Conversation: 608-002
Prev: 608-001 Next: 608-003Start Date: 29-Oct-1971 6:19 PM
End Date: 29-Oct-1971 6:35 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.; White House operator;Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:50:05
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:04:10
NARA Description:
On October 29, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House from 6:19 pm to 6:35 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 608-002 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 608-2
Date: October 29, 1971
Time: 6:19 pm - 6:35 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
[The recording begins while conversation is in progress]
United Nations [UN]
-Previous vote to expel Taiwan
-France, Great Britain, Italy, Belgium, Canada
-Belgium
-Effect of the President's People's Republic of China [PRC] initiative
Daniel J. Boorstin
-Smithsonian Institution
-Previous conversation with Kissinger
-Boorstin's talk at University of Indiana
-PRC initiative
UN
-Previous vote to expel Taiwan
-Reaction of the President's critics
-Chiang Kai-Shek
-Academic community
Boorstin
The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Leonard Garment's note to Kissinger
-Boorstin
-Previous conversation with Kissinger
-US aerospace program
US intellectual community
The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Boorstin
-Kissinger's possible written account
-Possible article
-Timing
UN
-Previous vote to expel Taiwan
-Timing
-State Department's efforts
-Kissinger’s assessment
-Rogers
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 608-2 (cont.)
-Botswana
-Guyana
-Leader
-US aid
-Vote list
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Timing
-The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-1972 election
-State Department's efforts
-Kissinger’s view
-Timing
-Public reaction
-View of UN
-Kissinger's previous conversation with Ronald W. Reagan
Reagan
-The President's schedule
-Report on Reagan’s Asia trip
-Kissinger's schedule
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-The President's schedule
Kissinger's forthcoming telephone call to Taiwanese ambassador
Kissinger talked with the White house operator at an unknown time between 6:03 pm and 6:35
pm.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 608-2 (cont.)
[Conversation No. 608-2A]
[See Conversation No. 13-41]
[End of telephone conversation]
Kissinger's forthcoming telephone call to Taiwanese ambassador
-The President's schedule
-Taiwanese foreign minister
UN
-Previous vote to expel Taiwan
-Timing
-US policy
-PRC initiative
Taiwan
-The President’s view
-The President's efforts
-Quemoy and Matsu
-John Foster Dulles
Kissinger talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 6:03 pm and 6:35
pm.
[Conversation No. 608-2B]
[See Conversation No. 13-42]
[End of telephone conversation]
The President's schedule
-Josep Broz Tito
-India-Pakistan
-Indira Gandhi
-Chinese
-Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Interpreters
-Location
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 608-2 (cont.)
Kissinger left at 6:35 pm.