Date: October 5, 1972
Time: 9:16 am - 9:50 am
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.
Nguyen Van Thieu
-Negotiations
-Recalcitrance
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
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Soviet Jewry
-Emigration
-The President’s forthcoming press conference
-[William P. Rogers]
-Senate
-US relations with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
[USSR]
-US public relations
-George S. McGovern
-Senate
-Public debate
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Senate Foreign Relations Committee meeting, October 4, 1972
-Jacob K. Javits
-US-Soviet relations
-Kissinger’s points
-J. William Fulbright
-John Sherman Cooper
-John J. Sparkman
-William B. Spong, Jr.
Andrei A. Gromyko
-Helicopter
Vietnam
-Possible settlement
-The President’s forthcoming press conference
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Thieu
-South Vietnamese government
-North Vietnam
-Unknown persons comment
-Watergate
-Negotiations
-Hanoi
-Cease-fire and bombing halt
-1972 election
-1972 election
-Saigon
-Hanoi
-Bombing
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-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Hanoi, US peace movement
-Thieu
-September 11, 1972 publicity
-August 29, 1972 proposal
-The President’s January 2[5], 1972 proposal
-McGovern’s Vietnam speech
-Response
-The President’s instructions
-Negotiations
-Hanoi
-Status of talks
-Kissinger’s view
-Timing of possible settlement
-Possible settlement
-Thieu
-North Vietnamese in South Vietnam
-US troop withdrawal
-POWs
-Haig
-Possible US withdrawal
-POWs
-Cease-fire
-Timing
--1972 election
-Bombing
-North Vietnam
-Withdrawal
-Cease-fire
-Unilateral basis
-Prisoner exchange
-Thieu
-Haig
-Role
-Message
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Bombing
-Negotiations
-Timing
-1972 election
-Haig
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-The President’s conversation with Gromyko, October 2, 1972
-McGovern’s position on issues
-Peace offer
-Kissinger’s schedule
-The President’s forthcoming press conference
-The President’s forthcoming press conference
-Busing
-Negotiations
-McGovern
-Kissinger’s view
-Moscow
-Press treatment
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-1972 election
-Amnesty
-Legalization of marijuana
-Unknown issue
-Federal spending
-Welfare programs
-Europe
-Asia
-US bases
-Speech, October 4, 1972
-Isolationism
-US allies
-Indira Gandhi
-Pham Van Dong
-Haig
-Rogers
-Involvement
-McGovern’s forthcoming speech
-Negotiations
-1972 election
-Thieu
-Roscoe Drummond
-McGovern
-W[illiam] Averell Harriman
-Settlement
-North Vietnamese
-Kissinger’s concern
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The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 9:16 am and 9:50
am.
[Conversation No. 355-21A]
Request
[End of telephone conversation]
-Bombing
-Bunker
-Possible involvement
-Kissinger’s possible role
-Americans
-Thieu
-US economic aid
Kissinger's schedule
-William F. Buckley, Jr.
-Upcoming conversation with Kissinger
-The President's schedule
-Proposal
-John N. Mitchell
-Stephen B. Bull