Conversation: 020-041
Prev: 020-040 Next: 020-042Start Date: 2-Feb-1972 8:00 PM
End Date: 2-Feb-1972 8:09 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator; Rogers, William P.;Recording Device: White House Telephone
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:21:24
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:30:21
NARA Description:
On February 2, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, White House operator, and William P. Rogers talked on the telephone from 8:00 pm to 8:09 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 020-041 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 20-41
Date: February 2, 1972
Time: 8:00 pm - 8:09 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The White House operator talked with the President.
Call from William P. Rogers
Rogers talked with the President.
International club reception
Irish problem
-Irish Foreign Minister visit
-British Ambassador visit
-Political impact
-Edward M. Kennedy interest
-Rogers’s view of discussions
-Content
-Rogers’s conversation with George R.S. Baring [Earl of Cromer]
-Political interest
-James L. Buckley
-Kennedy
-Cromer's view
-President’s discussion with Edward R.G. Heath
-US role
-Demagoguery
-US aid to solution
-Embassy burning
-Guilt of parties
-Change in US role
-Irish government concern
-John M. (“Jack”) Lynch visit
-Rogers’s view
-The President’s schedule
-President’s trip to People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Pressure on British
-Rogers’s view
-Resistance
-Rogers’s forthcoming press conference
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
-Edmund Muskie speech
-Effect on Vietnam negotiations
-Difficulty of Irish problem
-Efforts at resolution
-Encouragement to private citizens
-Cromer
-Norman Vincent Peale
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Terence Cardinal Cooke
-Benefits
-Lack of identification with US
-Cook and Peale effort
-Great Britain
-US concern
-Rogers’s forthcoming talk with Cromer
-US domestic forces
-Rogers’s telegram from Sir Alexander F. (“Alec”) Douglas-Home
-View of US role
-Aid on problem
-Mediation
-“Good offices”
-British handling of Ireland
-Historical record
-Effect
-Irish agitation
-Kennedy
-Destruction
-Cromer
-Irish Republican Army [IRA]
-Czechoslovakian weapons
National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-Rogers’s opinion
-Pressure for all options
-Thomas H. Moorer
-Melvin R. Laird
-Increase in forces
-Carriers, B-52’s, A-1’s, F-4’s
-Bombing
-Timing
-PRC trip
-North Vietnam
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
-South Vietnam
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew view
-Haiphong