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Start Date: 29-Dec-1972 6:28 PM

End Date: 29-Dec-1972 6:44 PM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Camp David Study Table

158-026.mp3

NARA Description:

On December 29, 1972, Henry A. Kissinger and President Richard M. Nixon talked on the telephone at Camp David from 6:28 pm to 6:44 pm. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 158-026 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 158-26

Date: December 29, 1972
Time: 6:28 pm - 6:44 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table

Henry A. Kissinger talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 237-34]

       Weather

       Vietnam War
            -Status
                  -Col. Richard T. Kennedy
                        -Briefing of U. Alexis Johnson
                  -Kissinger’s conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
                        -Report from Hanoi
                              -Resumption of negotiations
            -Congressional relations
                               -33-

      NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                        Tape Subject Log
                          (rev. May-08)

                                                Conversation No. 158-26 (cont’d)

     -Kissinger’s telephone calls
           -Hugh Scott
                 -The President’s message
                 -Michael J. Mansfield
           -Leslie C. Arends
           -Gerald R. Ford
           -Carl B. Albert
           -F. Edward Hebert
           -John C. Stennis
           -Barry M .Goldwater
-US bombing of North Vietnam
     -Explanation
           -The President’s possible speech on television [TV]
                 -Kissinger’s conversation with Ronald W. Reagan
           -Resumption of negotiations
     -Gerald L. Warren’s press conference
           -Consultations with Congressional leaders
           -Explanation
     -Explanation
           -Resumption of negotiations
                 -Tone
                 -Stopping invasion, return of POWs
                 -Announcement
                       -Forthcoming week
     -Congressional relations
           -Briefing of Congressional leaders
                 -Timing
                       -The President’s role
                       -Kissinger’s role
                             -J. William Fulbright
                             -Edward M. Kennedy
                       -Success of negotiations
                             -Kissinger’s conversation with Mansfield
                 -Kissinger’s possible meeting
                       -Senate Foreign Relations Committee
                       -Senate Armed Services Committee
                             -“Hawks”
                       -Charles H. Percy, McGeorge Bundy
                             -George S. McGovern
                               -34-

      NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                        Tape Subject Log
                          (rev. May-08)

                                                Conversation No. 158-26 (cont’d)

     -Explanation
           -Kissinger’s response
                 -Negotiations
                        -Breaking impasse
                 -“Doves”
                        -Cambodia
                              -South Vietnamese troops
           -Necessity
     -Forthcoming announcement
     -The President’s critics
           -Demonstration
                 -Dean Francis B. Sayre
                        -[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson
           -Warren’s press conference
                 -Protests
           -William B. Saxbe
                 -Briefing
     -Effect
     -Explanation
           -Kissinger’s conversation with Mansfield
     -The President’s statements
           -Press and Congressional relations
     -Explanation
           -Negotiations
           -Prisoners of War [POWs]
                 -Political prisoners in South Vietnam
                        -Exchanges
                 -Press relations
                        -Liberals
-Negotiations
     -Following round
           -Possible failure
                 -Publication of record
-Congressional relations
     -Kissinger’s telephone calls and meetings
           -Stennis
           -Goldwater
           -Percy
           -Fulbright
                                    -35-

           NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                             Tape Subject Log
                               (rev. May-08)

                                                    Conversation No. 158-26 (cont’d)

                -Albert
                -Mansfield
                -Ford
          -Leaders
                -Instruction for Warren
     -US bombing of North Vietnam
          -Public relations [PR]
                -Liberals’ view
                       -US government’s position
                       -Congressional relations
          -Cessation north of 20th Parallel
                -Notification
                       -People’s Republic of China [PRC]
                              -Message
                                   -Tone
          -US-PRC relations
                -Chou En-Lai’s statement
                       -Tone
                              -Washington Star
                       -Settlement agreement
                -Meeting with Kissinger
                       -Timing

Harry S. Truman’s memorial service
     -Reception
           -Arrangements
                 -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman
           -Edward R. G. Heath
           -Dwight D. Eisenhower’s funeral
           -Gen. Charles A. J. M de Gaulle’s funeral
                 -The President’s attendance
                 -Reception by Georges J. R. Pompidou
           -The President’s schedule
                 -Heath
                 -[Gough Whitlam] of Australia
                 -[Pierre E. Trudeau] of Canada
                 -Pompidou
                 -Heath
                       -[February 1-2], 1973 meetings
                                         -36-

                 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                  Tape Subject Log
                                    (rev. May-08)

                                                        Conversation No. 158-26 (cont’d)


      US-France relations
           -National Security Council [NSC] memorandum
                 -France election
                       -Socialists
                             -Francois M. Mitterand
                       -Pompidou
                             -The President’s written instructions
                       -NSC
                             -Liberals
                             -State Department
                       -State Department
                             -Polls
                                    -Pompidou
                                    -Socialists
                       -Pompidou
                             -The President’s written instructions
                                    -Socialists
                                    -Public support
           -The President’s possible visit to France
                 -Kissinger’s meeting with Pompidou
                 -French Ambassador to US [Jacques Kosciusko-Morizet]
                 -Kissinger’s trip to Paris
                       -Timing
                       -Message from the President
                             -The President’s support for Pompidou
                 -Announcement
                       -Timing

      Kissinger’s schedule
            -NSC