Conversation: 017-142
Prev: 017-141 Next: 017-143Start Date: 2-Jan-1972 12:39 PM
End Date: 2-Jan-1972 12:48 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.;Recording Device: White House Telephone
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 05:10:58
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 05:20:04
NARA Description:
On January 2, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger talked on the telephone from 12:39 pm to 12:48 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 017-142 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 17-142
Date: January 2, 1972
Time: 12:39 pm - 12:48 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
[See Conversation No. 311-41]
Kissinger's schedule
-Kissinger going to California with President
-Kissinger returning to Washington, DC
-Kissinger meeting on Laos
-Kissinger and Gerard C. Smith to meet with President, January 3rd
-Smith
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Vienna
-Submarine missiles
-Total numbers
-Anti-ballistic missiles [ABM] Treaty
-Executive agreement
-Possible concessions
Laos and Cambodia
-Duration of US air activities
-Troops
-Laos and Cambodia
-Infiltration
-Defense of Cambodia and Laos
-Degree of US commitment
-Vietnam and Vietnamization
-Defense of Cambodia
-Tet offensive
-Negotiations on Vietnam
India and Pakistan
-Movement of US carrier force
-Reasoning
-Evacuation
-American lives
-Contingency planning
-John Freeman's (former US ambassador to India) comment to Henry Brandon
-India's foreign policy concerning the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
[USSR] in 1967
-Role of US
-Indira Gandhi's speech
-Unaggressive in nature
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
-Future Indian foreign policy
-US aid
-Possible refusal by India
-US public reaction
Armed forces
-Deserters
-Amnesty question
-President's decision
-No action at present time
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-US termination of Vietnam involvement
-Issue will then be dealt with
-Robert A. Raft, Jr.’s amnesty resolution
-POWs
Situation room
-Kissinger
-Quiet
Laos
-Shelling
-Long Tien [sp?] area
-Defeat in January
-Victory in July
-Weather
-Results