Date: October 3, 1972

Time: 12:27 pm – 12:47 pm

Location: Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez and Henry A. Kissinger.

Refreshment

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:47 pm.

US-Soviet Union relations

-Kissinger’s meeting with Andrei A. Gromyko at Camp David, October 2, 1972

-History of the President’s Administration

-Four-power declaration on Berlin

-Briefing house

-Problems

-Text

-State Department

-Soviet Union

-Different versions

-Vodka and Georgian wine to the President

-United States Secret Service [USSS]

-Ukraine

-Delivery to Kissinger’s office

-Sanchez

-Camp David

-European Security conference

-Mutual and balanced force reductions [MBFR]

-Agenda for meeting

-Vietnam

-Schedule

-Gromyko

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-Anatoly F. Dobrynin

-Vietnam

-Kissinger’s role in April 1972 trip to Soviet Union

-Seriousness of negotiations

-Secretary General

-President’s recent telephone call to Kissinger

-Last offer

-Military options

-North Vietnam claim

-Negotiations

-Details

-US-Soviet Union compared to US-North Vietnamese

-Texts

-North Vietnamese demands

-US forces withdrawal

-Constitution changes

-Committees

-Removal of [Nguyen Van Thieu]

-Non-communists

-Communists

-Possible Soviet Union management

-Thieu

-Possible resignation

-Dobrynin

-Soviet Union message to North Vietnam

-1972 election

-George S. McGovern

McGovern

-Possible Vietnam speech

-Effect

-Charges of corruption in the administration

-Press relations

-Relations with Kissinger

-Conversation with Kissinger

-Social event

-Israel

-Attitude toward the President

-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

-Press relations

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-Press relations

-Washington Post

-New York Times

-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]

-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]

-American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC]

-Time-Life

The President’s relationship with press and media

-Congressional relations

-Stewart J.O. Alsop

-The President’s plane

-US-Soviet relations

-Watergate

-Kissinger

-William P. Rogers

-John B. Connally

-Elliot L. Richardson

-Washington Post

-Katherine L. Graham

-Joseph W. Alsop

-Recent conversation with Kissinger

-Stewart Alsop’s health

-President’s telephone calls

-Thomas W. Braden, Graham

-The President’s view

Vietnam

-North Vietnam

-Soviet Union message

-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

-Upcoming meeting with Thieu

Kissinger’s schedule

-People’s Republic of China [PRC]

-Vietnam

-Japan

-The President’s recent conversation with Gromyko

-McGovern’s possible trip to the Soviet Union

-Hanoi

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-McGovern’s possible trip

-Possible administration action

-Break off of talks, publicity

Government reorganization

-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

-Fredrick V. Malek

-Purge

-Vietnam

-US military action

-Air strikes

-B-52’s

-20 parallel

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-18 parallel, 19 parallel

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-Ground action

-Possible increase

-Media

-Command changes

-Second term plans

-Kissinger’s recent conversation with Haldeman

-Public comment by Kissinger

-President’s decision

-Cabinet

Vietnam negotiations

-McGovern

-Kissinger

-Television [TV]

-Timing

-1972 election

-Settlement agreement

-Timing

-October 20, 1972

-Prisoners of war [POWs], cease fire

-Military action

-B-52’s

-Kissinger’s schedule

-Haig

-Advantages in accompanying Kissinger

-Kissinger’s staff

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-Saigon

-Washington, DC

-Briefing for the President

-Saigon

-Hanoi

-Washington, DC

-Saigon

-North Vietnamese

-Soviet Union

-PRC

-American domestic opponents

-Joseph C. Kraft

-Kissinger’s recent meeting with Gromyko

-Meeting in Paris

-Announcement

-Ronald L. Ziegler

-Length

-Saigon

-Hanoi

-Washington

-Saigon

-Paris

-Saigon

-North Vietnamese

US-Soviet Union relations

-The President’s recent conversation with Gromyko

-Kissinger’s recent conversation with Haldeman

-Nuclear weapons

-1972 election

-European security conference

-Strategic Arms limitation Treaty [SALT]

Kissinger left at 12:47 pm.