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Start Date: 2-Oct-1972 9:38 AM

End Date: 2-Oct-1972 9:43 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Kissinger, Henry A.

Recording Device: Oval Office

790-004.mp3

NARA Description:

On October 2, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:38 am to 9:43 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 790-004 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 790-4

Date: October 2, 1972
Time: 9:38 am - 9:43 am
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                        NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. Nov-03)

Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

        Vietnam negotiations
            -Alexander M. Haig, Jr. recent meeting with Nguyen Van Thieu
                -Resignation
                -Acceptance of US proposal
                -Constitution
            -US proposal
                -Terms
                -Troop withdrawal
                -US-South Vietnamese agreement
                -Delay
                    -1972 election
                    -US military strength
                         -Compared to Summer 1973
                    -Timing for settlement
                -Constitutent assembly in Vietnam
                    -Thieu
                -Memoranda

        The President’s schedule
            -Forthcoming meeting with Andrei A. Gromyko
                -Memoranda to the President from Kissinger
                -Possible settlement
                -Vietnam negotiations
                     -Details
                          -William P. Rogers
                          -Camp David
                              -Kissinger’s memoranda
                -Nuclear treaty
                     -Rogers
                -Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT] II
                     -Timing
                          -Gromyko
                          -Rogers
                              -New York
                          -November 21, 1972
                          -Announcement
                              -October 16, 1972
                          -Rogers
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                       NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. Nov-03)


         Kissinger's schedule

Kissinger left at 9:43 am.