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Start Date: 29-Nov-1972 10:10 AM

End Date: 29-Nov-1972 1:47 PM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Camp David Study Table

156-018.mp3

NARA Description:

On November 29, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger talked on the telephone at Camp David at an unknown time between 10:10 am and 1:47 pm. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 156-018 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 156-18

Date: November 29, 1972
Time: Unknown between 10:10 am and 1:47 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

[See Conversation No. 232-10]

       Vietnam negotiations
            -The President’s forthcoming meeting with [Nguyen Phu Duc and Tran Kim
             Phouong]
                                    -17-

            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                              Tape Subject Log
                                (rev. Jan.-08)

                                                   Conversation No. 156-18 (cont’d)

           -Talking points
                 -Priorities
           -Tone
                 -“Tough”
           -Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
                 -The President’s support
                        -South Vietnamese tactics
           -Negotiations schedule
           -Reassurances
                 -Republic of Vietnam
           -Violations
     -The President’s possible meeting with Nguyen Van Thieu
           -The President’s agreement
           -The President’s schedule
           -Timing
           -“Peace time” President
           -Terms
           -Timing
           -The President’s views
                 -Thieu
                        -Unpredicability
                        -Pressure
                               -Public opinion
                        -Agreement on final formula
     -Talking points
           -The President’s review
           -Thieu’s letter to the President
                 -Intercept
           -Negotiations schedule
                 -Demoralization
                 -Assurances
           -The President’s tone
                 -Pressure
                 -Thieu’s resistance
                        -The President’s letters

Kissinger’s schedule
      -Meeting with the President
      -Trip to Florida
            -Timing
                                            -18-

                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. Jan.-08)

                                                        Conversation No. 156-18 (cont’d)

                  -Ronald L. Ziegler’s announcement
                        -Length of meeting
                  -Kissinger’s plans
                  -Accommodations
                        -Haldeman
                        -Access to press
                  -Meeting with the President
                        -Length
                        -Ziegler’s announcement

       Vietnam negotiations
            -North Vietnam
            -Agreement