Conversation: 043-135
Prev: 043-134 Next: 043-136Start Date: 21-Feb-1973 9:06 AM
End Date: 21-Feb-1973 9:23 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Rogers, William P.;Recording Device: White House Telephone
NARA Description:
On February 21, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and William P. Rogers talked on the telephone from 9:06 am to 9:23 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 043-135 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 43-135 Date: February 21, 1973 Time: 9:06 am - 9:23 am Location: White House Telephone The President talked with William P. Rogers. [See Conversation No. 859-3] Vietnam settlement -Rogers’ Congressional testimony -Economic aid to North Vietnam -Multilateral aid -Multilateral organizations -Shared responsibility -The Soviet Union -The People’s Republic of China [PRC] -South Vietnam, North Vietnam -Effect on domestic budget -House of Representatives -Defense budget -Laos -Isolationists -Germany and Japan -World War II -76- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. Aug.-08) Conversation No. 43-135 (cont’d) -Laos cease-fire -Timing -PRC communiqué -Timing of the President’s press conference -South Carolina -Senators -Rogers’s possible testimony -Prisoners of War [POWs] -Hugh Scott -Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield -The President’s view -Scott, Mansfield, George D. Aiken -Herman E. Talmadge -Edward M. Kennedy, George S. McGovern, Edmund S. Muskie -Laos peace agreement -Rogers’s view -The President’s view -Vietnam settlement -Bombing -Mansfield -Comparison of Hanoi and Saigon -Henry A. Kissinger, William H. Sullivan, Frank Sieverts -Rogers’s testimony -The administration record -Arms control -PRC and the Soviet Union -Middle East -Vietnam settlement -Economic aid -Demonstrators -Jesse Jackson -The President’s view -Returning servicemen -Jacksonville -USS Saratoga -South Carolina -POWs -Sieverts -Credit for settlement -Rogers possible testimony -77- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. Aug.-08) Conversation No. 43-135 (cont’d) -The President’s view -Reaction -Public -Senators, media -Dinner for the President’s supporters -Congress -Rogers -Elliot L. Richardson -Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS] -Evening at the White House -Church services The President’s schedule -Girdiron dinner -Ronald L. Ziegler -McGovern -1973 Inauguration -Oxford, England -George H. W. Bush -Alfalfa dinner -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew