Conversation: 020-108
Prev: 020-107 Next: 020-109Start Date: 28-Feb-1972 11:05 PM
End Date: 28-Feb-1972 11:11 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Rogers, William P.;Recording Device: White House Telephone
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 03:31:25
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 03:37:48
NARA Description:
On February 28, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and William P. Rogers talked on the telephone from 11:05 pm to 11:11 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 020-108 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 20-108
Date: February 28, 1972
Time: 11:05 pm - 11:11 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with William P. Rogers.
Reception at airport
-President's speech
-America the Beautiful
President's schedule
-Forthcoming Congressional leaders meeting
-Possible remarks by the President and Rogers
-Defense commitment to Taiwan, Republic of China
-Nixon Doctrine
Washington Post headline
-Pullout from Taiwan
-Stanley Karnow
-Administration view
-Peaceful settlement
-Nixon Doctrine
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[National Security]
[Duration: 21s ]
TAIWAN
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President’s schedule
-Congressional leaders meeting
-Rogers's meeting with People’s Republic of China [PRC] foreign minister
-Tone
-President’s meetings
-Tone
-Content
-Disclosure
Recent PRC trip
-Rogers meeting with foreign minister
-Troop withdrawal
-Europe
-World wars
-Soviet threat
-President’s meeting with Chou En-lai
-Troop withdrawal
-Japan
-US influence
-Korea, Taiwan
-Rogers meeting
-Revolution in Africa
-Rogers’s schedule
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The President’s schedule
-Congressional leaders meeting
-Rogers’s remarks
-Cabinet meeting
Recent PRC trip
-President’s meeting with Chou
-Future meeting
-Communiqué
-Bipartisan composition
-Chou response
-Announcement at forthcoming meeting
-Michael J. Mansfield and Hugh Scott invitations
-Benefits
-Mao Tse-tung meeting
-The President’s possible comments at forthcoming meeting
-Preparation
-Protocol
-Rogers’s meeting with foreign minister
-Canton fair
-Invitation to Americans
-Significance