Date: January 30, 1973

Time: 5:30 pm – 5:50 pm

Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger. Discontinuities appear in the original recording.

Vietnam settlement

-Recognition

-Elections

-National Council

-Requirements

-Replacement of arms

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

-Modern weapons

-Memorandum

-Possible questions for the President

-Amnesty

-The President’s policy

-Press relations

-Joseph W. Alsop

-Press coverage

-Sophistication

-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]

-Negativity

-Kissinger’s trip

-Aid to North Vietnam

-Bombing of North Vietnam

-Prisoner of War [POWs]

-Signing

-Paris

-Provisions

-Moscow

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log

(rev. Mar.-09)

-POWs

-Value to US

-Elections

-Hanoi

-Soviet Union

-PRC

-Bombing

-Press response

-Stewart J.O. Alsop

-Time

-Life

-Newsweek

-National Review

-Kissinger’s briefing

-Protocols

-Liberals

-Press response

-Stewart Alsop

-[First name unknown] Rose [?]

-Liberal

-Kissinger’s schedule

-Nguyen Van Thieu visit

-President’s conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

-San Clemente, Washington, DC

-Cabinet meeting

-National Security Council [NSC] Meeting

-Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft

-Spiro T. Agnew [?]

President’s schedule

-California

-Stop

Kissinger’s trip to PRC

Kissinger’s schedule

-Trip to Vietnam

-Cabinet meeting

-Meetings with Congressional leaders

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log

(rev. Mar.-09)

-Agnew

-Vacation

Vietnam settlement

-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s trip [?]

-Report

-Manila

-POWs

President’s schedule

-Barber’s appointment

Vietnam settlement

-Discouragement

The President and Kissinger left at 5:50 pm.