Conversation: 407-007
Prev: 407-006 Next: 407-008Start Date: 23-Jan-1973 4:14 PM
End Date: 23-Jan-1973 4:34 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.; Price, Raymond K., Jr.;Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
NARA Description:
On January 23, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., and Raymond K. Price, Jr. met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 4:14 pm to 4:34 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 407-007 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 407-7
Date: January 23, 1973
Time: 4:14 pm and 4:34 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Alexander M. Haig, Jr. and Raymond K. Price, Jr.
Vietnam settlement
-The President's speech
-Content and wording
-Agreement
-Full text
-Page 6
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Cease-fire
-Meaning
-Casualties
-U.S., South Vietnam, and North Vietnam
-Cease-fire
-Meaning for Indochinese people
-Henry A. Kissinger's briefing
-Meaning for US
-Da Nang
-Page 9
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Apr.-09)
Conversation No. 407-7 (cont’d)
-Generation of war
-Page 10
-Congress
-Style
-US purpose
-Compared to Great Britain in Boer War
-South Africa
-Compared to France in Algeria, Indochina
-Communists
-Indonesia
-Thailand
-US forces
-Motives
-Straits of Malacca, Indonesia, Thailand
-The President’s speech
-The President's opponents
-Response of Congress, Press
-Distribution through Herbert G. Klein
-Further changes
-Price's work
-Further changes
-The President's opponents
Haig
-New job
-House and servants
The President's opponents
-Attitudes
-White House response
-Cambodia, Vietnam
-Response
-Success
Haig
-Possible effect of new job at Pentagon
Vietnam settlement
-Commentary on The President's May 8, 1972 decision
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Apr.-09)
Conversation No. 407-7 (cont’d)
The President's schedule
Haig and Price left at 4:34 pm.