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Conversation: 009-008

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Start Date: 14-Sep-1971 6:18 PM

End Date: 14-Sep-1971 6:35 PM

Participants:

Kissinger, Henry A.Rogers, William P.Kissinger, Henry A.Rogers, William P.

Recording Device: White House Telephone

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:10:37

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:17:38

009-008.mp3

NARA Description:

On September 14, 1971, Henry A. Kissinger and William P. Rogers talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 6:18 pm and 6:35 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 009-008 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 9-8

Date: September 14, 1971
Time: Unknown between 6:18 pm and 6:35 pm
Location: White House Telephone

Henry A. Kissinger talked with William P. Rogers.

[See Conversation No. 278-36F]

     Kissinger’s conversation with the President

     Joseph M. Montoya's Amendment
          -Military Procurement Act
          -Possible trouble
          -Copy to Ellsworth F. Bunker
                -Question of support in Senate
                -David M. Abshire
          -Question of recommendation to Bunker
          -Reaction of public
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                                   Tape Subject Log
                                     (rev. 10/06)



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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration: 4s ]


    VIETNAM


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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         -Negotiations
         -Administration
         -Amendment
              -Military assistance
                    -Nguyen Van Thieu's threatened resignation
                         -Relation to amendment
         -Vietnam
              -Elections
              -Thieu
                    -Ngo Dinh Diem
              -George Carver
              -Election cancellation
              -Bunker

    National Security Council [NSC] meeting
         -Time
         -Place
         -Vietnam
         -Rogers’ son's marriage
               -Best man

    News stories
        -The Evening Star
        -Vietnam
              -Melvin R. Laird
              -Military forces
              -Question of withdrawal
                    -Time
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                                 Tape Subject Log
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          -Question of public information
          -NSC meeting
               -Position of NSC members
          -Clark MacGregor
               -Talk with Kissinger

NSC meeting
    -Rogers’ attendance

The President's schedule
     -Florida
           -Time
                 -Rogers
Rogers’ schedule
     -Possible trip to Florida
     -New York
           -Andrei A. Gromyko
           -Foreign Ministers

Soviet Union
     -Relations with US
     -Yuli M. Vorontsov
     -Correspondence with President
           -Astronaut’s daughter
           -Note to the President
     -Gromyko
           -Arrival in US
           -Time
           -Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
           -Meeting with Rogers

Meeting between Henry A. Kissinger and Rogers
     -Time
     -Rogers’ schedule
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                                       Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. 10/06)