Conversation: 168-013
Prev: 168-012 Next: 168-014Start Date: 2-Jun-1973 11:13 AM
End Date: 2-Jun-1973 11:24 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.;Recording Device: Camp David Study Table
NARA Description:
On June 2, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger talked on the telephone at Camp David from 11:13 am to 11:24 am. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 168-013 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 168-13
Date: June 2, 1973
Time: 11:13 am - 11:24 am
Location: Camp David Study Table
The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.
President’s trip to Iceland
-Press coverage
-President’s previous conversations with Alexander M. Haig and Ronald L.
Ziegler
-Kissinger’s assessment
-Accomplishments
-Kissinger’s backgrounders
-Substance
-Monetary issues
-“Year of Europe”
-France’s support
-President’s conversation with Georges J. R. Pompidou
-Press coverage
-President’s expectations
President’s accomplishments
-Kissinger’s mail
-Support for President
-Peace
-“Big picture”
Watergate
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Herman E. Talmadge’s and Edward J. Gurney’s plan
-Testimony by H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman, Charles
W. Colson, John N. Mitchell, and John W. Dean, III
-President’s role
-Popular opinion
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 168-13 (cont’d)
-President trip to Iceland
-Peter Lisagor’s column, June 2, 1973
President’s trip to Iceland
-Meeting in Reykjavik
-Turning point
-“Year of Europe”
-Possibility of failure
-Monetary issue
-Kissinger’s conversation with George R. S. Baring [Earl of Cromer], June 2, 1973
-Kissinger’s meetings
-Sir Burke St. John Trend, June 4, 1973
-Michel Jobert, June 6, 1973
-Egon Bahr, June 11, 1973
-Pompidou
-European summit
Watergate
-President’s role
-Firing of Haldeman and Ehrlichman
Vietman
-Agreement [Joint communiqué]
-Negotiations
-Kissinger’s briefing in Paris
-President’s briefing of bipartisan Congressional leaders
-Ziegler
-Announcement
-Simultaneous briefings
-Announcement
-President’s talking points
-Cambodia
Kissinger’s health
-Travel
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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. March-2011)
Conversation No. 168-13 (cont’d)
President’s schedule
-Movie
-Sleep
[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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Watergate
-President’s opponents’ tactics
-Legal
-Riots
-Elections
-Columnists
-Lisagor
-Stewart J. O. Alsop
-Compared to President’s Iceland trip
President’s Iceland trip
-Press coverage
-Respect
-Compared to Shanghai communiqué
-Kissinger’s backgrounder
-“Opinion leaders”
-Briefings
-Republican Congressional leaders meeting
-Kissinger
-White House strategy