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 32 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 33 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) -South Vietnam -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew view -Haiphong