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Start Date: 16-Sep-1971 10:34 AM

End Date: 16-Sep-1971 10:48 AM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:03:37

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:09:36

278a.mp3

278b.mp3

NARA Description:

On September 16, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 10:34 am and 10:48 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 278-048 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 278-48

Date: September 16, 1971
Time: Unknown between 10:34 am and 10:48 am
Location: Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person [Henry A. Kissinger?].

     Vietnam
          -William Porter
          -Conversation
          -News summary
                -Time
          -Prisoner of war [POW] issue
                -Questions
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                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 10/06)
                                                               Conv. No. 278-48 (cont.)


               -Problems
               -POW wives
                      -Pubic relations
               -Indications of action
                      -Response to proposals
               -US policies
               -Negotiations
                      -Claims by the US
          -Michael J. Mansfield
               -Press story
                      -Deadline, ramifications
          -Casualties
               -Vietnam
          -US military and political position
               -Ellsworth F. Bunker
               -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
               -Report
               -Sir Robert K.G. Thompson
                      -Possible trip
                           -Cable
          -Draft Extension Bill
               -George P. Shultz
               -All volunteer army
                      -Cost and effectiveness
               -Conference Committee action
               -F. Edward Hébert