725–26

Conversation No. 725-26

Date: May 16, 1972
Time: 10:55 am - 11:03 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Vietnam
-Doves
-Kissinger's previous meeting
-Support for President
-Congressional action
-Funds cutoff
-Timing
-President's Soviet trip
-Effect
-Kissinger's points
-Doves' position
-Partnership
-Resolution of support for President
-North Vietnam
-President's meeting with Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Plenary sessions
-Peace negotiations
-Conditions
-President's offer
-Conditions
-Seven points
-US conditions
-Prisoners of War [POW] return
-Cease-fire
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-Plenary sessions
-Advantages and disadvantages

John B. Connally
-Trip to Argentina, Brazil, and Colombia
-Purposes
-Time
-Other countries to visit
-Peru
-Appointment to President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory
Board [PFIAB]
-Resignation as Secretary of Treasury
-Announcement
-Time
-Reasons
-Replacements
-George P. Shultz
-Caspar W. Weinberger


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-Resignation
-Kissinger's knowledge
-Tenure
-January expiration
-Monetary and economic policy work
-Reluctance to take positions
-Delay
-Length
-Compared with Shultz
-Kissinger’s view
-Compared with Shultz
-Resignation
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-Idanell B. (“Nellie”) Connally
-Possible trip to Africa
-Appointment to PFIAB
-Previous week's activity

Kissinger's schedule
-Cabinet meeting
-Connally's resignation
-Announcement
-Press announcement

The President and Kissinger left at 11:03 am.