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Conversation: 253-032

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Start Date: 26-May-1971 6:46 PM

End Date: 26-May-1971 6:57 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Kissinger, Henry A.

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:50:28

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:57:39

253a.mp3

NARA Description:

On May 26, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 6:46 pm and 6:57 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 253-032 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 253-32

Date: May 26, 1971
Time: Unknown between 6:46 pm and 6:57 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger

     Kissinger’s schedule
          -Dinner
                -Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Joseph W. Alsop
     President’s call to J. Edgar Hoover

     President’s meeting with Dr. David K. E. Bruce
          -Henry Cabot Lodge
          -Possible future position
                -[Robert D.?] Murphy
                -Lodge
          -Kissinger’s meeting with Bruce
                -[David] Kenneth Rush
          -Bruce’s role in Paris negotiations

     Canada

     Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]

     Bruce
          -Possible action
          -Forthcoming announcement

     A meeting
         -Edmund S. Muskie
         -William A. K. (“Tony”) Lake
         -Harvard Law School person
               -President’s previous visit
                     -Lon Ford [?]

     Harold E. Hughes Pay Amendment
          -Congressional vote
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          -Gaylord Nelson Amendment vote
          -Content
          -Vote total in Senate
               -Charles W. Colson’s analysis
                      -North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]

     An unknown man
          -President’s meeting as a Congressman at Eugene, II and Agnes
                                                                    Conv.
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                                                                                      (cont.)

     Foreign policy
          -Vietnam
               -President’s statement to editors, May 25, 1971
          -People’s Republic of China [PRC]
          -USSR
          -Middle East
          -American spirit
               -Economy
          -Vietnam

     Future
          -Lawton M. Chiles, Jr. [?] and Robert P. Griffin [?]
          -An unknown man
          -Administration position

     William S. (“Bill”) White
          -President’s forthcoming meeting
                -Roger E. Johnson [?]
          -Position on President’s policies

     President’s and Kissinger’s Meeting with William P. Rogers
          -A paper