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Conversation: 329-025

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Start Date: 11-Apr-1972 2:08 PM

End Date: 11-Apr-1972 2:45 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Kissinger, Henry A.

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:37:03

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:43:10

329a.mp3

329b.mp3

329c.mp3

329d.mp3

NARA Description:

On April 11, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 2:08 pm and 2:45 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 329-025 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 329-25

Date: April 11, 1972
Time: Unknown between 2:08 pm and 2:45 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

     Washington Special Action Group [WSAG] meeting

     Vietnam
          -Air attacks
                -Loss of planes
                -Demilitarized Zone [DMZ]
                -Authority
                      -The President's call to Thomas H. Moorer
                -Timing
          -Melvin R. Laird
          -Public response
          -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
                -Trip
                      -Report to the President
          -Air attacks
                -The President's call to Moorer
                      -The President's instructions to Kissinger
          -US Navy
                -Naval gunfire
                      -Targets
                      -Orders
          -Briefing
                -Michael J. Mansfield
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                           NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                       Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. 10/06)
                                                                       Conv. No. 329-25 (cont.)

                -Hugh Scott
          -Mansfield
                -Soviet Issues
                       -Soviet Summit
                            -The President's attendance
          -Air attacks
                -Casualties
          -Naval fleet
          -B-52s
          -Tacair
          -Haig's trip
                -The President's previous Conversation with John W. Vogt
                       -Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.

     The President's trip to Soviet Union
          -Kissinger's conversation with Carl Gruber
          -Stop in Vienna
          -Salzburg
                -Possible stopover
                -Tourists
          -State dinner

     The President's meeting with Kissinger