Conversation: 020-037
Prev: 020-036 Next: 020-038Start Date: 2-Feb-1972 7:43 PM
End Date: 2-Feb-1972 7:52 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.;Recording Device: White House Telephone
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:12:30
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:20:59
NARA Description:
On February 2, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger talked on the telephone from 7:43 pm to 7:52 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 020-037 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 20-37
Date: February 2, 1972
Time: 7:43 pm - 7:52 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.
Irish situation
-Embassy burning
-Dublin
-History of conflict
-Great Britain
-Settlement prospects
-Irish-American supporters
Edmund S. Muskie speech
-Ronald L. Ziegler rebuttal
-Melvin R. Laird
-Conversation with Laird
-Laird’s forthcoming statement
-North Vietnamese
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-Impact of Muskie speech
-Media reaction
-Congressional rebuttals
-William P. Rogers
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s conversation with Kissinger
-State Department role
-Need for sharp rebuttal
-Haldeman
-Ziegler
-Buchanan rebuttal
-President’s role
-Eight Points
-Support for President
-Michael J. Mansfield Amendment
-Kissinger’s critique
Kissinger briefing
-Timing
-Mansfield
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-Chou En-lai
-Mansfield amendment
Kenneth B. Keating and Ellsworth F. Bunker meeting
-Kissinger talk with Keating
-Updating of situation
-Kissinger’s possible talk with Lakshmi Kant Jha
-Backchannel or letter
-Testifying by Keating before Foreign Relations Committee
-State Department
-Jack N. Anderson papers
-US relations with India
-Charles Nelson aid
Contingency plan for Vietnam
-National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-Adm. Thomas H. Moore
-Briefing
-Muskie
-Laird role
-Need for toughness
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-Military effort
-Bombing
-Extent
-North Vietnam
-Military augmentation
-Sorties
-Timing
-Carriers
-B-52’s
-A-1’s
-F-4’s
-Strategy
-South Vietnam
-Beginning of North Vietnamese offensive
-US response
-Bunker view
-South Vietnamese strength
-Lam Son
-Battlefield prospects
-Effect on negotiations
-Timing
-Senate
Public relations
-The President’s talks with Dr. W. Kenneth Riland
-India-Pakistan War
-Anderson papers
-Foreign relations committee
-Keating testifying
-Protection of White House
-Keating’s forthcoming talk with president
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