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Start Date: 5-Feb-1973 7:57 PM

End Date: 5-Feb-1973 8:09 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Kissinger, Henry A.

Recording Device: White House Telephone

043-027.mp3

NARA Description:

On February 5, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger talked on the telephone from 7:57 pm to 8:09 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 043-027 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 43-27

Date: February 5, 1973
Time: 7:57 pm - 8:09 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

       Vice President Spiro T. Agnew’s schedule
            -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, the President, Kissinger
            -Hawaii
                  -Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet [CINPAC]
            -The President’s schedule
                  -California
                        -Agnew
            -Cabinet
            -California

       The President’s schedule
            -California
            -Kissinger’s schedule
                                     -16-

           NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                              Tape Subject Log
                                (rev. Aug.-08)

                                                     Conversation No. 43-27 (cont’d)

           -Return from Asian trip
           -People’s Republic of China [PRC]
           -Japan
           -San Clemente
                 -Report to the President

Agnew
    -Kissinger’s view

Vietnam settlement
     -Ceasefire
     -North Vietnam
     -Announcement of Paris negotiations
           -State Department
           -Ronald L. Ziegler
     -Cambodia
     -Laos
     -Kissinger’s schedule
           -Hanoi
           -Laos
           -Bangkok
           -Laos
                 -G. McMurtrie Godley
           -William H. Sullivan
     -Laos
           -The President’s views
     -The President’s view
     -Nguyen Van Thieu
           -Possible meeting with the President
                 -Souvanna Phouma
     -Laos
           -Cease-fire

Middle East
     -[Hussein, King of Jordan] Hussein ibn Talal
           -Briefing book
           -Egypt
           -Golda Meir
           -Possible American offers to Jordanians
                 -Economic assistant
                                             -17-

                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. Aug.-08)

                                                         Conversation No. 43-27 (cont’d)

                  -Egypt
                        -Kissinger’s view
                  -Proposal
                  -Kissinger’s view
             -Egypt
                  -Possible meeting with Kissinger
                        -Invitation
                  -State Department
                  -New York
                        -The President’s view
                        -State Department
                        -Camp David
                  -Discussion of secrecy
                  -State Department involvement
                  -Possible meeting with Kissinger
                        -New York
                              -Camp David
                        -State Department