Conversation No. 44-34

Date: March 27, 1973
Time: Unknown between 5:46 pm and 5:56 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

[See also Conversation No. 424-6]

       Press relations
             -President’s conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler
             -Cambodia
                    -Questions on legal authority to bomb
                         -Kissinger’s instructions to Ziegler
                               -Cease-fire agreement
                                     -Article 20
                         -President’s March 29 speech
                               -Vietnam
                         -Cease-fire agreement
                               -North Vietnam violations
                                     -Troop withdrawals
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                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. Mar.-09)
                                                               Conversation No. 44-34 (cont’d)



                               -Enforcement
                                    -South Vietnam
                                    -International Commission of Control and Supervision
[ICCS]
                                            -Southeast Asia Treaty Organization [SEATO]
                    -Opponents of President’s policy
                         -Denial of funds by Senate
                         -Blame
                    -Cease-fire agreement
                         -Opponents of President’s policy
                                -Future of Vietnam
                                -President’s popularity

         US-Soviet Union relations
             -Scheduling of Soviet summit
                    -Delay
                    -North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] meeting
             -Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
                    -Kissinger’s call
             -Note to President on military equipment
             -Kissinger’s trip to Acapulco
             -NATO meeting
             -William P. Rogers
             -Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft
             -Nuclear treaty
                    -Exchange of drafts
                          -Delay
             -European Security Conference
                    -Andrei A. Gromyko’s schedule
             -Scheduling of Soviet summit
                    -US domestic situation
                    -NATO meeting
                    -Leonid I. Brezhnev
                    -Rogers

         Cambodia
             -Kissinger’s talk with Ziegler
             -President’s opponents on Southeast Asia policy
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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                      (rev. Mar.-09)
                                                        Conversation No. 44-34 (cont’d)



                   -Laos
                   -Vietnam
                   -Congress
             -Effects of bombing

       Ziegler
             -Press relations
                   -Watergate

       Foreign policy plans
             -Latin America
             -NATO meeting
             -Soviet summit
             -Chou En-lai visit

       Ziegler