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Conversation: 117-005

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Start Date: 8-Mar-1973 11:44 AM

End Date: 8-Mar-1973 12:05 PM

Participants:

Khar, MustafaAhmed, AzizKhan, Sultan Mohammad[Unknown person(s)]

Recording Device: Cabinet Room

117a.mp3

117b.mp3

117c.mp3

117d.mp3

NARA Description:

On March 8, 1973, Mustafa Khar, Aziz Ahmed, and Sultan Mohammed Khan, and unknown person(s) met in the Cabinet Room of the White House at an unknown time between 11:44 am and 12:05 pm. The Cabinet Room taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 117-005 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 117-5

Date: March 8, 1973
Time: Unknown after 11:44 am until 12:05 pm
Location: Cabinet Room

An unknown man met with Mustafa Khar, Aziz Ahmed, and Sultan Mohammed Khan

     Cabinet Room
          -Seating arrangements
                -The President’s chair
                -Secretary of Commerce
                -John F. Kennedy
                     -Inclusion of United States’ Ambassador to the United Nations in the
                           Cabinet
                -Anecdote about Dean Rusk and Robert S. McNamara
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                      NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                    Tape Subject Log
                                      (rev. 10/08)



Refreshments

Cabinet Room
     -Seating

United States’ political system
     -British heritage
           -Comparison between United States’ and parliamentary systems
     -Pakistan
     -National Security Council [NSC]
           -Previous meeting
           -Members
     -Domestic Council
           -Members
           -Organization

Pakistan
     -Constitution
          -Compared with United States’
                -Diversity

United States’ political system
     -Variety

Pakistan
     -Powers of President
     -Parliament
           -Powers

United States’ political system
     -Local and Federal distinctions
           -Controversy
                 -Civil War
                 -States’ Rights
     -Compared with Soviet Union
           -Role of Soviet constitution

Soviet bloc
     -Extent of political freedom
           -Theoretical rights

United States’ political system
     -Residual powers in states
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                            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 10/08)



           -National constitution
                -Powers of central government
           -Pakistani constitution
                -Powers of provinces

     Ambassador’s meeting with the President

Khar, et al. left at 12:05 pm