Conversation: 328-004
Prev: 328-003 Next: 328-005Start Date: 27-Mar-1972 12:06 PM
End Date: 27-Mar-1972 12:55 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.;Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:26:03
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:11:42
NARA Description:
On March 27, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 12:06 pm to 12:55 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 328-004 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 328-4
Date: March 27, 1972
Time: 12:06 pm - 12:55 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Greeting
Possible message to Edward R.G. Heath
-Northern Ireland
-The President’s view
-US Senators
-Administration
-State Department
-White House
William Warnack
-Contact with the Administration
US foreign policy
-Africa
-Rhodesia
-Haig’s view
-Health
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 328-4 (cont.)
-Sanctions
-British proposals
-The President’s view
-Heath
-Future
-Haig’s view
-Black Americans
-Protests
-Wage demands
-Teachers
-Marshall Green’s previous trip to Asia
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Kissinger’s work
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Forthcoming Soviet summit
-Cooperation with the State Department
-Leonid i. Brezhnev
-William P. Rogers
-Substance
-Green’s performance
-Haig’s view
-US aid
-Taiwan, Republic of China
-PRC trip
-Quality of work
Kissinger
-Conflicts with Rogers
-Depth of conflict
-Democrats strategy
-Kissinger’s lack of responsibility to Congress
-Rogers’s role as a spokesman
-Forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Forthcoming trip to Europe
-Iceland
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 328-4 (cont.)
The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Possible stopovers
-Iceland
-Iran
-Poland
-Haig’s view
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration: 1m 27s ]
POLAND
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-Possible visit by Rogers
-Possible visit by Spiro T. Agnew
-Polish-Americans
-Agnew’s work
-The President’s view
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 328-4 (cont.)
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[National Security]
[Duration: 47s ]
SOVIET UNION
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Germany
-International agreements
-Haig’s view
-Economics
-Politics
-Egon Bahr
-Berlin agreement
-Haig’s view
-Willy Brandt
-Economics
-Rogers’s and Agnew’s trips
-The President’s trip
-Stopover
-Nonofficial stops
-Cyprus
-Greece
-Ireland
-John W. Mulcahy
-Azores
-North Africa
-Morocco
-Azores
-Ireland
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 328-4 (cont.)
Cuba
-Unknown Cuban
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[National Security]
[Duration: 25s ]
CUBA
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Middle East
-The President’s forthcoming memorandum
-Kissinger’s view
-Israel
-Cease fire
-US policy
-Soviets military presence
-Eastern Mediterranean
-Middle East
-US presence
-Possible withdrawal
-Israeli territorial concessions
-Kissinger’s view
-1970 election
-The President’s previous conversation with Anatoliy F.
Dobrynin
-The President’s view
-State Department
-Willingness of Soviets to deal with the US
-Outcome of 1972 election
-Jewish vote
-Jewish media
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 328-4 (cont.)
-Kissinger
-New York Times
-Washington Post
-Television networks
-Votes for the President
-Non-Israel oriented foreign policy
-Opposition to the Soviet Union
-Joseph J. Sisco’s view
-Soviet presence
-US presence
-Arab nations
-United Arab Republic [UAR]
-Algeria
-Libya
-Israel
-Syria
-Iraq
-US problems
-Israel
-Haig’s view
-1972 election
-Democratic victory
-US policy
-Republican victory
-Soviet interest in negotiation
-Major issues at the Soviet summit
-Israel
-Timing of the US action
-1972 election
-Impact on soviets
-Soviet intentions
-Max M. Fisher’s views
-Policy
-Haig’s view
-Kissinger
-State Department
-Sisco
-Soviet intentions
-Seriousness
-Israel
-Haig’s view
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 328-4 (cont.)
-Policy
-Concern for the PRC
-Desire for settlement with the US
-US interests
-Relationship with Israel
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[National Security]
[Duration: 1m 37s ]
ISRAEL
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-1972 election
-Kissinger
-Soviets
-Influence in the Mediterranean
-US strengths and weaknesses
-Golda Meir
Morocco
-Unknown man’s vacation
Public officials foreign policy
-Ambassadors
-Drinking on airplanes
-Congressmen
-Wayne L. Hays
-Rogers
-Arthur K. Watson
-Public conduct
-The President’s view
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 328-4 (cont.)
-J. William Fulbright
Arms control
-The President’s previous meeting with the General Advisory Committee on Arms
Control and Disarmament
-Test ban treaty
-J[ack] P[hilip] Tuina
-Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT]
-American establishment
-Lauris Norstad
-William W. Scranton
-John J. McCloy
-Gerard C. Smith
-Submarine-launched Ballistic Missiles [SLBMs]
-Communiqué
-Department of Defense
-Congressional support
-Navy
-Melvin R. Laird
-Support
-Congress
-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer’s concern
-State department
-Rogers
-Laird
-Smith
-Negotiations with the soviets
-The President’s view
-The President’s previous trip to the PRC
-Changes in negotiations
-Donald McI. Kendall’s view
-Soviet Union
-PRC
-Soviet leadership
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Détente
-Berlin agreement
-PRC
Soviet Union
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 328-4 (cont.)
-Impact of the PRC trip
-Chinese motives
-Benefits for the US
-Relations with the PRC
Kissinger’s vacation
-Acapulco
-Climate
-Necessity
Handling of US foreign policy
-Northern Ireland
-State Department
Kissinger
-Travel
Haig left at 12:55 pm.