Conversation: 424-026
Prev:  424-025 Next: 424-027Start Date: 29-Mar-1973 10:50 AM
End Date: 29-Mar-1973 10:50 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.; Kissinger, Henry A.; Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
NARA Description:
On March 29, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Ronald L. Ziegler, and Henry A. Kissinger met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at 10:50 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 424-026 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 424-26 Date: March 29, 1973 Time: 10:50 am Location: Executive Office Building The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler and Henry A. Kissinger. President’s address -Announcement -Release of prisoners of war [POWs] -Foreign policy and domestic issues -Briefing of press by George P. Shultz -Press reaction -Ziegler's comments Ronald Ziegler left at 10:55 am. House Foreign Affairs Committee -Meeting with Kissinger ***************************************************************** -Cambodia bombing -Questions for Kissinger -Donald M. Fraser [?] -War powers -23- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. Aug.-2010) Conversation No. 424-26 (cont’d) -Kissinger’s answers -Authority -Peace agreement -Article 20 -North Vietnam -Aid -H. Ross Perot’s position -Cambodia -Questions -President’s opponents -Charles C. Diggs -Fraser -Jonathan B. Bingham President’s address -Text of speech -US troop withdrawal -Peace agreement -Missing in action [MIA] -Laos, Cambodia -Infiltration -Compliance -North Vietnam Laos -Bombing President’s address -Support for President Watergate -Impact on administration -John N. Mitchell -Loyalty -Martha (Bealle) Mitchell [?] -Involvement with break-in [?] -Culpability -Incarceration -President’s speech -Public acceptance -24- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. Aug.-2010) Conversation No. 424-26 (cont’d) -President’s response -Morality [?] -Comparison with divorces -Divorce lawyers -Kissinger’s recommendation -Removal of John W. Dean, III [?] -Dean -Involvement with break-in -Role in defense of burglars -Role as lawyer -White House Counsel -Access to Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] reports -Inappropriateness [?] -Bugging -Daniel Ellsburg break-in [?] -National security justification -Public reactions -President’s speech -President’s stature -Lyndon B. Johnson scandals -Robert D. (“Bobby”) Baker -Walter Jenkins -1964 election -Margin of victory -Press exaggeration -Comparison with Truman and Johnson cases - Committee to Re-elect the President [CRP] -Lack of control -President’s responsibilities -May 8, 1972 decision -1972 Moscow summit -Lack of contact with Mitchell -Break-in -Intentions -Results -Dean’s involvement -Handling of investigation [?] Vietnam settlement -Cambodia bombing -25- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. Aug.-2010) Conversation No. 424-26 (cont’d) -Congressional reaction -President’s powers -Cut off of funding -Survival of Cambodia -Blaming Congress -Unlikelihood -Negotiations -Trip by Alexander M. Haig, Jr. -President’s opponents -Bureaucracy -India-Pakistan War of 1971 -US withdrawal -Peace with honor -Bugging out -George S. McGovern -Duration -1974 election Soviet Union -Supplies to North Vietnam -Leonid I. Brezhnev’s veracity -Future summit -Timms -Agreement on the Prevention of Nuclear War -New version -Kissinger’s talk with President -Infiltration from North Vietnam -Cessation People’s Republic of China [PRC] -Visit by Kissinger -Visit by Chou En-Lai -Arrangements -Visit by President France -Meeting with President -Montenegro -President’s knowledge of geography -Martinique -26- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. Aug.-2010) Conversation No. 424-26 (cont’d) -Caribbean Sea Joint statement with Great Britain -State visit by [Elizabeth, Queen of England] Elizabeth II -Discussion with Edward M. Heath -1976 Bicentennial -Protocol -Ceremony President’s schedule -Meetings with Great Britain, France -International economic policy -Charter -Atlantic countries -Japan -Possible progress Cambodia -Support for President -House Foreign Affairs Committee -Compared with Vietnam negotiations Kissinger left at 11:10 am.