Conversation: 019-040
Prev: 019-039 Next: 019-041Start Date: 23-Jan-1972 10:07 PM
End Date: 23-Jan-1972 10:31 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.;Recording Device: White House Telephone
NARA Description:
On January 23, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger talked on the telephone from 10:07 pm to 10:31 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 019-040 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 19-40
Date: January 23, 1972
Time: 10:07 am - 10:31 am
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.
Kissinger's location
The President's forthcoming speech on Vietnam
-Draft
-The President’s efforts
-Florida
-Timing
-Rose Mary Woods
-William L. Safire
-Secret negotiations
-World War I and [Thomas] Woodrow Wilson
-Compared to public channels
-World War I, World War II, Korea
-Possible reaction by the President's opponents
-Safire's views about revelation
-Status of proposals
-Vietnamization
-Possible US military activity
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Vietnam
-[Unintelligible]
-Kissinger's conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
The President's forthcoming speech
-Conclusion
-Vietnam
-Secret negotiations
-Jack N. Anderson papers, Pentagon Papers
-Critics
-Kissinger's forthcoming call to Safire
-Woods
-Vietnam
-Possible US military activity
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Popular expectations
[Unintelligible]
-Tone of speech
-Vietnam
-The President's conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Washington Post editorial
-Deadline for POWs
-Ceasefire
Vietnam
-Negotiations
-POWs
-Deadline and ceasefire
-South Vietnam government
-Press handling
-The President's interview with Dan Rather
-Michael J. Mansfield amendment
-Administration's response
-The President's schedule
-Meeting with Republican Congressmen
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Public action by supporters of the President's policy
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
-Tone of speech
-Withdrawal
-The President's critics
-Haldeman’s comments
[Unintelligible]
Vietnam
-The President' opponents
-Left’s conflicts with right
-Spanish Civil War
-Liberals
Harrison E. Salisbury
-US foreign relations
-Soviet Union, People's Republic of China [PRC]
[Unintelligible]
The President's schedule
-United Nations [UN]
-Budget
-Kurt Waldheim
-Safire
Vietnam
-Bombing
-Possible effect on the President's support
[Unintelligible]
-South Vietnamese military capacity
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)