Date: November 1, 1972

Time: 4:12 pm – 4:23 pm

Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Raymond K. Price, Jr.

The President’s schedule

-Meeting with John Cardinal Krol

Vietnam negotiations

-Settlement agreement

-Krol’s stance

-Nguyen Van Thieu’s stance

-Surrender

-1972 election

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-Thieu

The President’s speech, “Look to the Future”

-Draft

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger

[Conversation No. 391-8A]

The President’s forthcoming speech, “Look to the Future”

-Vietnam section

-Price’s draft

-Price meeting with Kissinger

-Time

-The President’s revisions

-Tone

-Kissinger’s review

[End of telephone conversation]

The President’s forthcoming speech, “Look to the Future”

-Vietnam section

-Reference to Laos

-Kissinger’s view

-Bombing halt

-Contents

-The President’s review

-Length

-Page seven

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-Faith

-1972 campaign

-Candidates

-Traditional behavior

-Spending promises

-The President

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-Bureaucratic meddling

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Vietnam negotiations

-Settlement agreement

-Tone

-Cease-fire

-Indochina

-Prisoners of War [POWs]

-Election in South Vietnam

-Thieu

-Tenure

-Thieu

-Complaint

-Fear of US departure

-Compared to South Koreans

Price left at 4:23 pm.

The President talked with the White House operator at 4:23 pm.

[Conversation No. 391-8B]

[See Conversation No. 32-121]

[End of telephone conversation]