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Start Date: 10-Dec-1971 11:04 AM

End Date: 10-Dec-1971 11:14 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Sanchez, ManoloKissinger, Henry A.

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:47:58

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:59:11

637a.mp3

637b.mp3

NARA Description:

On December 10, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Manolo Sanchez, and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:04 am to 11:14 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 637-011 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 637-11
                                             18

                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. 10/06)
                                                                        Conv. No. 637-9 (cont.)



Date: December 12, 1971
Time: 11:04 am - 11:14 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez and Henry A. Kissinger.

     Envelope

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:14 am.

     India-Pakistan situation
           -Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] message
                -Contacts with Indian Government
                      -Indira Gandhi

The President talked with Alvin Snyder between 11:05 am and 11:07 am.

[Conversation No. 637-11A]

[See Conversation No. 16-100]

[End of telephone conversation]

     India-Pakistan situation
           -USSR message
                -Gandhi
                      -Military Action
                -Pakistan Government

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 11:07 am.

     Refreshments

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 11:14 am.

     India-Pakistan situation
           -Indian government
                 -Military action
           -Statement
           -Hotline message to Leonid I. Brezhnev
                                                19

                              NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                       Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. 10/06)
                                                                   Conv. No. 637-11 (cont.)


                -Contents
                       -Vladimir V. Matskevich
                       -Yuli M. Vorontsov
                       -United Nations [UN Security Council
                       -Wording
                             -Emphasis on urgency
                                  -Possible settlement
                                  -PRC
                                  -UN Security Council
                -Ronald L. Ziegler
                       -Talk with Kissinger
                -Wording
           -Public statement
                -Indians
                -Bureaucracy
                       -PRC
                -USSR
                -Indians
                       -World opinion
                -Kissinger’s possible comments
                -Hotline
                       -U. Alexis Johnson
                             -Vorontsov
                -William P. Rogers

     The President's and Kissinger's schedule

Kissinger left at 11:14 am.