337–3

Conversation No. 337-3

Date: May 10, 1972
Time: 9:20-9:50 am
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Greetings

President's meeting with Walter H. Annenberg (?)

Weather

Vietnam
-Air strikes
-Completion
-Report
-Visibility
-Damage
-Bridge
-Chinese and Soviet ships
-Haiphong Harbor
-Restrictions on pilots
-Blockade
-Soviet ships
-Movement
-North Vietnamese offensive
-An Loc/Saigon area
-Attacks
-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN] [South Vietnam] divisions
-Military Region One
-Supplies
-Air strikes
-ARVN patrols
-North Vietnam losses
-Kontum
-ARVN counterattacks
-Weather
-Rainy season
-Kontum
-Pleiku
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 337-3 (cont.)

-Central Highlands
-Military Region One
-An Loc
-Loss
-Compared to Quang Tri
-Soviet Summit
-Possible cancellation
-North Vietnamese offensive
-President's options
-Blockade
-Compared to Cambodia, World War III
-Protests to Kissinger's staff
-Public support
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Volume


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Vietnam
-Blockade
-President’s peace offers
Joseph C. Kraft commentary
-Negotiations
-George H.W. Bush
-William J. Porter
-Plenary session
-Xuan Thuy
-Moscow
-Le Duc Tho
-Paris
-Blockade
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 337-3 (cont.)

-Public support
-Comparison with missile crises
-Washington Post
-New York Times
-Three networks
-Republicans
-Intellectuals
-Comparison with Cambodian invasion
-Fears of World War III
Soviet Union and People’s Republic of China [PRC] responses
-Strength
-US assessments
-PRC
-Kissinger’s message
-Contents
-Soviet ships
-Kissinger’s call to Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Soviet Summit
-Soviet response
-Timing
-German treaties
-US statement
-Public relations efforts
-Wording of statements
-Kissinger call to Yitzhak Rabin
-Jewish groups
-Hijacking
-Jewish groups
-Position
-Blockade
-President’s offers
-Statement to Soviets
-Support for the President
-US actions
-Soviet summit
-Kissinger's backgrounder
-Response
-Department of Defense
-Melvin R. Laird
-Call
-Speech for John C. Stennis
-Tone
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 337-3 (cont.)

-William P. Rogers
-Demeanor
-The President’s view
-President's demeanor
-Chou En-lai
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-Television
-President's previious speech
-Response
-Marvin L. Kalb's party
-Frank F. Church
-Indonesian ambassador
-Max Frankel
-Soviets
-Middle East
-Jewish groups
-North Vietnam offensive
-Soviet arms
-Soviet Summit
-Compared with India-Pakistan crisis
-Senate Democratic response
-James B. Allen
-Rebuttal to Church
-Ted Stevens
-Blockade
-Soviet Summit
-US stakes in Vietnam
-North Vietnam offensive
-South Vietnam Success
-The President’s view
-An Loc
-North Vietnam problems
-Supplies from Soviets
-PRC aid
-Air strikes
-Railroads
-Petroleum, Oils, and Lubricants [POLs]
-Targets
-Frequency
-Damage
-B-52s
-Supporting aircraft
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 337-3 (cont.)

-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Losses
-Blockade
-North Vietnam response
-Bush
-Porter
-New York Times
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston commentary
-Public support
-\"Hawks\" and \"Doves\"
-Publicity
-Telegrams
-Volume
-Television reports
-\"Man on the street\" interviews
-General Infantry [GI’s]
-Support for President
-Prisoner of war [POW] wives

President's schedule
-Florida trip
-Advisability
-Dinner for Duke Law School class
-Future schedule

Kissinger's schedule
-Return to Washington

Vietnam
-Blockade
-Laird press conference
-John B. Connally press conference
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 337-3 (cont.)

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Vietnam
-Blockade
-Kissinger's call to Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-US intentions
-The President’s view
-Soviet ships
-Compared to Cuban missile crisis
-Compared to Laos
-US troops in South Vietnam
-Message to Soviets

Kissinger left at 9:50 am.