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Start Date: 26-Apr-1972 5:01 PM

End Date: 26-Apr-1972 5:10 PM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 03:24:12

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 03:32:09

333a.mp3

333b.mp3

333c.mp3

NARA Description:

On April 26, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 5:01 pm to 5:10 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 333-026 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 333-26

Date: April 26, 1972
Time: 5:01 pm - 5:10 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.
                                       39

                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                Tape Subject Log
                                  (rev. 10/06)



Vietnam
     -The President's call to Kissinger
     -Kissinger's trip to Paris
           -Private talks
                 -Kissinger's call to Melvin R. Laird
                         -William P. Rogers
                         -Timing
                         -Leaks
           -Message to Laird
     -The President's speech
           -Rogers's copy

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
      -Kissinger’s talk with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
      -Kissinger's meeting with Gerard C. Smith
      -Rogers's role
      -Credit
      -Leaks
      -Proposals
            -Rogers's Vvew
      -Issues
            -Submarines
                  -Proposal
                        -Smith
                        -Rogers's knowledge
                        -Kissinger's call to Smith
      -Rogers's presence at meeting
      -State Department

Vietnam
     -The President's speech
          -Copy to Rogers
                -Corrections
                -Haldeman
                -Rogers's call to Kissinger
                -Meeting
          -Copy to Rose Mary Woods
          -Joseph C. Kraft
          -Copy to Rogers
                -Problems
                -Changes
                       -State Department proposals
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                             NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 10/06)



       SALT talks
           -Leaks
           -Chalmers M. Roberts
                  -Washington Post
           -State department involvement
           -Rogers
                  -Involvement
                  -Knowledge
                         -Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missiles [SLBMs]
                  -Interest
                  -Call to the President
                  -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
                         -The President's call
           -Joint Chiefs of Staff and Department of Defense
                  -SLBMs
           -US proposals
                  -Rogers
                         -National Security Council [NSC] meeting
                               -SLBMs
                         -Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
                               -Converstaion with Kissinger
                               -Conversation with Rogers
                  -SLBMs

       The President's speech
            -Copy to Rogers
                  -Key section
                         -Delivery
                               -Time
                         -Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.'s report
                  -Other sections

Kissinger left at 5:10 pm.