Date: October 14, 1972

Time: Unknown between 11:01 am and 11:17 am

Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Vietnam negotiations

-Agreement

-Public statements

-Effect on Saigon

-Possible television appearance by the President

-Nygyen Van Thieu

-Settlement provisions

-Vietnam

-Recognition of independence

-Cease-fire

-US

-Mine removal

-Views of agreement

-William H. Sullivan

-Melvin R. Laird

-Comment to aide at the Pentagon

-Robert LaFollette

-Withdrawals

-Timeframe

-US advisors, military attaches, civilian personnel

-US bases

-Vietnam

-Laos, Cambodia

-Military aid

-Replacements

-North Vietnam

-Prisoners of War [POWs]

-Christmas

-Missing in Action [MIAs]

-Prisoners held by South Vietnam

-Thieu

-Length of time for potential settlement

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-South Vietnam

-Self-Determination

-National Council of National Reconciliation and Concord

-Functions

-Consultations

-Coalition government

-Thieu

-[Committee of National Reconciliation] [NCR]

-Thieu

-National Liberation Front [NLF]

-Provisional Revolutionary Government [PRG]

-Recognition

-Meeting with the President

-Midway Island, Hawaii, Asia

-Timing after the election

-Kissinger’s possible trip to Hanoi

-San Clemente

Timing of meeting

-Reunification

-International Commission of Control and Supervision [ICSS]

-North Vietnamese

-Motives

-Bombing, mining

-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

-People’s Republic of China [PRC]

-Soviet Union

-PRC supplies

-Bombing

-Troops in South Vietnam

-Le Duc Tho

-Previous conversation with Kissinger

-Haig

-NLF

-Views

-Demobilization

-Haig

-Message

-Armistice compared to permanent peace

-Moscow

The President’s schedule

-Soviet official [Timofey B. Guzhenko]

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-Peter G. Peterson

-Peter M. Flanigan

-US-Soviet Union maritime agreement

Kissinger left at 11:17 am.