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Start Date: 12-Nov-1971 12:33 PM

End Date: 12-Nov-1971 12:59 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Kissinger, Henry A.Butterfield, Alexander P.

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:20:01

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:42:25

297a.mp3

297b.mp3

NARA Description:

On November 12, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 12:33 pm to 12:59 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 297-028 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 297-28

Date: November 12, 1971
Time: 12:33 pm - 12:59 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

       Vietnam
            -The President's forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 12:36 pm.

Butterfield left at 12:37 pm.

                    -Possible press questions
                          -Troop withdrawal
                                -Rate
                    -White House staff leaks
                          -Clark MacGregor
                          -Charles W. Colson
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                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                             Tape Subject Log
                               (rev. 10/06)
                                                             Conv. No. 297-28 (cont.)


                 -Negotiations with North Vietnam
                       -Deadline
                       -Residual force
          -Rate of withdrawal
                 -1972 election
          -Melvin R. Laird
          -Informing people
                 -The President's conversation with H. R. Haldeman
                       -Congress
                             -Timing
                 -MacGregor
                 -Cabinet
          -Gerald R. Ford and Hugh Scott
                 -Possible reaction
          -Laird
                 -Statements
                       -Saigon
                       -Residual force
          -William P. Rogers
                 -Statements
          -Possible press questions
                 -Residual force
                 -Negotiations
          -State Department
     -Casualties
     -The President's opponents
          -Possible motivations
     -The President's successes
          -Casualties
          -Troop withdrawal
     -The President’s press conference of September 16, 1971

India-Pakistan
      -Possible press questions
            -Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan's efforts
                  -Civilian government
                  -United Nations [UN]
                        -Observers
                        -Relief supplies
                  -Possible pullback
            -[Indira Gandhi]
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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                               Tape Subject Log
                                 (rev. 10/06)
                                                           Conv. No. 297-28 (cont.)


           -Refugees
           -US policy
                -War
                        -US foreign aid
                             -India

The President's schedule
     -Willy Brandt
     -Georges J.R. Pompidou
           -Arthur K. Watson
           -[David] Kenneth Rush
           -Azores
     -Europe
     -Brandt
     -Edward R.G. Heath
     -Pompidou
           -[Gen. Charles A.J.M. De Gaulle's] funeral
           -Possible meeting at the Azores
           -Martinique
           -Watson's possible conversation with Rush

Watson
     -Relationship with State Department
           -Rogers
           -Publicity

Walter H. Annenberg

Watson

Rush

John J. McCloy
      -Conversation with Kissinger, November 11, 1971
      -Kissinger’s meeting with Rogers

Vietnam
     -The President's forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement
          -Kissinger's forthcoming call to Rogers
                -Ronald L. Ziegler
                -Laird
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                              NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                       Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. 10/06)
                                                                      Conv. No. 297-28 (cont.)


                                -Notification
                                      -Timing
                                            -Leaks
                                            -Press
                         -Informing people
                                -MacGregor
                         -Kissinger's previous conversation with Rogers
                   -Subsequent announcements
                         -Timing
                                -Possible peace campaign
                                      -Congress
                         -North Vietnamese negotiations
                                -Prospects
                   -Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with Rogers
                         -Laird
                                -Leaks
                   -Negotiations
                         -US air power
                                -Cambodia and Laos
                   -Possible press questions
                         -Prisoners of war [POWs]
                                -Negotiations with North Vietnam
                                      -US position
             -Kissinger’s staff
                   -Meeting
                         -Questions about Vietnam
             -1972 campaign
                   -POWs
             -The President's forthcoming troop withdrawal announcement
                   -Timing
             -Negotiations with North Vietnam
             -POWs
             -Bombing of North Vietnam
                   -Timing
                         -The President’s forthcoming trips [to People’s Republic of China
                                [PRC] and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]]
                         -Negotiations

Kissinger left at 12:59 pm.
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                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. 10/06)
                                                               Conv. No. 297-28 (cont.)