Conversation: 509-014
Prev: 509-013 Next: 509-015Start Date: Thursday, June 3, 1971 6:47 PM
End Date: Thursday, June 3, 1971 7:06 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.; Eisenhower, Julie NixonRecording 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
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Tape Subject Log
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Vietnam
-Press coverage
-General John W. Donaldson’s story
-President’s conversation with Melvin R. Laird
-General William C. Westmoreland
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Conv. No. 509-14 (cont.)
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Privacy]
[Duration: 20s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
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-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
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/08)
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[National Security]
[Duration: 3m 39s ]
INDIA-PAKISTAN Conv. No. 509-14 (cont.)
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
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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
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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.)