Conversation: 017-150
Prev: 017-149 Next: 017-151Start Date: 2-Jan-1972 6:35 PM
End Date: 2-Jan-1972 6:44 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.;Recording Device: White House Telephone
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 05:46:29
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 05:53:10
NARA Description:
On January 2, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger talked on the telephone from 6:35 pm to 6:44 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 017-150 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 17-150
Date: January 2, 1972
118
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Time: 6:35 pm - 6:44 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.
[See Conversation No. 311-54]
Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Patrick J. Buchanan's note to President
-Mike Wallace's "60 Minutes" show, January 2nd
-POW wives
-Their views on President's administration
-End of war
-Negotiations
-Wallace
-Responses from POW wives
-President's interview with Dan Rather, January 2nd
-President's trips to Moscow and Peking
-Democrats
-Deadline
-Report from Pentagon
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Letter
-POW
-POW wives
-Unknown numbers
-Dissidents
-Maj. Gen. James D. Hughes
-Deadline
-Possible rescheduling of President’ Vietnam announcement
-US negotiations
-Statement President can make to Rather
-President's trips to People’s Republic of China [PRC] and Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics [USSR]
-Raising issue on POWs
-POWs held by PRC
President's upcoming announcements
-Troop announcement
-January 13th
-Peace announcement
119
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
-January 24th or 25th
-Networks and politicians
-Risks involved
-Response in Saigon
-Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu
-Delay decision on when to make announcements
-North Vietnamese
-Channels of Communication
POWs
-Kissinger's call to Hughes
-POWs and POW wives
-CBS
-Call to the President