346–14

Conversation No. 346-14

Date: June 28, 1972
Time: 3:15-3:30 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
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The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

President's forthcoming press conference
-Anticipated questions and proposed answers
-Defense Department budget
-Melvin R. Laird
-Vietnam negotiations
-Briefing book
-Location of memorandum

Marjorie P. Acker entered at 3:15 pm.

Alexander P. Butterfield
-Meeting

Kissinger talked with the White House operator.

[Conversation No 346-14A]

Requested for a call to Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Kissinger talked with Haig at an unknown time between 3:15 and 3:30 pm.

The President’s forthcoming press conferene
-Vietnam briefing book
-Questions and responses

[End of telephone conversation]

-Butterfield

President's forthcoming press conference
-Anticipated questions and proposed answers
-Vietnam
-Bombing of dikes

The President talked with an unknown person.

[Conversation No. 346-14B]
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Unknown item

[End of telephone conversation]

President's forthcoming press conference
-Anticipated questions and proposed answers
-Vietnam
-Cloud seeding
-The President’s possible responses
-Laos
-Laos
-Mercenary commando raids
-Meo tribesmen
-Peace negotiations
-Withdrawal of US forces
-Laos, Cambodia
-Thailand
-Coalition Government
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-North Vietnamese forces in South Vietnam
-Number of troops
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] and Department of State
-Possible attack on Hue
-Leonid I. Brezhnev's statement
-Fidel Castro
-Strategic Arms and Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-Relative military strength of US and Soviet Union
-Multiple Independently-targeted Reentry Vehicle [MIRV]
-The President’s possible comments

Washington Post story
-Time's coverage

Vietnam peace negotiations
-Questions at forthcoming press conference
-SALT
-Defense budget

Kissinger's schedule
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-President's schedule
-Meeting with People’s Republic of China [PRC] officials in New York

Kissinger left at 3:30 pm.