299–15

Conversation No. 299-15

Date: November 10, 1971
Time: Unknown between 2:51 pm and 3:16 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

The President's speeches, November 9, 1971
-Foreign aid
-Television coverage
-Amchitka test
-Effect on environment
-Cartoon in the Washington Star
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Kissinger's meeting with Henry A. Grunwald, November 9, 1971
-Time
-The President
-Schedule
-Possible interview

Melvin R. Laird
-Forthcoming meeting with the President and Kissinger
-Forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement
-Associated Press [AP] news story from Saigon
-Ground combat
-Announcement
-Casualties

Vietnam
-Troop withdrawal announcement
-Withdrawal rate
-Timing
-Projections
-Residual forces
-Laird, William P. Rogers and Congress
-Number
-Timing
-Residual forces
-Kissinger's negotiations
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Kissinger's dinner with Newsweek editors, November 9, 1971
-Troop withdrawal rate
-Louis P. Harris poll
-Public support for Administration policies
-Congress
-Troop withdrawal announcement
-Gerald R. Ford
-Laird
-Troop withdrawal rate
-Number
-Thieu
-Timing
-Laird and Clark MacGregor
-Kissinger's dinner with Newsweek editors
-MacGregor
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-Alleged statement
-The President's previous meeting with MacGregor and Ford
-Laird

The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 2:54 pm and
3:09 pm.

[Conversation No. 299-15A]

[See Conversation No. 14-18]

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-Troop withdrawal announcement
-Withdrawal rate
-Timing
-Politics
-Democratic national convention
-Kissinger's negotiations with North Vietnam
-Residual force
-Possible agreement
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-POWs
-Withdrawal rate
-Contingent factors
-Possible effect on Administration critics
-Laird
-Briefings
-Laird, Ford and Rogers
-South Vietnam
-Thieu
-Possible announcement of January 1972

Kissinger's meeting with Newsweek editors

The President's speeches, November 9, 1971
-Forthcoming trips to People's Republic of China [PRC] and Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics [USSR]
-“Generation of peace”
-Negotiations
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-International differences

Kissinger's schedule
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Dinner

The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Rogers
-Alexander M Haig, Jr.
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Pakistan Ambassador [Agha Hilaly]
-The President's possible conversation with Rogers
-Meeting with Haig
-India
-Arms shipment cutoff

Kissinger's meeting with Newsweek editors
-Indira Gandhi interview

The President talked with Richard J. Daley between 3:09 pm and 3:10 pm.

[Conversation No. 299-15B]

[See Conversation No. 14-19]

[End of telephone conversation]

Kissinger's schedule
-Cable

Vietnam
-Troop withdrawals
-Timing
-Charles W. Colson's possible actions
-Possible effect on negotiations
-Residual force
-Negotiations with North Vietnam
-Press
-Number and timing
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Kissinger's schedule
-Telegram

Kissinger left at an unknown time before 3:16 pm.