812–12

Conversation No. 812-12

Date: November 3, 1972
Time: 11:17 am - 11:27 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Vietnam War
-Kissinger’s recent meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

The President’s schedule

Vietnam War
-Settlement agreement
-Public relations [PR]
-Kissinger’s meeting with John W. Chancellor, November 2, 1972
-Washington Post editorials, Louis P. Harris
-Washington Star
-Kissinger’s role
-Second term
-William P. Rogers’s role
-Melvin R. Laird’s role
-Kissinger’s role
-Soviet Union
-Press relations
-Max Frankel
-Crosby S. Noyes
-Washington Star
-Howard K. Smith
-Tone
-Rebuttal to George S. McGovern
-Strategy
-“Peace is at hand”
-Focus on issues
-Format
-Television [TV]
-Ronald L. Ziegler’s view
-Backgrounder
-Attribution
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Conversation No. 812-12 (cont’d)

-Quotes
-Tone
-Conservatives
-John Birch Society
-Advantages
-Press relations
-Format
-Possible meeting with senior correspondents
-Timing
-November 3, 1972
-Advantages
-Second term
-First month
-“Peace is at hand”
-Compared to Kissinger’s India-
Pakistan War press conference,
December 14, 1971
-Timing
-Press coverage
-November 4 and 5, 1972
-Advisability
-Ziegler
-Airplane
-Alternative to Kissinger
-Ziegler
-Single story
-Tone

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 11:20 am.

The President’s forthcoming telephone calls
-List

Vietnam War
-Settlement agreement
-PR
-McGovern

The President’s telephone calls
-List
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan.-08)

Conversation No. 812-12 (cont’d)

-[William Mills] of Los Angeles
-November 4, 1972

Butterfield left at 11:24 am.

Vietnam War
-Settlement agreement
-PR
-McGovern
-Rebuttal
-Kissinger’s role
-Arguments
-“Peace is at hand”
-Hoax
-Peace
-Disintegration
-Success
-Rebuttal
-Politicos’ role
-Kissinger’s role

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:24 am.

The President’s schedule
-Coat
-Briefcase
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon’s location

The President, Kissinger, and Bull left at 11:27 am.