Conversation: 806-001
Prev: 805-015 Next: 806-002Start Date: Tuesday, October 24, 1972 3:20 AM
End Date: Tuesday, October 24, 1972 3:35 AM
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
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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.