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Start Date: 25-Mar-1971 4:23 PM

End Date: 25-Mar-1971 4:40 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Kissinger, Henry A.

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 04:25:22

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 04:31:04

473-011.mp3

NARA Description:

On March 25, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:23 pm and 4:40 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 473-011 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 473-11

Date: March 25, 1971
Time: Unknown between 4:23 pm and 4:40 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger

     Vietnam
          -Negotiations
                -Status
                -Dr. David K. E. Bruce
                -Delay by North Vietnamese
                -US strategy
                      -Delays
                            -Bruce
                                 -The President’s instructions
          -Melvin R. Laird
                -Press briefing
          -Military option
                -South Vietnamese
                -Bombing
                      -President’s view
          -Laird’s comments to Stewart J. O. Alsop
                -South Vietnamese military
                      -US military supplies
                      -President’s talk with Alsop
                      -President’s position
                            -Material and equipment
                            -Possible meeting with Laird, Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, and
                                 David Packard
                                 -Scheduling
                                 -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
          -An unnamed man
          -Laird
                -An unnamed man’s advice
          -Moorer
          -General Nguyen Van Thieu
          -Laos operation (Lam Son)
                -Importance compared with Cambodia
                      -President’s policies
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                                      Tape Subject Log
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