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Conversation: 255-030

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Start Date: 9-Jun-1971 9:23 AM

End Date: 9-Jun-1971 10:29 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Butterfield, Alexander P.Kissinger, Henry A.

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:09:58

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:58:52

255a.mp3

255b.mp3

255c.mp3

NARA Description:

On June 9, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander P. Butterfield, and Henry A. Kissinger met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 9:23 am to 10:29 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 255-030 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 255-30

Date: June 9, 1971
Time: 9:23 am - 10:29 am
Location: Executive Office Building

The President talked with Alexander P. Butterfield
                                                                  Conv. No. 255-30 (cont.)
[See Conversation No. 4-84]

[End of telephone conversation]

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 9:24 am

     Kissinger’s schedule

     Kissinger’s previous meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
          -Public statements
          -Summit
          -Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
          -State Department
          -Soviet internal divisions
          -Leonid I. Brezhnev
                -Forthcoming trip to France
          -Vietnam negotiations
          -Possible summit
                -Timing
                -September
          -US Presidential elections
                -Effect
          -Vietnam
          -People’s Republic of China [PRC] announcement
          -Trade restrictions
                -Jay Lovestone
                      -Maritime union

     Gerald R. Ford
          -Support

     Canada
         -Trade agreement with Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
         -Chinese
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                                Tape Subject Log
                                  (rev. 10/08)




Mexico

Summits
    -USSR
    -PRC
    -Soviet summit
         -Berlin                                           Conv. No. 255-30 (cont.)
         -Trade
         -Inflation

Japan
     -Okinawa
           -Forthcoming treaty signing
           -President’s schedule
                 -State Department
           -Eisaku Sato
           -William P. Rogers
     -Textiles
     -[Forename unknown] Meyers
     -State Department
     -Donald McI. Kendall
     -Economic advisors

Vietnam
     -Negotiations
     -Draft
     -Kissinger’s conversation with Dan Rather, June 8
     -Melvin R. Laird’s memorandum
          -Prisoner of War [POW] issue
     -Clark M. Clifford
          -[William H.?] Sullivan
     -North Vietnamese
     -Negotiations
          -Bombing halt
          -Combat roles
     -John N. Mitchell
     -Laird and Rogers
          -Combat roles
          -Casualty figures
          -Troop withdrawal [?]
     -Press conference
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                                 Tape Subject Log
                                   (rev. 10/08)



     -General Nguyen Van Thieu
     -Laird
          -Richard M. Helms and Mitchell
          -Possible enemy offensive
          -Troop withdrawal

Kissinger’s conversation with William F. Buckley, Jr. [?]
     -SALT                                                  Conv. No. 255-30 (cont.)
     -PRC
     -Richard (“Dick”) Wilson

Vietnam
     -POWs
           -Troop withdrawal
           -Collapse of South Vietnam
           -Clifford
           -Charles W. Colson
           -Administration opposition to critics
                 -Colson and John A. Scali
                 -POW issue
                 -Patrick J. Buchanan
           -Washington Post article
           -Student demonstrators
     -Dobrynin
           -Soviet press coverage of US demonstrators
     -Press questions
           -Timetable
     -Public statements by North Vietnamese negotiators
     -Administration’s response
           -Buchanan and Scali
     -Hanoi
     -General Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
     -Possible troop withdrawal, July 1
     -Xuan Thuy
     -Series of meetings between Kissinger and Thuy
           -Laos
           -Cambodia
           -Vietnam
     -Laird
           -American embassy
           -Military presence
     -Effect of peace talks
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                                  Tape Subject Log
                                    (rev. 10/08)



              -Public reaction
         -Laos
              -American presence
         -Dobrynin
         -POW issue
              -Public announcement of US proposal
                     -North Vietnamese rejection
              -Troop withdrawal                             Conv. No. 255-30 (cont.)
         -Laird
              -Cabinet meetings
         -Survival of South Vietnam
         -Dobrynin
         -Laos
              -American presence
              -Military operations
              -Public support
         -Cambodia
         -Casualties
         -Football
              -Vincent T. (“Vince”) Lombardi
                     -Coaching
         -History of warfare
              -Napoleonic Wars
                     -Waterloo
                          -Prussians
                          -Causes
                          -British


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration: 51s ]


    COUNTRY


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 10/08)




           -Unknown person
           -Edmund S. Muskie
           -PRC
           -Soviet Union
           -North Vietnamese
           -Korea
                -Rogers                                           Conv. No. 255-30 (cont.)
                -Laird
           -Cambodia
           -PRC
                -June 15th

Kissinger left at 10:29 am