Secret White House Tapes

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391–8
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Raymond K. Price
  • Henry A. Kissinger
  • White House operator
November 1, 1972
Conversation No. 391-8

Date: November 1, 1972
Time: 4:12 pm - 4:23 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Raymond K. Price, Jr.

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with John Cardinal Krol

Vietnam negotiations
-Settlement agreement
-Krol’s stance
-Nguyen Van Thieu’s stance
-Surrender
-1972 election
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
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Conversation No. 391-8 (cont’d)

-Thieu

The President’s speech, “Look to the Future”
-Draft

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger

[Conversation No. 391-8A]

The President’s forthcoming speech, “Look to the Future”
-Vietnam section
-Price’s draft
-Price meeting with Kissinger
-Time
-The President’s revisions
-Tone
-Kissinger’s review

[End of telephone conversation]

The President’s forthcoming speech, “Look to the Future”
-Vietnam section
-Reference to Laos
-Kissinger’s view
-Bombing halt
-Contents
-The President’s review
-Length
-Page seven


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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]

-Faith
-1972 campaign
-Candidates
-Traditional behavior
-Spending promises
-The President
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

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(rev. Mar.-08)

Conversation No. 391-8 (cont’d)

-Bureaucratic meddling

[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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Vietnam negotiations
-Settlement agreement
-Tone
-Cease-fire
-Indochina
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Election in South Vietnam
-Thieu
-Tenure
-Thieu
-Complaint
-Fear of US departure
-Compared to South Koreans

Price left at 4:23 pm.

The President talked with the White House operator at 4:23 pm.

[Conversation No. 391-8B]

[See Conversation No. 32-121]

[End of telephone conversation]
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