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Start Date: 19-Jan-1973 4:12 PM

End Date: 19-Jan-1973 4:29 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Kissinger, Henry A.Ziegler, Ronald L.Nixon, Richard M. (President)Kissinger, Henry A.Ziegler, Ronald L.

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

398-003.mp3

NARA Description:

On January 19, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 4:12 pm to 4:29 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 398-003 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 398-3

Date: January 19, 1973
Time: Unknown between 4:12 pm and 4:29 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

[Conversation No. 398-3A]

       Vietnam settlement
            -Current situation
                                               -3-

                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                        Tape Subject Log
                                          (rev. Jan.-09)

                                                           Conversation No. 398-3 (cont’d)

       President's Inaugural speech
             -Peace reference
                    -Broader context
             -US allies
                    -Compared to friendships
                         -Israel
                         -Europe
                         -Latin America
             -Peking and Moscow references
             -Length

       Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
            -Report from Bangkok

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 4:15 pm.

       Vietnam settlement
            -Nguyen Van Thieu
            -Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
            -Timing
                  -Consequences
                       -Barry M. Goldwater

[End of telephone conversation]

       President's Inaugural speech
             -Final draft
                    -Release
                    -Preliminary notes and outline
                    -Timing
             -William E. Timmons
             -Raymond K. Price, Jr.
             -Hugh Scott
             -Gerald R. Ford
                    -Character
             -Price
             -Final draft
                    -Release
                          -Embargo
                                                -4-

                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                        Tape Subject Log
                                          (rev. Jan.-09)

                                                                 Conversation No. 398-3 (cont’d)

                           -Timmons
                           -Press relations
                           -Scott and Ford
                                 -Timmons
                                 -Copies
                           -Ziegler's time commitment to wire services

       Vietnam settlement
            -Announcement
            -Historical significance
                  -Library
            -Haig’s report

       Press relations
             -Press questions
             -Press conference
                    -Date
                    -Signing

       1973 Inauguration events
            -Announcement
            -Concerts
                  -Ziegler’s wife
                  -Frank Sinatra
            -Christmas

       President's schedule
             -H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Ziegler left at 4:29 pm.