Date: November 30, 1972

Time: 1:11 pm – 1:19 pm

Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Ziegler’s press conference

-The President’s recent meeting with Duc

-Tone

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-Compared to the President’s meeting with Duc, November 29,

1972

-State Department reorganization announcement

-The President’s recommendations

-United Press International [UPI]

-Washington Star

-George Sherman

-American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC]

-Quotes from the President

-Stenographers, file clerks

-Senior officials

-Foreign Service Officers [FSO]

-Embassies

-William P. Rogers

Ziegler left and Stephen B. Bull entered at 1:12 pm.

The President’s schedule

-Trip to Florida

-Departure time

Alexander P. Butterfield entered and Bull left at an unknown time after 1:12 pm.

Coat

Items for the President’s signature

-George P. Shultz

Briefcase

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 1:12 pm.

Vietnam negotiations

-The President’s meeting [with Nguyen Phu Duc and Tran Kim Phuong]

-Effect

-Authority

Bull entered at 1:12 pm.

The President’s schedule

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-Shultz

-Meeting with John B. Connally

Butterfield and Bull left at 1:13 pm.

Vietnam negotiations

-Settlement agreement

-Nguyen Van Thieu’s position

-Recent GVN cable

-The President’s meeting with Duc

-US-Government of Vietnam [GVN] relations

-Possible delay

-Thieu’s rejection

-Bilateral deal

-US mining, bombing cessation, withdrawal for prisoners

of War [POWs]

-Termination of US military and economic aid

-South Vietnamese defeat, North Vietnamese defeat

-Congressional relations

-The President’s meeting with Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]

-Senate vote

-The President’s achievements

-The President’s conversation with Leonid I. Brezhnev [at US-

Soviet Union Summit]

-Lack of insistence on withdrawal of North Vietnamese

troops from South Vietnam

-Terms at that time

-Election in South Vietnam

-Thieu’s resignation

-North Vietnamese message

-Meaning

-Cancellation of meeting

-Alternate meeting places

-Avenue Kleber

-Cancellation of meeting

-Breakdown of talks

-Briefing

-Settlement agreement

-Victory

-Briefing

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-The President’s meeting with Kissinger [in Key Biscayne]

-The President’s possible meeting with Thieu

-Purpose

-Settlement agreement

-Negotiations

-Assurances

-Commitment

The President and Kissinger left at 1:19 pm.