19–53

Conversation No. 19-53

Date: January 24, 1972
Time: 4:27 pm - 4:55 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with John N. Mitchell.

[See Conversation No. 317-17]

The President’s schedule
-Recent trip to Walker's Cay

The President's forthcoming speech on Vietnam
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Possible reaction
-Negotiations
-Proposals
-Withdrawal
-Duration
-Ceasefire and prisoners of war [POWs]
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-[John Sherman Cooper]
-Campaign efforts
-Appointment for staff member

Frank L. Rizzo
-Conversation with the President
-Government funding
-Conversation with Walter H. Annenberg


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Rizzo [?]
-John D. Ehrlichman's possible actions
-Federal funds, agencies
-Law Enforcement Assistance Administration [LEAA], Department of
Transportation
-Possible calls from Mitchell
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-Richard B. Ogilvie
-Revenue sharing
-Taft-Hartley Act
-Dock strike
-Farmers
-Rural Electrification Administration [REA] funds
-Prospects


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The President's forthcoming speech on Vietnam
-Kissinger's forthcoming press briefing
-Response to opponents of the President's policies
-Secret negotiations
-Congressional deadline
-Administration offer
-Ceasefire and POWs

Vietnam
-Negotiations
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-October 1971

1972 campaign
-Issues
-Rockefeller and Ogilvie
-Revenue sharing
-Democrats

Vietnam
-South Vietnam’s survival
-Prospects
-Armed Forces
-US air support
-Compared to North Vietnam
-Communication lines
-Air power
-Press treatment
-North Vietnam
-Prospects for military progress
-Rainy season
-Military press briefings in Saigon
-Mitchell's conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-The President's forthcoming meeting with Melvin R. Laird and Admiral
Thomas H. Moorer