Date: October 14, 1972

Time: 11:19 am – 11:31 am

Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

The President talked with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman at an unknown time between 11:19 am and

11:31 am.

[Conversation No. 798-12A]

The President’s schedule

-Meeting with Soviet official [Timofey B. Guzhenko]

-Meeting with Raymond K. Price, Jr.

-Education speech

-Memorandum

-John D. Ehrlichman

-Charles W. Colson

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam negotiations

-Le Duc Tho

-Message

-French

-Airport attaché channel

-State Department

-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]

-Democratic Republic of Vietnam [DRV]

-Return of prisoners held in South Vietnam

-Nguyen Van Thieu

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-Xuan Thuy

-North Vietnam

-Relations with US

-A “new era” in relations

-Kissinger’s response

-Prisoner release

-National Council of National Reconciliation and Concord

-Thieu

-Possible action

-Criminal sentences

-Possible civilian bloodshed

-Settlement announcement

-Kissinger’s Schedule

-Hanoi

-Timing

-1972 election

-Settlement provisions

-Cambodia and Laos

-Recognition of independence

-Foreign bases

-Military activities

-Troops, advisors, military personnel

-Cease-fire

-Continuation of war

-Thieu’s objection statement

-North Vietnam

-Possible status at the end of 1973

-Cambodia

-Prisoners of War [POW’s] bombing

-Need for supplemental aid from Congress

-Thieu

-Economic, military, moral support by US

-Options

-Congress

-US public support

-Polls

-Communist government in South Vietnam

-Ellsworth F. Bunker

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:19 am.

The President’s schedule

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-Guzhenko

-Peter G. Peterson

-Photograph opportunity

-Peter M. Flanigan

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:31 am.

-US-Soviet Union maritime agreement

Vietnam negotiations

-Thieu

-Political implications in US

-1972 election

-Economic and military assistance

-League of American Families

-POWs

-Situation

-Kitty Hawk

-Race riot

-Thailand bases

-Meeting with the President

-San Clemente

-Mrs. Thieu

-Hawaii

-Casa Pacifica

Kissinger’s schedule

-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin’s message for the President

Kissinger left at 11:31 am.