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

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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 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.