Conversation: 022-159
Prev: 022-158 Next: 022-160Start Date: 16-Apr-1972 3:35 PM
End Date: 16-Apr-1972 3:54 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.;Recording Device: White House Telephone
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 06:03:17
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 06:22:18
NARA Description:
On April 16, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger talked on the telephone from 3:35 pm to 3:54 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 022-159 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 22-159
Date: April 16, 1972
Time: 3:35 pm - 3:54 pm
Location: White House Telephone
Henry A. Kissinger talked with the President.
Vietnam
-Report from Alexander M. Haig, jr.
-Air strikes
-Success
-Talk With Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Talk With Gen. James F. Hollingsworth
128
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
-Third Corps
-Route 13
-Unknown cities
-B-52s
-An Loc
-Situation
-Enemy movement
-Tanks
-Artillery
-Stabilization
-Air strikes
-Tactical situation
-21st Armored Division
-5th Division
-Duong Van Minh
-Third Corps
-North Vietnamese losses
-Hollingsworth’s estimates
-Tanks
-T-54s [?]
-An Loc
-Morale of garrison
-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN] morale
-Vietcong
-I Corps
-Fourth Corps
-Con Tien
-Survey team
-Change in attitude
-US aircraft
-US naval reinforcements
-Rebuilding
-Future strategy
-US position
-Kissinger’s view
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Liberals
-Cambodia
-David K.E. Bruce
-Arthur F. Burns
-Comment to Rose Mary Woods
-Support for the President’s stands
129
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
-Soviet Union
-Navigator
-Pilot
-Criticism
-Victory
-ARVN
-Blockade
-Haig’s report
-North Vietnamese losses
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, jr.
-Use of US power
-Reinforcements
-Air strikes
-Number of sorties
-B-52s
-Effectiveness
-Tactical aircraft
-Phantoms
-Israelis
-US
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration: 42s ]
PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA [PRC]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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-Soviet Union and PRC
-Hanoi
-Soviet Union
-German Treaty
-Kissinger’s forthcoming trip
130
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
-B-52 strike
-Richard M. Helms talk with Kissinger
-Lyndon B. Johnson strategy
-The President’s view
Kissinger’s meeting with an unknown person
Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with the President
-Kissinger’s forthcoming trip to Moscow
-The President’s schedule
-Camp David
-Date
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Message to Chinese
-The President’s schedule
-Domestic issues
-Kissinger’s preparations
-Camp David
-Kissinger’s arrival for meeting
-Plans
Kissinger’s forthcoming trip to Moscow
-William P. Rogers
-Notification of Kissinger’s trip
-Haig and Haldeman
-Kissinger’s meeting with the North Vietnamese and Soviets
-Date
-Paris
-Kissinger’s departure
-Results
-Possible conversation between Rogers and Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Message from Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Substance
-Haldeman and Haig
-Need for notification
-Possible US-North Vietnam meeting in Paris
-Soviet request
-Kissinger discussion of Vietnam matter
-Possible attendance of North Vietnamese
-Private meetings
-Arrangements
-Rogers’s knowledge of private meetings
131
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
-Haig
-The President’s talking paper
-Kissinger’s previous talks with Rogers
-Receipt of talking paper
Haig’s return
Kissinger’s departure
-Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with the President
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Dinner party
-Newspaper editors
-Appearance
-Departure
-The President’s travel plans
-Key Biscayne
-Camp David
-Advantages
-Privacy
-Ronald L. Ziegler
The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming reception for editors
-Camp David