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Conversation: 285-008

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Start Date: 7-Oct-1971 8:50 AM

End Date: 7-Oct-1971 9:10 AM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:14:36

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:30:28

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285a_ii.mp3

285b.mp3

285c.mp3

285c_i.mp3

NARA Description:

On October 7, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 8:50 am to 9:10 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 285-008 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 285-8

Date: October 7, 1971
Time: 8:50 am - 9:10 am
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.
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                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                  Tape Subject Log
                                    (rev. 10/06)
                                                          Conv. No. 285-8 (cont.)


Kissinger's schedule
     -Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
           -Embassy visit
           -Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
           -Michael J. Mansfield

US relations with the People's Republic of China [PRC]
     -Handling story on Kissinger's trip
           -Strategy
                 -Press statements
                 -White House staff
                 -Department of State
     -USSR
           -Andrei A. Gromyko
     -White House staff
           -Handling of announcement
                 -Forthcoming meeting

Kissinger’s memorandum for the President
     -Dobrynin
     -Gromyko

Kissinger's schedule
     -Egyptian Foreign Minister

Ronald W. Reagan and Nelson A. Rockefeller
    -Support for the President

Rockefeller
    -State of mind after Attica Prison riot
          -Democratic reaction
          -Reaction to criticism
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                        NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                    Tape Subject Log
                                      (rev. 10/06)
                                                             Conv. No. 285-8 (cont.)


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Privacy]
[Duration: 54s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

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         -Forthcoming meeting with Kissinger
         -Attica Prison riots
               -Impact on black vote
                     -Democrats
         -Dick Cavett Show
               -John V. Lindsay's comments
                     -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

    Press conference by unknown person
          -Indochina
               -Cambodia
               -Vietnam

    The President's schedule
         -Reading of newspapers
              -New York Times
         -Television
         -James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
         -Stewart J.O. Alsop
         -New York Times
              -Access to the President
              -Access to the White House staff

    Vietnam
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                             NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 10/06)
                                                                  Conv. No. 285-8 (cont.)


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 1m 18s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3

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     The President’s actions
          -PRC
          -USSR
          -Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
          -Berlin
                -William L. Safire
          -Public relations
                -White House efforts
                -Seabed treaty
                -Chemical and biological warfare
                -Okinawa agreement
                -Possible press comments
                      -Television

Kissinger left at 9:10 am.