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.