Conversation No. 791-7

Date: October 3, 1972
Time: 12:27 pm - 12:47 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez and Henry A. Kissinger.

        Refreshment

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:47 pm.

        US-Soviet Union relations
           -Kissinger’s meeting with Andrei A. Gromyko at Camp David, October 2, 1972
               -History of the President’s Administration
               -Four-power declaration on Berlin
                    -Briefing house
                    -Problems
                    -Text
                        -State Department
                        -Soviet Union
                             -Different versions
               -Vodka and Georgian wine to the President
                    -United States Secret Service [USSS]
                        -Ukraine
                    -Delivery to Kissinger’s office
                        -Sanchez
                        -Camp David
               -European Security conference
                    -Mutual and balanced force reductions [MBFR]
                        -Agenda for meeting
               -Vietnam
               -Schedule
               -Gromyko
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            -Anatoly F. Dobrynin
        -Vietnam
            -Kissinger’s role in April 1972 trip to Soviet Union
                -Seriousness of negotiations
                -Secretary General
            -President’s recent telephone call to Kissinger
            -Last offer
                -Military options
            -North Vietnam claim
            -Negotiations
                -Details
                -US-Soviet Union compared to US-North Vietnamese
                     -Texts
                -North Vietnamese demands
                     -US forces withdrawal
                     -Constitution changes
                     -Committees
                     -Removal of [Nguyen Van Thieu]
                     -Non-communists
                          -Communists
                -Possible Soviet Union management
            -Thieu
                -Possible resignation
                     -Dobrynin
                          -Soviet Union message to North Vietnam
                -1972 election
                     -George S. McGovern

McGovern
   -Possible Vietnam speech
        -Effect
   -Charges of corruption in the administration
        -Press relations
   -Relations with Kissinger
        -Conversation with Kissinger
            -Social event
                 -Israel
   -Attitude toward the President
        -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
            -Press relations
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    -Press relations
        -Washington Post
        -New York Times
        -Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
        -National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]
        -American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC]
        -Time-Life

The President's relationship with press and media
    -Congressional relations
    -Stewart J.O. Alsop
        -The President’s plane
        -US-Soviet relations
        -Watergate
        -Kissinger
             -William P. Rogers
             -John B. Connally
             -Elliot L. Richardson
        -Washington Post
             -Katherine L. Graham
        -Joseph W. Alsop
             -Recent conversation with Kissinger
                  -Stewart Alsop’s health
        -President’s telephone calls
    -Thomas W. Braden, Graham
    -The President’s view

Vietnam
    -North Vietnam
        -Soviet Union message
    -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
        -Upcoming meeting with Thieu

Kissinger’s schedule
    -People’s Republic of China [PRC]
        -Vietnam
        -Japan
        -The President’s recent conversation with Gromyko
        -McGovern’s possible trip to the Soviet Union
    -Hanoi
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        -McGovern’s possible trip
           -Possible administration action
               -Break off of talks, publicity

Government reorganization
   -H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
   -Fredrick V. Malek
   -Purge
   -Vietnam
       -US military action
            -Air strikes
                 -B-52’s
                 -20th parallel
                      -18th parallel, 19th parallel
                 -Ground action
                      -Possible increase
                           -Media
                 -Command changes
   -Second term plans
       -Kissinger’s recent conversation with Haldeman
       -Public comment by Kissinger
            -President’s decision
       -Cabinet

Vietnam negotiations
    -McGovern
         -Kissinger
              -Television [TV]
                  -Timing
                       -1972 election
    -Settlement agreement
         -Timing
              -October 20, 1972
         -Prisoners of war [POWs], cease fire
    -Military action
         -B-52’s
    -Kissinger’s schedule
         -Haig
              -Advantages in accompanying Kissinger
                  -Kissinger’s staff
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                      -Saigon
                      -Washington, DC
                          -Briefing for the President
                 -Saigon
                 -Hanoi
                 -Washington, DC
                 -Saigon
             -North Vietnamese
                 -Soviet Union
                 -PRC
                 -American domestic opponents
                      -Joseph C. Kraft
                 -Kissinger’s recent meeting with Gromyko
             -Meeting in Paris
                 -Announcement
                      -Ronald L. Ziegler
                 -Length
                 -Saigon
                 -Hanoi
                 -Washington
                 -Saigon
                 -Paris
                 -Saigon
                 -North Vietnamese

         US-Soviet Union relations
            -The President’s recent conversation with Gromyko
                -Kissinger’s recent conversation with Haldeman
                -Nuclear weapons
                     -1972 election
                     -European security conference
                     -Strategic Arms limitation Treaty [SALT]

Kissinger left at 12:47 pm.