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329–42
- President Richard M. Nixon
- Henry A. Kissinger
April 15, 1972
Conversation No. 329-42
Date: April 15, 1972
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.
William P. Rogers
-Call to Kissinger
-The President's schedule
-Rogers's schedule
-Messages to Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Kissinger’s meeting with Dobrynin
-Rogers’s meeting with Dobrynin
Vietnam
-North Vietnamese public statement
-Private message
-Request for private meeting on April 27
-Disclosure to Rogers
-Rogers’s possible reaction
-William J. Porter
-Public meeting
-Porter’s views
-Bombing
-Cancellation of private session
-US agreement to attend
-Private meeting on April 24
-Kissinger’s conversation with porter
-Kissinger’s meeting with Yuli M. Vorontsov
-Dobrynin
-Schedule
50
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 329-42 (cont.)
-Le Duc Tho
-Travel to Paris
-An Loc
-Present situation
-Military briefing
-Credibility
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Kissinger’s conversation with unknown person
-Present situation
-Prisoner of war [POW] reports
-US bombing in area
-Air sorties
-North Vietnamese casualties
-Air Force
-New chief
-John D. Ryan's term
-B-52s
-Rogers
-Laird
-Conversation with Kissinger
-Instructions
-Moorer
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Actions in South Vietnam
-Motives
-Administration’s tactics
-Demonstrations in France
-Compared with Lyndon b. Johnson's administration
-US statement
-U. Alexis Johnson
-French
-Ties with Hanoi
-Public meeting with North Vietnam on April 27
-Kissinger’s message
-Attendance
-Private meeting on April 24
-Scheduling
-Message to Vorontsov
-Naval gunfire
-Deployment
-Targets
-Intensity
51
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 329-42 (cont.)
-Increase in destroyers
-North Vietnamese offensive
-US reaction
-Blockade of Haiphong
-Naval forces
-Strategy
-An loc
-US shelling
-Situation
-Air strikes
-B-52s
-Rogers’s reaction to bombing
-Lack of communication with Kissinger
-White house communication with other State Department officials
-Briefing
-Robert J. McCloskey
-Negotiations
-Private meeting
-Porter’s views
-Public meeting
-Bombing issue
-Possible North Vietnamese cancellation of plenary session
-Possible cancellation by North Vietnam
-Date
-Timing
-Soviet summit
-North Vietnamese concessions
-Democratic convention
-Role of Soviet Union
-Demonstrations
-Effect
-Bombing
-Canada, France, Great Britain and Stockholm
-Burning of US embassies
-Negotiations
-Lyndon B. Johnson example
-Kissinger’s concern
-Rogers
-Plenary session
-Rogers
-Meeting with Laird
-Laird’s statement
52
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 329-42 (cont.)
-Criticism of White House policy
-B-52s
-Hanoi
-[Unintelligible]
-Blockade
-Timing
-Level of support in US
-Demonstrations
-Kissinger’s trip to Moscow
-Secret meeting
-Topics of discussion
-Vietnam
-Standards of progress
-End of the war
-Kissinger’s trip to Soviet Union
-Negotiations
-Soviet summit
-Conditions in Vietnam
-Blockade
-West German treaty issue
-US offers to north Vietnam
-North Vietnamese refusal regarding April 24 meeting
-Meeting on April 24
-The President's approval of Kissinger’s trip
-Blockade
-Hanoi
-Battle area and \"I\" corps
-Impact
-Intent
-Plans
-Conditions for cessation
-POW return
-Subsequent withdrawal of US troops
-Withdrawal of North Vietnamese troops from South Vietnam
-Blockade
-Reactions
-North Vietnam
-Ability to withstand
-Length of time
-US attacks
-Railroad
-Petroleum, oil and lubricants [POL] and weapons dumps
53
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 329-42 (cont.)
-Truck parks
-Soviet Union
-Confrontation with US
-Hanoi relationship towards People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Effect
-PRC involvement
-Relationship with US
-Soviet Union
-Possible cancellation of summit
-Fall of South Vietnam
-Effect on Soviet and PRC initiatives
-Soviet summit
-Israel
US foreign policy
-Taiwan
-Israel
-Vietnam
-Pierre E. Trudeau
Vietnam
-Blockade
-Soviet summit
-Battles in South Vietnam
-Opposition in US and worldwide
-Build-up
-Timing
-Soviet Union
-Relations with North Vietnam
-Domestic support
-Erosion
-Kissinger’s trip to Moscow
-Effect
-Possible public revelation of trip
-Summit
-Possible cancellation
-Dobrynin
-Message to soviets
-Vietnam
-Summit
-Soviet proposals
-US response
54
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 329-42 (cont.)
-Value to US and Soviet Union
-Kissinger’s previous conversation with Andrei A. Gromyko
-Blockade
-Summit
-Blockade
-Timing
-Kissinger’s trip to Moscow
-Domestic reaction
-Plans
-Bombing
-Trip to Moscow
-Blockade
-Air strike
-Laird’s and Moorer’s actions
-Reasons
-Rogers
The President's trip to Canada
-Rogers
-Margaret Trudeau
-News summary report
-The President's speech
Vietnam
-Soviet summit
-Possible cancellation
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Possible cancellation
-Blockade
-Impact
-1972 presidential election
-Democratic victory
-Possible republican candidates
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Warren E. Burger
-John B. Connally
-The President's withdrawal
-The President's endorsement of Connally
-Loss of South Vietnam and soviet summit
-Impact on Nixon presidency
-Blockade
55
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 329-42 (cont.)
-Alternative candidate
-Connally
-Foreign policy
-Kissinger’s role
-Reagan
-Rockefeller
-Burger
-Possible democratic candidates
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Thieu
-Possible loss of war
-Impact on administration
-Blockade
-Strategy
-Kissinger’s posture in Soviet Union
-Summit
-Possible soviet reaction
-Possible North Vietnamese reaction
-Kissinger’s reputation
-Kissinger’s message
-The President's responsibility
-Alternatives
-Bombing of ports
-Soviet ships
-Harbors
-Bridges
-American public support
-Compared with support for bombing
-Casualties
-POWs
-Kissinger’s message to Soviets
-Transmittal
-Contents
-Kissinger’s trip to Moscow
-Soviet ambassador
-North Vietnamese views regarding meetings
-Soviet views
-Concrete proposal on agenda for Kissinger’s meetings
-Negotiations
-Plenary sessions
56
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 329-42 (cont.)
-Porter’s responsibility
-US position
-Private meeting
-May 7th
-Public meeting
-Porter’s strategy
-Le Duc Tho
-Paris visit
-US position regarding private and public meetings
-Plenary sessions
-Schedule
-Kissinger’s trip to Moscow
-Bombing
-Public and private meetings
-Porter
-US conditions
-Dates
-US responses
-Kissinger’s message
Kissinger left at 2:00 pm.
Date: April 15, 1972
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.
William P. Rogers
-Call to Kissinger
-The President's schedule
-Rogers's schedule
-Messages to Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Kissinger’s meeting with Dobrynin
-Rogers’s meeting with Dobrynin
Vietnam
-North Vietnamese public statement
-Private message
-Request for private meeting on April 27
-Disclosure to Rogers
-Rogers’s possible reaction
-William J. Porter
-Public meeting
-Porter’s views
-Bombing
-Cancellation of private session
-US agreement to attend
-Private meeting on April 24
-Kissinger’s conversation with porter
-Kissinger’s meeting with Yuli M. Vorontsov
-Dobrynin
-Schedule
50
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 329-42 (cont.)
-Le Duc Tho
-Travel to Paris
-An Loc
-Present situation
-Military briefing
-Credibility
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Kissinger’s conversation with unknown person
-Present situation
-Prisoner of war [POW] reports
-US bombing in area
-Air sorties
-North Vietnamese casualties
-Air Force
-New chief
-John D. Ryan's term
-B-52s
-Rogers
-Laird
-Conversation with Kissinger
-Instructions
-Moorer
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Actions in South Vietnam
-Motives
-Administration’s tactics
-Demonstrations in France
-Compared with Lyndon b. Johnson's administration
-US statement
-U. Alexis Johnson
-French
-Ties with Hanoi
-Public meeting with North Vietnam on April 27
-Kissinger’s message
-Attendance
-Private meeting on April 24
-Scheduling
-Message to Vorontsov
-Naval gunfire
-Deployment
-Targets
-Intensity
51
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 329-42 (cont.)
-Increase in destroyers
-North Vietnamese offensive
-US reaction
-Blockade of Haiphong
-Naval forces
-Strategy
-An loc
-US shelling
-Situation
-Air strikes
-B-52s
-Rogers’s reaction to bombing
-Lack of communication with Kissinger
-White house communication with other State Department officials
-Briefing
-Robert J. McCloskey
-Negotiations
-Private meeting
-Porter’s views
-Public meeting
-Bombing issue
-Possible North Vietnamese cancellation of plenary session
-Possible cancellation by North Vietnam
-Date
-Timing
-Soviet summit
-North Vietnamese concessions
-Democratic convention
-Role of Soviet Union
-Demonstrations
-Effect
-Bombing
-Canada, France, Great Britain and Stockholm
-Burning of US embassies
-Negotiations
-Lyndon B. Johnson example
-Kissinger’s concern
-Rogers
-Plenary session
-Rogers
-Meeting with Laird
-Laird’s statement
52
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 329-42 (cont.)
-Criticism of White House policy
-B-52s
-Hanoi
-[Unintelligible]
-Blockade
-Timing
-Level of support in US
-Demonstrations
-Kissinger’s trip to Moscow
-Secret meeting
-Topics of discussion
-Vietnam
-Standards of progress
-End of the war
-Kissinger’s trip to Soviet Union
-Negotiations
-Soviet summit
-Conditions in Vietnam
-Blockade
-West German treaty issue
-US offers to north Vietnam
-North Vietnamese refusal regarding April 24 meeting
-Meeting on April 24
-The President's approval of Kissinger’s trip
-Blockade
-Hanoi
-Battle area and \"I\" corps
-Impact
-Intent
-Plans
-Conditions for cessation
-POW return
-Subsequent withdrawal of US troops
-Withdrawal of North Vietnamese troops from South Vietnam
-Blockade
-Reactions
-North Vietnam
-Ability to withstand
-Length of time
-US attacks
-Railroad
-Petroleum, oil and lubricants [POL] and weapons dumps
53
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 329-42 (cont.)
-Truck parks
-Soviet Union
-Confrontation with US
-Hanoi relationship towards People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Effect
-PRC involvement
-Relationship with US
-Soviet Union
-Possible cancellation of summit
-Fall of South Vietnam
-Effect on Soviet and PRC initiatives
-Soviet summit
-Israel
US foreign policy
-Taiwan
-Israel
-Vietnam
-Pierre E. Trudeau
Vietnam
-Blockade
-Soviet summit
-Battles in South Vietnam
-Opposition in US and worldwide
-Build-up
-Timing
-Soviet Union
-Relations with North Vietnam
-Domestic support
-Erosion
-Kissinger’s trip to Moscow
-Effect
-Possible public revelation of trip
-Summit
-Possible cancellation
-Dobrynin
-Message to soviets
-Vietnam
-Summit
-Soviet proposals
-US response
54
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 329-42 (cont.)
-Value to US and Soviet Union
-Kissinger’s previous conversation with Andrei A. Gromyko
-Blockade
-Summit
-Blockade
-Timing
-Kissinger’s trip to Moscow
-Domestic reaction
-Plans
-Bombing
-Trip to Moscow
-Blockade
-Air strike
-Laird’s and Moorer’s actions
-Reasons
-Rogers
The President's trip to Canada
-Rogers
-Margaret Trudeau
-News summary report
-The President's speech
Vietnam
-Soviet summit
-Possible cancellation
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Possible cancellation
-Blockade
-Impact
-1972 presidential election
-Democratic victory
-Possible republican candidates
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Warren E. Burger
-John B. Connally
-The President's withdrawal
-The President's endorsement of Connally
-Loss of South Vietnam and soviet summit
-Impact on Nixon presidency
-Blockade
55
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 329-42 (cont.)
-Alternative candidate
-Connally
-Foreign policy
-Kissinger’s role
-Reagan
-Rockefeller
-Burger
-Possible democratic candidates
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Thieu
-Possible loss of war
-Impact on administration
-Blockade
-Strategy
-Kissinger’s posture in Soviet Union
-Summit
-Possible soviet reaction
-Possible North Vietnamese reaction
-Kissinger’s reputation
-Kissinger’s message
-The President's responsibility
-Alternatives
-Bombing of ports
-Soviet ships
-Harbors
-Bridges
-American public support
-Compared with support for bombing
-Casualties
-POWs
-Kissinger’s message to Soviets
-Transmittal
-Contents
-Kissinger’s trip to Moscow
-Soviet ambassador
-North Vietnamese views regarding meetings
-Soviet views
-Concrete proposal on agenda for Kissinger’s meetings
-Negotiations
-Plenary sessions
56
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 329-42 (cont.)
-Porter’s responsibility
-US position
-Private meeting
-May 7th
-Public meeting
-Porter’s strategy
-Le Duc Tho
-Paris visit
-US position regarding private and public meetings
-Plenary sessions
-Schedule
-Kissinger’s trip to Moscow
-Bombing
-Public and private meetings
-Porter
-US conditions
-Dates
-US responses
-Kissinger’s message
Kissinger left at 2:00 pm.
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