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Start Date: 27-Jul-1971 2:29 PM

End Date: 27-Jul-1971 3:05 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Kissinger, Henry A.Cook, Marlow W.Bull, Stephen B.

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:06:04

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:42:05

548a.mp3

NARA Description:

On July 27, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, Marlow W. Cook, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 2:29 pm to 3:05 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 548-003 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 548-3

Date: July 27, 1971
Time: 2:29 pm - 3:05 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

     Henry A. Kissinger's schedule
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                         NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                    Tape Subject Log
                                      (rev. 10/08)



         -Workload


    Vietnam negotiations
         -Meeting in Paris, July 26, 1971
         -Le Duc Tho
              -Moscow
              -Hanoi                                          Conv. No. 548-3 (cont.)
         -The Soviet Union
              -Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
              -Kama River Project
                    -Mack Trucks, Inc.
                    -Dresser Corporation
              -Status
              -US stance

    US foreign policy
         -Hugh S. Sidey's article
         -Recent developments
              -The People's Republic of China [PRC]


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration: 1m 13s ]


    SOVIET UNION


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    The President's schedule
         -Oval Office press conference
              -H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, Patrick J. Buchanan
              -Scope
                     -Foreign policy, domestic issues
                                          3

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                                 Tape Subject Log
                                   (rev. 10/08)



                      -The PRC
                           -Questions
                           -Handling

                                 -Senators
                                 -Ronald L. Ziegler, William P. Rogers
                                 -State Department
                            -Timing of United Nations [UN] membership
                                                                  Conv. issue
                                                                        No. 548-3 (cont.)
                                 -Rogers

US foreign policy
     -Taiwan, The Republic of China [ROC]
          -James C.H. Shen
          -Taiwan’s actions
          -The President’s record
          -The President, Kissinger
          -US relations with the ROC
                -The United Nations [UN]
     -Mao Tse-Tung
          -Chiang Kai-Shek
                -Chou En-lai
     -Kissinger's report to the President on the PRC trip

The President’s schedule
     -Forthcoming press conference
          -Type of Presidential statements
                 -Press reaction
                      -John F. Kennedy's press conferences
                 -Scope of comment on the PRC

Dean G. Acheson

Forthcoming press conference
     -Taiwan issue
          -UN membership
                -The PRC
                     -Wording

Acheson
    -The President's foreign policy
    -Support for the President
         -Democrats
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                        NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                   Tape Subject Log
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         -Domestic issues
             -The middle-class
                   -Labor unions
                         -Wage demands
                   -Economic concerns
                         -Inflation

                                                           Conv. No. 548-3 (cont.)
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 1m 47s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4

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    Foreign policy
         -Acheson
              -Summit
                    -The PRC meeting
                          -Difference from other Summit meetings
                                -The Soviet Union
                          -The President's role
                          -Channels of communication
                          -George C. Marshall
                                -Chou En-lai
                                     -Age
         -The PRC initiative
              -Letters to Heads of State
                    -Prime Minister of Australia
                          -Cabinet
                    -Content
                    -Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
                    -Eisaku Sato
                    -Georges J.R. Pompidou
                    -Edward R.G. Heath
                          -Kissinger briefing
              -Timing of Summit trip to the PRC
                                              5

                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. 10/08)



                     -Budget meetings


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[National Security]
[Duration: 37s ]                                                   Conv. No. 548-3 (cont.)


     SCHEDULE


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5

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                     -Kissinger’s forthcoming trip
                     -Weather
                     -Timing of announcement
          -US-Soviet Union Summit
          -Japan
          -The President’s schedule
               -Foreign travel

[The President talked with Marlow W. Cook between 2:49 pm and 2:51 pm]

[Conversation No. 548-3A]

[See Conversation No. 7-9]

[End of telephone conversation]

     US foreign relations
          -US-Soviet Union Summit
               -Timing of meeting
          -PRC
               -Timing of trip
                      -Vietnam negotiations
                      -Edgar P. Snow
                           -Dissemination
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                                     Tape Subject Log
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                          -Chou En-lai
                          -Role of newspapers in the PRC
              -US press
              -Vietnam negotiations
                   -North Vietnamese
                         -William J. Porter
                               -Hanoi radio
         -Vietnam negotiations                                Conv. No. 548-3 (cont.)
              -Kissinger's meeting with Le Duc Tho


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[National Security]
[Duration: 3s ]


    COUNTRY


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                     -Kissinger's trip
                     -Perceptions
               -Press coverage
               -Proposals
                     -Nguyen Van Thieu
                     -US troop withdrawal
               -Military action
                     -Laos, Cambodia
                          -Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
               -Kissinger's meeting
                     -Transcripts

    Foreign policy
         -Poll
               -Haldeman’s analysis
               -Shifts in support by people
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                                      Tape Subject Log
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                     -Blue collar, grade-school level educated
                     -White collar, college-education


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
[Personal Returnable]                                             Conv. No. 548-3 (cont.)
[Duration: 42s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7

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     Pentagon Papers
          -New York Times publication
          -Daniel Ellsberg
               -Timing of legal action
                     -John N. Mitchell
                     -Vietnam negotiations

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:29 pm.

     The President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:05 pm.

     Pentagon Papers
          -Ellsberg
                -Extent of possible forthcoming information
                -Vietnam war settlement

     Leaks
          -Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT] negotiations
                -Source of leak

     Acheson
         -Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
             -John F. Kennedy's letter
                  -Cuban missile crisis
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                             NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 10/08)



      PRC initiative
          -Ambassador’s comments
          -World opinion
          -Nelson A. Rockefeller

      Forthcoming foreign policy developments
           -Paris Peace Talks
           -PRC trip                                                   Conv. No. 548-3 (cont.)

Kissinger left at 3:05 pm.