Conversation: 034-011
Prev: 034-010 Next: 034-012Start Date: 4-Dec-1972 7:51 PM
End Date: 4-Dec-1972 8:02 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kennedy, Richard T. (Col.);Recording Device: White House Telephone
NARA Description:
On December 4, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Col. Richard T. Kennedy talked on the telephone from 7:51 pm to 8:02 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 034-011 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 34-11
Date: December 4, 1972
Time: 7:51 pm - 8:02 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Col. Richard T. Kennedy.
Vietnam negotiations
-Report from Paris
-Length
-Tone
-Henry A. Kissinger’s view
-Possible break off
-North Vietnamese
-Possible strategy
-US difficulty with Saigon, domestic front
-October 8, 1972
-US stance on political issues
-“Administrative structure” [of National Council of National
Reconciliation and Concord], [NCRC]
-Vietnamese translation
-North Vietnamese legal right to intervention in South Vietnam
-North Vietnam’s possible dropping of requests concerning civilian
prisoners and US civilian personnel in South Vietnam
-South Vietnam
-Domestic front
-NCRC
-Structure [governmental compared to administrative]
-Possible US claim
-Translation
-US stance on military issues
-Attempt by North Vietnam to ratify presence in South Vietnam
-11-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Dec.-07)
Conversation No. 34-11 (cont’d)
-Possible Response
-Message
-US stance
-Possible break off
-Saigon
-Domestic
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Conversation with Kennedy
-Kissinger’s conversation with People’s Republic of China [PRC] ambassador in
Paris
-Possible break off
-Explanation for record
-North Vietnam intransigence compared to US insistence on changes
-Kissinger’s view
-Presidential statement
-Presidential statement
-The President’s view
-Previous statements on November 3, 1969, Cambodia,
May 8, 1972
-Changes
-US bombing
-Television [TV]
-Continuation
-Narrowing proposals
-Message to Kissinger
-TV statement on US bombing
-Resumption
-Timing
-Possible break off
-North Vietnam deceit
-TV statement
-Domestic front
-Press
-Bombing
-Report from Paris
-12-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Dec.-07)