Date: December 30, 1972

Time: Unknown between 10:12 am and 10:54 am

Location: Camp David Hard Wire

The President dictated a memorandum for the file.

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Vietnam negotiations

-Announcement

-Suspension of bombing

-Resumption of negotiations

-Henry A. Kissinger

-Le Duc Tho

-Executive decisions

-Charles W. Colson

-John A. Scali

-Bombing

-Compared to May 8, 1972 decision

-Invasion

-Public support

-Henry A. Kissinger

-Ronald L. Ziegler

-Scali

-May 8, 1972 decision

-Compared to Hanoi bombing

-Success

-Hindsight

-Laos

-Public perception

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log

(rev. July-08)

-Announcement

-Public perception

-Press relations

-Congress

-Colson

-Scali

-U. Alexis Johnson

-Reaction to decision

-Public reaction

-Col. Richard T. Kennedy

-Soviet Union

-Reaction to public opinion

-Kissinger

-Opposition

-Australia

-Johnson protests over bombing

-William B. Saxby

-Wilbur D. Mills

-Edmund. S. Muskie

-Hubert A. Humphrey

-Success

-Congress

-Press relations

-Protests over bombing

-Gerald L. Warren

-The President’s reassurance

-Television [TV] appearance

-Kissinger

-Paris peace talks

-Colson

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