Conversation No. 779-3/780-1

Date: September 15-16, 1972
Time: Unknown between 11:43 pm, September 15 and 1:01 am, September 16, 1972
Location: Oval Office

[An unknown portion of the conversation was not recorded while the tape was changed]

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

            Vietnam peace negotiations
                -Kissinger’s meeting with Le Duc Tho
                    -Release of US Prisoners of war [POWs]
                        -Perception of US thinking
                        -Reciprocation by US
                        -Peace group
                             -Hanoi
                        -Announcement
                    -Georges J.R. Pompidou
                    -Possible press reaction
                    -Saigon
                    -Peace proposals by North Vietnam
                        -Kissinger’s view
                        -Provisional government
                             -Nguyen Van Thieu’s position
                             -Various approaches
                                  -Territorial control
                    -Future meetings
                        -September 29, 1972
                        -State Department interpreter
                             -W[illiam] Averell Harriman
                    -Possible settlement
                        -Timing
                             -1972 election
                                  -Louis P. Harris poll
                                  -Concessions
                             -October 15, 1972
                        -Scheduling with North Vietnamese
                        -Saigon
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         -The President
         -Domestic opposition
              -Reaction
         -Prospects
              -Kissinger’s view
         -Le Duc Tho
              -Kissinger’s view
    -International Control Commission
    -Political settlement
              -Two-day meeting
                   -Possible motivations
                   -Effect on 1972 election
              -Publicity
              -The President’s possible re-election
                   -Kissinger’s view
                   -Bombing
                   -Effect on North Vietnamese
                   -Negotiation stance for November
              -Tone
              -Compared to 1971
              -Chou En-Lai
    -North Vietnamese
         -Possible settlement
         -Negotiating tactics
         -Speed of negotiations
         -Changes in demands
              -Saigon’s position
         -Attitude
         -Kissinger’s meeting with Pompidou
         -New US proposal
    -Thieu
         -Negotiating stance
              -Cease fire
    -North Vietnamese
         -Negotiating stance
    -Leonid I. Brezhnev
         -Le Duc Tho
              -Moscow
              -Kiril Mazurov
-Kissinger’s meeting with Brezhnev
    -Kremlin
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        -Politburo
        -Cabinet room
        -The President
        -US visit
        -Camp David
        -Soviet naval base
        -Key Biscayne, Florida
             -Brezhnev’s gift to the President
                  -Hydrofoil
        -Peace talks
        -Soviet Union position
             -Le Duc Tho statement
             -Thieu
    -Peace negotiations
        -Pompidou
        -Edward R.C. Heath
        -Willy Brandt
    -Kissinger’s forthcoming press conference
    -Report on negotiations
        -The President’s dealings with Brezhnev
        -Complete peace package

US-Soviet relations
   -Public announcements
       -William P. Rogers
       -Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
             -Informing Soviets
             -Possible leaks
       -Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions [MBFR] and European Security
       Conference
             -State Department handling
       -Rogers
             -Date for talks
       -SALT II
             -Timing
       -US-Soviet trade agreement
       -Scheduling
             -Guarantee of all agreements
                  -SALT
                  -Trade
             -Maritime agreement
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                 -Bunkering
        -Trade agreement
            -Progress
            -Rogers
            -Monetary figures
            -Lend-lease
                 -Amounts
    -Trade agreement
        -James T. Lynn
        -Peter G. Peterson
            -The President’s view

Kissinger’s forthcoming press conference
    -Announcement of agreements
        -Actual peace agreement for Vietnam
        -Kissinger’s handling of question
              -European Security Conference
                  -Issues
              -SALT
              -Vietnam peace progress
    -Press report
        -Dan Rather
        -Moscow
        -Blockade’s effect on Hanoi
        -Rather
              -Administration sources
                  -State Department
                  -Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
              -Blockade’s effectiveness
                  -Documents leaked
                       -Tonnage delivered to North Vietnam
                       -Delivery of material to South Vietnam
                  -Intercepts
                  -Paris negotiations
                  -Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]

Kissinger’s schedule
    -State Department
         -Rogers
    -Meetings with Brezhnev
         -Conversation
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Kissinger and Haig left at an unknown time before 1:01 am, September 16, 1972.