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Conversation: 321-024

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Start Date: 8-Mar-1972 3:55 PM

End Date: 8-Mar-1972 4:35 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Kissinger, Henry A.[Unknown person(s)]Sanchez, Manolo

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:18:13

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:47:13

321a.mp3

321b.mp3

NARA Description:

On March 8, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, unknown person(s), and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 3:55 pm to 4:35 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 321-024 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 321-24

Date: March 8, 1972
Time: 3:55 pm - 4:35 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
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                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. 10/06)




The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

     H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

     Kissinger’s schedule
          -Dr. Kenneth W. Riland

     Lunch
         -Sans Souci
              -Art Buchwald
                   -Wife
                         -Vote for the President
                   -Spiro T. Agnew


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 1m 31s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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     Set of questions

[Kissinger talked to an unknown person at an unknown time between 3:55 pm and 4:35 pm.]

[Conversation No. 321-24A]

     Delivery of questions by unknown person

[End of telephone conversation]

     President’s schedule
          -Moscow trip
                -Possible announcement
                                 26

              NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                         Tape Subject Log
                           (rev. 10/06)
                                                        Conv. No. 321-24 (cont.)


     -William P. Rogers
           -Previous conversation with the President
     -Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
           -Kissinger’s meeting
           -Kissinger’s forthcoming call
     -Announcement of Paris channel
           -Timing
-Possible press conference
     -Possible questions from Patrick J. Buchanan
           -Impact of People’s Republic of China [PRC] communiqué
                 -Vietnam
                 -Japan
                 -Taiwan, Republic of China
                 -Japan
                       -Reaction
                            -Eisaku Sato
                            -Takeo Fukuda
                 -Taiwan
                 -Japan
                 -Buchanan
           -People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
                 -Communiqué
                 -Settlement of issues
                       -Exchange rate
                       -Diplomatic contact with Taiwan
                 -Taiwan
                       -Renunciation of force
                            -PRC
                            -Questions
                            -Communiqué
                                  -Kissinger’s opinion
                            -Backgrounder
                            -Hubert H. Humphrey
                                  -Opinion
                                  -PRC authority
                                       -Acknowledgement
                 -Buchanan
                       -Questions
                 -PRC leadership
                       -Age
                       -Need for urgent action
                                              27

                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. 10/06)
                                                                    Conv. No. 321-24 (cont.)


                                -Chou En-lai
                                -Mutual interests
                                -Personal reflections
                                     -Preparations
                     -Vietnam
                     -US-Japan relationship
                          -PRC

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:55 pm.

     Request to put away unknown item

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:35 pm.

     PRC trip
         -Communiqué
              -Shanghai
         -Buchwald
              -Evaluation of the President
                   -Liberal program
         -Buchanan
         -Communiqué
              -Taiwan
                   -William F. Buckley, Jr.
              -Buchanan
                   -William L. Safire
                   -Foreign policy
                         -Questions
                               -Kissinger

     News summary
         -Prospects for resolving Buchanan issue
              -Reaction time
         -Buckley
              -Kissinger’s intended call

     Canada
         -Forthcoming trip by the President
              -Timing
         -Rogers’s request
              -Dinner for foreign ministers of Organization of American States [OAS]
                                            28

                         NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. 10/06)
                                                              Conv. No. 321-24 (cont.)


                    -Timing
                    -President’s opinion
                    -Canada

    White House staff

    Possible press conference
         -Taiwan
               -Kissinger’s answers
                     -President’s viewing


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[National Security]
[Duration: 1m 2s ]


    JAPAN


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3

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    The President’s schedule
         -Unknown place
               -Florida
         -Kissinger’s schedule
         -Gridiron dinner
         -Japan
         -Pierre E. Trudeau
         -Rogers
         -Japan
               -Aid

    Possible press conference
         -Questions
               -Middle East
                                             29

                         NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. 10/06)
                                                                Conv. No. 321-24 (cont.)


             -Nuclear test ban
         -Compared to press conferences in Great Britain
             -House Of Commons
                  -[James] Harold Wilson
                        -Memory skills
                        -Questions
                              -English Press
                                   -Compared to US press

    Press conference
          -Old rules used by the press
               -Franklin D. Roosevelt
               -Dwight D. Eisenhower
               -Questions
                     -Preparation by the President
                     -Intellectual exercise
                     -Busing
                     -Social Security
                     -Minimum wage

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 39s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4

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    Forthcoming Moscow trip
         -Significance
              -Compared to PRC trip

    PRC trip
        -Newsweek
             -Honor guard
             -The President’s gesture with Chou En-lai’s coat
             -Unknown person
                                               30

                             NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                        Tape Subject Log
                                          (rev. 10/06)
                                                                  Conv. No. 321-24 (cont.)


                      -Possible talk with Kissinger

     Gridiron dinner
          -Kissinger’s presence
                -President’s appearance at dinner
                      -PRC issue

     President’s schedule
          -Press conference
                -Timing
                -Canada

     Kissinger’s trips
          -Length
          -Guam
          -Korea
          -Taiwan
          -Korea
                -Taiwan
          -Paris
                -Anchorage
                -Meetings
                       -Schedule
                       -Timing
          -Japan
          -Paris
          -President’s opinion
          -Canadians
                -Kissinger’s location

Kissinger left at 4:35 pm.