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Conversation: 426-008

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Start Date: 29-Mar-1973 4:55 PM

End Date: 29-Mar-1973 5:10 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Woods, Rose MaryWhite House operatorKissinger, Henry A.Nixon, Richard M. (President)Woods, Rose MaryWhite House operatorKissinger, Henry A.

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

426-008.mp3

NARA Description:

On March 29, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, White House operator, and Henry A. Kissinger met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 4:55 pm to 5:10 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 426-008 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 426-8

Date: March 29, 1973
Time: 4:55 pm -5:10 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

       President's schedule
             -Henry A. Kissinger

[The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 4:55 pm and
4:59 pm.]

[Conversation No. 426-8A]

[See Conversation No. 44-73]

[End of telephone conversation]

       President's speech typescript
             -Changes
             -Press copy, reading copy coordination
             -Raymond K. Price, Jr. [?]
             -Changes
             -Ronald L. Ziegler's copy
                    -Paragraphs
             -International diplomacy

Kissinger entered at 4:59 p.m.

       Kissinger’s telephone [?] conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
             -Leonid I. Brezhnev

Woods left at 4:59 pm.

       Kissinger's conversation with Dobrynin

       President's forthcoming speech
                                              -13-

                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. Sep.-2010)
                                                                Conversation No. 426-8 (cont’d)


             -National defense
                   -Unilateral disarmament
             -Woods
                   -Copy of speech

Woods entered at an unknown time after 4:59 pm/

       Page from speech

Woods left at an unknown time before 5:10 pm.

             -Wording
                   -Vietnam War
                   -People's Republic of China [PRC]
                         -Relationship
                   -Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
                         -Elimination of nuclear arms
                   -National defense
                         -Budget
                         -Negotiations
                                -USSR
                                     -Nuclear arms
                                     -Mutual and Balanced Forces Reduction [MBFR]
             -Kissinger’s critique
                   -Respect for US strength
                         -USSR
                                -MBFR
             -Wording
                   -Impact on PRC, USSR

             -Critics of President
                    -Vietnam
                    -Watergate
                    -Future press conference
                    -President’s efforts for disarmament, world peace
                          -Defense budget

Kissinger left at 5:10 pm.
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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                        Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. Sep.-2010)
                                                            Conversation No. 426-10 (cont’d)