Conversation: 322-040
Prev: 322-039 Next: 322-041Start Date: 9-Mar-1972 2:40 PM
End Date: 9-Mar-1972 4:30 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.; Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob");Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:06:40
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:15:56
NARA Description:
On March 9, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 2:40 pm and 4:30 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 322-040 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 322-40
Date: March 9, 1972
Time: Unknown between 2:40 pm and 4:30 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President dictated a memorandum to Henry A. Kissinger and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
Memorandum distribution
-Haldeman
-Talk with Herbert G. Klein, Ronald L. Ziegler or John A. Scali
People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-US position
-Position
-Compared to US position
-Kissinger’s backgrounder
-Communiqué
President’s previous trip to the USSR, July 1959
-Addressing the people of USSR
-Radio and television
-Media coverage
-State Department speech draft
-Llewellyn E. (“Tommy”) Thompson, Jr.
-Kitchen Debate
-Speech
-Tone
-1960 election
-Significance
-Effect
-Americans-USSR
-Reaction
-St. Louis Dispatch
-Favorable editorial
PRC
-Communiqué
-Tone
-Leadership
-Public opinion
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 322-40 (cont.)
-Perception of the President
-Americans
-Right-wing