Date: October 16, 1972
Time: 9:33 am – 10:12 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.
Kissinger’s schedule
-Forthcoming schedule
-Preparation
The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 9:33 am and
10:12 am.
[Conversation No. 799-9A]
[See Conversation No. 31-49]
[End of telephone conversation]
Vietnam negotiations
-Military supply package
-Melvin R. Laird
-Number of aircraft
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-Settlement
-Kissinger’s meeting With U. Alexis Johnson
-Coalition government
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Possibility of retaining power
-Government of Vietnam [GVN]
-Revelation of Political terms
-Use of term coalition government
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Saigon, Hanoi
-Paris
-Xuan Thuy
-Saigon
-Washington, DC
-Paris
-Hanoi
-President’s announcement
-Timing
-October 31, 1972
-Kissinger’s upcoming meeting with Thieu
-Hanoi
-Leaks
-Press reaction
-US public
-The President’s television appearance
-New York Times’s hypothetical article
-Kissinger’s meeting with Thieu
-Thieu’s possible meeting with the President
-Timing
-1972 campaign
-Hawaii
-Midway
-Significance
-Announcement
-West Coast
-Soviet Union
-North Vietnamese prisoners in South Vietnam
-Thieu
-Thieu
-Claim of victory
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-1972 campaign
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Importance
-Midway meeting
-William P. Rogers
-The President, Thieu
-Rogers
-Kissinger’s meeting with Thieu
-Thieu’s position
-US position
-World War II
-Japan
-West Germany
-Malaysia
-Sir Robert Thompson
-Paris
-Effort
-Compared to a football game, chess match, political campaign
-Winning or losing
-Timing
-1972 election
-Bombing
-Thieu, North Vietnam
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Possible trip to Hanoi
-Thieu
-Consultation with the President
-Possible Meeting
-The President, Thieu
-Midway
-Possible coup
-San Clemente
-Post-1972 campaign
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Saigon
-Paris
-Hanoi
-Message for North Vietnamese
-The President’s relations with the People’s Republic Of China [PRC],
USSR
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Hanoi
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-Thieu
-Military situation
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Previous conversation with Kissinger
-Abrams’s location
-Possible meeting with Abrams
-Laird, Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:33 am and
10:12 am.
[Conversation No. 799-9B]
[See Conversation No. 31-50]
[End of telephone conversation]
Vietnam negotiations
-The President’s meeting with Abrams
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Settlement
-Abrams’s view
-Political terms
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Kissinger
-Abrams
-Thieu
-Haig
-Swearing-in
-Kissinger’s schedule
-The President’s possible meeting with Haig
-Laird
-Saigon
-Le Duc Tho
-Paris
-Thieu
-Possible meeting with the President
Kissinger talked with Abrams at an unknown time between 9:33 am and 10:12 am.
[Conversation No. 799-9C]
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[See Conversation No. 31-51]
[End of telephone conversation]
The President’s forthcoming meeting with Abrams
-Thieu
Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 9:33 am.
The President’s schedule
-Meeting of National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in
Southeast Asia
-Kissinger
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-News coverage
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT] II announcement
-Donald H. Segretti
-Carlyle Hanson’s speech, October 15, 1972
-Support for the President
-Reaction by League to Cora Weiss’s and David Dellinger’s efforts
-Kissinger
-Newsworthiness
-McGovern
-Possible statement by the President
-Speechwriters
-Amnesty
-Return of three Prisoners of War [POWs]
-League’s stance
-Progress
-Kissinger’s schedule
-The President’s 1971 visit
-Dinner
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Political effect of raising POW issue
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Paris
-Kissinger’s possible remarks
-POW issue
-Support for the President’s policies
-“Peace with Honor”
-Unknown person
-The President’s policies
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-May 8, 1972 decision
-Support of POW families
-Kissinger’s schedule
Haldeman left at an unknown time before 10:12 am.
-Possible interpretation
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Possible remarks
-POW’s
-Abandonment
-McGovern
-Return
-Missing in action [MIA’s]
-The President’s 1971 visit
-Media coverage
-Haldeman
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Paris
1972 election
-New Establishment
-Life editorial board endorsement of the President
-Kissinger’s treatment of Life, Time
-The President’s opponents
-Bureaucracy
-Universities
-East
-Media
-Character
-National character
-The establishment
-The President’s May 8 , 1972 decision
th
-Reaction
-Ivy League
-Press, media
-Schools, churches
-Media
-Chicago Tribune, Smith Hempstone, Jr., New York Daily News
-Agnew
-John B. Connally
-Effect
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-Advice of Rogers, Laird, Richard M. Helms
-Effect
-South Vietnam
-The President’s trip to the Soviet Union
-Dacha meeting
Forthcoming announcements
-SALT, US-Soviet Union trade agreement
Kissinger’s schedule
-National League of Families
-The President’s schedule
-Possible interpretation
Kissinger left at 10:12 am.