LETTER TO HENRY KISSINGER FROM AL HAIG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-3-2-20-3
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: October 16, 2009
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: November 24, 1969
• Content Type: LETTER

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THE WHITE WOUS!!
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SE R~-l- November 24, 1969
HAK:.
ps you will note in Thos p or tWO Depot together ed
far i time in the first y
hia written report. Z have therefore asked
Ho7.dridge to prepare a memorandum. from you,
to Chapin asking fcr an appointment with the
This should allow
President on the 3rd or 4th.
him time to put his thoughts together in organiz~'d
form and also to reflect on the questions you m.G?y
put to him an the ) st.
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MEMOILANDUN~
S~ CRET November 24, 1 q69
MEMORANDUM FOR JOHN HOLDRIDGE
FR~DM: Al Haig
Fox preparation of a mexnarandum from HA7~ to Dwight Chapin
asking for (a) a time on the President's schedule fox a meeting
.between the Pxesident and Sir Rohert Thompson on December 3
or 4, and (b) an appoint ment with the President for Joe Alsop
for approxi.xnately that same period. (The memorandum should
note that the Pr. esiden.t inda'.cated to HAK that he wanted to see
Alsop thin, anc( had eaxli.ex told Thompson that he wanted to see
him. when he' returned from Vietnam.)
Gould you plea:,e arrange transportation and hotel accommodations
far Thompson.
Thompson will see HAK on December 1. W.: will need talking points
for this as well as for Thompson's and Also7~'s meetings with the
President.
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WASH 1 NGTON
November 24, 1969
MEM4RANDUIvI FOR
Henry Kissinger
copy to: Bob Haldeman
FRUM THE PRESrDEl~1'T
Joe Alsop should be invited in to see me to
give me his a~~praisal of the Vietnam situ~:tion at approximately
the time that 'Chompson comes back. X mentioned this to
Joe when I sa~v him at the White House the other night and
he will. be exx ecting a call.
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FM SIR R08ERT THOMPSpN, SAIGON gl~
fi0 DR. .HENRY KISSIi'IGER, THE WHITE HOUSE
THIS CQPJFIR?i"~S THAT WE ARRIVE. DULLES BY TWA p6O AT
20SS ON SU~JDAY 30TH. GF.ATEFUL IF YOU COULD ARRA'r7GE
TRA~JSPDRT A~)D -HOTEL ACCOi~J~lODATION. I PRESUT~E YpU WILL
WANT US Tp STAY IfiJ WASJiI3GTOiV ABOUT A MEEK I~1 WHICH CASE
WE WOULD LIKE A LIGHT FiRST DAY OR T;,~O, PARTICULARLY I~
.:YOU t~IANT WRITTEN REf'pRT. WE HAVE. BEEt3 MUCH ENCOI)RAGED
BY ?UR VISIT A'~'D, LIKE EVERYp~UE ELSE', BY THE GRI:r~T SPEECH
ON 3 t70WEPd8ER. WE LEAVE HERE 25TH Ai+JD ARE UISIT::~aG KUALA
LUMPUR AND SINGAPORE pN T}JE WAY.
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SE~RET
November 24, 19b9
A~ you wai2l Hate in Thampson's fxxessage, he asked
!vr a tine is the first day or terra to put together
hia va~rit; en report. I have therefoxe asked
Ho2dr%dde to prepare a, memoraaidu:m from ycw.
to Ghapi~a asl:i~xg for axe. appointment with the
Fzesidei~t an the Ord yr .4th. This shoex2d alla~v
hirn: time to put his thc~aghts together in orgazi#.zed
form and also to refle~:t om the questiaaa.s you may
put to him an the I st.
AI Hzig
AL#achr.+a.~,ts
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