Conversation: 022-069
Prev: 022-068 Next: 022-070Start Date: 3-Apr-1972 7:12 PM
End Date: 3-Apr-1972 7:19 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.;Recording Device: White House Telephone
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:52:15
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:59:03
NARA Description:
On April 3, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger talked on the telephone from 7:12 pm to 7:19 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 022-069 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 22-69
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Date: April 3, 1972
Time: 7:12 pm - 7:19 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.
Vietnam
-Weather
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer’s report to Kissinger
-Tanks
-Naval gunfire
-Route One
-Naval gunfire
-Kissinger’s view
-Use in North Vietnam
-Dong Hoi area
-Authorization
-Timing
-Moorer
-Route One
-Location
-Cruisers and destroyers
-Weather
-Improvement
-Ceiling
-Air strikes
-Damage assessment
-Tanks and trucks
-Weather
-Improvement
-Results
-Tanks, guns, artillery, surface-to-air-missiles [SAMs]
-Troops
-Weather
-Change
-Timetable
-Kissinger’s view
-Possible settlement
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Date
-Moorer
-Melvin R. Laird
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
-Support for air strikes
-Moorer
-The President’s view
-Haiphong Attack
-Kissinger’s view
-Timing
-Soviet response
Soviet Union
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Message to Moscow
-Forthcoming US-Soviet Summit
-Berlin
-German treaties
-US message to Willy Brandt
-The President’s decision
-The President’s forthcoming trip to Poland
-Message from the Soviets
-Delay
-Kissinger’s view
-Poles
-Soviet response
-Possibility of a news leak
Kissinger briefing for someone
-Forthcoming meeting with the President