Date: November 8, 1972
Time: 3:30 pm – 3:37 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Henry A. Kissinger and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Vietnam negotiations
-North Vietnam
-Message
-Meeting
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-Postponement until November 21, 1972
-Announcement
-Timing
Charles W. Colson entered at 3:31 P.M.
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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]
1972 election
1924 and 1936 elections
-Figures on returns
[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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The President talked with the White House operator at 3:32 pm.
[Conversation No. 388-17A]
[See Conversation No.33-79]
[End of telephone conversation]
Colson left at 3:32 pm.
Vietnam negotiations
-North Vietnam
-Meeting, November 21, 1972
-Announcement
-Timing
-November 17, 1972
-Haig’s forthcoming trip to Saigon
-November 15, 1972
-Delay
-Le Duc Tho
Vietnam negotiations
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-North Vietnam
-Meeting
-Announcement
-Timing
-November 17, 1972
-Proposal
-November 14, 15, 1972
-Delays
-Reasons
-Moving supplies into South Vietnam
-Withdrawal of North Vietnamese troops
-1972 election
-Haig’s forthcoming trip to Saigon
-Announcement in Saigon
-Announcement
-Timing
-US bombing
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-1972 election
-Reaction to settlement agreement
-North Vietnam
-Meeting
-Proposal
-November 14, 1972
-1972 election
-North Vietnamese troops
-Restiveness
-Procedure
-Settlement agreement
-Signing
-Peace
-US bombing
-Public support
Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 3:33 pm.
-North Vietnam
-Meeting
-Timing
-November 21, 1972
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-November 17, 1972
-November 15, 1972
-November 22, 1972
-November 20, 1972
The President’s schedule
-[Dr. William O. Chase]
Vietnam negotiations
-Haig’s forthcoming trip to Saigon
-The President’s message for Thieu
-Haig’s conversation with the President
-Trust
-The President’s decision
-Support for Thieu
-Warning about testing the President
-Letter from Thieu
Kissinger and Haig left at 3:35 pm.
The President’s schedule
-Chase
-The President’s forthcoming trip to office
Butterfield left at 3:37 pm.