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Start Date: 26-Feb-1971 5:15 PM

End Date: 26-Feb-1971 5:45 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Rogers, William P.

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 03:44:56

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 04:17:27

460-025.mp3

NARA Description:

On February 26, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and William P. Rogers met in the Oval Office of the White House from 5:15 pm to 5:45 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 460-025 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 460-25

Date: February 26, 1971
Time: 5:15 pm - 5:45 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with William P. Rogers
                                                                 Conv. No. 460-23 (cont.)
     Greetings

     Vietnam
          -Charles W. Yost
               -Yost’s conversation with U Thant
                    -South Vietnamese Ambassador to United Nations
                          -Meeting with Thant
                                -Laos
                                      -Military situation
                                      -Thant’s comments
                                -US response
                                      -Rogers
                                      -George H. W. Bush
                                -Possible publicity
                                      -Thant
                          -Instructions for Yost


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration: 16m 59s ]


     MIDDLE EAST


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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                      NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                  Tape Subject Log
                                     (rev. 9/08)



People’s Republic of China
     -Rogers’ speech
          -Kissinger
          -US position
          -Bush
          -Timing
                -Korean elections
          -Vietnam references                              Conv. No. 460-25 (cont.)
                -Soviet Union

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
      -Possible speech by the President
      -Negotiations
           -President’s view
      -Soviet Union
           -Future negotiations on other issues
                  -Antiballistic missiles
      -Timing
      -Negotiations
           -Rogers’ view
      -General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
      -Need for progress
           -Public relations
                  -Administration efforts
      -Public relations
           -Defense Department
                  -The President
                  -Woody Hayes
                  -Vincent T. (“Vince”) Lombardi
                  -Theodore S. (“Ted”) Williams
                        -Press
                  -Admiral Thomas H. Moorer
                        -Conversation with the President
                  -Department of State policy
      -Need to develop United States’ strategy

The President’s schedule
     -Camp David
     -Thelma C. (Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon
          -New York
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                           NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 9/08)



     Appointments
         -Paul W. Thompson
         -Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD]
               -George W. Romney
               -Housing integration
                    -Blacks
                    -Jews
                    -Public housing                             Conv. No. 460-25 (cont.)
               -John D. Ehrlichman
                    -Public housing
                         -Suburbs
                         -Washington state problems
                    -Economics

     Rogers C. B. Morton

     John B. Connally
          -Camp David

Rogers left at 5:45 pm