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Conversation: 154-003

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Start Date: 23-Sep-1972 4:50 PM

End Date: 23-Sep-1972 5:10 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Kissinger, Henry A.

Recording Device: Camp David Study Table

154-003.mp3

NARA Description:

On September 23, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger talked on the telephone at Camp David from 4:50 pm to 5:10 pm. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 154-003 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 154-3

Date: September 23, 1972
Time: 4:50 pm - 5:10 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table


The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

[See Conversation no. 213-6]
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                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                  Tape Subject Log
                                    (rev. Oct-06)


          Greetings

          The President's schedule
              -Reception in Texas
                  -Kissinger's analysis
                  -Television
                  -Size of crowd
                  -Number of Democrats


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 39s        ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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          Negotiations With North Vietnam

          Vietnam War
              -Peace negotiations
              -Sorties
                  -Number of bombing raids
                  -Similarity to May 1972
                  -Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
                  -Report
                       -Number of missions
                            -Rationale
                  -Melvin R. Laird and Moorer
                       -Budget
              -Kissinger's meeting with Maurice Schumann
                  -Soviet ambassador
                       -Kissinger's negotiation with North Vietnamese
                            -Soviets' reactions
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                                   Tape Subject Log
                                     (rev. Oct-06)

                                -The President's message to Georges J.R. Pompidou
              -Laird
                  -Prisoners of war [POWs]
                       -Kissinger's analysis
                            -Press coverage
                            -Possible solution
              -POW situation
                  -Return to US
                       -Issue
                  -Kissinger’s previous meeting with POW families
                  -Reaction toward North Vietnam
                       -Press coverage

          US press
              -The President’s view


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 3m 33s     ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3

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          The President's schedule
              -The President's reception in Texas
              -Meeting at noon with laborers
              -Visit to Camp David
                  -Time

          Kissinger's schedule
              -Trip to Paris
                  -Announcement
              -Breakfast with David Rockefeller
              -Announcement
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                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                  Tape Subject Log
                                    (rev. Oct-06)

                  -Timing

          The President's schedule
              -Meeting with Jewish leaders in New York
                  -Possible quotes
                       -Kissinger’s view
                       -Soviet Union
                  -Kissinger's conversation with Yitzhak Rabin
                  -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
                       -Question of meeting with Rabin
                  -The President's conversation with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
                  -Haig's presence at meeting
                  -Kissinger's conversation with Jacob K. Javits
                  -US policy
                       -Israel

          US foreign policies and 1972 campaign
              -The President’s forthcoming meeting with Jewish leaders
              -Israel and Soviet Union
                   -US relationship
                   -Emigration
              -US election
                   -Possible results
                        -Support by Israel
                             -Rabin
                             -Max M. Fisher
                   -Adlai E. Stevenson, III
                   -George S. McGovern
                   -Kissinger's negotiations with Soviet Union
              -Rabin
                   -Conversation with Kissinger
                        -Haldeman's conversation with Kissinger
                        -Support of the President
                        -R. Sargent Shriver
                             -Speeches made by Shriver's wife
                                 -Issue of trade with Soviet Union
                                        -Armand Hammer's firm


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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                   Tape Subject Log
                                     (rev. Oct-06)


BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 2m 26s     ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5

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              -The President's position after the 1972 election
                  -Kissinger’s view
                      -Press, electoral establishment
                      -Riots from inherited war

          Vietnam war
              -Sorties
                  -The President's conversation with Haig
                       -Number of missions
                           -The President's observation
                  -Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]

          US foreign policies
              -Burundi
                   -[Robert L. Yost]
                       -Return to U.S.
                            -William P. Rogers
                            -Report
              -State Department
                   -Massacre
                   -Relationship with African leaders
                   -Rogers speech at United Nations
                       -Self-determination
                   Mozambique
                   South Africa
              -Africa
                   -Number of countries
              -Burundi
                   -Ambassador's schedule
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                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. Oct-06)

                         -Report to the President on situation