Conversation: 467-011
Prev: 467-010 Next: 467-012Start Date: 12-Mar-1971 8:51 AM
End Date: 12-Mar-1971 9:01 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.; Butterfield, Alexander P.;Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:21:37
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:32:55
NARA Description:
On March 12, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House from 8:51 am to 9:01 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 467-011 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 467-11
Date: March 12, 1971
Time: 8:51 am - 9:01 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Henry A. Kissinger
Kissinger’s meeting with an unknown person
-A draft letter to the President
-Reply
-A letter from the President
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
Possible summit with the Soviet Union
-Announcement
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] negotiations
-US proposal
-Kissinger
-President’s previous letter
-Dobrynin’s response
-Soviet Union reply
-Soviet Union proposal
-Order of negotiations
-Kissinger’s response
-Anti-ballistic Missile [ABM]
-Soviet missiles
-ABM
-Kissinger’s view
Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 8:51 am
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
Items for President’s signature
President’s schedule
Butterfield left at an unknown time before 9:01 am
SALT negotiations Conv. No. 467-10 (cont.)
-President’s view
-Soviet Union proposal
-President’s response
-Future meeting
-Draft letter from the President
-Kissinger
-Timing
US textile negotiations with Japan
-President’s assessment
Vietnam
-President’s Call to General John W. Vogt, Jr.
-Military situation
-Washington Post story
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC] News story
-Need for White House response
-Military situation
-Vogt’s view
-Ho Chi Minh Trail
-Increased interdiction
-Decreased traffic
-Possible call to Howard K. Smith or Thomas E. Jarriel
-Success of Laotian operation
-Effect on Ho Chi Minh Trail
-Tchepone
-Truck traffic
-[Arnold] Eric Sevareid’s commentary
-US foreign policy
-Isolationism
-Compared with position after World War II
-Marshall Plan
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Relations with newsmen
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Military situation
SALT negotiations
-President’s position
-Instructions for Kissinger
-Forthcoming letter from the President
-Kissinger
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson Conv. No. 467-11 (cont.)
-Kissinger
The President and Kissinger left at 9:01 am