Conversation: 368-023
Prev: 368-022 Next: 368-024Start Date: Thursday, October 19, 1972 12:42 PM
End Date: Thursday, October 19, 1972 12:55 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
NARA Description:
On October 19, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 8:42 am to 8:55 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 368-023 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 368-23
Date: October 19, 1972
Time: 8:42 am - 8:55 am
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Vietnam negotiations
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Henry A. Kissinger’s meeting
-South Vietnamese National Security Council
-Thieu’s ambassadors from Paris
-1972 election
-Ellsworth F. Bunker, Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)
-The President’s possible motive
-1972
-Upcoming meetings with Kissinger and Abrams
-Politics
-Ceasefire
-Infiltration
-Press coverage
-Possible outcome
-Coalition government
-Schedule
-Timing of meeting
-Possible US actions
-William H. Sullivan
-Schedule
-Thieu
-Abrams
-Kissinger
-Gen. Cao Van Vien
-Kissinger
-Thieu
-South Vietnamese National Security Council
-October 20, 1972
-Vien, Thieu, Abrams
-Prospects
-Schedule
-Thieu’s concerns
-Cease-fire
-North Vietnamese troop positions
-Kissinger
-The President’s view
-Military situation
-North Vietnamese divisions
-Divisions
-Saigon
-Cease-fire
-Reports
-Possible mass killing
-Thieu’s concern
-Thieu
-Offer
-Military pressure by South Vietnam
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)
-Firebases in northern South Vietnam
-Value
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Haig left at 8:55 am.