Date: November 14, 1972
Time: 9:36 am - 9:48 am
Location: Camp David Study Table
The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.
[See Conversation No. 224-11]
Taiwan, Republic of China
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham’s forthcoming trip
-Tokyo
-Taipei
-(Madame) Chiang Mayling Soong
-The President’s message
-Kissinger office cable
-Walter P. McConaughy
-Talking points
-Purpose
Kissinger’s schedule
-Dinner [with Ch’iao Kuan-hua] at Century Club
-Location
-New York
Kissinger’s recent meeting with Ch’iao Kuan-hua
-Prime Minster’s message to the President
-The President’s opening to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-The President’s reelection
Vietnam negotiations
-Settlement agreement
-Timing
-PRC influence
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar.-08)
Conversation No. 153-5 (cont’d)
-PRC position
-Tone
-PRC position vis-à-vis North Vietnam
-Le Duc Tho’s forthcoming trip to Peking
-PRC position
-Tone
-Gifts
-PRC influence in Cambodia
-Soviet-Union-PRC
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s post
-Future US role
-Resistance to hegemony
-Second term
-Post-settlement period
-Peripheral wars
-Africa
-Cambodia
-US attitude toward Norodom Sihanouk
-PRC Query
-Communications
-Tranquility
-Presidential correspondence
-Absence of diplomatic relations
-Settlement agreement
-Sihanouk return
-Possibility
-Timing
-Cease-fire
-Soviet Union-PRC relations
-Toast to the President by Ch’iao Kuan-hua
-Soviet Union-PRC relations
-Ch’iao Kuan-hua’s attacks in United Nations [UN]
-Nonuse of force
-Renunciation of nuclear weapons
-Nonuse of force
-Mongolia
-Japan
-Soviet possession of northern islands
-US-Japan relations
-Military arrangement
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar.-08)
Conversation No. 153-5 (cont’d)
-The President’s conversations with Chou En-Lai
-William P. Rogers’s conversation with PRC foreign minister
-PRC-Japan relations
-Trade
-Previous attempts at colonization
-Tone
-Vietnam War
-Possible visit by Julie Nixon Eisenhower and [Dwight] David Eisenhower, II to
PRC
-Possible visit by Michael J. Mansfield to PRC
-The President’s assistance
-Tone
Soviet Union
-Kissinger’s forthcoming conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Possible visit by Tricia Nixon Cox and Edward R. F. Cox
-Role
Vietnam negotiations
-Nguyen Van Thieu’s letter to the President
-The President’s forthcoming reply
-Tone
-Substance
-North Vietnamese troops in South Vietnam
-The President’s reply
-North Vietnamese troops in South Vietnam
-Dangers
-US commitments
-Addressing Thieu’s concern
-Principle
-North Vietnamese claims
-Demilitarized zone [DMZ]
-Demobilization of troops in South Vietnam
-North Vietnamese claims
-US protocol
-Recognition of right to troops in South
Vietnam
-Points made
-Cosmetic nature
-Importance to Thieu, North Vietnamese
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