Conversation: 255-030
Prev:  255-029 Next: 255-031Start 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
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 16 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF 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 17 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF 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 18 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF 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 ****************************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [National Security] [Duration: 51s ] COUNTRY END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ****************************************************************************** 19 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF 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