Conversation: 659-020
Prev: 659-019 Next: 659-021Start Date: 28-Jan-1972 4:48 PM
End Date: 28-Jan-1972 5:03 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.; Atkins, Oliver F. ("Ollie");Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 04:39:16
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 04:54:20
NARA Description:
On January 28, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, and Oliver F. ("Ollie") Atkins met in the Oval Office of the White House from 4:48 pm to 5:03 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 659-020 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 659-20
Date: January 28, 1972
Time: 4:48 pm - 5:03 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Henry A. Kissinger and Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins.
Kissinger’s meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
Photograph for Life magazine
-Poses
-Expressions
Kissinger’s meeting with Dobrynin
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
Photographs for Life
-Poses
Atkins left at an unknown time before 5:03 pm.
Kissinger’s meeting with Dobrynin
-Review
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
-Middle East situation
-Forthcoming meeting
-Soviet attitude
-Soviet Union trip
-Expectations
-Communique
-Negotiation
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] agreement
-Trade
-Middle East
-Vietnam negotiations
-Withdrawal for Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Ceasefire
-Compared to “standstill”
-Kissinger’s reaction
-Geneva Conference
Vietnam negotiations
-North Vietnamese reaction to US terms
-Reaction in US to terms
-Joseph C. Kraft
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
-Press
-Communist takeover of South Vietnam
-Public support
-Kissinger’s schedule
-POW wives’ visit
-Benefits from the President’s peace proposal speech, January 25, 1972
Time magazine cover
-Kissinger’s picture
-Caption
-William P. Rogers’s reaction
-Kissinger’s concern
-Reasons
-Credit
-Reelection
Vietnam negotiations
-Reaction in US to terms
-Kraft’s reaction
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 659-20 (cont.)
-Washington Post
-Editorial support
-John A. Scali
-Public support
-Kraft
-Robert Kleiman editorial
-New York Times
-Suggestions of terms
-Moral collapse of leadership
-The President’s meeting with construction industry leaders
-Flag pins
-Support for administration on national defense
-Intellectuals
-Public support
-Secrecy
-Public reaction
-Calls to Kissinger
-Inquiries about airplanes
-Time research
-Routes used
-Lt. Gen.Vernon A. Walters’s role
-France
-Reaction
-Role
-US gratitude to Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Gen. Charles A.J.M. Degaulle
-Resignation
-April 1969
-Dwight D. Eisenhower’s funeral
-August 1969
-Azores meeting, December 1971
-Maurice Schumann’s aid offer
-Reaction in US to terms
-Opposition view
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Democrats
-Joseph W. Alsop’s comment
-Los Angeles Times
-Robert S. Elegant’s column
-Overall reaction of papers
-Reston
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 659-20 (cont.)
-Muskie wavering
-The President’s instruction to staff
-Negotiation prospects
-Need for unity
-Consequence of disunity
-POW wives’ visit
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Explanation of negotiation terms
-POWs for troop withdrawal
-North Vietnam’s reaction
-Ceasefire
-North Vietnamese intransigence
-May, August 1971 proposals
-Overthrow of South Vietnam government
-Imposition of communist government
-Edward L. Morgan
-Reaction to the President’s peace proposal speech
-Script
-David Brinkley’s view
-POW wives
-The President’s regards
Kissinger left at 5:03 pm.