Conversation: 346-014
Prev: 346-013 Next: 346-015Start Date: 28-Jun-1972 3:15 PM
End Date: 28-Jun-1972 3:30 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.; Acker, Marjorie P.; White House operator; Haig, Alexander M., Jr.; [Unknown person(s)];Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 03:17:25
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 03:31:07
NARA Description:
On June 28, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, Marjorie P. Acker, White House operator, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 3:15 pm to 3:30 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 346-014 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 346-14
Date: June 28, 1972
Time: 3:15-3:30 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.
President's forthcoming press conference
-Anticipated questions and proposed answers
-Defense Department budget
-Melvin R. Laird
-Vietnam negotiations
-Briefing book
-Location of memorandum
Marjorie P. Acker entered at 3:15 pm.
Alexander P. Butterfield
-Meeting
Kissinger talked with the White House operator.
[Conversation No 346-14A]
Requested for a call to Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Kissinger talked with Haig at an unknown time between 3:15 and 3:30 pm.
The President’s forthcoming press conferene
-Vietnam briefing book
-Questions and responses
[End of telephone conversation]
-Butterfield
President's forthcoming press conference
-Anticipated questions and proposed answers
-Vietnam
-Bombing of dikes
The President talked with an unknown person.
[Conversation No. 346-14B]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 346-14 (cont.)
Unknown item
[End of telephone conversation]
President's forthcoming press conference
-Anticipated questions and proposed answers
-Vietnam
-Cloud seeding
-The President’s possible responses
-Laos
-Laos
-Mercenary commando raids
-Meo tribesmen
-Peace negotiations
-Withdrawal of US forces
-Laos, Cambodia
-Thailand
-Coalition Government
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-North Vietnamese forces in South Vietnam
-Number of troops
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] and Department of State
-Possible attack on Hue
-Leonid I. Brezhnev's statement
-Fidel Castro
-Strategic Arms and Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-Relative military strength of US and Soviet Union
-Multiple Independently-targeted Reentry Vehicle [MIRV]
-The President’s possible comments
Washington Post story
-Time's coverage
Vietnam peace negotiations
-Questions at forthcoming press conference
-SALT
-Defense budget
Kissinger's schedule
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 346-14 (cont.)
-President's schedule
-Meeting with People’s Republic of China [PRC] officials in New York
Kissinger left at 3:30 pm.