Easy NixonAbout

Conversation: 335-003

Prev:  335-002 Next: 335-004

Start Date: 1-May-1972 2:40 PM

End Date: 1-May-1972 2:55 PM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:07:42

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:27:21

335a.mp3

335b.mp3

NARA Description:

On May 1, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 2:40 pm to 2:55 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 335-003 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 335-3

Date: May 1, 1972
Time: 2:40-2:55 pm.
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

     Greetings

     Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
                                        2

                NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                Tape Subject Log
                                  (rev. Nov-01)
                                                                 Conv. No. 335-3 (cont.)

     -White House news summary report
          -Alleged differences between Kissinger and the President
               -Kissinger’s view
          -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Vietnam
     -Cease-fire
          -Kissinger’s talks in Moscow
                 -State department reports
                 -News stories
                       -Murrey Marder
                       -Inaccuracies
          -Kissinger’s briefing
          -Story
                 -News summary
                 -Source
          -US offers
          -News reports
                 -George Herman
                 -Marder
                 -Henley W. Donovan
                 -Content
                       -Kissinger’s offers
                             -Kissinger’s view
                 -Accuracy
                 -Kissinger’s briefing
                 -Source
                       -State department
                             -William H. Sullivan
                       -A paper
                             -William P. Rogers
          -President’s talk with Rogers
                 -The President’s view
     -Bombing of Haiphong and Hanoi
          -Kissinger’s talk with Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
          -Time
          -Number of bombers
          -Response
          -Effectiveness
          -Timing
                 -News stories
          -Impact
                                        3

                NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                Tape Subject Log
                                  (rev. Nov-01)
                                                                 Conv. No. 335-3 (cont.)

                -Moorer
                -Thursday’s meeting
                -US public response
                -Soviet Union response
                -US public response
                      -Need for support
                      -Doves
                      -Hawks
                      -General public
                           -Support
                                 -Reasons
     -Negotiations
          -Public reaction
          -A memorandum
          -Kissinger’s talk with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
                -Conditions
                -Leonid I. Brezhnev
                -North Vietnam government
                -Meaning
     -News stories
          -State Department
                -Marder
                -Rogers
                -Haldeman
                -Purposes
                      -Kissinger’s view
                -Forthcoming proposal
                -New York Times story
                -Rogers talk with the President
                -Acceptability
     -North Vietnam invasion

SALT
    -Gerard C. Smith
         -Negotiating position
    -Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS], Deputy Secretary of Defense, and Central
         Intelligence Agency [CIA] director
         -Position on SALT
         -Briefing
               -Melvin R. Laird
               -[David] Kenneth Rush
    -Smith
                                          4

                 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                  Tape Subject Log
                                    (rev. Nov-01)
                                                       Conv. No. 335-3 (cont.)

          -Negotiating position in Helsinki
     -Possible news stories
          -Time
          -Content
          -President’s actions
     -Acceptance
          -News stories
                -Purposes
     -Negotiators
          -Meeting with the president
          -Kissinger’s briefing

Vietnam
     -Cease-fire
           -News stories
                 -President’s position
                 -Kissinger’s position
                 -Significance
                 -Hugh S. Sidey
                       -Recent article
                 -Jerrold L. Schecter
                       -Kissinger’s interview
                             -President’s suggestion
                       -Work with Sidey
     -Kissinger’s work
           -Consistency with President's policies
     -President’s position

SALT
    -President’s public position
          -Wording
    -Status of talks
          -President’s statement
                -Wording
                -Soviet negotiators
    -Merits
          -Smith’s proposal
                -Kissinger’s view
    -Substance
          -Soviet submarines
                -Numbers
                -Limits
                                               5

                      NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                       Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. Nov-01)
                                                           Conv. No. 335-3 (cont.)

                 -US position
           -Weapons
                 -Numbers
                 -US compared with the Soviet Union
           -Presentation of agreement
                 -Wording
                      -Submarines
                      -Missiles
           -Trades
           -President’s statement
                 -Kissinger’s summary
                      -Presentation to Smith

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 2:40 pm.

     An object

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:55 pm.

     SALT
         -Reduction

The President and Kissinger left at 2:55 pm.