Conversation: 321-024
Prev:  321-023 Next: 321-025Start 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
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 25 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for the President -Spiro T. Agnew ****************************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 1m 31s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ****************************************************************************** Set of questions [Kissinger talked to an unknown person at an unknown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 ************************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3 [National Security] [Duration: 1m 2s ] JAPAN END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3 ************************************************************************** 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 ****************************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 39s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4 ****************************************************************************** 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.