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Conversation: 241-001

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

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

Participants:

Kissinger, Henry A.Trend, Burke (Sir)Camp David OperatorKissinger, LouisKissinger, Paul ("Stern")

Recording Device: Camp David Hard Wire

241-001.mp3

NARA Description:

On February 2, 1973, Henry A. Kissinger, Sir Burke Trend, Camp David operator, Louis Kissinger, and Paul ("Stern") Kissinger met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David at an unknown time between 3:43 pm and 8:50 pm. The Camp David Hard Wire taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 241-001 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 241-1

Date: February 2, 1973
Time: Unknown between 3:43 pm and 8:50 pm
Location: Camp David Hard Wire

Henry A. Kissinger met with Burke Trend [?].

       Nuclear negotiations
              -US-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] relations
                     -Commission
                     -USSR strategy
                            -Internal conflict
                            -Leonid I. Brezhnev

Kissinger talked with the Camp David Operator.

[Conversation No. 241-1A]

[End of telephone conversation]

       Birthday
              -Louis Kissinger

       Nuclear negotiations
              -Efforts

Kissinger talked with Louis Kissinger and Paula Kissinger.

[Conversation No. 241-1B]

[See Conversation No. 186-3]

[End of telephone conversation]
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                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. Oct.-09)

                                                         Conversation No. 241-1 (cont’d)



      Nuclear negotiations
             -Strategy
                     -Avoidance of, obligation
                     -Commission
             -US-USSR summit
                     -Delay


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WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[National Security]
[Duration: 1 m 6 s]


      NEGOITATIONS

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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      Nuclear negotiations
             -Scientific changes
                     -Harvard scientist
                            -Peace community
                            -Support for Great Britain
                            -Nuclear deterrence
                            -Germany
             -US-Great Britain policy planning
                     -Cabinet disputes
                            -Elliot L. Richardson
                            -Defense Department
                            -War office
                            -State Department
                            -Press relations
                     -President’s view
                            -Agency support
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                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                       Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. Oct.-09)

                                                                 Conversation No. 241-1 (cont’d)



                      -Richardson
                      -Kissinger’s relations with Cabinet secretaries
                      -Private groups’ role
                      -Whitehall
                      -British representatives
              -USSR
                      -Treaty
                            -US reply
                            -Timing
              -US- Great Britain policy planning
                    -North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] summit
                    -Working group
                            -Kissinger’s role
                            -Defense Department

       Kissinger’s schedule