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