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Start Date: 6-Oct-1971 4:06 PM

End Date: 6-Oct-1971 4:30 PM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:45:43

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:09:40

284a.mp3

284b.mp3

NARA Description:

On October 6, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 4:06 pm to 4:30 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 284-012 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 284-12

Date: October 6, 1971
Time: 4:06 pm - 4:30 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

     Senate
          -J. William Fulbright amendment
               -Vote
          -Robert C. Byrd amendment
               -Vote
               -Application delay
               -The President's previous conversation with Robert Dole

     Foreign policy
          -Allies
          -William P. Rogers
          -Nixon’s role

     Vietnam
          -Forthcoming election
               -John G. Gorton’s visit to Vietnam
               -People's Republic of China [PRC]
                    -The President's schedule
          -Forthcoming announcement on Vietnam War

     Announcement of Kissinger's PRC trip
         -Barry M. Goldwater, Sr.
                                          6

                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                   Tape Subject Log
                                     (rev. 10/06)
                                                              Conv. No. 284-12 (cont.)


     -Hugh Scott
     -Rogers
     -Lyndon B. Johnson
     -The President's activities

PRC announcement
    -Chou En-lai
         -Press responses
              -United Nations [UN]
         -Union of Socialist Soviet Republics [USSR]
         -Taiwan

Foreign policy
     -New York Times editorial
          -Kissinger’s conversation with Stewart J.O. Alsop
          -Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
          -Berlin
          -Antiballistic missiles [ABM]
          -Cambodia
          -Rogers [?]
          -John B. Connally
     -Harry S. Truman
     -PRC announcement
     -Vietnam
          -Troop withdrawal announcement
     -Alsop
          -Summit
                -USSR
                      -Laos military action
     -Chou En-lai
          -Domestic concerns
          -UN Vote
                -Political concerns
                -The President’s instructions
                -Kissinger’s comments

Kissinger’s comments to Chou En-lai
     -Vietnam
           -North Vietnamese
           -Nguyen Van Thieu
           -The President’s policy
                                             7

                         NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 10/06)
                                                              Conv. No. 284-12 (cont.)


    PRC
          -Newsweek
          -Time

    The President's conversation with William L. Safire
         -World outlook
              -Berlin, Middle East, Vietnam
              -Hotline

    Alsop
         -The President’s policies
              -Economy


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    Kissinger's conversation with Alsop
         -Thieu
               -Vietnam election
                    -Effect
                    -Communion

    The President's foreign policy record
         -John F. Kennedy
         -Johnson
         -Eisenhower

    Byrd Amendment

    Kissinger's schedule
         -India and Pakistan
               -Forthcoming meeting
                                                8

                             NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 10/06)
                                                                  Conv. No. 284-12 (cont.)


                 -Joseph J. Sisco

     Alsop
          -Rogers
          -USSR

     The President's objectives with the USSR
          -SALT
          -Trade
          -Middle East
          -Possible conversation Rogers
          -Jewish vote

Kissinger left at 4:30 pm.