Date: January 23, 1973
Time: Between 9:05 pm and 9:40 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with William E. Timmons, Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield, James O.
Eastland, Carl B. Albert, Thomas P. (“Tip”) O’Neill, Gerald R. Ford, Hugh Scott, Spiro T.
Agnew, Henry A. Kissinger, Ronald L. Ziegler, and Stephen B. Bull.
[General conversation]
-Vietnam settlement
Greetings
Photograph session
-Arrangements
-Kissinger
-Press
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Gerald L. Warren, John P. D’Arcy, the White House photographer, and members of the press
entered at 9:07 pm.
-Vietnam settlement
-Soviet Union [?]
-Signing [?]
-The President’s speech
Photograph session
-Arrangements
[General conversation]
Photograph session
-Length
Bull, Warren, D’Arcy, the White House photographer, and members of the press left at 9:11 pm.
Refreshment order
-Manolo Sanchez
Vietnam settlement
-Meeting with bipartisan Congressional leaders
-Release of agreement
-Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, Armed Services,
Appropriations Committees
-Other attendees
-Length
-Initialing
-Signing in Paris
-Foreign ministers
-Provisions
-Cease-fire
-Troop withdrawals
-South Vietnamese government
-The President’s use of term Indochina
-Laos and Cambodia
-Continuing negotiations
-Confidentiality
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-Briefings
-Timmons
-Bipartisan Congressional leaders
-Other members of Congress
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-William P. Rogers
-Importance
-Timing, location
-Attendees
-Wilbur D. Mills [?]
-Charles H. Percy [?]
-The President’s schedule
-Press briefing
-Lyndon B. Johnson funeral
-Laos and Cambodia
-Provisions
-North Vietnam
-People’s Republic of China, PRC
-Negotiations
-Cease-fire
-Signing
-Laos
-Withdrawal of foreign troops
-Cambodia
-Cease-fire
-Indochina
-Cambodia, Laos
-Military operations
-Laos
-North Vietnamese forces
-Ho Chi Minh Trail
-Cambodia
-South Vietnam
-Supplies
-Laos, Cambodia
-Ho Chi Minh Trail
-Saigon
-Signing
-Withdrawal of forces
-Bombing
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-South Vietnam
-Laos
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-International Commission of Control and Supervision [ICCS]
-Missing In Action [MIAs]
-Cease-fire
-POWs
-Location of return
-Time of return
-Announcement
-North Vietnam
-Compared to October 26, 1972
-Release of text
-Le Duc Tho’s press conference in Paris
-POWs
-Laos
-PRC
-The President’s conversation
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-John Downey
-PRC
-Cambodia, Laos
-Cease-fire
-Effective time
-Press relations
-The President’s speech
-Broadcast
-Distribution of text
-Laos and Cambodia
-Complexity
-Congressional leaders
-Briefings
-Ziegler
-James R. Schlesinger [?]
-Laos and Cambodia
-Lon Nol
-Khmer Rouge
-Expectations for future
Initial conflict
-Compared to Korea
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-Supervision
-Four Party signing
-Viet Cong
-ICCS supervision
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Canada, Poland, Hungary [?]
-Regions
-Military equipment
-Commission Report
-Briefings
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Haig
-Scheduling
-Kissinger
-Haig
-Kissinger
-Length
-Location
-The President’s speech
Timmons, et al., left at 9:40 pm.