Date: January 31, 1973

Time: 10:10 am – 10:18 am

Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

[See also Conversation No. 403-18]

The President’s forthcoming press conference

-Laos Prisoners of War [POWs] list

-The President’s possible response

-Kissinger’s view

-Timing

-Kissinger’s trip

-Patrick J. Buchanan’s news summary

-Leonid I. Brezhnev

-Timing of visit to US

-Agenda

-Timing of visit

-Vietnam settlement

-Possible meeting with Nguyen Van Thieu

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-Hawaii

-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

-Re-supply of North Vietnamese troops in South Vietnam

-Viet Cong

-Cambodia, Laos, demilitarized zone [DMZ]

-Legal entry points

-Ports

-DMZ

-Discussion of agreement

-Violations

-Ronald L. Ziegler

-Bombing

-Civilian deaths

-Hanoi

-North Vietnam

-Commentary

-Deaths in South Vietnam

-Military activities

-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN] actions

-Naval base

-North Vietnamese actions

-Cease-fire agreement

-Press statements

-Brezhnev statement

-Soviet Union position

-People’s Republic of China [PRC] statement

-Norodom Sihanouk’s statement

-Cambodian unilateral cease-fire

-US bombing policy

-Enemy actions

-Lon Nol

-Laos

-US positions in peace talks

-Diplomatic actions of Laotians

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