Conversation: 005-117
Prev: 005-116 Next: 005-118Start Date: 17-Jun-1971 7:39 PM
End Date: 17-Jun-1971 7:45 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.;Recording Device: White House Telephone
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 03:34:41
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 03:39:51
NARA Description:
On June 17, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger talked on the telephone from 7:39 pm to 7:45 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 005-117 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 5-117
Date: June 17, 1971
Time: 7:39 pm - 7:45 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.
Pentagon Papers
-Kissinger's possible call to Walt W. Rostow
-Need for Lyndon B. Johnson to defend himself
-President's forthcoming press conference in Rochester
-Kissinger's call to William J. Jordan and Tom Johnson
-Need for Johnson to defend himself
-Defense of Johnson by the President
-Presidency
-Administration's response
-Theft of documents
-Bryce N. Harlow’s report
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/08)
-Need for Johnson to defend himself
-Effect on press
-Guilt
-Administration's response
-Legality versus morality
-Kissinger's conversation with Jerrold L. Schecter
-Response of newsmen
-Kissinger's forthcoming call to Rostow Conv. No. 5-115 (cont.)