Conversation No. 135-2

Date: June 29, 1972
Time: 11:07-11:18 am
Location: Camp David Study Table (telephone)

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

[See also Conversation No. 195-5]

     Kissinger's trip to New York
          -People's Republic of China [PRC]
                -President's letter on Vietnam
                       -US-North Vietnamese relationship
                       -Kissinger’s discussions with the PRC
                       -North Vietnamese troops

     Vietnam War Peace Negotiations
          -North Vietnamese response to President's proposal
                -Timing and schedule
          -Invitation to Joseph C. Kraft
                -Compared to Anthony Lewis
                -George S. McGovern

     Vietnam military action
          -The President’s statements on the draft
               -Kissinger’s view
          -Residual forces
               -Future
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        -Casualties
        -Missing in action [MIAs] number
        -Quang Tri operation
             -Bombing
                    -Compared to Verdun battle in World War I
        -Naval operations
        -North Vietnamese preparations for ceasefire
             -Kissinger’s assessment
             -The President’s view
                    -Possible effect

Foreign policy
     -Democrat platform
     -Kissinger’s view
     -Vietnam
           -Withdrawal of US forces
           -Peace proposals
     -Israel
           -Kissinger’s view
     -Defense
     -McGovern
     -W. Averell Harriman
     -Kissinger’s view
     -Israel
           -Yitzhak Rabin
           -Jerusalem as capital
                 -Defense funding
     -North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
     -Soviet Union, PRC, Japan
     -Administration policy
           -The President’s view

Kraft
        -Trip to Vietnam
              -Kissinger's forthcoming meeting
              -The President’s policies
              -McGovern
              -Importance of trip
              -President's term in office
              -Israel
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     Grain sale with the Soviet Union
          -Earl L. Butz and Peter G. Peterson
                -Credit
                -President's role
          -Letter from Leonid I. Brezhnev
                -The President's efforts
          -Announcement
                -Location for announcement
                      -The President’s possible role
                -Timing