Date: October 23, 1972

Time: Unknown between 11:20 pm and 11:35 pm

Location: Oval Office

The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr..

Henry A. Kissinger

-Telephone conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

Vietnam negotiations

-North Vietnamese

-Note

-Tone

-Possible settlement of war

-Timing

-1972 election

-Bombing

-Kissinger

Kissinger

Vietnam negotiations

-William P. Rogers

-Haig’s briefing

-Melvin R. Laird

-Attitude during negotiations

-Bureaucracy

-Nguyen Van Thieu

-Kissinger

-Attitude after 1972 election

-Military equipment

-Settlement

-North Vietnam

-Thieu

-Pressures

-The President’s conversation with Rogers

-South Korea, Taiwan, Republic of China

-Charges

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log

(rev. Nov-03)

-Kissinger’s memorandum

-The President’s trip to Peking and Moscow

-US press

-Ellsworth F. Bunker

-Influence

-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.

-Bunker

-October elections

-Rigging

-Settlement

-Kissinger

-Timing

-1972 election

-Strategy for press coverage

-Press coverage

-Kissinger

-Nature of press release

-1972 election

-Meeting

-Timing

-Thieu

-Possible meeting with the President

-Kissinger

-US support

-Haig’s view

-Possible leak from Saigon

-Cease-fire

-Cease-fire

New York visit by the President

-Crowd estimates

-Press coverage

-Washington Post

-New York Times

George S. McGovern’s position on the Vietnam War

Vietnam negotiations

-Settlement

-Progress

-US offers

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log

(rev. Nov-03)

-Response

-Communist government in South Vietnam

-Bombing

-1972 election

-North Vietnamese strategy

-Thieu

-Thieu

-Kissinger

-US-Soviet Union relations

-Dobrynin

-Meeting with Kissinger

-Meeting with Haig

-The President’s schedule

-Soviet objectives

-Settlement

-Delay

-Handling of Dobrynin visit

-Haig’s schedule

Haig left at an unknown time before 11:35 pm.