Conversation: 020-106
Prev: 020-105 Next: 020-107Start Date: 28-Feb-1972 10:52 PM
End Date: 28-Feb-1972 11:00 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator; Kissinger, Henry A.;Recording Device: White House Telephone
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 03:23:42
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 03:31:18
NARA Description:
On February 28, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, White House operator, and Henry A. Kissinger talked on the telephone from 10:52 pm to 11:00 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 020-106 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 20-106
Date: February 28, 1972
Time: 10:52 pm - 11:00 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The White House operator talked to the President.
Call from Henry A. Kissinger on the line
Kissinger talked with the President.
Call to Ronald W. Reagan
-Taiwan, Republic of China
-Washington Post headline
-Reagan view
-Headlines in California
-Communiqué
-The President’s talk with Reagan
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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-Nixon Doctrine
-Press
-The President’s recent speech
-Nature of rebuttal
-Ronald L. Ziegler question
-Defense commitment
-Kissinger’s comments in Shanghai
The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming Congressional leaders meeting
-Kissinger and William P. Rogers
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Talk with Kissinger
-Breakfast
-William F. Buckley, Jr.
Calls to Kissinger
-James L. Buckley call to Reagan
-Clarification of Taiwan statement
-Defense commitment
-Reagan
-Enthusiasm for trip
-Nancy Reagan
-Political acumen
-Television
-Taiwan statement
-Washington Post
-Media
-Play of Taiwan issue
-William Buckley
-Attitude toward administration
-Columns
-Handling
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr. view
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Messages between the US and Soviet Union
-Criticism
-World report
-Détente
-TASS
President's schedule
-Meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Benefits
-Timing
-PRC
-Dobrynin’s forthcoming meeting with Kissinger
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Possible dinner
Accomplishments of trip
-Public reaction to trip
-Rogers
-Reception at airport
-Demonstrators
-Cabinet
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Communiqué
-Rogers
-Marshall Green
-Berlin
-Reagan
-Support
-Statement
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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