Conversation: 169-002
Prev: 169-001 Next: 169-003Start Date: 19-Jun-1973 9:58 PM
End Date: 19-Jun-1973 10:07 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.;Recording Device: Camp David Study Table
NARA Description:
On June 19, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger talked on the telephone at Camp David from 9:58 pm to 10:07 pm. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 169-002 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 169-2
Date: June 19, 1973
Time: 9:58 pm - 10:07 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table
The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.
Memorandum
-Policy recommendations
-Delivery
Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Meeting with President
-Vodka
-Friendship
-Conversations with Kissinger
-Relationship with President
-Friendship
-Admiration
-Mao Tse-tung
-Negotiations
-Meeting with President
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation No. 169-2 (cont’d)
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]-People’s Republic of China
[PRC] relations
-Kissinger’s conversation with PRC
-Sequoia
-Meeting with USSR officials
-Atmosphere
-Schedule
-Camp David meetings, June 29, 1973
-Organization
-Private meetings between Brezhnev and President
-Viktor M. Sukhodrev and President
-President, Anatoliy F. Dobrynin, Kissinger
-William P. Rogers, Andrei A. Gromyko
-Dobrynin and Kissinger
-Meetings with President
-Washington, Camp David, San Clemente
-Meetings, June 20, 1973
-Conversation with President
Watergate
-Brezhnev’s wish for President’s reelection
-President’s possible resignation
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Kissinger’s assessment
Brezhnev’s visit
-Preparation
-Kissinger and Dobrynin
-Watergate
-Insignificance compared to diplomacy
Watergate
-President’s opponents
-Brezhnev’s visits
-Negotiations
-Peace
-John W. Dean, III
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation No. 169-2 (cont’d)
-Handling of funds
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.’s conversation with Kissinger
Brezhnev’s visit
-Relations with President
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Ability to handle negotiations
-Arrangement of summit meetings
-President’s previous actions
-Cien Fuegos
-Jordan
-May 8, 1972 speech
-President’s meeting with Brezhnev at Dacha in 1972
-President’s actions
-Value to Brezhnev
-Coexistence with West
-Summit schedule
-Relations with PRC
Chou En-lai
-Visit to US
President’s schedule
-USSR, PRC
Brezhnev’s visit
-Schedule