Conversation: 588-018
Prev: 588-017 Next: 588-019Start Date: 12-Oct-1971 1:55 PM
End Date: 12-Oct-1971 1:59 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.; Kissinger, Henry A.; Ziegler, Ronald L.;Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 03:46:09
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 04:11:36
NARA Description:
On October 12, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Charles W. Colson, Henry A. Kissinger, and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the Oval Office of the White House from 1:55 pm to 1:59 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 588-018 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 588-18 Date: October 12, 1971 Time: 1:55 pm - 1:59 pm Location: Oval Office The President talked with Charles W. Colson. [Conversation No. 588-18A] [See Conversation No. 11-64] Henry A. Kissinger entered at an unknown time before 1:59 pm. [End of telephone conversation] Kissinger's schedule -Telephone calls -Stewart J.O. Alsop US foreign relations -Summit with Union of Socialist Soviet Republics [USSR] -Schedule -Efforts -George H. Mahon -J. William Fulbright -Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT] 36 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 588-18 (cont.) -Domestic opponents -Cambodia -Middle East -Jordan -President’s policies -Press conference -US relationship with USSR -Biological Warfare Agreement -Sea Beds Treaty -Accidental War Agreement -Berlin Agreement -John F. Kennedy -Anatoliy F. Dobrynin -Middle East -Salt -Soviets -People’s Republic of China [PRC] -Effect on US-USSR negotiations -William P. Rogers -European security conference -Middle East -The President’s view -Dobrynin -Kissinger’s view -European Security conference -National Security Council [NSC] -European Security Conference -Soviets -The President's trip to Moscow -Kissinger’s role -European security conference -Dobrynin -Middle East -Rogers -Middle East -Actions -John Foster Dulles -Israel -European security -Kissinger -Negotiating strategy 37 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 588-18 (cont.) -Soviets -Summit -PRC -Rogers -Andrei A. Gromyko -Soviets -Leonid I. Brezhnev -Aleksei N. Kosygin -Mao Tse-tung -Nikita S. Khrushchev -Prospects of conversations with the President -Victor Louis [?] -Vietnam -Vietnam -Paris Peace Talks -North Vietnam -Nguyen Nan Thieu -Peking and Moscow -Prospects for ending the war -The President’s remarks at press conference -North Vietnamese -US casualties -Schedule -Announcement of Moscow summit -Kissinger's trip to Peking -Press background briefing -Ronald L. Ziegler and John A. Scali -State Department -Importance of good relations with both USSR and PRC -Kissinger's conversations with USSR and PRC -Vietnam -Negotiations -The President’s role -Allen J. Ellender -Vietnam -USSR -PRC Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 2:15 pm. The President's schedule 38 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 588-18 (cont.) -American Broadcasting Company [ABC] cameraman -George P. Shultz -Labor Ziegler left at 2:17 pm. US foreign relations -Negotiations -Kissinger’s view ********************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 1m 42s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4 ********************************************************************** US Presidency -Pressures -Foreign policy US foreign relations -The President’s previous meeting with Aldo Moro -John A. Volpe -United Nations [UN] -Chinese -Italians -Adolf Hitler -Winston Churchill -Joachim Von Ribbentrop Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 2:20 pm. The President's schedule -George Meany 39 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 588-18 (cont.) The President et al. left at 2:21 pm.