Conversation No. 245-018
Date: April 6, 1971
Time: 1:00 pm - unknown before 1:45 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Henry A. Kissinger
President’s speech on Vietnam, April 7, 1971
Draft
-Changes
-Page 1
-Kissinger’s suggestions
-Language
-Dates
-Additions
-Language
-Withdrawal of troops
-Language
-Points
-Wording
-Negotiated settlement
-Articles
-Additions
-President’s intentions
-Wording
-Withdrawal of troops
-Dates
-Numbers
-Figures
-William P. Rogers’ briefing
-Chart
-Use
-Cabinet briefing
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Chart
-Casualties
-Sensitivity
-Kissinger’s briefings
-Casualties
-Tet offensive
-Use of figures
-Tet comparison
-Laos
-Background
-Estimates
-Comparisons
-South Vietnamese casualties
-Significance
-United States’ ground forces
-Replacement by United States’ air sorties
-Charges by George S. McGovern
-McGovern
-Possible Kissinger rebuttal
-Television
-United States’ policy goals in Southeast Asia
-Wording
-Changes
-United States’ casualties
-Rate
-South Vietnamese operations
-Wording
-North Vietnamese attacks from Laos on United States forces
-Supply lines and logistics
-North Vietnamese major offenses
-Language
-Vietnamization policy
-Success of Cambodian operations
-Unknown man’s views
-Consequences of failure in Vietnam
-Middle East
-President’s policy
-Popular opinion
-Jews in Europe
-Nazis
-American attitude
-Vietnamization policy
-Success
-Language
-End of United States’ involvement in war
-Wording of statement
-South Vietnamese defense
-Residual force
-Rogers
-United States’ options
-Opposition to President’s policies
-United States’ policy
-Press
-Intellectuals
-Harvard University
-Yale University
-Princeton University
Support for the President
-President’s conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Kissinger’s list
-John J. McCloy
-[Forename unknown] Kekold [sp?]
-[Forename unknown] Nolan
-[Forename unknown] Wheeler
-Thomas S. Gates, Jr.
-Conservatives
-Liberals
-McCloy
-Lawyers
-David Rockefeller
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Kissinger’s forthcoming conversation with Rockefeller
-Politicians
-Veterans of Foreign Wars
-Congressmen
Ford Foundation
-Unknown man at foundation
-McGeorge Bundy
-Support for Edmund S. Muskie’s trips to Africa
-President’s travels contrasted
-Emoluments
-Muskie
-Unknown man’s conversation with Kissinger
Soviet Union
-Soviet Minister to the United Nations
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-United States - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] relations
-Possible United States’ response
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Communist Party Congress
-Result
-Haldeman
-President’s political options
-Cambodia and Laos
-Bombing of North Vietnam
President’s speech on Vietnam, April 7, 1971
-Revisions
-Goal
-Withdrawal
-Program
-Peace conference
-Prisoners of War
-All-Indochina peace conference
-Wording of appeal to Hanoi to start serious negotiations
-Withdrawal
-American involvement
-Timetable of withdrawal of outside forces
-Offer
Recording was cut off at an unknown time before 1:45 pm