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Start Date: 17-Dec-1972 2:24 PM

End Date: 17-Dec-1972 2:45 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Haig, Alexander M., Jr.

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

382-017.mp3

NARA Description:

On December 17, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 2:24 pm to 2:45 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 382-017 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 382-17

Date: December 17, 1972
Time: 2:24 pm - 2:45 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

       Vietnam War
            -Haig’s schedule
                 -Trip to Saigon
                       -Departure
                              -Timing
                 -Draft of the President’s letter to Nguyen Van Thieu
                 -Meeting with Thieu
                       -Duration
                                  -48-

      NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                           Tape Subject Log
                             (rev. June-08)

                                                 Conversation No. 382-17 (cont’d)

                   -Interpreter
           -Tone
                  -Thieu’s view
                         -US-North Vietnam relations
                         -Henry A. Kissinger’s press conference
-The President’s letter to Thieu
     -Tone
           -Haig’s trip to Saigon
                  -Negotiations
           -US-South Vietnam relations
                  -Bilateral deal
-Negotiations
     -Kissinger’s press conference
     -US-South Vietnam relations
           -Thieu
           -Bilateral deal
     -Thieu’s view
           -US bombing north of 20th Parallel
                  -Hanoi
     -North Vietnam
           -Haig’s view
                  -Statement, December 16, 1972
                         -October 1972
                         -Response to Kissinger’s press conference
                         -Distribution
                               -Pentagon
-US bombing north of 20th Parallel
     -B-52s
           -Weather
           -TACAIR
                  -Escorts
                         -Surface to air missiles [SAMs]
                  -Possible problems
     -Necessity
     -North Vietnam’s possible reactions
-The President’s letter to Thieu
     -Haig’s reading
     -Tone
           -Kissinger
     -Haig’s reading
                                            -49-

                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. June-08)

                                                           Conversation No. 382-17 (cont’d)

                        -Final paragraph
                  -Final paragraph
                        -Negotiations
                              -US-South Vietnam relations
                                     -Ultimatum
                                     -Cooperation
                                     -Settlement agreement
                  -Radio Hanoi
                  -Thieu
                  -Tone
                  -Thieu
                        -The President
             -Haig’s meeting with Thieu
                  -Senators’ views on settlement agreement
                        -Barry M. Goldwater
                        -John C. Stennis
                        -“Hawks”
                  -Thieu
                        -Midway meeting with the President
                        -Relationship with the President
                        -Congressional relations
                              -Cut off of US funds
                        -South Vietnam survival
             -Haig’s schedule
             -Haig’s meeting with Thais, Cambodians, Laotians
                  -Cambodia
                        -Thieu
                              -Settlement agreement
                        -US ambassador
                              -Emory C. Swank

       The President’s schedule

Haig left at 2:45 pm.
                                             -50-

                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. June-08)