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Conversation: 264-003

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Start Date: 21-Jul-1971 10:21 AM

End Date: 21-Jul-1971 11:01 AM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:13:29

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:01:27

264a.mp3

NARA Description:

On July 21, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 10:21 am to 11:01 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 264-003 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 264-3

Date: July 21, 1971
Time: 10:21 am - 11:01 am
Location: Old Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

     Kissinger's schedule
          -Breakfast meeting with Max Frankel
          -Office of Management and Budget [OMB] briefing
                -George P. Shultz
                -The People's Republic of China [PRC]
                -Economy
          -New York City
                -Kissinger's dinner
                      -Comments
                           -The US initiative towards the PRC

     Foreign relations
          -The PRC initiative
          -Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
                -Frankel
          -The war in Vietnam
          -Dobrynin
          -The PRC initiative
                -Reaction
          -Forthcoming US - PRC Summit
                -Trip preparation
                      -Advance work
                           -Dwight L. Chapin
                           -John D. Ehrlichman
                           -Importance
                           -The Chinese
                                 -Reaction to preparations
                                 -Chinese people outside the PRC
                           -Details
                           -Logistics
                           -Ehrlichman
                                 -Experience in trip advance work
                           -Sites for Presidential visits
                           -White House Communications Agency [WHCA]
                           -Kissinger’s role
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                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                               Tape Subject Log
                                  (rev. 6/98)


                          -Negotiations

The Pentagon Papers case
     -Frankel
     -The Administration's reaction
          -Lyndon B. Johnson's administration
     -The New York Times
          -Approach to foreign policy
               -Possible re-election of the President
               -Kissinger’s conversation with John Kenneth Galbraith
                     -Edmund S. Muskie

Foreign policy developments
     -PRC Summit
     -Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] Summit
     -Vietnam negotiations
     -Berlin
           -[David] Kenneth Rush
     -Middle East
     -The PRC initiative
           -The New York Times
                 -Reaction
     -Frankel
           -Attitude towards Israel
           -Attitude towards USSR
     -The USSR
           -Dobrynin
                 -Reaction to US-PRC initiative
     -Chou En-lai's interview with US students
           -State Department message
           -Taiwan, Republic of China
           -Vietnam War
                 -Le Duc Tho
                 -Settlement
                 -The Left
                 -Congress
           -Chou's comments
     -Frankel’s position
     -US public opinion
           -Possible statement by Chou
     -Kissinger's schedule
           -Forthcoming meeting with the President
           -Trip to PRC
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                        NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                   Tape Subject Log
                                      (rev. 6/98)


                   -Announcement of trip
                   -Timing
                   -Purpose
                        -Arrangements
                             -Agenda
                             -Communique
                                                                   Conv. No. 264-3 (cont.)

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[National Security]
[Duration: 12s ]


    CHINA


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3

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                     -Kissinger’s role
                     -William P. Rogers
                           -The State Department
         -Cyrus R. Vance
              -Letter to the President
         -Historical record on the PRC initiative
              -Rogers
              -The President's conversations with Kissinger
                     -Responsibility for the Initiative
              -The State Department
                     -Experts on the PRC
              -Hugh S. Sidey
              -Meeting in the White House Lincoln Sitting Room
                     -The President
              -Rogers
                     -Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
         -US-PRC relations
              -Handling of negotiations
                     -Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with the PRC Ambassador
                     -Terms
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                              NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                       Tape Subject Log
                                          (rev. 6/98)


                             -Role of the President
                             -Conditions of PRC contact with other American visitors
                                   -Democrats, Republicans
                                   -Peter H. Dominick
                                   -John G. Tower
                                   -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
                                   -George Meany                        Conv. No. 264-3 (cont.)
                             -Visits by other US officials
                                   -Effect on Presidential visit
                                   -Appearances
                                         -Bi-partisan
                                   -Chou En-lai
                                         -Senators
                                   -Timing
                 -President’s forthcoming visit to PRC
                       -Compared to USSR relations
                       -SALT
                             -Dobrynin
                             -Laos
                       -Vietnam settlement
                       -Timing of announcement
                       -Congress’ role
                       -Compared to SALT, bombing of North Vietnam
                       -Presidential leadership
                       -Press, Congress’ reaction
                       -July 20, 1971 baseball game
                             -Child’s request for President’s autograph
                 -The US position in the world
                       -USSR
                       -Japan
                       -Europe
                 -Origin of US-PRC initiative
                       -Kissinger’s role
                       -Rogers
                             -State Department
                 -Kissinger’s forthcoming telephone call to Sidey
                 -Henry A. Grunwald
                 -Sidey

Kissinger left at 11:01 am.
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                         NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 6/98)