Date: February 21, 1973

Time: 9:06 am – 9:23 am

Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with William P. Rogers.

[See Conversation No. 859-3]

Vietnam settlement

-Rogers’ Congressional testimony

-Economic aid to North Vietnam

-Multilateral aid

-Multilateral organizations

-Shared responsibility

-The Soviet Union

-The People’s Republic of China [PRC]

-South Vietnam, North Vietnam

-Effect on domestic budget

-House of Representatives

-Defense budget

-Laos

-Isolationists

-Germany and Japan

-World War II

-Laos cease-fire

-Timing

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-PRC communiqué

-Timing of the President’s press conference

-South Carolina

-Senators

-Rogers’s possible testimony

-Prisoners of War [POWs]

-Hugh Schott

-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield

-The President’s view

-Scott, Mansfield, George D. Aiken

-Herman E. Talmadge

-Edward M. Kennedy, George S. McGovern, Edmund S. Muskie

-Laos peace agreement

-Rogers’s view

-The President’s view

-Vietnam settlement

-Bombing

-Mansfield

-Comparison of Hanoi and Saigon

-Henry A. Kissinger, William H. Sullivan, Frank Sieverts

-Rogers’s testimony

-The administration record

-Arms control

-PRC and the Soviet Union

-Middle East

-Vietnam settlement

-Economic aid

-Demonstrators

-Jesse Jackson

-The President’s view

-Returning servicemen

-Jacksonville

-USS Saratoga

-South Carolina

-POWs

-Sieverts

-Credit for settlement

-Rogers possible testimony

-The President’s view

-Reaction

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-Public

-Senators, media

-Dinner for the President’s supporters

-Congress

-Rogers

-Elliot L. Richardson

-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]

-Evening at the White House

-Church services

The President’s schedule

-Girdiron dinner

-Ronald L. Ziegler

-McGovern

-1973 Inauguration

-Oxford, England

-George H. W. Bush

-Alfalfa dinner

-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew