Conversation: 237-048
Prev: 237-047 Next: 237-049Start Date: 30-Dec-1972 10:12 AM
End Date: 30-Dec-1972 10:54 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President);Recording Device: Camp David Hard Wire
NARA Description:
On December 30, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David at an unknown time between 10:12 am and 10:54 am. The Camp David Hard Wire taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 237-048 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 237-48
Date: December 30, 1972
Time: Unknown between 10:12 am and 10:54 am
Location: Camp David Hard Wire
The President dictated a memorandum for the file.
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Vietnam negotiations
-Announcement
-Suspension of bombing
-Resumption of negotiations
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Le Duc Tho
-Executive decisions
-Charles W. Colson
-John A. Scali
-Bombing
-Compared to May 8, 1972 decision
-Invasion
-Public support
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Scali
-May 8, 1972 decision
-Compared to Hanoi bombing
-Success
-Hindsight
-Laos
-Public perception
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-08)
Conversation No. 237-48 (cont’d)
-Announcement
-Public perception
-Press relations
-Congress
-Colson
-Scali
-U. Alexis Johnson
-Reaction to decision
-Public reaction
-Col. Richard T. Kennedy
-Soviet Union
-Reaction to public opinion
-Kissinger
-Opposition
-Australia
-Johnson protests over bombing
-William B. Saxby
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Edmund. S. Muskie
-Hubert A. Humphrey
-Success
-Congress
-Press relations
-Protests over bombing
-Gerald L. Warren
-The President’s reassurance
-Television [TV] appearance
-Kissinger
-Paris peace talks
-Colson
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