Conversation: 278-051
Prev: 278-050 Next: 278-052Start Date: 16-Sep-1971 10:48 AM
End Date: 16-Sep-1971 10:57 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Hébert, F. Edward; Kissinger, Henry A.;Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:11:34
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:35:49
NARA Description:
On September 16, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, F. Edward Hébert, and Henry A. Kissinger met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 10:48 am to 10:57 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 278-051 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 278-51 Date: September 16, 1971 Time: 10:48 am - 10:57 am Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with F. Edward Hébert. [See Conversation No. 9-38] Henry A. Kissinger was present after 10:50 am. [End of telephone conversation] Hébert 36 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 278-51 (cont.) -Conversation with the President -Draft extension bill -Votes -Mansfield amendment Draft -Importance -Strategy -The President's opponents -Importance of Vietnam -Consequences Vietnam -Goals -Withdrawal deadlines -William P. Rogers -Melvin R. Laird -Questions on issue of Vietnam election -Response -Foreign aid -Recipients -Locations -Types of governments, elections -State Department -Comparison to South Vietnam elections -The President's conversation with Haig -Mexico -Colombia -Venezuela -Chile Chile -Future of elections -Kissinger’s view Vietnam -Prisoner of war [POW] issue -POW wives -Deadlines -Clark M. Clifford -Situation 37 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 278-51 (cont.) -Radicals -South Vietnamese military operations -Laos -Effect on North Vietnam -Negotiations -Position of North Vietnam -Response by the US -POW issue -Effect on negotiations -North Vietnamese strategy -North Vietnamese POW deadlines -Establishment of artificial deadlines in the US -The press -Kissinger's conversation with Rowland Evans, September 16, 1971 -Evans and Robert D. Novak -Micronesia -Evans and Novak -Focus on Forthcoming People’s Republic of China [PRC], Soviet Union summits Foreign relations -The President's accomplishments -John F. Kennedy comparison -PRC opening -International Monetary Fund [IMF] -Soviet Union summit -Deadline issue -Stance Attica prison riots -Killings -Hostages -Nelson A. Rockefeller's position on issue -Prison -Press conference -Public response -President’s call to Pierre E. Trudeau Media -Tendencies -Forthcoming book 38 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 278-51 (cont.) -Vanderbilt University study of news coverage -Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] -PRC -Cambodian action -Laos -Perceptions Vietnam -Suggested statement on position -Leaks -Forthcoming National Security Council [NSC] meeting Kissinger left at 11:15 am.