Conversation: 496-009
Prev: 496-008 Next: 496-010Start Date: 10-May-1971 12:57 PM
End Date: 10-May-1971 1:30 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.;Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:27:16
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:33:30
NARA Description:
On May 10, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:57 pm to 1:30 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 496-009 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 496-9
Date: May 19, 1971
Time: 12:57 pm - 1:30 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Henry A. Kissinger
Institute of world politics, Moscow
-Kissinger's meeting with Director
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] negotiations
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] position
-Proposal
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
A message
Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Dobrynin
-Hanoi
-Le Duan
-USSR, People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Xuan Thuy
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SALT
-Dobrynin
-US instructions
Vietnam
-President's meeting with Nguyen Van Thieu
-Timing
Conv. No. 496-9 (cont.)
SALT
-USSR
-Politburo
Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Congress
-Howard K. Smith
-Possible proposal by President to Congress
-Dobrynin
-US position
-Draft
-Meeting with Thieu
SALT
-USSR
Vietnam
-Negotiations
-President's meeting with Thieu
-Congress
-Cooper-Church Amendment, McGovern-Hatfield amendment
-Effect
-Negotiations
-David K. E. Bruce
-Possible deadline
-President's meeting with Thieu
-Deadline
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Congress
-Briefings
-Kissinger
-Haig
-Agriculture representatives, May 7, 1971
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-Kissinger
-Meeting with Ronald W. Reagan, May 8, 1971
-President's April 7, 1971 Speech
-President's April 7, 1971 Speech
-President's policies
-Public opinion
SALT Conv. No. 496-9 (cont.)
-USSR
-“Doves and Hawks”
-USSR
-Berlin
-D[avid] Kenneth Rush, Kissinger, William P. Rogers, USSR ambassador
-US position
-Instructions to Rush
-PRC
-Possible speech by President
-Proposal
-”National command”
-Antiballistic Missile [ABM]
-Gerard C. Smith
-USSR
-Schedule
-“Doves”
-USSR position
-Dobrynin
-Berlin
-Possible public opinion
-Sino-Soviet relations
-Rogers’ Statement
-Possible effect
-Kissinger's conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-President's statement
-Dobrynin
Vietnam
-US role
-Thieu
-Le Duan
-Moscow
-President's meeting with Thieu
-Midway
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-Date
-PRC
-US role
-Vietnamization
-Troop withdrawals
-Casualties
-Numbers for week
-Senate Conv. No. 496-9 (cont.)
-Frank F. Church's statements
-Administration
-SALT, Summit
-Negotiations
-US offer
-Dates
-Thieu
-POWs
-North Vietnamese position
-Bombing
-Negotiations
-Timing
-Xuan Thuy, Kissinger
-US offer
-North Vietnamese Response
[A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from
December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access 8, Ronald V. Dellums, et al. v. James M.
Powell, et al., No. 71-2271. The National Archives and Records Administration produced this
transcript. The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]
[End of transcript]
-Demonstrations
-Press coverage
USSR
PRC initiative
-Kissinger forthcoming trip
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration: 22s ]
PAKISTAN Conv. No. 496-9 (cont.)
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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-Meeting arrangements
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[National Security]
[Duration: 14s ]
PAKISTAN
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-USSR
-Pakistan
-US ambassador Joseph S. Farland
-Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan
-Idea of “Special Emissary”
-USSR
-Possible trip
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-Arrangements
-”Special Emissary”
-Bruce
-Robert D. Murphy
Vietnam
-Demonstrations
-President's policy Conv. No. 496-9 (cont.)
-President's critics
USSR, PRC
-Meeting
-Arrangements
SALT
Kissinger left at 1:30 pm