Date: October 17, 1972

Time: Unknown between 8:36 am and 9:59 am

Location: Oval Office

The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Greetings

H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 8:37 am.

Vietnam Negotiations

-Henry A. Kissinger’s trip to Paris

-William H. Sullivan

-Participation in negotiations

-The President’s view

-W[illiam] Averell Harriman

-Haig’s view

-Possible bombing halt

-1972 election

-Kissinger’s previous meeting with Haldeman

-Possible trip to Hanoi

-Possible bombing halt

-Political aspects

-Effect on 1972 election

-Results of polling

-Kissinger’s political instincts

-The President’s view

-Liberals

-Forthcoming message to Kissinger

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-Agreement to end war

-Possible trip to Hanoi by Kissinger

-Kissinger’s possible trip to Hanoi

-North Vietnamese desire for visit

-Kissinger’s desire to go

-Necessity of successful agreement to end war

-Interval between Kissinger’s trip and successful cease-fire

-Nguyen Van Thieu

-Resistance to settlement

-Refusal to see Ellsworth F. Bunker

-Thieu’s meeting with advisors

-Cease-fire

-Political issues in possible settlement

-Possible coercion by the Administration

-Possible delay of settlement

-Kissinger’s possible trip to Hanoi

-Thieu’s refusal to see Bunker

-Haig’s view

-Settlement

-Thieu’s support for settlement

-Settlement chances

-1972 election

-Potential for bombing after the election

-Kissinger’s possible trip to Saigon

-Public relations

-Thieu’s view of Kissinger

-Report of Haig’s meeting with Thieu

US – Israel relations

-Postponement of decision on US military aircraft

-Jewish vote

-Kissinger

-Middle East settlement

-1972 election

-Kissinger’s political instincts

-The President’s view

-Yitzak Rabin [?]

-Max M. Fisher

-Domestic Jewish action

-Soviet Jewry issue

-Rabin

-Possible message to Rabin

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-State Department

-Defense Department

-Perception of political motivation for aircraft deal

[South Korea]

-Declaration of martial law

-US military presence

-The President’s view

-Comparison of South Korea to South Vietnam

-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.

-Previous reduction

-US supply

-Negotiations with [North Korea]

Vietnam negotiations

-Text of the proposed settlement

-The President’s instructions

-Haldeman

-William P. Rogers’s access to the document

-No duplication or removal from the White House

-State Department

-Marshall Green

-Possible criticism of settlement

-Compared to previous agreements

-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]

-Berlin agreement

-Shanghai Communiqué

-Hangchow

-Rogers’s previous conversation with Haldeman

-South Korea

-Chung Hee Park

-Kissinger’s forthcoming trip to Saigon

-Thieu

-Kissinger’s schedule

-Trips to Saigon, Washington, and Paris

-1972 election

-Possible trip to Hanoi

-Possible bombing halt

-The President’s view

-Military situation in South Vietnam

-US casualties

-The President’s foreign policy decisions

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-Opposition

-Intellectuals, media, educators, religious groups, business elite

-Support

-Labor leaders, ethnics, farmers, military organizations, small

businessmen, prisoner of war [POW] wives

-POW families

-Compared to other groups

-Canada

-Business elite

-Husbands and sons in captivity

-National character

-Lawyers, business people

-Educated

-Government bureaucracy and Cabinet members

-The President’s November 3, 1969 speech

-Cambodia, Laos, the President’s May 8, 1972 decision

-The President’s November 3, 1969 speech

-Reaction

-Memorandum from Melvin R. Laird and Rogers

-The President’s remarks during his meeting with the National League of

Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia

-Tad Szulc

-New York Times

-The President’s conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler

-New York Times

-Washington Post

-Business

-John J. McCloy

-Donald McI. Kendall

-Education’s effect on US elite

-Kissinger

-White House staff

-US upper class compared to upper class of Great Britain

-US upper class compared to upper class of pre-World War II France

-Young Winston film premiere

-Winston S. Churchill’s grandson [Winston S. Churchill]

-Randolph Churchill, father of Winston S. Churchill [the

elder]

-Resignation as Chancellor of the Exchequer

-Possible publication of resignation letter

-London Times

-Reaction by London Times editor

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-Comparison to US newspapers

US newspapers

-British newspapers

-Support of government

– [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain

-Winston Churchill

-Chicago Tribune, Chicago Daily News,

-James S. Copley News Service

-Paul Miller, Gannett News Service

-Martin S. Hayden

-Detroit News

-New York Daily News

-Orlando Sentinel

-Omaha World Herald

-Kissinger’s reaction to these newspapers

-Georgetown

US elite’s view of the President

-The President’s relationship with lower classes

– George Meany, Frank E. Fitzsimmons

-Hispanic woman [Mrs. Nellie Davis]

-The middle class as basis of US strength

-The President’s view

-Casualties from the Vietnam War

-The elite’s linkage of the President to the middle class

-Elite view of education and intelligence

-Barry M. Goldwater, Joseph McCarthy

Haig’s forthcoming position as Vice Chief Staff of the Army

-Quality of army personnel

Racial composition of US army

The President’s viewing of Green Bay ­ Detroit football game, October 16, 1972

-Running backs for Detroit, [Green Bay], Washington

-Blacks

-Quarterbacks

-Blacks in football

-University of Southern California [USC]

-Haldeman’s view

-The President’s view

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Vietnam negotiations

-Kissinger’s forthcoming trip to Saigon

-Thieu

-The President’s previous meeting with Abrams

-Possible resistance to settlement

-Effect on relations with US

-1972 election

-Possible delay of settlement

-Announcement

-Kissinger

-1972 election

-Effect of 1972 election on the negotiations

-Kissinger

-Accomplishments

-People’s Republic of China [PRC]

-Soviet Union

-SALT

-Desire to finalize settlement

-Settlement

-Haig’s forthcoming message to Kissinger

The President’s schedule

-The President’s instructions to Haig

Haig’s contact with Rogers

-Forthcoming vetoes

-Water bill

-Forthcoming speech

-Social Security bill

-Postponement of foreign policy-related events

-The President’s previous meeting with Abrams

-Abrams’s swearing-in as Army Chief of Staff

-Newspaper photograph

-Haig’s view

Abrams’s schedule

-Announcement

Haig left at 9:06 am.

Haig

-The President’s view

-Haig’s previous meeting with Haldeman

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The President’s schedule

The President left at an unknown time after 9:06 am.

[Pause]

The President entered at an unknown time before 9:12 am.

Vietnam negotiations

-Kissinger

-Haig’s previous meeting with Haldeman

-The President’s previous meeting with Haig

-Haig’s view

-Kissinger’s personal motivation to finalize the settlement

-Kissinger’s insecurity

-Haldeman’s notes

-Private file

-Timing of settlement

-1972 election

Kissinger

-Desire to finalize settlement before 1972 election

– [Nancy S. Maginnes]

-Kissinger’s previous meeting with Haldeman

-Possible successor to Haig

-Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft

-Intellectual capacity

-Compared to Maj. Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes

-Compared to Haig

-Personality

-Haldeman’s view

-Kissinger’s reaction to the meeting

-Implicit confirmation of role for Kissinger

-The President’s second term in office

-Post-1972 election plans

-Kissinger, Haldeman

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:06 am.

Telephone call to Ralph Marrinson

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:12 am.

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(rev. Nov-03)

The President talked with the White House operator at 9:12 am.

[Conversation No. 801-4A]

[See Conversation No. 31-98]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President talked with Marrinson between 9:12 am and 9:13 am.

[Conversation No. 801-4B]

[See Conversation No. 31-99]

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam negotiations

-Kissinger

-Importance of the President’s confidence

-Haig’s view

-The President’s note to Kissinger

-1972 election

-The President’s statement of confidence

-Haig’s view

-Possible settlement

-Risks

-Compared to the President’s meeting with POW wives

-Thieu

-Abrams

-Forthcoming trip to South Vietnam

-Role as advocate

-Haig

-Fear of possible blood bath

-Kissinger’s trip to Saigon

-Thieu’s possible rejection of settlement

-Possible publication of settlement terms by North Vietnamese

-The President’s view

-Thieu’s possible rejection of settlement

-Possible publication of settlement terms by North Vietnamese

-Kissinger’s possible briefings

-South Vietnam

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(rev. Nov-03)

-US support

-Abrams’s view

-Comparison of South Vietnam with Europe

-South Korea

-Rogers

-Possible changes to settlement

-State Department

-Kissinger

The President’s schedule

-Possible radio address

-Timing

-Ziegler

-Tax issues

-John D. Ehrlichman

-William L. Safire

-Conversation with Ehrlichman

-Tax reform as an issue

-Senior citizens

-Ehrilchman

-John B. Connally

-Paternalism [Philosophy of Government]

-Forthcoming trip to Camp David

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The President’s schedule

-Revenue sharing bill signing ceremony

-[Thomas] Hale Boggs’s possible funeral

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Boggs’s death

-Wiley Post, Will Rogers

-Reminiscences

-The President

-Ziegler

-Haldeman

-Beverly Hills, California

The President’s possible radio address

-Tax reform

-Ehrlichman

-Charles W. Colson

-Domestic Council

The President’s schedule

-Boggs’s possible funeral

-The President’s previous trip to Louisiana

-Allen J. Ellender’s funeral

-Possible memorial service in Washington, DC

Congressional relations

-Conference reports

-House of Representatives

-Continuing resolution

-Possible adjournment sine die

-Lack of a quorum

-The President’s water bill veto

-William E. Timmons

-Possibility of overriding the veto

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Vice President Spiro T. Agnew’s possible appearance at event in Boston, October 31,

1972

-The President’s previous conversation with John F. Collins

-Liberal Republicans

-Irish community in Boston

-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon’s possible attendance

The President’s schedule

-Revenue sharing bill signing ceremony

-Guests

-Collins

-City manager of Lowell, Massachusetts [James L. Sullivan]

-Colson’s forthcoming conversation with Collins

-Philadelphia

-Mrs. Nixon’s schedule

-Colson’s forthcoming conversation with Collins

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George Champion, Sr.

-William F. (“Billy”) Graham

-Possible Ambassadorial posts

-Japan

-Champion’s drinking

-United Nations [UN]

Graham

-Communication with Haldeman

-Schedule

-Speaking engagements

-Communication with Haldeman

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-Haldeman’s expressions of the President’s gratitude

-Graham’s suggestions

Tricia Nixon Cox previous appearance at Ethel Waters’s dinner

-Graham’s view

-Tricia Nixon Cox’s speech

-Speechwriters

-The President’s view

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The President’s schedule

-The President’s previous meeting with the National League of Families of

American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia

-Public relations impact

-Radio reports, television [TV] coverage

-JoAnne (Horton) Haldeman’s view

-Network coverage

-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]

-The President’s trip to Atlanta

-TV coverage

-Billy and Ruth Mc C. (Bell) Graham

-The President’s recent meeting with the National League of Families of American

Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia

-TV coverage

-The President’s tone

-Issues

-Vietnam

-Amnesty for draft evaders

-George S. McGovern

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McGovern

-Corruption issue

-Previous speech in Los Angeles

-Reaction to a fire marshal

-Hecklers

-McGovern’s reaction compared to the President’s

-The President’s trip to Liberty Island, New York, September 26, 1972

-Haldeman’s hypothetical plan to place hecklers in McGovern crowds

-The President’s view

Media and press relations

-The President’s recent meeting with the National League of Families

-Washington Post

– [Dwight L. Chapin] story

– [Chapin] story

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The President’s schedule

-The President’s forthcoming meeting with representatives of foreign labor unions

-Press coverage

-Writing pool

-Ziegler

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 9:59 am.