Conversation: 336-056
Prev: 336-055 Next: 336-057Start Date: 8-May-1972 6:22 PM
End Date: 8-May-1972 6:34 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.; [Unknown person(s)];Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:39:09
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:49:14
NARA Description:
On May 8, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 6:22 pm to 6:34 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 336-056 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 336-56
Date: May 8, 1972
Time: 6:22 - 6:34 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.
Vietnam
-President’s speech on the blockade
-US courses of action
-Wording
-Deletions
-US withdrawal
The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 6:22 pm and 6:34
pm.
[Conversation No. 336-56A]
-Changes
[End of telephone conversation]
-US offers
-North Vietnam rejection
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Withdrawal
-Cambodia
-Wording
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-01)
Conv. No. 336-56 (cont.)
-Melvin R. Laird, William P. Rogers
-Tone
-Blockade
-President’s decision
-President’s orders
-Kissinger’s briefing
-Termination of war
-Importance
-Kissinger’s meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Blockade
-President’s speech
-Demeanor
-Press reports
-Kissinger’s briefing
-Arrangements
-Previous US actions
-Cambodia, Laos
-Rogers, Laird
-Cambodia
-Laird, Rogers
-Blockade
-President’s decision
-President’s speech
-Delivery
-Tone
Kissinger left at 6:34 pm.