Date: October 3l, 1972
Time: 11:04 am – 11:10 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler at 11:04 am.
[This recording began at an unknown time while the conversation was in progress.]
Statement on possible Vietnam settlement
-Coalition government
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s view
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Preservation of South Vietnam’s right to choose its own government
-Expectations of agreement
-Henry A. Kissinger’s schedule
-Timing
-Signing of agreement
-Associated Press [AP] wire story
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:04 am.
The president’s schedule
Bull left at an unknown time before 11:10 am.
-Deadline
-Deliberate pace of negotiations
-Avoidance of resumption of war
-The President’s meeting with Kissinger
Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:04 am.
The President’s schedule
-Kissinger’s office
Bull left at an unknown time before 11:10 am.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-1972 election
-Quality of peace
-Details of agreement
-Compared to 1968 agreement
-Compared to 1962 agreement
Ziegler left at 11:10 am.