, hard hats

-George S. McGovern

-The President’s agreement with Harris’ analysis

-Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with Jay Lovestone

-Thieu

-Terms of agreement

-Thieu

-Coalition government

-Aid to South Vietnam

-Thailand

-North Vietnam

-Laos

-Cambodia

-Joseph C. Kraft’s, October 31, 1972 column

-Liberals

-Kissinger’s view

-The President’s view

-Lovestone

-Alsop

-Buckley

-Reassurance to conservatives

-Media

-North Vietnamese options

-Breakoff of talks

-Timing

-Bombing

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-Results

-1972 election

-Administration’s stance

-Settlement

-Settlement

-Press statement

-Nelson A. Rockefeller’s forthcoming appearance at National Press Club

-“Peace with honor”

-Details of agreement

-Thieu position

-Bunker

-Kissinger’s view

-Strategy

-Schedule

-October 26, 1972 television [TV] speech

-1972 election

-The President’s letter to Thieu

-Negotiation strategy

-US posture

-Tone

-Congress

-US public relations stance

-William P. Rogers statement

-Melvin R. Laird statement

-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew statement

-Kissinger’s and the President’s role

-Rogers

-Strategy

-1972 election

-New York

-Far left and far right

-Kissinger’s recent statement

-Agnew’s recent statement

-Kissinger’s possible statement

-The President’s address to the nation, “Look to the

future”, November 2, 1972

-Raymond K. Price, Jr.

-Length

-Progress

-Settlement

-Coalition government

-“semi-backgrounder”

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-Timing of statements

-Wires services

-Network people

-Major commentators

Pierre E. Trudeau

-Recent Parliamentary election

-Seat margins

-Liberals

-Conservatives

-[New Democrats]

-Reason for results

-Robert L. Stanfield

-Possible election

-Stanfield

-The President’s view

The President’s schedule

-Rockefeller

Kissinger left at 9:50 am.