Date: December 30, 1972
Time: 10:04 am - 10:12 am
Location: Camp David Study Table
The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.
[See Conversation No. 237-46]
Vietnam War
-Cessation of US bombing north of 20th Parallel
-Notification of Congress
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-08)
Conversation No. 158-37 (cont’d)
-Kissinger’s conversation with Michael J. Mansfield
-Hearings
-J. William Fulbright
-Dr. Thomas E. (“Dee”) Morgan
-Negotiations
-Morgan
-House Foreign Affairs Committee
-Explanation
-Briefings
-Timing
-The President
-Negotiations
-Paris
-US bombing of North Vietnam
-Congressional relations
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-William B. Saxbe
-Humphrey’s statement
-Saxbe’s statement
-Cessation north of 20th Parallel
-Notification of Congress
-Kissinger’s telephone calls
-Humphrey
-Carl B. Albert
-Mansfield
-Hugh Scott
-F. Edward Hebert
-John C. Stennis
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Rockefeller’s reaction
-Mansfield
-Timmons’s telephone calls
-Timing
-Announcement
-Kissinger’s telephone calls
-The President’s decision
-Gerald L. Warren
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-08)
Conversation No. 158-37 (cont’d)
-Meeting with the President
-Conversation with the President
-Press relations
-The President’s May 8, 1972 decision
-Bombing and mining north of 20th Parallel
-Suspension
-Negotiations
-Tone
-October 1972
-Resumption
-Press relations
-Los Angeles Times editorial
-Public relations [PR]
-Saxbe, Humphrey
-Kissinger’s location
-Palm Springs, California
-The President’s television [TV] appearance
-Condition
-Continuation of bombing
-Emotion
-Liberals
-Kissinger’s attendance at dinner party
-Michael Wallace
-View
-The President’s TV appearance
-Timing
-Debate
-Announcement
-Cessation north of 20th Parallel
-Statement
-Avoiding “gloating” about victory
-Congressmen and Senators
-Negotiations
-North Vietnam
-Kissinger’s telephone calls
-Necessity
-Notification
-William P. Rogers’s schedule
-Melvin R. Laird’s schedule
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-08)
Conversation No. 158-37 (cont’d)
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Warren
-Congressmen and Senators
-Notification
-Announcement
-Kissinger’s telephone calls
-The President’s call to Kissinger