Conversation: 509-014
Prev: 509-013 Next: 509-015Start Date: 3-Jun-1971 2:47 PM
End Date: 3-Jun-1971 3:06 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.; Eisenhower, Julie Nixon; Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:21:26
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:37:23
NARA Description:
On June 3, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, and Julie Nixon Eisenhower met in the Oval Office of the White House from 2:47 pm to 3:06 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 509-014 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 509-14 Date: June 3, 1971 Time: 2:47 pm - 3:06 pm Location: Oval Office The President met with Henry A. Kissinger Weather [The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower between 2:47 pm and 2:49 pm] [Conversation 509-14A] [See Conversation No. 4-20] [End of telephone conversation] Military action in Cambodia -North Vietnamese casualties -Bombing -Press reaction President’s foreign policy -Press reaction -Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] announcement -Donald Oberdorfer, Jr. and article 24 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/08) Vietnam -Press coverage -General John W. Donaldson’s story -President’s conversation with Melvin R. Laird -General William C. Westmoreland ****************************************************************************** Conv. No. 509-14 (cont.) BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4 [Privacy] [Duration: 20s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4 ****************************************************************************** -Donaldson’s forthcoming trial Foreign relations -Vietnam peace negotiations -Lieutenant General Vernon A. Walters -Date of meeting -North Vietnamese response -North Vietnamese relations with People’s Republic of China [PRC] and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] -Kissinger’s opinion -North Vietnamese posture -Timing -South Vietnamese politics -US-USSR relations -Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin -Timing -Announcement -President’s forthcoming visit to the PRC -Kissinger’s conversation with Oberdorfer -Timing -US-PRC relations 25 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/08) ****************************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2 [National Security] [Duration: 3m 39s ] INDIA-PAKISTAN Conv. No. 509-14 (cont.) END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2 ****************************************************************************** Support for the President -President’s prior breakfast meeting on the drug problem -Admiral Thomas H. Moorer’s comments to Kissinger -Drug problem in military -Hubert H. Humphrey -My Lai -West Point speech -President’s conversation with General Alexander M. Haig, Jr. May Day demonstrations -Public’s view -Press, television reaction -President’s support for the police Vietnam War -Helicopter losses -Casualties -Timing of settlement -President’s forthcoming visit to PRC -Korean War -USSR -Haig’s views -Laos -South Vietnamese military activity 26 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/08) -Casualties inflicted -Death of General Do Cao Tri -Pentagon treatment of Cambodian story -New York Times article on Cambodia story Kissinger left at 3:06 pm Conv. No. 509-14 (cont.)