Conversation: 036-021
Prev: 036-020 Next: 036-022Start Date: 20-Jan-1973 9:32 AM
End Date: 20-Jan-1973 9:59 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.;Recording Device: White House Telephone
NARA Description:
On January 20, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger talked on the telephone from 9:32 am to 9:59 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 036-021 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 36-21
Date: January 20, 1973
Time: 9:32 am - 9:59 am
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.
1973 Inaugural concerts
-Symphony concert
-Kissinger’s attendance
-The President’s view
-Eugene Ormandy
-Edvard Grieg
-Van Cliburn
-Compared to previous Inaugural
-1969 Inaugural
-Constitution Hall
-Kissinger’s view
Vietnam settlement
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-New letter
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jul-08)
Conversation No. 36-21 (cont’d)
-Conditions
-South Vietnamese officials
-Foreign Minister
-Meeting with Kissinger in Paris
-Kissinger’s view
-Message to Thieu
-William H. Sullivan
-Agreement details
-Police force
-The President’s meeting with Congressional leaders
-Unilateral initialing
-Thieu
-Peace agreement acceptance
-Timing
-Haig
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-The President’s message to Thieu
-The President’s meeting with Congressional leaders
-Barry M. Goldwater, John C. Stennis
-Thieu’s acceptance of agreement
-Possible ramifications
-South Vietnam aid
-Haig’s message
-Bunker
-Tran Van Lam
-Trip to Paris
-The President’s message to Thieu
-Lam’s trip to Paris
-Congress
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Trip to South Vietnam
-Signing of agreements
-Need for Thieu’s acceptance
-Negotiations
-North Vietnamese
-Thieu
-Protocols
-Washington Post
-Sullivan
-Pistols
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jul-08)
Conversation No. 36-21 (cont’d)
-Police force
-Officers, enlisted men
-Protocols
-North Vietnamese troops in South Vietnam
-Kissinger’s response
-Messages
-Thieu
-The President’s view
-The President’s experience
-Trips in the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China
[PRC]
-Corps commanders
-US aid
-William P. Rogers
-Previous statements
-Vietnamization
-The President’s view
-Response to the President’s message
-Deadline
-The President’s meeting with Congressional leaders
-Selected leaders
-Goldwater
-Contingencies
-The President’s public statements
-Details of final negotiations
-US bureaucracy
-Allies
-Australia
-Informing
-Marshall Green
-Message
-Australia, New Zealand
-Canada
-Pierre E. Trudeau
-The President’s view
-The President’s instructions
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jul-08)