Date: December 6, 1972
Time: 5:54 pm – 5:59 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table
The President talked with Col. Richard T. Kennedy.
[See Conversation No. 234-4]
Message to Henry A. Kissinger
-Vietnam negotiations
-The President’s instructions
-Timing
-Editing
-Return of prisoners of war [POWs]
-Timing
-December 1972
-Compared to July 1973
-US bombing
-South Vietnam and [Provisional Revolutionary Government]
[PRG] intransigence
-Timing
-July 1973
-Nguyen Van Thieu’s position
-Kissinger’s message
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Apr.-08)
Conversation No. 157-19 (cont’d)
-Kennedy’s view
-Bilateral deal
-US-South Vietnam relations
-Breakdown in talks
-Minimum conditions in settlement agreement
-Importance
-The President’s meeting with Nguyen Phu Duc
-Acceptability to North Vietnam and South Vietnam
-Breakdown
-[Withdrawal of North Vietnamese troops from South Vietnam]
-US bombing
-Kissinger’s view
-Significance
-Deliberation
-Pressure
-Kissinger’s return from Paris
-US bombing
-Option 1