Conversation: 806-001
Prev:  805-015 Next: 806-002Start Date: 23-Oct-1972 11:20 PM
End Date: 23-Oct-1972 11:35 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.; Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On October 23, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:20 pm and 11:35 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 806-001 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 806-1 Date: October 23, 1972 Time: Unknown between 11:20 pm and 11:35 pm Location: Oval Office The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.. Henry A. Kissinger -Telephone conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin Vietnam negotiations -North Vietnamese -Note -Tone -Possible settlement of war -Timing -1972 election -Bombing -Kissinger Kissinger Vietnam negotiations -William P. Rogers -Haig’s briefing -Melvin R. Laird -Attitude during negotiations -Bureaucracy -Nguyen Van Thieu -Kissinger -Attitude after 1972 election -Military equipment -Settlement -North Vietnam -Thieu -Pressures -The President’s conversation with Rogers -South Korea, Taiwan, Republic of China -Charges 2 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Nov-03) -Kissinger’s memorandum -The President’s trip to Peking and Moscow -US press -Ellsworth F. Bunker -Influence -Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr. -Bunker -October elections -Rigging -Settlement -Kissinger -Timing -1972 election -Strategy for press coverage -Press coverage -Kissinger -Nature of press release -1972 election -Meeting -Timing -Thieu -Possible meeting with the President -Kissinger -US support -Haig’s view -Possible leak from Saigon -Cease-fire -Cease-fire New York visit by the President -Crowd estimates -Press coverage -Washington Post -New York Times George S. McGovern's position on the Vietnam War Vietnam negotiations -Settlement -Progress -US offers 3 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Nov-03) -Response -Communist government in South Vietnam -Bombing -1972 election -North Vietnamese strategy -Thieu -Thieu -Kissinger -US-Soviet Union relations -Dobrynin -Meeting with Kissinger -Meeting with Haig -The President’s schedule -Soviet objectives -Settlement -Delay -Handling of Dobrynin visit -Haig’s schedule Haig left at an unknown time before 11:35 pm.