Conversation: 017-146
Prev:  017-145 Next: 017-147Start Date: 2-Jan-1972 3:40 PM
End Date: 2-Jan-1972 3:50 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.; Recording Device: White House Telephone
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 05:26:04
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 05:36:30
NARA Description:
On January 2, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger talked on the telephone from 3:40 pm to 3:50 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 017-146 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 17-146 Date: January 2, 1972 Time: 3:40 pm - 3:50 pm Location: White House Telephone 113 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger. [See Conversation No. 311-46] Kissinger's note sent over by Patrick J. Buchanan Weekend News Summary -Washington Star's article of US's bombing of North Vietnam -Effect on Laos -Prisoners of War [POW] wives -Effect on their husbands -Objection to bombing -India-Pakistan conflict -Heavy press coverage Laos operation -New divisions -Duration -Provocation POW wives -US policy -Every proposal turned down by the North Vietnamese -Getting POWs back -Deadline for US withdrawal from Vietnam -North Vietnamese negotiators -US aid -Cutoff -Political structures of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia -Deadline for US withdrawal -congress -North Vietnamese negotiator's response -US proposals consistently turned down Newspapers -John B. Connally -Foreign economic policy -Duration of story -Connally -Year-end summaries -News items not mentioned -Moscow summit 114 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) -Berlin -Accidental war -Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT] -New York Times -People’s Republic of China [PRC] -Editorial -US dealings -US -Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] -New York Times and Washington Post -Credibility problems -Los Angeles Times -Improvement [?] Kissinger's schedule -Kissinger to meet with conservatives in California -Kissinger's interviews with Los Angeles Times India-Pakistan US bombing of Vietnam Man of the Year -Time magazine India-Pakistan -US policy -PRC -US relations with India -Aid President's interview with Dan Rather -President's style and ability -Aggressiveness -Rather and Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] -National Broadcasting Company [NBC] -Rather -President's knowledge of foreign policy 115 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06)