Easy NixonAbout

Conversation: 280-003

Prev:  280-002 Next: 280-004

Start Date: 23-Sep-1971 10:01 AM

End Date: 23-Sep-1971 10:35 AM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:21:21

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:52:49

280a.mp3

280b.mp3

NARA Description:

On September 23, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 10:01 am to 10:35 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 280-003 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 280-3

Date: September 23, 1971
Time: 10:01 am - 10:35 am
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

     People's Republic of China [PRC]
          -Message to Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
                -Time
                -Mao Tse-tung
          -Kissinger's communication with PRC delegation
                -Meeting
                     -Time
          -Mao
                -Health
          -Cancellation of flights
                -Resumption of civilian flights
                     -Military flights
                                        3

                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                Tape Subject Log
                                  (rev. 10/06)
                                                                 Conv. No. 280-3 (cont.)


     -Chou En-lai
         -PRC Army
         -Air Force
         -Leadership

Foreign economic policy
     -Preparation of statement for the President
          -The President's appearance at the Detroit Economic Club
                 -Speech
          -Length of statement
     -Announcement
     -Possible speech by John B. Connally
     -Confidence in the US
     -Surcharge
     -Floating currencies
     -Restrictions
     -Surcharge
     -Automatic adjustment of currencies
     -Trade
     -Devaluation of currencies
     -Negotiations
          -Floating of currencies
     -New program
          -Old system
     -Germany, Japan
     -Arthur F. Burns
          -Cabinet meeting
                 -Date
     -Connally
          -Meeting
     -The President's speech at International Monetary Fund [IMF]
     -Changes
     -Memorandum to the President
          -US balance of payments
          -Preservation of system
          -Reform international monetary system
          -Import surcharge
                 -Policies
                 -Negotiations
          -Old monetary system
                 -New program
                                          4

                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                 Tape Subject Log
                                   (rev. 10/06)
                                                                  Conv. No. 280-3 (cont.)


                     -Crisis-free
          -Connally
          -Adjustment of exchange rate
               -Negotiations
                     -Assessments
                     -Competitive position
          -Kissinger's preparation of talking point paper
               -Preparation
                     -Connally
               -Attaching Burns’ memorandum
     -Cabinet meeting
          -Time
          -Connally's schedule
          -Time
          -Burns
               -Length of meeting
                     -Technical discussions

Kissinger's schedule
     -W[illiam] Averell Harriman
           -Call to Kissinger
           -Harriman's fiancee [Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward]
                 -Background
                       -Leland Hayward
                       -Randolph Chuchill
                 -The President's meeting, Chicago Convention
                       -1952
                 -Background
                 -Opposition to the administration
           -Opposition to draft bill
                 -Vietnam negotiations
                       -Nguyen Van Thieu
                 -Motivation
                       -Edmund S. Muskie
           -Actions
                 -Democrats
                       -Pressure
                                            5

                        NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                   Tape Subject Log
                                     (rev. 10/06)
                                                             Conv. No. 280-3 (cont.)


Polls
        -Gallup
        -Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
             -US involvement in Vietnam
                  -Vietnam election
             -David Brinkley
             -[Arnold] Eric Sevareid
             -Brinkley and Sevareid
             -Brinkley
                  -Kennedy family
                  -National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
                  -President’s view
                  -Kennedy family

PRC
        -Domestic situation
        -Message
        -The President's trip to the PRC
             -Possible cancellation
                   -Changes in the PRC
        -Kissinger’s forthcoming visit
             -Possible cancellation
        -Announcement
        -Soviet Union-US summit
        -Harriman
             -Support for the President’s PRC initiative
                   -Concerns
                         -Effect on Soviet Union

Japanese-US relations
     -Edwin O. Reischauer
     -George W. Ball
           -Amount of Retainer as Lobbyist
                 -John N. Mitchell
     -Ball's actions
                                             6

                        NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 10/06)
                                                              Conv. No. 280-3 (cont.)


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

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[National Security]
[Duration: 7s ]


    JAPAN


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3

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


         -The President's Administration
               -Relations with Japan
         -Visit by the President to Tokyo
               -Stopover from Peking
                     -PRC response
                     -Japanese response
                           -Possible visit by the President
                                 -Eisaku Sato
                                      -Japanese Government
         -Textile negotiations
               -Japanese representative
                     -Visit to Kissinger
                           -Negotiations deadline
         -President's conversation with Takeo Fukuda
         -Date
         -Announcement

    Foreign policy
         -Sato
         -Soviet Union reaction
         -Japanese reaction
         -State Department Reaction
               -Characterized
         -Soviets
         -PRC
         -Soviets
                                          7

                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                 Tape Subject Log
                                   (rev. 10/06)
                                                                       Conv. No. 280-3 (cont.)


           -Leonid I. Brezhnev
     -Josip Broz Tito
     -Soviet response
           -Kissinger's conversation with PRC delegation
                -US strategy

The President's schedule
     -Trip to Alaska
           -West Coast
     -Kissinger's schedule
           -Taft Schreiber
                 -Meeting with businessmen
           -Visit to Ronald W. Reagan
     -Cabinet meeting
           -Kissinger's attendance
           -William P. Rogers
           -Peter G. Peterson
           -Handling of issue [Council on International Economic Policy [CIEP staffing?]
           -Connally
           -Paul A. Volcker
           -Peterson

Kissinger's schedule
     -Eugene J. McCarthy
     -Herbert Stein meeting
           -Vietnam War opponents
                 -Agreements
                 -Administration actions
                      -Public support
                           -Stein
                           -McCarthy
                                 -Kissinger's conversation
                                       -The President
                                            -Politics
                                                  -Political parties
                      -The President's conversation with Haldeman
                           -Philadelphia
                                          8

                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                 Tape Subject Log
                                   (rev. 10/06)
                                                                   Conv. No. 280-3 (cont.)


Public relations
     -1972 campaign
     -Television
     -Cabinet officers
     -Kissinger's role
            -Celebrity
     -Television
            -Coverage
     -Kissinger's television appearance
            -Audience size
            -Trip to the PRC
            -Quality of coverage
                  -Mike Wallace
                        -CBS
            -Invitation for television appearance
                  -Foreign relations groups
                  -University appearances
                  -Kissinger's trip to the PRC
                        -Post-trip activities
                              -New York City
                                    -Universities appearances
                                           -Debate at Yale University
                                           -Princeton University
     -Kissinger's schedule
            -Appearances
                  -Off-the-record
                  -On-the-record
                        -Philadelphia
                        -Southern California
                              -University of Southern California [USC]
                              -Schreiber
                                    -Kissinger’s conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
                                    -Businessmen
                                    -Dinner
                                           Number of guests
                  -Mass audiences
                  -Universities
                  -Audience
                  -Off-the-record
                        -Outcome of events in PRC
                                           9

                      NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                    Tape Subject Log
                                      (rev. 10/06)
                                                                  Conv. No. 280-3 (cont.)


PRC
      -Delay in PRC's response
           -Amount of information
           -Kissinger's negotiations with PRC delegation
                 -Advance men
                       -Questions
                             -Aircraft
                                   -Kissinger's trip to the PRC
                 -PRC's response
      -Announcement of the President's trip
           -Walters
           -Time
                 -Television
           -Press conference
                 -Oval Office
           -Walters
                 -Mao
                 -Delay
      -Vietnam
           -PRC's response
                 -Effect on the President's trip
           -Soviet Union
           -PRC
                 -Relations with the US
                 -Hanoi
      -Domestic situation
           -Possible events
                 -Airports
                 -Chou En-lai
                 -President’s trip

Kissinger's schedule
     -Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
           -The President's visit

Vietnam negotiations
     -Seven Points
          -US position
               -Constitutional process
          -Demands
               -Prisoners of War [POWs]
                                                 10

                              NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                       Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. 10/06)
                                                                   Conv. No. 280-3 (cont.)


                      -Communist takeover
                 -US position

     Kissinger's schedule
          -Walters

Kissinger left at 10:35 am.