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Start Date: 22-Nov-1971 3:51 PM

End Date: 22-Nov-1971 3:58 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

622a.mp3

622b.mp3

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1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END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1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
                                         2

                         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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2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


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

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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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3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END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3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
                                             3

                            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
                                               4

                             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.