Conversation: 043-127
Prev: 043-126 Next: 043-128Start Date: 20-Feb-1973 7:30 PM
End Date: 20-Feb-1973 7:41 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.;Recording Device: White House Telephone
NARA Description:
On February 20, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger talked on the telephone from 7:30 pm to 7:41 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 043-127 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 43-127
Date: February 20, 1973
Time: 7:30 pm - 7:41 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.
Foreign relations
-Kissinger’s conversation with William P. Rogers
-PRC
-Liaison office
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Aug.-08)
Conversation No. 43-127 (cont’d)
-Possible leak
-The President’s instructions
North Vietnam
-Preparation of Rogers’s Congressional testimony
-Multilateral aid
-The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
[UNESCO]
-Bilateral aid
-Barry M. Goldwater, James F. Buckley
-Rationale for aid
-Leverage
-Withdrawal of troops from Cambodia and Laos
-Liberals’ position
-Humanitarianism
-South Vietnam
-Senate support
-Media
-Patriotism
-Bombing
-Issue of foreign aid
-Rationale for aid
-National interest
-Romania and Yugoslavia
-Natural disasters
-North Vietnam
-Alternatives
-Possible reaction
-Bombing
-Senate
-Buckley
-Goldwater
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-George S. McGovern
-Media
-Washington Post
-[Arnold] Eric Sevareid
-Responsibility
-Importance of aid
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Aug.-08)
Conversation No. 43-127 (cont’d)
Foreign relations
-The President as world leader
-Europeans
-Edward R. G. Heath
-Domestic priorities