Conversation: 039-087
Prev: 039-086 Next: 039-088Start Date: Tuesday, June 5, 1973 3:16 AM
End Date: Tuesday, June 5, 1973 3:22 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.Recording Device: White House Telephone
NARA Description:
On June 4, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger talked on the telephone from 11:16 pm to 11:22 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 039-087 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 39-87
Date: June 4, 1973
Time: 11:16 pm - 11:22 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.
Kissinger’s location
-British embassy
Kissinger’s forthcoming press briefing, June 5
-Georges J. R. Pompidou
-Paris negotiations
-President’s briefing of bipartisan Congressional leaders, June 7
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2011)
Conversation No. 39-87 (cont’d)
People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Mao Tse-tung’s invitation
-Implication
-Continuing importance of President
-Chou En-lai’s possible visit to US
-Kissinger’s possible message to ambassador
-United Nations [UN]
-Kissinger’s previous message
-Compared with President’s visit to PRC
-Kissinger’s previous invitation
-UN
-Washington, DC
-Possible dinner
-Contrasted with Head of State dinner
-Response
-Past responses
-Joint invitation from Mao and Chou
-Mao’s wife [Chiang Ching-Kuo]
-Role in Cultural Revolution
-Role in Politburo
-Timing of response
-Message on Cambodia
-Disclosure to bipartisan Congressional leaders
President’s forthcoming bipartisan Congressional leadership meeting, June 7
-President’s handling
-Timing
-Paris peace talks
-Vietnam settlement
-Possible announcement
George R. S. Baring [Earl of Cromer]
-Toast for President
-Kissinger as guest of honor
-Herman E. Talmadge
-Russell B. Long
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2011)
Conversation No. 39-87 (cont’d)
Talmadge
-President’s assessment
Kissinger’s conversations, June 2-3
-Danny Kaye
-Simcha Dinitz
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Dinner
Watergate
-Popular opinion
-Press coverage [?]
-Effect on US foreign relations
-PRC’s response to President’s message
-Timing
-President’s meeting with Pompidou
-Leonid I. Brezhnev’s forthcoming visit
Kissinger’s schedule
-Return from Paris
-Brezhnev’s visit
-Preparations
-Return from Paris
-Timing