Date: October 15, 1972
Time: 12:00 pm – 12:14 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table
The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.
[See Conversation No. 220-18]
Vietnam negotiations
-Briefings by Kissinger
-Meeting with Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Administration’s position
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Abrams’s trip to South Vietnam
-Ideas
-Military provisions
-Political provisions
-Political provisions
-Possible questions
-Coalition
-Use of word
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-Possible reaction
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Council of National Concord
-Possible negotiations
-US reaction
-Kissinger’s view
-Possible settlement
-Kissinger’s conversation with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Effect on 1972 election
-Chances for success
-Saigon, Hanoi
-Abrams, Bunker
-Thieu’s role
-Responsibility
-Thieu
-Reaction to possible settlement
-Bunker’s view
-Abrams’s view
-Political provisions
-Thieu
-North Vietnam message
-Changes
-Predictions
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Paris
-Saigon
-Effect of settlement
-1972 election
-Type of settlement
-Timing
-Chances of success
-Possible effect on 1972 election
-Kissinger’s conversation with Melvin R. Laird
-Negotiation refinements
-Shanghai
-Military situation
-Gen. Do Cao Tri
-South Vietnamese
-Military Region [MR] 3
-North Vietnamese
-Pressure for settlement
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-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Letter from the President
-Soviet Union-North Vietnamese relations
-Military aid
-Dobrynin’s cable from the North Vietnamese
-Settlement
-Political pressure
-Merits
-South Vietnam
-Thieu’s position
-Kissinger’s possible meeting with Le Duc Tho in Paris
-Public reports
-Kissinger’s conversation with Haldeman
-Thieu
-Kissinger’s possible trip to South Vietnam
-Itinerary
-Effect of settlement
-US advantages
-Merits
-Politics
-Kissinger’s role