370–27

Conversation No. 370-27

Date: October 22, 1972
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Time: 12:45 pm - 1:05 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.


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Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Message from Henry A. Kissinger
-Options
-Haig’s view
-Kissinger’s possible trip to Hanoi
-Absence of bilateral settlement
-US bombing halt and reduction of bombing
-Possible meeting in Paris
-Haig’s view
-Gen. Nyugen Van Thieu
-1972 election
-Possible bombing halt
-Possible effect on a settlement
-Possible Public Statement
-Possible bombing halt
-Moscow and Peking
-The President’s view
-Possible trip to Hanoi
-Joseph C. Kraft
-Eugene J. McCarthy, W[illiam] Averell Harriman
-Kissinger's Schedule
-Possible trip to Hanoi
-Prospects
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-Bilateral
-Thieu
-Cease fire
-Kissinger's Location
-Possible return to Washington, DC
-Hanoi
-Bombing
-Anatoly F. Dobrynin
-Possible Reply
-Bombing
-Military Situation
-Cease-fire
-Thieu’s cooperation
-Possible Responses
-Ending bombing in exchange for return of prisoners of war [POWs]
-US position on Thieu
-Thieu’s position
-US peace settlement offer
-Thieu’s public response
-Possible break with Thieu
-Thieu’s possible veto power
-Compared to a break with North Vietnam
-US Domestic Situation
-State Department
-Melvin R. Laird
-Press
-William P. Rogers
-The President’s view
-Possible Public Statement
-May 8, 1972 condition
-North Vietnamese withdrawal from South Vietnam
-Partition of South Vietnam
-Possible break with Thieu
-Compared to a break with North Vietnam
-Possible public statement
-Refusal to impose settlement
-Progress in negotiations
-North Vietnamese forces in South Vietnam
-Haig's possible conversation with Anatoly Dobrynin
-Kissinger's Schedule
-Paris
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-Le Duc Tho
-Possible trip to Hanoi
-1972 election
-Pham Van Dong
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-1972 election
-Bombing
-Possible halt or reduction
-Mining
-20th parallel
-Haig's possible conversation with Dobrynin
-Kissinger’s message to Hanoi
-Laos, Cambodia
-US POWs
-Democratic Republic of Vietnam [DRV] [North Vietnam]
-Saigon, Phnom Penh, Bangkok
-Unilateral action
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Washington, DC
-Arnaud de Borchgrave interview [with Dong]
-Request for no public action by DRV
-US commitment to draft agreement
-Possible bombing halt
-Kissinger's Companions
-William H. Sullivan
-Winston Lord

Liberal establishment
-Kissinger
-The President’s view
-Sullivan
-Lord
-Haig’s view

Helmut (“Hal”) Sonnenfeldt
-Kissinger’s recent trip

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Kissinger's message
-Soviet Union
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-Haig’s possible conversation with Dobrynin
-Possible response
-Timing
-Bombing
-Haig's possible conversation with Dobrynin
-Secrecy
-1972 election
-DRV
-The President’s efforts and goal
-Negotiated settlement
-Haig’s possible conversation with Dobrynin

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:45 pm.

Refreshment

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:05 pm.

Haig’s possible conversation with Dobrynin
-The President’s May 8, 1972 decision
-1972 election
-Kissinger
-Brezhnev, Thieu
-Bombing halt
-1972 election
-The President’s view
-Secrecy

Haig left at 1:05 pm.