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Start Date: 29-Dec-1972 12:01 PM

End Date: 29-Dec-1972 12:08 PM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Camp David Study Table

158-015.mp3

NARA Description:

On December 29, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger talked on the telephone at Camp David from 12:01 pm to 12:08 pm. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 158-015 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 158-15

Date: December 29, 1972
Time: 12:01 pm - 12:08 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

[See Conversation No. 237-19]

       Vietnam War
            -US-People’s Republic of China [PRC] relations
                 -Chou En-Lai’s statement
                      -Analysis
                      -Possible intent
                      -(Madame) Nguyen Thi Binh’s location
                             -[Peking]
                                   -The President’s conversation with Col. Richard T.
                                    Kennedy
                      -Significance
                             -Copies of notes
                             -Previous statements
                                   -US bombing
                 -Message
                 -Chou’s statement
                      -Tone
                      -Message
                             -Content
                                   -US bombing
                                -20-

      NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                         Tape Subject Log
                           (rev. May-08)

                                                 Conversation No. 158-15 (cont’d)

                  -Delivery
                         -New York
                  -Significance
                         -Marilyn Berger
-Cessation of US bombing north of 20th Parallel
     -Aleksei N. Kosygin
            -Statement
                  -Expectation
                         -US
     -Chou En-lai’s statement
            -PRC-North Vietnam relations
                  -Madame Binh
     -Notification
            -The President’s conversation with Kennedy
                  -U. Alexis Johnson
                  -Britain
                  -France
                  -Australia
            -Australia, South Korea
                  -Johnson
            -Britain, France
                  -Restraint
-US bombing of North Vietnam
     -US-Australia relations
            -Gough Whitlam’s statement
                  -State Department
                         -[National Security Council] [NSC]
                               -Kennedy
                  -Meat quotes
                  -Communications
                         -Cables to Canberra
                               -Clearance through NSC
                         -Birthday, New Year’s messages
                               -Clearance through NSC
                  -Whitlam’s election
                         -“Peaceniks”
                  -Effect
                  -Ambassador [Sir James Plimsoll]
                         -Avoidance
                                             -21-

                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. May-08)

                                                             Conversation No. 158-15 (cont’d)

                               -Whitlam’s letter
                                     -Lack of reply
                                           -Kissinger’s conversation with Plimsoll
                                                 -Australia’s message to North Vietnam
                               -Whitlam’s meeting with Charles H. Percy
                                     -Kissinger’s and the President’s position
                   -Percy’s position
                         -1976 election