Forthcoming Vietnam speech
-Submission of draft to the President
-Timing
-The President’s outline
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Form
-National Security Council [NSC] draft
-Negotiations
-Troop withdrawals
-Vietnamization
-Numbers
-Casualties
-Charts
-Conclusion of war
-Secret negotiations
-Substance of speech
-References to Kissinger
-The President's role
-Secret talks
-Public disclosure
-US offers
-Impact of disclosure
-Purpose of disclosure
-Secret compared to public talks
-World War I
-Colonel Edward M. House
-World War II
-Deadline
-Negotiation record
-Deadline and ceasefire
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Tone
-Congress
-Kissinger
-Form of speech
-NSC draft
-Highlights
-Meetings with the North Vietnamese
-Background
-Negotiations
-Channels
-The President’s interview with Dan Rather
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Tape Subject Log
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-Secret discussions
-William P. Rogers, Ellsworth F. Bunker, Paris delegation
-October 1969
-Number of meetings
-Kissinger
-Paris
-Conditions of US and the North Vietnamese
-May 1971
-Deadline
-Ceasefire and POWs
-August 1971
-October 1971
-Two-phase offer
-Overthrow of South Vietnam government
-Thieu’s offer of resignation
-New election
-Length of speech
-Kissinger's reaction
-Kissinger’s draft
-Secret negotiations
-Necessity of secrecy
-The President's credibility
-Themes
-US troop withdrawal
-Peace in Southeast Asia
-Vietnamization
-Other nations
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Draft to the President
-Submission time for the President
-Kissinger
-Second draft
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