Conversation: 313-022
Prev: 313-021 Next: 313-023Start Date: 10-Jan-1972 4:27 PM
End Date: 10-Jan-1972 5:11 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Kissinger, Henry A.; [Unknown person(s)];Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:14:43
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:33:59
NARA Description:
On January 10, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Henry A. Kissinger, and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 4:27 pm and 5:11 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 313-022 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 313-22
Date: January 10, 1972
Time: Unknown after 4:27 pm until 5:11 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
Haldeman talked with an unknown person [Henry A. Kissinger?]
[Conversation No. 313-22B]
Schedule
[End of telephone conversation]
William P. Rogers and Melvin R. Laird
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 24s ]
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India-Pakistan War
-Bangladesh
-US ambassador
-Kissinger's credibility
-Alexander P. Haig, Jr.
-Max Frankel
-John D. Ehrlichman's view
-India
-Press reaction
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 313-22 (cont.)
-Time
-Herbert G. Klein's statements
-Haldeman’s talk with Kissinger
-Administration's position
-Japan, Mexico and Canada
-Indira Gandhi’s trip to US
-Reception
-Kissinger
-Administration's position
-Press coverage
-Rogers
-1972 election
-Democratic candidate
-Administration white paper
-State Department
-Kissinger
-Administration's policies
-Press coverage
-State Department
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-Bureaucracy
Criticism
-Kissinger
-Compared to State Department
-Rogers
White paper
-The President’s instruction to Haldeman
James J. Kilpatrick
-Martin Z. Agronsky's television show
-Jack N. Anderson
-Criticism
Anderson
Howard B. Hughes memoirs
-Veracity
-McGraw-Hill and Life
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 313-22 (cont.)
-Hughes's press conference
-Paradise Island
-Voice analysis
-McGraw-Hill and Life claims
-Public interest
India
-Aid
-Jordan’s view
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[National Security]
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India-Pakistan War
-Rush’s view
-India
-West Bengal
The President as statesman
-World stature
-Frankel’s view
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
Trip by Thelma C. (“Pat’) Nixon
-Activities
-Press coverage
-Networks
-Expectations
[The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 4:27 pm and 5:11
pm.]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 313-22 (cont.)
[Conversation No. 313-22A]
Time magazine
-Article on Mrs. Nixon's trip
-Copy to Mrs. Nixon
[End of telephone conversation]
Kissinger
-Criticism after People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Haig
-Herbert G. Klein's views
-Rogers
-Israel issue
-State Department
-Yitzhak Rabin
-As issue in public mind
-PRC trip
-Vietnam
-Xuan Thuy
-[Shah of Iran] Pahlavi, Mohammed Reza
-Possible resignation
-Timing
-1972 election
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 24s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
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Charles W. Colson
-Qualities and goals
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 313-22 (cont.)
-Loyalty
-John N. Mitchell's views
Haldeman left at 5:11 pm.