Conversation: 038-092
Prev: 038-091 Next: 038-093Start Date: 17-Apr-1973 11:45 PM
End Date: 18-Apr-1973 12:04 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.;Recording Device: White House Telephone
NARA Description:
President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger talked on the telephone from 11:45 pm on April 17, 1973 to 12:04 am on April 18, 1973. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 038-092 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 38-92
Date: April 17, 1973 to April 18, 1973
Time: 11:45 pm - 12:04 am
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.
Entertainment for state dinner
-Francis A. (“Frank”) Sinatra
-F. Edward Hebert
-John O. Pastore
President’s schedule
President’s statement
State visit with Giulio Andreotti
Watergate
-White House staff members
-Possible resignations
-President’s feelings
-Leonard Garment’s suggestions
-Termination H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman, John W.
Dean, III
-John N. Mitchell’s culpability
-Haldeman
-Possible resignation
-Dean’s motivation
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. January-2011)
Conversation No. 38-92 (cont’d)
-Presidency
-President’s knowledge
-Meeting with Dean on March 21, 1973
-Possible resignation by President
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Effect
-President’s mood at State Dinner
-Mrs. Raymond R. Guest’s comment
-Effect on President
-Haldeman
-Ehrlichman
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Dean
-Garment’s view
-Evidence
-Possible resignations
President’s schedule
-Andreotti
-Meeting with President
-Bipartisan congressional leaders meeting
-Emigration of Soviet Jews
-Message from Soviet Union
-Possible effects
-Summit
-Arms control
-Responsibility
-Jewish leaders
-Timing
-Strategy with Soviet Union
-Compared with John T. Downey’s release
-Soviet emigration policy
-Summit meeting
Most favored nation [MFN] status
-Congressmen
Watergate
President’s role in history
-Charges against administration
-Haldeman
-Dean
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. January-2011)
Conversation No. 38-92 (cont’d)
-Immunity
-Credibility
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Effects on President
-President’s knowledge
-Foreign policy activities
-1972 Campaign
Vietnam War
-John C. Stennis
-Bombing
-Laos and Cambodia
-North Vietnam
-Kissinger’s meeting
Haldeman and Ehrlichman
State Dinner
-Sinatra
Watergate
-Garment
-Evidence against White House staff
-President’s opponents’ reaction
-New York Times and Washington Post
-Compared with Teapot Dome
-Need for full disclosure