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Conversation No. 776-4

Date: September 14, 1972
Time: 9:18 am - 9:50 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Vietnam War peace negotiations
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Possible treaty revisions
-National Committee for Reconciliation
-Composition
-Thieu’s view
-National Liberation Front [NLF]
-Government of South Vietnam [GVN]
-Thieu's position
-Haig’s view
-Kissinger's view
-North Vietnam's stance
-Possible North Vietnam responses
-US proposals
-Thieu
-Thieu
-US proposals
-Kissinger’s view
-Instructions for Kissinger
-Thieu
-Present situation in Vietnam
-Present trends
-US stance
-The President's opinion
-Possible American opposition
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-Impact on public opinion
-The President’s view
-Chalmers Roberts
-Max Frankel
-Haig’s view
-Press
-Thieu's position
-Coalition government
-US polling information
-Electoral commission
-Possible composition
-Election procedures
-International supervision
-Communists
-Future elections
-Thieu's position
-Instructions to Kissinger
-Thieu
-Domestic US reaction
-Coalition government
-Negotiations
-Previous negotiations
-US military action
-Effect
-Effect on Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Relations with North Vietnam
-The President's visit to PRC
-The President's visit to the Soviet Union
-North Vietnam
-The President’s view
-Military action
-US popular attitude
-Mining of Haiphong harbor
-Effect on national attitude
-PRC
-Soviet Union
-Momentum of talks
-Continuance
-US position
-The President’s view
-George S. McGovern's effect
-October 15, 1972 meeting
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-Proposals for Soviet negotiations

Future negotiations with Soviet Union
-Kissinger
-US negotiating tactics
-European Security Conference
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT] II talks
-Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions [MBFR]
-Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe [CSCE]
-Final conference
-Lend-Lease agreement
-Trade package with Soviet Union
-Future summit with Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Trade agreement
-Victor Louis
-London Times

US foreign trade policies
-Possible Kissinger press conference
-Response to possible leaks
-Agriculture Department
-PRC
-Commerce Department
-Lend-Lease
-Peter G. Peterson
-William P. Rogers
-Need for White House coordination

US foreign policy
-Wheat sale
-Briefing by Kissinger
-George Meany
-Briefing on PRC wheat sale
-Rogers
-Haig’s view
-Rogers
-Communique
-Progress of talks
-Rogers
-European Security Conference
-Kissinger
-Communist Party of the Soviet Union [CPSU]
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-Soviet Union-US relations
-European Security Conference
-Expected Rogers response
-Communique
-Developments on issue of Lend-Lease
-Momentum for SALT talks
-Briefing for Rogers by Kissinger
-European security talks
-Brezhnev
-Rogers
-Work on European security talks
-Kissinger
-Brezhnev
-Soviet position on European security
-Kissinger reaction
-Allocation of troops
-Soviet proposal
-European Security Conference
-Central Europe
-Rogers's reaction
-Rogers
-Status of current talks
-SALT
-Lend-Lease
-Trade negotiations
-Kissinger reaction
-State Department
-Communication with allies
-Proposed text of agreement
-Rogers's possible reaction
-Date for announcement
-State Department
-Staffing
-Kissinger's schedule
-Talks with the President
-Talks with Rogers
-Camp David
-Press announcement
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-Communication to allies
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Negotiations with the Soviet Union
-European Security Conference
-Status
-Timing of negotiations
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-Briefing
-MBFR
-The President’s view
-Negotiations
-Kissinger
-The President’s view
-Rogers
-European Security Conference
-Joint communique with Soviet Union
-Announcement date
-SALT II
-Rogers
-Kissinger

Haig left at 9:50 am.