Conversation: 020-092
Prev: 020-091 Next: 020-093Start Date: 14-Feb-1972 10:32 PM
End Date: 14-Feb-1972 10:40 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.; Recording Device: White House Telephone
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:54:28
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 03:02:36
NARA Description:
On February 14, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger talked on the telephone from 10:32 pm to 10:40 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 020-092 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 20-92 Date: February 14, 1972 Time: 10:32 pm - 10:40 pm Location: White House Telephone The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger. White House dinner -Andre Malraux -Quality of meeting -Malraux speech -Kissinger view -Afternoon meeting -Economic aid -Mao Tse-tung -Liberals -Mao’s forthcoming meeting with president -Reason -Comment to president -People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip -Gen. Charles A.J.M. de Gaulle -Effect on world -Effect of occasion -The President’s comments -The President’s forthcoming trips to Soviet Union and PRC -Comments on Mao Tse-tung and Jawaharal Nehru -Feeling for mystique -American mystique -Abraham Lincoln -French view of mystique -PRC view of mystique -Kissinger’s trip -Discussion with Chinese Marshal -Mao Handling of PRC trip -Need for dignity and confidence -Ability of others to handle -PRC trip -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew -John B. Connally 64 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) -President’s qualification to understand PRC -President’s schooling -Tragedies -PRC -Kissinger role in setting up trip Malraux -Comments -Health -Economic preoccupation -Interpretation of Edward M. Kennedy remarks Forthcoming PRC trip -Reason -Fear -Malraux’s view -Economic aid -Marxist view -Legitimacy -Malraux’s view -Mao’s desires -Chines unification -Taiwan, Republic of China -Respect -Economic progress -Historical significance White House dinner -Malraux -Howard K. Smith -Soviet Union trip 65 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06)