Date: January 22, 1973

Time: Unknown between 10:14 am and 10:48 am

Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Raymond K. Price.

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The President’s speech on Vietnam settlement

-Drafts

-Review

-Deadline

-John D. Ehrlichman

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 10:14 am.

The President’s dictation machine

-Malfunction

-Battery

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:26 am.

Ronald L. Ziegler

-Talk with the President

-Revisions

-The President’s speech on Vietnam settlement [?]

Today’s work

-National Security Council [NSC] settlement meeting

The President’s speech on Vietnam

-Draft

-Substance

-The President’s Wishes

-Announcement

-Introduction

-Date of delivery

-Requirements

-Length

-Simplicity

-Draft

[Pause]

-Content and wording

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The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:14 am and

10:26 am.

[Conversation No. 399-11A]

Call to Ziegler

[End of telephone conversation]

The President’s speech on Vietnam settlement

-Purpose

-“Peace with honor”

The President talked with Ziegler between 10:26 and 10:27 am.

[Conversation No. 399-11B]

[See Conversation No. 36-39]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President’s speech on Vietnam settlement

-Content and wording

-The President’s previous statements

-May 8, 1972 statement

-Provisions of agreement

-US allies

-The President’s consultation with Nguyen Van Thieu

-South Vietnamese people

-Soviet Union, People’s Republic of China [PRC]

-Maintenance of peace

-US public opinion

-Opponents of the war

-US servicemen and families

-Another draft

-Time of delivery

-Tone

-Content and wording

-Compared to PRC trip announcement

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-US foreign policy goals

-Tone

-“Peace with honor”

-Content and wording

-The President’s decisions on war and negotiations

-Progress reports

-Cambodia

-May 8, 1972 decision

-Purpose

-The President’s critics

-Bombing

-Public statements

-Tone

-Opponents of President’s policy

-Negotiations

-Importance of public statements

Vietnam settlement

-Thieu [?]

-Acceptance

-Objections

-Protocols

-Cooperation

-Pressure

-Signing

The President’s speech on Vietnam settlement

-Time of delivery

-The President’s schedule

-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Price left at 10:48 am.