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  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Alexander M. Haig
October 23, 1972
Conversation No. 806-1

Date: October 23, 1972
Time: Unknown between 11:20 pm and 11:35 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr..

Henry A. Kissinger
-Telephone conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

Vietnam negotiations
-North Vietnamese
-Note
-Tone
-Possible settlement of war
-Timing
-1972 election
-Bombing
-Kissinger

Kissinger

Vietnam negotiations
-William P. Rogers
-Haig’s briefing
-Melvin R. Laird
-Attitude during negotiations
-Bureaucracy
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Kissinger
-Attitude after 1972 election
-Military equipment
-Settlement
-North Vietnam
-Thieu
-Pressures
-The President’s conversation with Rogers
-South Korea, Taiwan, Republic of China
-Charges
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)


-Kissinger’s memorandum
-The President’s trip to Peking and Moscow
-US press
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Influence
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Bunker
-October elections
-Rigging
-Settlement
-Kissinger
-Timing
-1972 election
-Strategy for press coverage
-Press coverage
-Kissinger
-Nature of press release
-1972 election
-Meeting
-Timing
-Thieu
-Possible meeting with the President
-Kissinger
-US support
-Haig’s view
-Possible leak from Saigon
-Cease-fire
-Cease-fire

New York visit by the President
-Crowd estimates
-Press coverage
-Washington Post
-New York Times

George S. McGovern's position on the Vietnam War

Vietnam negotiations
-Settlement
-Progress
-US offers
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)


-Response
-Communist government in South Vietnam
-Bombing
-1972 election
-North Vietnamese strategy
-Thieu
-Thieu
-Kissinger
-US-Soviet Union relations
-Dobrynin
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Meeting with Haig
-The President’s schedule
-Soviet objectives
-Settlement
-Delay
-Handling of Dobrynin visit
-Haig’s schedule

Haig left at an unknown time before 11:35 pm.
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