378–7

Conversation No. 378-7

Date: October 31, 1972
Time: 11:56 am - 1:05 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman at 11:56 am.

The President’s conversation with Nelson A. Rockefeller, October
31, 1972
-Rockefeller’s demands
-Vietnam negotiations
-Hanoi’s recent statement
-Reaction
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Ronald L. Ziegler

Vietnam negotiations
-Henry A. Kissinger’s October 26, 1972 press briefing
-John A. Scali
-Coverage of points
-Use of phrase “peace is at hand”
-The President’s view
-Scali
-Progress


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Kissinger entered at 12:15 pm.

Vietnam negotiations
-Hanoi’s recent statement
-Analysis
-Reaction
-Tone
-Progress
-Right
-Left
-Left
-North Vietnamese request of US to sign settlement
-Hanoi’s recent statement
-Analysis
-State Department
-Hanoi’s view
-Anguish
-Betrayal
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-US position
-Politics
-Build-up and let-down
-1972 election
-North Vietnamese troops in South Vietnam, coalition government
-North Vietnamese troops in South Vietnam
-Kissinger’s proposal
-Tran Van Lam
-Public relations
-Los Angeles, Orange County
-Lam
-Military Region [MR]
-Analogy to Soviet Union troops in Poland
-Enforcing settlement
-Infiltration
-Soviet Union
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Terms of agreement
-Details
-Intelligence reports
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-Rockefeller
-Coalition government
-Intelligence reports
-Saigon
-North Vietnamese
-Seizure of territory
-Timing
-[Unintelligible]
-Pull-out of North Vietnamese troops from South Vietnam
-US military action
-Pull-out of North Vietnamese troops
-Kissinger’s media and press relations
-Possible backgrounder
-Max Frankel
-Unknown person’s recent commentary
-Frankel, [Arnold] Eric Sevareid
-John Chancellor, Howard K. Smith
-Howard K. Smith
-Tone
-1972 election
-Kissinger’s recent meeting with Hugh S. Sidey
-Television networks
-New York Times
-Richard (“Dick”) Wilson
-Recent column
-Possibility of earlier settlement
-Possible backgrounder
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Settlement
-Timing
-1972 election
-Politics
-Casualties

Kissinger left at 12:26 pm.


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Vietnam issue
-Poll results
-The President’s positions compared with to George S.
McGovern’s positions
-Bombing halt
-1972 election
-Announcement
-McGovern’s recent TV appearance
-New York Daily News
-Bombing, mining
-Political settlement
-Post-war reconstruction
-Withdrawal of military personal
-South Vietnam
-Bombing halt
-Settlement
-Timing
-Corruption
-Sabotage charge
-George H. Gallup
-Corruption issue
-Protestants, Catholics
-McGovern strategy
-Florida
-Tallahassee
-Irish-Americans, Polish-Americans
-Colorado
-McGovern support
-Democrats
-Vietnam issue
-Post-1972 election effect
-Negotiation status


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Haldeman left at 1:05 pm.