Conversation: 553-003
Prev: 553-002 Next: 553-004Start Date: 2-Aug-1971 9:20 AM
End Date: 2-Aug-1971 9:50 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.; [Unknown person(s)]; White House operator; Shultz, George P.;Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:13:18
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:45:17
NARA Description:
On August 2, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, unknown person(s), White House operator, and George P. Shultz met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:20 am to 9:50 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 553-003 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 553-3
Date: August 2, 1971
Time: 9:20 am - 9:50 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.
US Foreign Policy
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-United Nations [UN] representation
-Kissinger's talk with William P. Rogers
-Announcement
-Taiwan, Republic of China
-Response
-Marshall Green's memorandum
-PRC United Nations [UN] membership
-Chiang Kai-shek
-Green
-Proposed letter to Taiwan
-Rogers
-Aide memoirs
-US statement
-US letter to Taiwan
-Policy
-Taiwan’s view
-Probable UN vote count
-PRC
-Taiwan
-UN Security Council
-PRC
-Green
-Majority vote
-Taiwan
-PRC
-Green
-Kissinger's conversation with Chou En-lai
-PRC propaganda
-US press
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 553-3 (cont.)
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration: 59s ]
PRC
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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-Announcement
-Forthcoming trip by President to PRC
-Democrats
-Sequence of events
-Timing
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Warsaw
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston's article
-Chou En-lai's comments to Kissinger
-Possible press conference by President
-Conditions for trip
-Kissinger's forthcoming trip
-Communique
-Le Duc Tho
Vietnam War
-Le Duc Tho
-Possible meeting with Kissinger
-Possible US action
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Demilitarized zone [DMZ]
-Negotiations
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 553-3 (cont.)
US press
-Views
-President’s forthcoming trip to PRC
-Soviet Union
-President
-PRC visit
-Henry Brandon
-Reston
-President
-Vietnam
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Le Duc Tho
-Talks with Maurice Schumann
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Defensiveness
-Nguyen Van Thieu
PRC
-US announcement
-Possible reaction
-Impact on PRC trip
-Kissinger's conversation with Chou En-lai
-Press
-US announcement
-Impact on PRC trip
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham's call to Kissinger
-Graham's Father-in-law
-Howard Pugh [?]
-Forthcoming briefing by Kissinger
-Participants
-Conservatives
-Graham, Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis, Jeff Hart (?), William S.
White
-Conservatives
-UN admission for PRC
-White
-William F. Buckley
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 553-3 (cont.)
An unknown person entered at an unknown time between 9:20 am and 9:42 am.
Unknown activity
The unknown person left at an unknown time between 9:20 am and 9:42 am.
-Taiwan
-Peking
-Hard line
-Consequences
-Position on defense spending
-Buckley
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Anti-ballistic Missiles [ABM]
-Spending cuts
-Buckley
-Kissinger's talk
-Liberals
-Soviet Union
-Congress
-Defense budget
-Melvin R. Laird
-View of Ronald W. Reagan and Barry M. Goldwater
-Kissinger's forthcoming talk with White
-Cambodia
-Laos
-ABM
-Jordan
-Brandon book on foreign policy
-Administration response
-Jordan
-Kissinger’s forthcoming briefing
-SALT
-PRC
-Vietnam War
-Analogy to Korean War
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Threat
-News
-PRC
-Hanoi
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 553-3 (cont.)
Kissinger's forthcoming meeting with PRC
-Issues
-Renunciation of force
-Appointment of special emissary
The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:20 am and
9:42 am.
[Conversation No. 553-3A]
[See Conversation No. 7-41]
[End of telephone conversation]
PRC
Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with PRC
-Special emissary
David K.E. Bruce
The President talked with Shultz between 9:42 am and 9:45 am.
[Conversation No. 553-3B]
[See Conversation No. 7-42]
[End of telephone conversation]
US foreign policy
-Issues
-PRC
-SALT
-Berlin
-Middle East
-Refugees
-Pakistan
-India
-"The Beatles" fundraising efforts
-India
-US economic aid
-Refugees
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 553-3 (cont.)
-Pakistan
-US food aid
-Distribution
-UN
-Experts
-Maurice J. Williams
-India
-President's talk with Rogers
-Kenneth B. Keating
-PRC
-Possible conflict with India
-East Bengal
-Possible status
-Autonomy
-Timing
-India
-Famine
-Refugees
-Relationship to peace
-India
-Possible military action
-US aid
-State department
-Joseph J. Sisco
-Philip H. Trezise
-PRC trip
Conference, August 4, 1971
-India and Pakistan
-PRC
-India and Pakistan
Kissinger left at 9:50 am.