Conversation: 803-009
Prev: 803-008 Next: 803-010Start Date: 18-Oct-1972 11:45 AM
End Date: 18-Oct-1972 11:59 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.; Sanchez, Manolo;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On October 18, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., and Manolo Sanchez met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:45 am and 11:59 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 803-009 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 803-9
Date: October 18, 1972
Time: 11:45 am - 11:59 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Vietnam negotiations
-Haig's meeting
-William P. Rogers, U. Alexis Johnson
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 11:45 am.
Refreshments
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:59 am.
Vietnam negotiations
-Haig’s meeting with Rogers
-The President's October 18, 1972 meeting with Masayoshi Ohira
-Military situation
-Melvin R. Laird
-Call from [Adm. Thomas H. Moorer] to Haig
-Frederick C. Weyand
-Bombing targeting problem
-Population centers
-North Vietnamese statements
16
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Cambodia, Laos
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Articles Seven and Eight
-Article Seven
-Military reinforcements and resupply
-North Vietnamese prisoners of war [POWs] in South Vietnam
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Thieu’s position
-Kissinger
-Possible meeting with Le Duc Tho
-Paris or Vientianne
-Thieu support
-North Vietnam
-Release of information
-Canada, Japan
-Tactics
-Delay
-Military forces in the South
-Thieu
-Offensive
-Cease-fire
-Washington Star story by Henry S. Bradsher
-South Vietnam
-People
-Thieu's position
-Thieu’s position
-Kissinger
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Haig’s conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler
-Rogers
The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Nikolai S. Patolichev and Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Rogers
-Instruction for Haig
-Peter G. Peterson
-Veto messages
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Briefing statement
-Wheat deal, trade agreement
-Peterson
-US-Soviet Union trade agreement
17
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Poll result
-Lend-lease agreement settlement
-The President's conversation with John B. Connally
-Negotiations
-Dobrynin
-Haig's role
-Announcement
-Rogers
-Briefing statement
-Bilateral relations
-Peterson
-The signing of the agreement
-State Department
-The President’s role
-Rogers’s briefing
-Previous signings
-Treaty Rooms
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-Moscow
-Johnson
Vietnam negotiations
-Rogers, Johnson
-Politics
-Haig’s concern
-Timing, security issues
-Security issues
-Thieu
-North Vietnam
-Thieu
-The President's stance
-Bombing and mining
-Mining
-Deactivation
-Immediate prospects
-Haig’s view
-Cease-fire
-Announcement
-Tone
-Timing
-Type of settlement
-1972 election
18
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Immediate prospects
-Intelligence
-Kissinger's schedule
-Thieu
-Ellsworth F. Bunker, Abrams
-William H. Sullivan
-News report
-W[illiam] Averell Harriman
-Geneva
-The President’s May 8, 1972 decision, Laos
-Timing
-1972 election
-Thieu
-Abrams's possible conversation with Thieu
-Haig's conversation with Abrams
Haig left at 11:59 am.