Date: October 22, 1972

Time: 10:10 am – 10:16 am

Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

[See Conversation No. 223-20]

The President’s schedule

-Return from Camp David

-Meeting with Haig

-Executive Office Building [EOB]

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log

(rev. Oct-06)

Vietnam negotiations

-Haig’s call to Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

-The President’s possible meeting with Dobrynin

-Soviet leak

-Evidence

-Impact on Nguyen Van Thieu

-Future settlement

-Time

-1972 election deadline

-Proposals

-Thieu’s future

-Military issues

-US-Soviet Union relations

-The President’s schedule

-Forthcoming meeting with Haig

-Henry A. Kissinger’s schedule

-Possible trip to Hanoi

-The President’s view

-W. Ramsey Clark

-Prisoners of war [POWs]

-Kissinger’s schedule

-Timing of actions compared with the election

-Settlement

-Timing compared with the election

-Status

-Military

-Diplomatic

-Soviet help

-US bombing

-South Vietnam’s future

-Thieu

-Compared with Ngo Dinh Diem

-Future US assistance

-Possible additional deal with North Vietnam

-Political aspect