Date: August 1, 1972
Time: 3:05 pm – 3:35 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President talked with William E. Timmons.
[Conversation No. 351-16A]
[See Conversation No. 28-32; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]
Defense budget vote in Congress
-End the war resolution
-Ted Stevens [?]
-Marlow W. Cook
The President conferred with an unknown person between 3:05 pm and 3:07 pm.
The President’s forthcoming meeting with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
[End of conferral]
Haig entered at 3:07 pm.
Congratulations to Timmons
The President’s trip to the funeral of Allen J. Ellender
-The President’s talk with John L. McClellan
-Joe D. Waggonner, Jr.
-Russell B. Long
News summary
-Defense budget cuts
-Size
[End of telephone conversation]
The President’s talk with Timmons
-Defense vote
-George S. McGovern
-Size of cut
Henry A. Kissinger’s schedule
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-Aircraft
-Communications channel
-Paris
-Arthur K. Watson
-Message
-Haig’s talk with an unknown person [Winston Lord?]
Vietnam
-North Vietnamese
-Negotiations
-Value
-Absence of accomplishment
-Stance
-Political settlement
-Possible military action
-Timing
-1972 election
-Recent casualties
-B-52
-End of war
-Bombing and mining
-Railroads
-Effectiveness
-Negotiations
-Subjects
-Kissinger
-Congressional resolutions
-Impact on North Vietnam
-McGovern
-North Vietnamese
-Meetings
-Publicity
-Realism
-Atmosphere of negotiations
-Importance
-Kissinger
-People’s Republic Of China [PRC], Soviet Union
-US negotiating stand
-Impact of 1972 election
-McGovern
-Impact of candidacy on North Vietnam
-Chances of winning
-The President’s security
-George C. Wallace
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-North Vietnamese willingness to settle
-October 1972
-1972 election
-Kissinger
-Bombing of dikes, Hanoi
-Tokyo, Osaka, Krupps plant, Essen, Dresden, Hamburg
-US dead
-Bombing of North Vietnam
-Nuclear weapons
-PRC
-Dikes
-Negotiations
-Nguyen Van Thieu’s view
-Talk with Haig
-Statement
-Mining
-Petroleum pipeline to South
-Capacity
-Pumping stations
-North Vietnam dikes
-Population in area
-Warning
-Purpose
-Crops
-Need for more military pressure
-PRC
-1972 election
-International pressure
-Bombing
-Power stations, railyards
-Negotiations
-Attrition of North Vietnamese
-Communications, transportation
-Military action in South
-Hue offensive
-North Vietnamese intentions
-Action south of Saigon
-North Vietnam vulnerabilities
-Bombing
-Effectiveness
-Dikes
-United Nations [UN] Secretary General
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-George H.W. Bush
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-US public opinion
-Criticism of US
-U Thant
-Source of information
-Communists
-Civilian deaths
-North Vietnam
UN
-Call from Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Bush
John D. Ehrlichman talked with the President between 3:26 pm and 3:29 pm.
[Conversation No. 351-16B]
[See Conversation No. 28-33; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]
The President’s meeting with Haig
Ehrlichman’s forthcoming meeting with the President
-Economic aid
-Ehrlichman’s ideas
Inflation
-Buying power
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Public opinion polls
-Administration’s record
-Herbert Stein, George P. Shultz
-Election year
[End of telephone conversation]
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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[Duration: 2m 16s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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McGovern’s schedule
-Meetings with North Vietnamese, September 1971
-Paris
-Saigon
-Incident at church
Kissinger’ schedule
-Talk with Watson and William J. Porter
-Children
-Duration
-Announcement
-Public interest
Haig left at 3:35 pm.