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Conversation: 275-008

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Start Date: 7-Sep-1971 12:30 PM

End Date: 7-Sep-1971 12:55 PM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:06:57

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:25:51

275a.mp3

275b.mp3

NARA Description:

On September 7, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 12:30 pm to 12:55 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 275-008 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 275-8

Date: September 7, 1971
Time: 12:30 pm - 12:55 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

     Soviet Union
          -Announcement of summit meeting
                -Timing
                      -October 12, 1971
                -Soviets
          -Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
                -Call to Kissinger
                      -Time span between calls
                            -State Department
                      -Michael J. Mansfield
          -Communique
                -Agreement
                      -Place of meeting
                            -Moscow
                                  -Visit
                                        -Progress in relations
          -Andrei A. Gromyko
          -Press conference
          -Summit
          -Berlin agreement
          -People's Republic of China [PRC]
                -Announcement
          -Announcement of communique
                -Timing
                      -US
                      -Soviet Union
                -Questions
                      -Press
                -Kissinger's staff
                                         5

                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                Tape Subject Log
                                  (rev. 10/06)
                                                               Conv. No. 275-8 (cont.)


               -Preparation of questions and answers
          -Compared with PRC announcement
          -The President's actions
     -Other news

Kissinger's schedule
     -PRC
     -Kissinger's postponement
           -Attendance at Japanese dinner
     -Japan
           -William P. Rogers, U. Alexis Johnson
           -Takeo Fukuda
                 -Proposed meeting with the President
                      -Kissinger’s attendance
                 -Relations with the President

Forthcoming United Nations [UN] vote on Taiwan, Republic of China
     -George H.W. Bush
          -Security Council
                -Expulsion
     -US actions at the UN
          -Albanian resolution
          -PRC admission
          -Retention of Taiwan
     -Guatemala
     -Costa Rica
     -Great Britain
          -Position
     -Background
          -Bush
                -Voting analysis
                      - Important questions
                      -Issue of Security Council seat
                            -Taiwan
                                 -Expulsion

The President's opponents

[Unintelligible]

Howard Stein
                                             6

                         NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                    Tape Subject Log
                                      (rev. 10/06)
                                                              Conv. No. 275-8 (cont.)


         -Dinner
         -Eugene J. McCarthy


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 1m 46s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

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    South Vietnam Presidential elections
         -Nguyen Van Thieu
               -Referendum effect of unopposed election
                     -Ellsworth F. Bunker
         -Administration's opponents
         -American public
               -Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.
                     -[Forename unknown] Simon
                           -Dinner
                           -John B. Connally
         -Strategy
               -Timing
                     -Berlin

    US foreign relations
         -PRC
         -Dobrynin
              -US-PRC relationships
                     -Southeast Asia
         -US-Soviet relations
              -Meeting
                     -Possible summit
                     -PRC
                          -Possible actions
                                -Vietnam peace settlement
                                        7

                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                Tape Subject Log
                                  (rev. 10/06)
                                                                 Conv. No. 275-8 (cont.)



Vietnam
     -Peace negotiations
          -Prisoner of war [POWs]
          -Forthcoming elections in South Vietnam
          -Thieu
          -Effect on negotiations
          -Compromise
          -Temporary government
                 -Duration
          -Thieu
     -Press handling of issue
          -Editorial
                 -Warning against involvement in South Vietnamese elections
     -North Vietnamese
          -Compared with South Vietnamese military forces
     -Casualties
     -North Vietnam
          -Floods
                 -Effect
                      -Supplies
                            -Infiltration

Soviet Union
     -Signing of Accidental War, Hotline Agreements
          -Date
          -Ceremony
          -Gromyko
                -Signing
     -Public [press?] opinion
          -US position
          -Democrats
                -W[illiam] Averell Harriman

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman's conversation with the President
     -Willy Brandt letter

Kissinger's schedule
     -Lunch
           -Connally
                 -Soviet Union developments
                                               8

                              NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                       Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. 10/06)
                                                                    Conv. No. 275-8 (cont.)


           -Rogers
                -Kissinger's conversation with Rogers

     Rogers
         -Information about negotiations
               -Summit Meeting
               -Dobrynin
         -Relations with Kissinger

Kissinger left at 12:55 pm.