Conversation: 391-008
Prev: 391-007 Next: 391-009Start Date: 1-Nov-1972 4:12 PM
End Date: 1-Nov-1972 4:23 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Price, Raymond K., Jr.; Kissinger, Henry A.; White House operator;Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
NARA Description:
On November 1, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Raymond K. Price, Jr., Henry A. Kissinger, and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 4:12 pm to 4:23 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 391-008 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 391-8
Date: November 1, 1972
Time: 4:12 pm - 4:23 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Raymond K. Price, Jr.
The President’s schedule
-Meeting with John Cardinal Krol
Vietnam negotiations
-Settlement agreement
-Krol’s stance
-Nguyen Van Thieu’s stance
-Surrender
-1972 election
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar.-08)
Conversation No. 391-8 (cont’d)
-Thieu
The President’s speech, “Look to the Future”
-Draft
The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger
[Conversation No. 391-8A]
The President’s forthcoming speech, “Look to the Future”
-Vietnam section
-Price’s draft
-Price meeting with Kissinger
-Time
-The President’s revisions
-Tone
-Kissinger’s review
[End of telephone conversation]
The President’s forthcoming speech, “Look to the Future”
-Vietnam section
-Reference to Laos
-Kissinger’s view
-Bombing halt
-Contents
-The President’s review
-Length
-Page seven
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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]
-Faith
-1972 campaign
-Candidates
-Traditional behavior
-Spending promises
-The President
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar.-08)
Conversation No. 391-8 (cont’d)
-Bureaucratic meddling
[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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Vietnam negotiations
-Settlement agreement
-Tone
-Cease-fire
-Indochina
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Election in South Vietnam
-Thieu
-Tenure
-Thieu
-Complaint
-Fear of US departure
-Compared to South Koreans
Price left at 4:23 pm.
The President talked with the White House operator at 4:23 pm.
[Conversation No. 391-8B]
[See Conversation No. 32-121]
[End of telephone conversation]