Conversation: 184-010
Prev: 184-009 Next: 184-011Start Date: 18-Dec-1972 11:25 AM
End Date: 18-Dec-1972 11:35 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.;Recording Device: Camp David Study Desk
NARA Description:
On December 18, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger talked on the telephone at Camp David from 11:25 am to 11:35 am. The Camp David Study Desk taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 184-010 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 184-10
Date: December 18, 1972
Time: 11:25 am - 11:35 am
Location: Camp David Study Desk
The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.
The President’s schedule
-Dinner party
-Richard L. Wilson
-Joseph W. Alsop
-Adm. Thomas H. and Carrie Ellen (Foy) Moorer
-Announcement
-Timing
Vietnam War
-US bombing and mining of North Vietnam
-Hanoi announcement
-Timing
-Attacks on radio stations
-B-52s
-Weather
-Losses
-Expectations
-[Hanoi]
-Surface to air missiles [SAMs]
-Number
-Schedule
-SAMs
-Losses
-Expectations
-Purpose
-Naval strikes
-Tactical Air [TACAIR] strikes
-A-6s
-11-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. June-08)
Conversation No. 184-10 (cont’d)
-Timing
-A-6s, A-3s
-F-111s
-Airfields
-Timing
-William Beecher’s New York Times article
-Source
-Accuracy
-Source
-Defense Department
-Melvin R. Laird
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Hanoi announcement
-Tone
-Negotiations
-Resumption of negotiations
-US message to North Vietnam
-Expected reply
-Timing
-Settlement agreement
-Timing
-1973 Inauguration
-Purpose
-US credibility
-North Vietnam
-People’s Republic of China [PRC], Soviet Union
-Hanoi announcement
-Apollo XVII Astronauts
-Public relations [PR]
-Handling
-Beecher’s New York Times article
-Source
-Purpose
-Timing
-North Vietnam’s response
-Ronald L. Ziegler, Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Attacks and radio stations
-Defense Department
-Laird
-Rush
-12-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. June-08)
Conversation No. 184-10 (cont’d)
-William P. Rogers
-Unknown person
-Defense Department
-William J. Baroody, Jr.
-Laird
-Weather
-Support aircraft
-Number
-Airplane losses
-B-52s
-SAM
-Report
-Pilots
-Past experience
-Forthcoming report