Conversation: 023-007
Prev: 023-006 Next: 023-008Start Date: 17-Apr-1972 2:43 PM
End Date: 17-Apr-1972 2:50 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Rogers, William P.;Recording Device: White House Telephone
NARA Description:
On April 17, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and William P. Rogers talked on the telephone from 2:43 pm to 2:50 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 023-007 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 23-7
Date: April 17, 1972
Time: 2:43-2:50 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with William P. Rogers.
The President's previous call to Rogers
Rogers's testimony before Senate
-Highlights
-Selection
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Distribution to spokesmen
-The President's review
-Coverage of points
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Soviet ships
-Official response
-Ziegler
-Senate Foreign Relations Committee
-J. William Fulbright
-Questions
-North Vietnam
-Lack of condemnation for attack on South Vietnam
-John Sherman Cooper and Clifford P. Case
-Lack of strong attacks
-Need for condemnation
-Edmund S. Muskie's resolution
-George D. Aiken's statement
-Bombings
-Justification
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 1/13)
-Testimony
-Summary
-Buchanan's selection
-Distribution to US missions
-Ziegler's statement
Testimony to Congress
-Melvin R. Laird and Thomas H. Moorer
-Laird
-Meeting with the President
-Types of questions
-Military operations
-Preparation
Vietnam
-The President's statement
-Press conference
-Troop levels
-Troop levels
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s meeting with Creighton W. Abrams
-The President's statement
-Proper level
-Announcement
-Number withdrawn
-June announcement
-Timing of announcement
-Show of confidence in policy
-South Vietnam
-Rogers's comments
-South Vietnamese deaths
-US servicemen
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 1/13)