Conversation: 622-001
Prev: 621-044 Next: 622-002Start Date: Monday, November 22, 1971 8:51 PM
End Date: Monday, November 22, 1971 8:58 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Butterfield, Alexander P.Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:00:33
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:11:59
NARA Description:
On November 22, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House from 3:51 pm to 3:58 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 622-001 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 622-1
Date: November 22, 1971
Time: 3:51 pm - 3:58 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.
The President's schedule
-Letters
Rose Mary Woods entered at an unknown time after 3:51 pm.
-Address
Butterfield left at an unknown time before 3:52 pm.
Woods's schedule
John F. Kennedy
-Anniversary of assassination
-Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 24s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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Woods left and Henry A. Kissinger entered at 3:52 pm.
Kissinger's schedule
-People's Republic of China [PRC] officials
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 622-1 (cont.)
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[National Security]
[Duration: 8s ]
PRC
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India-Pakistan
-State Department
-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-Mujibur Rahman’s release
-Yahya Khan
-Tenure in office
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[National Security]
[Duration: 34s ]
INDIA-PAKISTAN
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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-India
-Popular view
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 622-1 (cont.)
-Kissinger’s previous trip to Cincinnati
-John B. Connally's view
-US policy
-Refugees
-Foreign aid
-United Nations [UN] Security Council meeting
-Possible resolution
-PRC
-Kissinger's contacts with Pakistan
-Possible escalation
-Yahya Khan’s view
-Possible White House statement
-The President's meeting with Indira Gandhi
-US efforts
-Suspension of foreign aid
-Kissinger's meeting with David Packard and Thomas H. Moorer
The President's schedule
-Moorer
-Connally
Connally
-Pay Board meeting
Kissinger's schedule
-Connally
The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 3:52 pm and 3:58
pm.
[Conversation No. 622-1A]
The President's schedule
[End of telephone conversation]
India-Pakistan
-US policy
-Packard and Moorer
-Department of State
-Possible US action
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 622-1 (cont.)
-Message to India
-Message to Soviet Union
-PRC’s possible actions
-Possible UN Security Council resolution
-Kissinger
-India
-The President’s view
-State Department
-Messages
Kissinger left at 3:58 pm.