Conversation: 018-093
Prev:  018-092 Next: 018-094Start Date: 17-Jan-1972 3:16 PM
End Date: 17-Jan-1972 3:34 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Safire, William L.; Recording Device: White House Telephone
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 04:28:35
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 04:45:49
NARA Description:
On January 17, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and William L. Safire talked on the telephone from 3:16 pm to 3:34 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 018-093 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 18-93 Date: January 17, 1971 Time: 3:16 pm - 3:34 pm Location: White House Telephone The President talked with William L. Safire. [See Conversation No. 315-8] ************************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 1m 12s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ************************************************************************** 80 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Forthcoming Vietnam speech -Submission of draft to the President -Timing -The President’s outline -Henry A. Kissinger -Form -National Security Council [NSC] draft -Negotiations -Troop withdrawals -Vietnamization -Numbers -Casualties -Charts -Conclusion of war -Secret negotiations -Substance of speech -References to Kissinger -The President's role -Secret talks -Public disclosure -US offers -Impact of disclosure -Purpose of disclosure -Secret compared to public talks -World War I -Colonel Edward M. House -World War II -Deadline -Negotiation record -Deadline and ceasefire -Prisoners of war [POWs] -Tone -Congress -Kissinger -Form of speech -NSC draft -Highlights -Meetings with the North Vietnamese -Background -Negotiations -Channels -The President’s interview with Dan Rather 81 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) -Secret discussions -William P. Rogers, Ellsworth F. Bunker, Paris delegation -October 1969 -Number of meetings -Kissinger -Paris -Conditions of US and the North Vietnamese -May 1971 -Deadline -Ceasefire and POWs -August 1971 -October 1971 -Two-phase offer -Overthrow of South Vietnam government -Thieu’s offer of resignation -New election -Length of speech -Kissinger's reaction -Kissinger’s draft -Secret negotiations -Necessity of secrecy -The President's credibility -Themes -US troop withdrawal -Peace in Southeast Asia -Vietnamization -Other nations -Lyndon B. Johnson -Draft to the President -Submission time for the President -Kissinger -Second draft 82 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06)