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Conversation: 278-033

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Start Date: 13-Sep-1971 8:50 PM

End Date: 13-Sep-1971 10:15 PM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:56:42

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:12:51

278a.mp3

278b.mp3

NARA Description:

On September 13, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 8:50 pm and 10:15 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 278-033 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 276-18/278-33

Date: September 13, 1971
Time: Unknown between 8:50 pm and 10:15 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.
[The recording begins at an unknown time while the conversation is in progress and is a
continuation of Conversation No. 276-18]

     Foreign relations
          -Forthcoming announcement
                -Scheduling of forthcoming summits
                      -Moscow trip
                -Kissinger's schedule
          -Vietnam negotiations
                -Date
                -Announcement
                      -Ceasefire offer
                -Melvin R. Laird
          -Vietnam
                -Popular opinion shifts
                -Post-World War II elections
                      -Comparison with other countries
                           -Africa
                      -Communists' action
                                              15

                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 10/06)
                                                                        Conv. No. 278-33 (cont.)


     Attica Prison riots
           -Casualties
                -Guards
                       -Numbers

     Vietnam
          -Prisoners of war [POWs] issue

     Foreign relations
          -Soviet Union trip
                -Announcement
                      -Kissinger's trip to the People's Republic of China [PRC]
                      -The President's trip to the PRC
                      -Timing
                            -Ronald L. Ziegler
                      -Vietnam
                            -Troop withdrawal
                      -Press conference
                      -Response by Soviets
                      -Date of trip
          -Vietnam negotiations
                -South Vietnam elections
                -North Vietnam
                -President’s view
                -Michael J. Mansfield
                -South Vietnam
                      -Status, future
                -Nguyen Van Thieu
                      -POWs
                -The President's PRC trip
                      -US military action in Vietnam
                -Unknown person
          -Japan
                -Reaction to PRC trip
                      -President’s handling
                      -State Department

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 8:50 pm.

     Refreshments
                                             16

                           NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 10/06)
                                                                Conv. No. 278-33 (cont.)


Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:15 pm.

     Foreign relations
          -Kissinger's trips to the PRC


**********************************************************************

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration: 2m 19s ]


     ASIAN AFFAIRS
         -JAPAN
         -CHINA


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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     Vietnam
          -Nguyen Van Thieu
          -Withdrawal of US troops
          -Future settlement
               -Aftermath
          -PRC
          -North Vietnamese attacks
               -Possible response

     Attica Prison riots
           -Casualties
                -Guards
           -Amnesty
                                               17

                              NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                       Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. 10/06)
                                                                   Conv. No. 278-33 (cont.)


     Vietnam
          -Withdrawal of US troops
          -Announcement of Kissinger trip
          -Foreign policy of the US
          -Military protection

     [Unintelligible]

Kissinger left at 10:15 pm.