Date: November 3, 1972

Time: 9:12 am – 9:16 am

Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Edward W. Brooke.

[See Conversation No. 391-23]

Greetings

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Vietnam

-Break-through

-Previous briefing for Brooke

-Speculation on meetings

-North Vietnam’s delays

-Timing with the election

-Possible breakdown

-Break-through

-Brooke’s statements

-Ceasefire

-Prisoners of war [POWs]

-South Vietnam’s self-determination

-Coalition government

-Final meeting before signing

-Agreement on details

-1968 bombing halt

-Date

-North Vietnamese posture

-The President’s response

-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

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