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Start Date: 29-Feb-1972 3:23 PM

End Date: 29-Feb-1972 4:00 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")Ziegler, Ronald L.Haig, Alexander M., Jr.Kissinger, Henry A.Sanchez, Manolo

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:19:00

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:56:23

322a.mp3

322b.mp3

322c.mp3

NARA Description:

On February 29, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Ronald L. Ziegler, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Henry A. Kissinger, and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 3:23 pm to 4:00 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 322-014 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 322-14

Date: February 29, 1972
Time: 3:23 pm - 4:00 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
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                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                        Tape Subject Log
                                          (rev. 10/06)



     Meeting
          -Haldeman and John B. Connally
               -William P. Rogers
               -Connally’s tenure

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 3:25 pm.

     People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
          -Press briefing
               -The President’s report
                      -Herbert G. Klein
               -PRC
               -Conference
                      -Questions
                           -Taiwan, Republic of China
                           -Henry A. Kissinger
                                 -Shanghai
                           -Ziegler’s comments
                                 -PRC
               -John Thomas Downey
               -William F. Buckley, Jr.
               -Stanley Karnow
               -Dan Rather

Kissinger and Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr. entered at 3:28 pm.

     PRC trip
         -Taiwan
              -Rather’s report
              -The President’s address of February 28, 1972
              -Secretary of State
                   -Haig
                   -Statements on Taiwan
                         -President’s position
                   -Rogers
                         -Capitol Hill
                               -Statements on Taiwan
         -Leaders meeting
              -Rogers’s comments
                   -Statements
                   -Taiwan
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               NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                          Tape Subject Log
                            (rev. 10/06)
                                                         Conv. No. 322-14 (cont.)


          -PRC
          -Communism
-Trade
      -Proposed deal
      -Rogers
-Questions to Ziegler
-Leaders meeting
-President’s instructions
      -Haig
           -Rogers
           -Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
           -PRC
           -Rogers
-Haldeman’s talk with Rogers
      -Industrialization
           -Exhibit
           -Singapore
           -Taiwan
                  -Trade
-Taiwan
      -Rogers
           -Possible leaks
           -Possible remarks to staff
           -Conversation with Haldeman
           -Press
                  -Remarks by Rogers
           -Leaders
           -Cabinet
           -Kissinger
                  -Rogers’s behavior
           -PRC
           -Translator
           -Foreign Minister
                  -Response
           -Statements from Rogers
                  -Translation
           -Foreign Minister
                  -Ziegler’s observation
                        -Boxer Rebellion
           -Haig
                  -Chi Peng-fei [?]
                                   9

               NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                          Tape Subject Log
                            (rev. 10/06)
                                                       Conv. No. 322-14 (cont.)


                     -Transcripts of meetings
-Chou En-lai
     -Meeting with Rogers
     -[Unintelligible]
-Foreign Minister
     -Compared to vice foreign minister
-Rogers
     -Job performance
     -Taiwan
           -Memorandum
     -Press
     -Social events
           -Timing
           -Industrialization
                 -Shanghai exhibit
     -USSR
     -Haig
           -Instructions
           -USSR
           -PRC
           -USSR, 1959
                 -Predicted survivability
     -PRC achievements
           -Cultural Revolution
           -Weapons
           -Standard of living
           -Industry
           -Education
           -Haig’s upcoming telephone call to Rogers
                 -President’s request
                       -Haig
           -Kissinger
                 -Representation
                       -Rogers’s situation
                       -Discussions on phone
     -PRC
     -Press
           -Comments
     -Leaders
     -Consistency
     -Communists
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                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                  Tape Subject Log
                                    (rev. 10/06)
                                                            Conv. No. 322-14 (cont.)


           -Kissinger
                 -US foreign policy
                       -PRC trip
                              -Outcome of trip
                       -USSR
           -Haig
                 -Meeting
                 -Backgrounder
                 -Press
           -Taiwan
                 -Possible comparisons
     -Public reaction to PRC trip
     -Indonesia
     -PRC
     -Diplomacy options
     -USSR
     -Cambodia
     -PRC system compared to US system
           -Advantages
           -Africa
     -Ziegler
           -Instructions
           -Florida
                 -Timing
                 -Gerald L. Warren
                       -Fill-in for Ziegler
     -Haig
     -President’s schedule
           -Kissinger
                 -Briefings
     -Rogers
     -State Department

Vietnam negotiations
     -Withdrawal
          -Cambodia, Laos
          -Concessions
          -Briefing papers
          -Haig’s talk with Chou En-lai
          -Peaceful settlement
                -Kissinger’s negotiations in October 1971
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                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                        Tape Subject Log
                                          (rev. 10/06)
                                                               Conv. No. 322-14 (cont.)


                     -Possible US opposition
                -Withdrawal
                -USSR

     PRC trip
         -Communiqué
         -Vietnam
               -Settlement
               -Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu
               -USSR
         -Instructions to Haig
               -Rogers
         -Conservatives
         -Washington Post
               -Upcoming editorial
               -Ronald W. Reagan

Haldeman and Ziegler left at 3:55 pm.

     Vietnam
          -Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters’s Meeting
                -Discussion
                     -Length of time
                     -Location
                -Le Duc Tho

     PRC
           -Communiqué
                -Criticism
                      -W[illiam] Averell Harriman
           -Rogers’s comments
                -Haig’s view
                -Kissinger’s view
                -The President’s view
                -Substance and principles
                      -Chou En-lai
                -Statements
                -PRC
                -USSR
                      -Technology
                -Kissinger
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                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. 10/06)
                                                                    Conv. No. 322-14 (cont.)


                     -Previous conversation with Jonathan T. Howe
                     -Chou En-lai
                          -PRC foreign minister
                          -Rogers
                                -US presence in Japan

     Japan

Kissinger and Haig left and Manolo Sanchez entered at 4:00 pm.