Conversation: 630-020
Prev: 630-019 Next: 630-021Start Date: 6-Dec-1971 6:14 PM
End Date: 6-Dec-1971 6:38 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.; Kissinger, Henry A.; Bull, Stephen B.;Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 04:27:51
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 04:52:48
NARA Description:
On December 6, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Ronald L. Ziegler, Henry A. Kissinger, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 6:14 pm to 6:38 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 630-020 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 630-20
Date: December 6, 1971
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Conv. No. 630-19 (cont.)
Time: 6:14 pm - 6:38 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.
Louis Harris
-Action
Schedule
-Debate
-Timing
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Location
India-Pakistan
-Florida [?]
Kissinger entered at 6:17 pm
Pierre E. Trudeau
-John B. Connally [?]
[Unintelligible]
-Ivan Head briefing
-Trudeau’s press conference
-Timing
-Meeting with the President
-Subjects
-Thorough discussions
-Economy
-Trade
-Investment
-Long range relationship
-Trudeau's question
-India-Pakistan situation
-Trips to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] and the People's Republic
of China [PRC]
-Consultation
-Economy
-Surcharge
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Conv. No. 630-20 (cont.)
-Connally and Edgar J. Benson
-Discussed general principles
-US-Canada economic interest
-Trudeau’s talk with the President
-India-Pakistan
-Time magazine
-Story this week
-Meeting with Indira Gandhi
-Backgrounder
-Gandhi’s previous visit with the President
-Indian ambassador
-Negotiations
Ziegler left at 6:22 pm.
The President's meetings
-Biography
-A sense of history
India-Pakistan issue
-Maurice H. Stans’ report of USSR trip
-Cabinet
-Kissinger and the President
-USSR relations
-Respectability
-Stans
-National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Connally
-Foreign policy
-Seriousness
-Press
-War
-Administration responsibility
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Vietnam War
-Kissinger briefing
-Backgrounders
-New York Times
-Number of weeklies
-Unknown person
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-Executive Office Building [EOB] meeting
-Spiro T. Agnew
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 6:22 pm.
The President's schedule
-Last two events
-Bill signing
-William E. Timmons meeting
-Lewis F. Powell, Jr. vote
-Result
-Peter M. Flanigan
-President’s location
Bull left at an unknown time before 6:38 pm.
India/Pakistan situation
-The President's previous meeting with Gandhi
-Advisor’s advice
-The President’s frustration
-Proposal on dealing with Gandhi in the future
-Ambassador
-Gandhi
-Democrats
-East Pakistan
-Proposal to the American public
-Continued US pressure on India
-Re-established relations with PRC
-Timing
Lt. Gen. T.N.J. Suharto letter
-Ambassador
-Type of letter
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[National Security]
[Duration: 2m 7s ]
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INDIA-PAKISTAN SITUATION
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
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-West Pakistan
-Possible outcome of India-Pakistan situation
-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-Possible overthrow
Vietnam
-Meeting
-Timing
-Bombing
-“Quid pro quo”
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Peace initiatives
-Possible public announcement
-Timing
-Deadlines
India-Pakistan situation
-Indian invasion
-East Pakistan
-USSR
-Gandhi
-Indian Cabinet meeting
-Emotion
-Cautiousness with US
-Press conference
-Possible US position
-Gandhi
-Frank F. Church
-Joseph W. Alsop
-Kissinger's visit
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Kennedy’s idea
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-Kennedy’s future meeting with Kissinger
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[National Security]
[Duration: 1m 54s ]
INDIA PAKISTAN
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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-USSR
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Kissinger's talks
-Dialogue with USSR
-United Nations [UN] Security Council
-Middle East negotiations
-Kissinger's possible trip to Moscow
-Stans’ report
-President’s instructions
-Ambassadorships
-Kenneth B. Keating
-The President's message
-Relations with India
Kissinger left at 6:38 pm.