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Conversation: 251-021

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Start Date: 29-Apr-1971 9:31 AM

End Date: 29-Apr-1971 9:48 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Haig, Alexander M., Jr.[Unknown person(s)]

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:14:40

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:21:35

251a.mp3

251b.mp3

NARA Description:

On April 29, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 9:31 am and 9:48 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 251-021 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 251-21

Date: April 29, 1971
Time: Unknown between 9:31 am and 9:48 am
Location: Executive Office Building

The President talked with General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

     Prisoners of War [POW] statement

     Vietnam
          -Ashau Valley operations
               -South Vietnamese
               -Secrecy

     Aid to India
          -Pakistani refugees
          -Possible US assistance
          -West Pakistan government
          -Request from India

     Pakistan fighting
          -Possible US mediation
          -Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
          -Developments

     Middle East
         -Statement in President’s briefing book
         -Suez
               -State Department
         -William P. Rogers
               -Visit to Suez
         -State Department
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                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. 9/08)



          -Rogers
          -US role
                -Possible breakthrough
          -Suez
          -President’s policies
          -Suez
          -Peace prospects
          -Israel                                                Conv. No. 251-21 (cont.)

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 9:31 am

     News summaries

     Vietnam
          -Casualties
          -Unknown man’s views on negotiations

     People’s Republic of China [PRC] initiative
          -President’s policy
          -New York Times story, April 29, 1971
                -State Department
                      -Press statement by Charles W. Bray, III
          -President’s policy

     POWs
     Vietnam
          -Casualties
               -Number killed in North Vietnam
               -Number killed in South Vietnam

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:48 am