Conversation: 041-043
Prev: 041-042 Next: 041-044Start Date: 22-Jun-1973 1:51 PM
End Date: 22-Jun-1973 1:58 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.;Recording Device: White House Telephone
NARA Description:
On June 22, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger talked on the telephone from 1:51 pm to 1:58 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 041-043 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 41-43
Date: June 22, 1973
Time: 1:51 pm - 1:58 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.
[See also Conversation No.448-5]
Kissinger’s schedule
-Sans Souci restaurant
President’s conversation with Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Kissinger
-Champagne toast
-Conversation with William J. Fulbright
President’s agreement with Brezhnev on prevention of nuclear war
-Reaction
-Enthusiasm
-Hawks [?]
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer, Paul H. Nitze
-James R. Schlesinger
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. November-2012)
Conversation No. 41-43 (cont’d)
-Treaty compared to agreement
-William Rogers’s suggestion
-Congress
-Melvin R. Laird’s view
-Congress
-Approval
-Edward F. Hebert
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Support
-President’s assessment
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield’s comment to president
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Chou En-Lai
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Brussels, Belgium
-Support
-Japan
-Support
-Great Britain
-France
-Germany
-Kissinger’s briefing on airplane
-President’s conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler
-Message from President
-Will of the parties
-President and Brezhnev relationship
-Politburo
-Kissinger’s conversation with Marvin L. Kalb
-Kalb’s assessment
-Possible reaction
-New York Times, Washington Post
-Provisions
-Use of threat of force
-Third parties, allies
-USSR restraint
-Jordan
-Cien Fuegos
-PRC
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. November-2012)
Conversation No. 41-43 (cont’d)
-Mansfield
-President
-Achievements of the administration
-Attendees at signing ceremony
-Fulbright
-President’s assessment
-President’s remarks
-Pragmatism
-Roles of President and Kissinger
-Rogers’s suggestion
-Congress
-laird’s view
-Debates
-Approval