Conversation: 035-019
Prev: 035-018 Next: 035-020Start Date: 27-Dec-1972 8:39 PM
End Date: 27-Dec-1972 8:45 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.;Recording Device: White House Telephone
NARA Description:
On December 27, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger talked on the telephone from 8:39 pm to 8:45 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 035-019 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 35-19
Date: December 27, 1972
Time: 8:39 pm - 8:45 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.
Kissinger vacation
-California
-Weather
-Swimming pool
-Kissinger's communications
US bombing of North Vietnam
-Message from North Vietnam
-Col. Richard T. Kennedy
-The President’s schedule
-Harry S. Truman’s death
-The President’s paying of respects
-Negotiations
-Timing of meetings
-Technical meetings
-Cancellation
-[Kissinger’s meeting with Le Duc Tho], January 8, 1973
-Publicity
-Technical meetings
-Bombing halt
-Kissinger’s message to North Vietnam, December 26, 1972
-Negotiations
-Conditions
-Bombing halt
-Timing
-Thirty-six hours
-Bombing halt
-Timing
-Announcement
-December 30, 1972
-January 1, 1973
-December 31, 1972
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct.-07)
Conversation No. 35-19 (cont’d)
-News magazines
-December 31, 1972
-New Year’s Day
-Reply by North Vietnam
-US military losses
-B-52s
-Effect on North Vietnam
-Kissinger’s view
-French foreign minister to US
-French Consul General to Hanoi
-Report
-Description of US raids on North
-Reply by North Vietnam
-Timing
-December 31, 1972
-Kissinger’s message to North Vietnam
-Incentive
-Bombing halt
-Effect on the North Vietnamese
-The President's reputation
-US public reaction
-The President’s view
-Kissinger’s view
-Kissinger’s social contacts
-Press
-Reply by North Vietnam
-Future military options
-News magazines
-Coverage of war