Conversation: 152-005
Prev: 152-004 Next: 152-006Start Date: 30-Oct-1972 10:33 AM
End Date: 30-Oct-1972 10:43 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.;Recording Device: Camp David Study Table
NARA Description:
On October 30, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger talked on the telephone at Camp David from 10:33 am to 10:43 am. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 152-005 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 152-5
Date: October 30, 1972
Time: 10:33 am - 10:43 am
Location: Camp David Study Table
The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)
[See Conversation No. 222-9]
Vietnam negotiations
-Message from North Vietnam
-John D. Ehrlichman’s previous conversation with Kissinger
-Ehrlichman’s call to the President
-The President’s forthcoming Chicago speech
-Possible actions by North Vietnam
-Acceptance of meeting, delay, break-off of talks
-US response
-Public expectations
-News media efforts
-Negotiating position
-1972 election
-The President’s public statements
-Caution
-William P. Rogers
-Possible statement
-Timing
-George S. McGovern’s statement on aid to South Vietnam
-Possible response by Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Kissinger’s view
-William F. Buckley, Jr.’s article
-The President’s note to Nguyen Van Thieu
-US policy
-The President’s conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Thieu’s silence
-The President’s view
-North Vietnamese
-Forthcoming US election
-Possible actions
-Possible US military reprisals
-Kissinger’s view
-Presentation of US position
-The President’s forthcoming speech in Chicago
-Possible US military reprisals
-Kissinger’s view
-Kissinger’s possible meeting with military leaders
-Current US military action
-The President’s schedule
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer’s schedule
-The President’s schedule
-Speech drafts
-The President’s forthcoming Chicago speech
-Type of settlement
-Status of negotiations
-The President’s view
-Rogers
-US liberals
-Reaction to possible settlement
-Statement by Clayton Fritchey
-Lyndon B. Johnson’s previous efforts
-1972 election
-R.W. Apple of the New York Times
-McGovern’s chances
-Timing of message
-Possible statement by Rogers
-Charles W. Colson
-McGovern’s statements
-Agnew’s forthcoming response