Conversation: 002-052
Prev: 002-051 Next: 002-053Start Date: 27-Apr-1971 8:16 PM
End Date: 27-Apr-1971 8:36 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.;Recording Device: White House Telephone
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:35:20
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:55:27
NARA Description:
On April 27, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger talked on the telephone from 8:16 pm to 8:36 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 002-052 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 2-52
Date: April 27, 1971
Time: 8:16 pm - 8:36 pm
Location: White House Telephone
Conv. No. 2-49 (cont.)
The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.
People's Republic of China [PRC]
-David K. E. Bruce
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Vietnam
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-Elliot L. Richardson
-William P. Rogers
-Rockefeller
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-Department of State
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Linkage
-Berlin
-Strategic Arms Limitations Talks [SALT] Conv. No. 2-52 (cont.)
-Rockefeller
-Haig
-Marshall Green
-Thomas E. Dewey
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FOREIGN AFFAIRS
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-Peking
-Taiwan
-Announcement
-Compared to Soviets
-Haig
-Vietnam
-Contacts
-Time
-SALT
Union of Soviet Socialist [USSR]
-Summit meeting
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Chou En-lai
-Report
-Analysis of international situation
PRC
-Bruce
-Vietnam
-Rockefeller Conv. No. 2-52 (cont.)
-Visibility
-Effects
Vietnam
-Prisoners of War [POW]
-Prospects
-Bruce
-"Doves"
[A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from
December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access 8, Ronald V. Dellums, et al. v. James M.
Powell, et al., No. 71-2271. The National Archives and Records Administration produced this
transcript. The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]
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Administration's policy
-PRC
-John W. Chancellor
-Upcoming news conference
-Haig
-Laos
-Polls
-Cambodia
-PRC
-Ping-pong team
-Mao Tse-tung's statement to Edgar P. Snow
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
-Hugh Scott
-Kissinger's role
-Visits
-US reply
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FOREIGN AFFAIRS Conv. No. 2-52 (cont.)
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