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Start Date: 13-Feb-1973 12:55 PM

End Date: 13-Feb-1973 1:04 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Rogers, William P.

Recording Device: White House Telephone

043-066.mp3

NARA Description:

On February 13, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and William P. Rogers talked on the telephone from 12:55 pm to 1:04 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 043-066 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 43-66

Date: February 13, 1973
Time: 12:55 pm - 1:04 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with William P. Rogers.

[See Conversation No. 854-33]
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            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                               Tape Subject Log
                                 (rev. Aug.-08)

                                                        Conversation No. 43-66 (cont’d)


The President’s schedule
     -Stephen B. Bull
     -George P. Shultz [?]
     -Rogers’s schedule

Hijacking agreement with Cuba
     -Mutual obligations
           -Extradition
                 -Funds and equipment
                 -Southern Airways
           -Terms
                 -Department of Justice
     -Normalization of relationships
           -The President’s view
           -Rogers’s press conference
     -Switzerland and Czechoslovakia
     -Memorandum of understanding
     -Congress

Rogers’s schedule
     -Florida

Prisoners of War [POWs]
      -Television [TV] coverage
      -Courage
            -The President’s view
      -Physical condition
      -Robinson Risner
            -Risner’s telephone call to the President
      -The President’s calls to wives
            -Mrs. Risner, Mrs. Jeremiah A. Denton, Jr., Mrs. James A. Mulligan, Jr.
      -Risner’s statement
      -Rogers’s statement
      -Dan Rather
      -James B. (“Scotty”) Reston’s column
      -Rogers’s statement to Donald M. Fraser
            -Television [TV] coverage

Public relations
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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                       Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. Aug.-08)

                                                              Conversation No. 43-66 (cont’d)

             -Alice Roosevelt Longworth’s birthday party
                   -Washington Post editor’s conversation with Rogers
                        -Rogers’s view
                              -Press
                              -Congress
                                    -George D. Aiken
                        -The President’s view
                              -William F. Buckley, Jr.
                              -Media role

       The President’s schedule
            -John A. Scali
            -Donald H. Rumsfeld