Conversation: 280-003
Prev: 280-002 Next: 280-004Start 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
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
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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
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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
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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
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 280-3 (cont.)
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[National Security]
[Duration: 7s ]
JAPAN
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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-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
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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
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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
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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]
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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.