Conversation: 024-016
Prev:  024-015 Next: 024-017Start Date: 8-May-1972 5:23 PM
End Date: 8-May-1972 5:27 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.; Recording Device: White House Telephone
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:12:56
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:16:55
NARA Description:
On May 8, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger talked on the telephone from 5:23 pm to 5:27 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 024-016 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 24-16 Date: May 8, 1972 Time: 5:23 pm - 5:27 pm Location: White House Telephone The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger. [See also Conversation No. 336-37] Vietnam -Blockade -The President's announcement -North Vietnamese offensive -Wording of denunciation -Changes -US-South Vietnamese goals -North Vietnamese offensive -Wording -Cambodia and Laos -Deletion -Escalation of war -Responsibility -Criticism -US peace offers -Mines -Detonation -The President's statement -The President's Request for a call to Kissinger 10 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 24-16 (cont.)