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Conversation: 630-002

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Start Date: 6-Dec-1971 12:02 PM

End Date: 6-Dec-1971 12:06 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Kissinger, Henry A.Bull, Stephen B.

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:04:10

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:09:26

630a.mp3

630b.mp3

630c.mp3

NARA Description:

On December 6, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:02 pm to 12:06 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 630-002 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 630-2

Date: December 6, 1971
Time: 12:02 pm - 12:06 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

     India-Pakistan situation
           -Iranian military aid
                 -West Pakistan
                 -Mohammed Reza Pahlavi [Shah of Iran]
                       -Back channel
                             -Shah’s message to the President
                       -Press
                       -Aid
                             -Substantial increase following year
                             -Justification
           -Aid cut-off to India
                 -Announcement
                       -Amount
           -Pakistan aid
           -State Department
                 -Indian Ambassador-William P. Rogers' meeting
                 -Delays
           -Aid cut-off announcement
                 -National Security Council [NSC] meeting
                       -Announcement
                             -Timing
                 -Rogers
           -Pakistan aid
                 -Amount
                 -Humanitarian

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:02 pm.

     Schedule
          -John B. Connally meeting
               -Photographs
                    -National Broadcasting Company [NBC] film crew
               -Conversation
                                                3

                              NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                       Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. 10/06)
                                                                       Conv. No. 630-2 (cont.)


Bull left at an unknown time before 12:06 am.

     India-Pakistan situation
           -Kissinger's meeting with Yuli M. Vorontsov
                -Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] participation
                      -Note from the President
                            -Leonid I. Brezhnev
                -Kissinger’s concern
                      -Summer, 1970
                            -Proposed US position
                -India
                      -Connally

Kissinger left at 12:06 pm.