Conversation: 003-118
Prev: 003-117 Next: 003-119Start Date: 25-May-1971 8:28 PM
End Date: 25-May-1971 8:47 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.;Recording Device: White House Telephone
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:21:28
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:40:40
NARA Description:
On May 25, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger talked on the telephone from 8:28 pm to 8:47 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 003-118 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 3-118
Date: May 25, 1971
Time: 8:28 pm - 8:47 pm
Location: White House Telephone
Henry A. Kissinger talked with the President.
President's trip to Florida and Alabama
-Weather
Vietnam
-Casualty figures
-President's speech to Congress, May 28, 1971
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Melvin R. Laird
-William P. Rogers
-President's forthcoming meeting with Thieu
-W. Averell Harriman
-Timing
-Possible US proposal
-South Vietnamese response
-Thieu
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Mansfield Amendment
-President's forthcoming announcement
-Importance
-Phil [Surname unknown]
-A meeting
US foreign policy
-Vladimir S. Semenov Conv. No. 3-118 (cont.)
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
Vietnam
-President's meeting with Thieu
-Timing
-US role
-President's forthcoming announcement
-Effect
-Negotiations [?]
-US proposal
-President's meeting with Thieu
-Midway Island
-Congress
-President's forthcoming announcement
-Alexander M. Haig
-Laird and Rogers
-Effect on public opinion
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Possible Summit
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Economic package
-President's speech to Southern Regional Media, May 25, 1971
-Berlin
-Possible Summit
-Economy
-Harvest
-Possible Summit
-Berlin
-Possible Summit
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Berlin
-Economic package
-Possible Summit
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
US foreign policy
-PRC
-Thieu
-USSR
-Possible Summit
-Economic aid
-Wheat, computers
-Edward R.G. Heath Conv. No. 3-118 (cont.)
-Effect
-Timing
-Thieu's meeting with President
-Press and television response
-Harriman
-Vietnam negotiations
-US position
-Jean Sainteny
-North Vietnam
-Sainteny's schedule
-Thieu's schedule
-Rogers
-Laird
-Rogers
Rogers
-Trip to Europe
Vietnam
-President's meeting with Thieu
-Date
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
SALT
-Importance
-Public opinion
-Press coverage
-Joseph C. Kraft
-Henry Brandon's Sunday Times [London] article
President's foreign policy
-Press coverage
-PRC initiative
-Vietnam
69
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-President's opponents
-Vietnam
-President's reception in Alabama
-Outcome
-Polls
-President's meeting with Thieu
-Timing