Conversation: 032-011
Prev:  032-010 Next: 032-012Start Date: 24-Oct-1972 12:10 AM
End Date: 24-Oct-1972 12:17 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Rogers, William P.; Recording Device: White House Telephone
NARA Description:
On October 24, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and William P. Rogers talked on the telephone from 12:10 am to 12:17 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 032-011 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 32-11 Date: October 24, 1972 Time: 12:10 am and 12:17 am Location: White House Telephone The President talked with William P. Rogers. The President's return from New York -Previous meeting with Henry A. Kissinger Vietnam -Forthcoming meeting with Kissinger and Rogers -Time -Settlement -Information from Kissinger and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. -Nguyen Van Thieu -Paranoia -1972 election -Importance compared with US efforts in Vietnam -Kissinger, Haig -US conditions -The President’s view -1972 election -Kissinger -Attitude -Thieu’s response 17 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Oct-06) -Accusations -US conspiracy with the People’s Republic of China [PRC] -The President’s manipulation of the US press -William H. Sullivan’s activities in Saigon -The President’s view -US response -Meeting with Kissinger -Changes in terms -Submission to North Vietnam -Negotiations -Meeting in Paris -North Vietnamese message -North Vietnamese position -Need for a settlement -North Vietnamese concessions -North Vietnamese prisoners of war [POWs] -Cambodia -Laos -Sullivan -Knowledge -US position -The President’s view -Thieu -Thieu’s confidence in Ellsworth F. Bunker -Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.’s efforts with Thieu -Bunker’s and Wendall Wyatt’s view -North Vietnamese concession -May 8, 1972 -US position ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2 [Personal returnable] [Duration: 1m 1s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2 ***************************************************************** 18 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Oct-06) Vietnam -Settlement -Thieu’s position -Kissinger’s response -US position -Stakes -Viability of Thieu and South Vietnam -US sacrifice in Vietnam War -Possibility of communist takeover -US foreign policy -South Korea -Thailand -Japan -Europe