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Conversation: 186-005

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Start Date: 2-Feb-1973 3:43 PM

End Date: 2-Feb-1973 8:50 PM

Participants:

Kissinger, Henry A.Camp David OperatorHowe, Jonathan T. (Cmdr.)

Recording Device: Camp David Study Desk

186-005.mp3

NARA Description:

On February 2, 1973, Henry A. Kissinger, Camp David operator, and Cmdr. Jonathan T. Howe talked on the telephone at Camp David at an unknown time between 3:43 pm and 8:50 pm. The Camp David Study Desk taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 186-005 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 186-5
Date: February 2, 1973
Time: Unknown between 3:43 pm and 8:50 pm
Location: Camp David Study Desk
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                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. Sep.-09)
                                                               Conversation No. 186-5 (cont’d)




Henry A. Kissinger talked with the Camp David operator.

[See Conversation No. 241-3]

       Request for a call to Brig. Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft

Kissinger talked with the Camp David operator.

       Call to Scowcroft
               -Status

Kissinger talked with Cmdr. Jonathan T. Howe.

       Kissinger’s schedule
              -Trip to People’s Republic of China [PRC], February 15-19, 1973
                      -Announcement
                             -Robert F. Ingersoll
                             -Ellsworth F. Bunker
                             -Phillip C. Habib
                             -Instructions from Kissinger
                                     -Vietnam settlement
                             -South Korea, Japan, France
                             -West Germany
                                     -Egon Bahr
                             -Unknown person
                             -Great Britain
                             -Laos
                                     -G. McMurtrie Godley

                                            -Souvanna Phouma
                                            -Emory C. Swank
                             -“Peace in Aisi”
                             -Taiwan, Republic of China
                             -Departure
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                                        Tape Subject Log
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