Date: January 22, 1973
Time: Unknown between 8:50 pm and 9:45 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr. and Raymond K. Price, Jr.
Lyndon B. Johnson’s death
-Communication to Henry A. Kissinger
-Method
-Timing
-Method
Kissinger’s schedule
-Lon Nol
-Le Duc Tho
-Communication
-Timing
Vietnam settlement
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Attitudes
-Harry S. Truman
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Public support
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-Postponement
-Ronald L. Ziegler’s Report
-Lon
-Saigon
-Initializing
-North Vietnamese
-Kissinger
-Announcement
-Kissinger’s and Haig’s role
-Lon
-Relations with US
-Statements
-Cease-fire
-Orders
-Thieu
-Corps commanders, division commanders
-Announcement
-Lon [?]
-Intentions
-Press representative [?]
-Haig’s role
-Protocol
-Language
-Thieu
-Statement by the President
-Length
-President’s contact with Thieu
-Wording
-Revisions
-Kissinger
-Thieu’s Position
-Aid to South Vietnam
-Reciprocity
-Wording
-Tone
-Previous Public Statements
-Johnson
-Final Sentence
-President’s Last Conversation with Johnson
-Date
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-Tone
-Claims
-Terms of Agreement
-Obligation
-Opposition to war
-Compared previous draft
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Opposition to President’s policies
-Peace with honor
-Compared to surrender
-George S. McGovern supporters
-Kissinger
-Duration
-First sentence
-Revisions
-Page three
-Thieu
-Effect
-Sacrifices of service members
-Kissinger’s possible review
-Rewriting
-Avoidance
-Confidentiality
-State Department
-William P. Rogers
-Kissinger
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Reasons
-Johnson’s death
-National day of mourning
-Announcement
-Tho
-Timing
-Kissinger
-National day of mourning
-Lon [?]
-South Vietnamese
-Announcement
-Bombing of North Vietnam
-Cease-fire
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-Ziegler
-Kissinger
-Ziegler’s press conferences
-Dates
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[National Security]
[Duration: 4m 43s]
Richard M. Helms
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Vietnam settlement
-Prisoners of War [POWs] wives
-Flight doctors
-Bombing missions
-Draft resisters
-Amnesty
-Canada
-Message
-Announcement
The President, Haig and Price left at 9:45 pm.