574–6

Conversation No. 574-6

Date: September 17, 1971
Time: 11:29 am - 11:41 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Vietnam
-Military action
-Timing
-North Vietamese
-The President’s attitude
-[Cornell Bogdan]
-(Madame) Nguyen Thi Binh
-Bombing
-Effect
-The Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Demilitarized zone [DMZ]
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Duration
-Announcement
-Timing
-North Vietnam
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 574-6 (cont.)


-Nicolae Ceaucescu
-North Vietnamese
-Bombing
-South Vietnamese elections
-President’s views and options
-Blockade
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] initiative
-USSR initiative
-Ending the war
-Timing
-1972 Presidential election
-Peace settlement
-Timing
-North Vietnamese response
-Election in the US
-Polls

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 11:29 and
11:41 am.

[Conversation No. 574-6a]

[See Conversation No. 9-60]

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-POWs
-Blockade
-Conclusion of conflict
-1972 Presidential election
-Polls
-Impact on peace settlement
-Possible escalation
-Casualties
-Support in the US
-POWs
-Blockade of North Vietnam
-After Presidential election
-POWs
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 574-6 (cont.)


-President’s concern
-US foreign aid
-The President's conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr. September 16, 1971
-Guidance
-Eellsworth F. Bunker
-William J. Porter
-Relation to types of government
-Greece
-Henry J. Tasca
-Entering war
-Ngo Dinh Diem
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Ending war
-Kissinger’s comment to the press
-Coups, communist takeover
-Responsibility
-Ending war
-The President’s plan
-Honorable exit
-Dishonorable exit
-The President's new conferences
-Comments
-Opponents'
-North Vietnam
-Refugees
-The President's visit in 1956
-Catholic Bishop of Da Nang
-Number of people
-Death
-Prison camps
-Duration of war
-The President’s news conference of September 16, 1971
-Television
-Leadership
-Congress
-Draft
-Mansfield amendment
-Effectiveness of the President's action
-Gen. Lewis B. Hershey
-Kissinger's press briefing
-Cambodia
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 574-6 (cont.)


-Laos
-US position
-John A. Scali
-Kissinger's comment about the press

US society
-Morale

1972 election
-Eugene J. McCarthy
-Herbert Stein
-Kissinger's meeting
-Comparison to the other candidates
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Statement
-McCarthy
-Kissinger’s efforts
-West Coast
-New York
-Stein

Congressional affairs
-Conservatives
-Senate
-Opposition to the military service draft
-Military service draft
-James L. Buckley
-Vote
-Gordon L. Allott
-Speeches
-Draft by the administration
-Conference

Press conference
-The President's handling

Kissinger left at 11:41 am.