Conversation: 297-028
Prev:  297-027 Next: 297-029Start 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
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 15 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] 16 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 17 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. 18 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 297-28 (cont.)