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Conversation: 637-006

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Start Date: 10-Dec-1971 10:17 AM

End Date: 10-Dec-1971 10:37 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Kissinger, Henry A.

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:14:28

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:27:58

637a.mp3

637b.mp3

NARA Description:

On December 10, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House from 10:17 am to 10:37 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 637-006 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 637-6

Date: December 12, 1971
Time: 10:27 am - 10:37 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

     India-Pakistan situation
           -Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
                -Message
                      -Indira Gandhi
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                           Tape Subject Log
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                  -Ceasefire
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Kissinger's call to Yuli M. Vorontsov
     -United Nations [UN] Security Council
-Soviet message
     -Kissinger's talk with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
           -The President’s actions described
     -State Department
           -William P. Rogers
           -Reaction to the President’s action
                  -Attitude
-World Wars I and II comparison to current situation
     -Adolf Hitler
           -Jews
     -Allies
-EC-121 shootdown
-Korea comparison to current situation
     -Yalu River
           -Gen. Douglas MacArthur
-Haig
-Vorontsov
     -John F. Kennedy treaty
           -Vorontsov’s reaction
-UN
     -India
           -White House statement
                  -Importance
                  -Kissinger's preparation
                        -Timing
                  -Washington Special Actions Group [WSAG]
                  -The President
                  -Release
                        -Timing
                  -Hotline
                        -Contents of hotline
                             -USSR message
                                   -Gandhi
                                         -Vasily V. Kuznetsov
                                         -West Pakistan
                                   -Ceasefire
                                   -Repatriation of prisoners
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                                       Tape Subject Log
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                                            -Andrei A. Gromyko
           -PRC
           -Maurice H. Stans
                -Trade
           -The President's foreign policy
                -Politics
                -Bureaucracy
                -Congress
                -Public opinion
                -Camp David
                      -Reflections
                -The President's talk with Kissinger
                -Different men handling India-Pakistan situation
                      -Nelson A. Rockefeller
                      -John B. Connally
                            -Kissinger's talk with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
                            -Style as Secretary of the Treasury
                            -Pakistan and India
                                  -Aid cut off
           -Negotiations
                -PRC and USSR
                      -Vietnam
                -Rogers
                      -Kennedy memorandum
           -Message
                -PRC
                      -Letter to Leonid I. Brezhnev
                            -Contents
                            -Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
                            -Hotline
                            -UN Security Council
                                  -George H.W. Bush
           -Kissinger's schedule
                -Final report
                      -Timing
                            -The President's schedule

Kissinger left at 10:37 am.
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                                       Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. 10/06)