Conversation: 666-002
Prev: 666-001 Next: 666-003Start Date: 7-Feb-1972 9:32 AM
End Date: 7-Feb-1972 11:54 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Sanchez, Manolo; Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); [Unknown person(s)]; Ehrlichman, John D.; Woods, Rose Mary; Ziegler, Ronald L.; Bull, Stephen B.; White House operator; Barnes, Donald F.; Kissinger, Henry A.; Lanusse, Alejandro A. (Gen.);Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:15:27
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:35:57
NARA Description:
On February 7, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Manolo Sanchez, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, unknown person(s), John D. Ehrlichman, Rose Mary Woods, Ronald L. Ziegler, Stephen B. Bull, White House operator, Donald F. Barnes, Henry A. Kissinger, and Gen. Alejandro A. Lanusse met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 9:32 am and 11:54 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 666-002 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 666-2
Date: February 7, 1972
Time: Unknown before 9:32 am and 11:54 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Manolo Sanchez.
[Unintelligible]
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:32 am.
H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 9:32 am.
Instruction
Vietnam negotiations
-Xuan Thuy
An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 9:32 am.
Executive Office Building [EOB]
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:35 am.
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Conv. No. 666-2 (cont.)
Vietnam negotiations
-Withdrawal
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Compared to October 1971
-Possible advantages
-Edmund S. Muskie’s plan
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
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[Duration: 57m 32s ]
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[Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 9:32 am and 10:35 am.]
[Conversation No. 666-2A]
Request for John D. Ehrlichman to come to the Oval Office
[End of telephone conversation]
[No conversation]
Ehrlichman entered at 10:35 am.
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Conv. No. 666-2 (cont.)
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 29s ]
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The President’s schedule
-Peter M. Flanigan’s memorandum
-Compared to Peter G. Peterson’s
-Forthcoming telephone call to Alejandro A. Lanusse
-Suggested conversation
[No conversation]
-Memorandum
-Forthcoming meeting with US attorneys
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Flanigan
Economic matters
-International Monetary Fund [IMF]
-Export-Import [Ex-Im] Bank
-John B. Connally
-Flanigan’s role
-Kissinger
-Political
-Connally
-Diplomacy
-Internal politics
-Lanusse
-IMF
-Flanigan
-Memorandum
-Peterson
-Complexity of job
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Conv. No. 666-2 (cont.)
-Example
-Pantyhose
-State Department
-Treasury Department
-Panty hose industry
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 11m 29s ]
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Campaign finances
-Robert L. Vesco
-Donald A. Nixon
-Securities And Exchange Commission [SEC]
-F. Donald Nixon
-J. Willard Marriott, Jr.
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 14
[Privacy]
[Duration: 11s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 14
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Conv. No. 666-2 (cont.)
-Location
-John N. Mitchell
-William J. Casey
-F. Donald Nixon
-Marriott
-Finances
-Political contribution
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 15
[Privacy]
[Duration: 10s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 15
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-Location
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 7m 4s ]
Rose Mary Woods entered at 10:59 am.
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
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Conv. No. 666-2 (cont.)
Personnel
-“Official Family”
-Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Rogers
-State Department
-Foreign policy briefing
-Wives and State Department staff
-Kissinger
-Joseph J. Sisco
Cabinet and congressional leadership meeting
-Rogers
-Timing
-Press
-Kissinger
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 2m 46s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
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Roger Hull
-Death
-Presidential wreath
-Note to [Rosalie (Paschal) Hull]
-President’s instructions
Ehrlichman’s trip to California
-Leonard K. Firestone
-Foundation
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 3m 21s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
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Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 11:09 am.
The President’s schedule
PRC trip
-Press list
-Announcement
-Timing
-Hawaii
-Guam
-Departure time
-President’s instructions
-Press list
-Briefing
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Questions
-John A. Scali
-Subjects
Ziegler left at 11:12 am.
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 7m 53s ]
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Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:12 am.
Schedule
-Rogers
-Call to Lanusse
-Donald F. Barnes
Bull left at an unknown time before 11:24 am.
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 10
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 3m 30s ]
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[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 11:12 am and
11:24 am.]
[Conversation No. 666-2B]
[See Conversation No. 20-46]
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Conv. No. 666-2 (cont.)
Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Woods left at 11:24 am.
Kissinger and Barnes entered at 11:24 am.
The President on the line
[Barnes talked with an unknown colonel at an unknown time after 11:24 am; the President and
Kissinger can be heard in the background.]
[Conversation No. 666-2C]
Colonel on the line
Memorandum
-Connally
Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Letter to the President
-Economy
-Arthur F. Burns
[The President talked with Lanusse between 11:24 am and 11:41 am; Kissinger can be heard in
the background.]
[Conversation No. 666-2D]
[See Conversation No. 20-46]
[End of telephone conversation]
Ziegler
-Briefing
President’s appreciation
-Barnes’s translation
Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:41 am.
President’s schedule
-Ziegler
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Conv. No. 666-2 (cont.)
-Forthcoming meeting
-Film production
-Reception of diplomatic credentials
-Meeting with attorneys [drug prosecution program]
-Length
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Attorney General [John N. Mitchell]
-Meeting
-Attendance
Bull left at an unknown time before 11:43 am.
Mujibar Rahman
-Compared to Sukarno
-Aid to Pakistan
Ziegler entered at 11:43 am.
Haldeman’s interview on Today show, February 7, 1972
-Ziegler’s previous conversation with Haldeman
-Ziegler briefing
-Press
-Personal point of view
-Haldeman’s intent
-Critics of war
-Disunity
-Questions
-Ziegler’s talk with the President
-Possible agreement with Haldeman’s statement
-Handling
-President’s position
-Motives of critics
-Ziegler’s strategy
-Criticism
-Effect
-Peace proposal
-Possible administration response
-Muskie
Xuan Thuy
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Conv. No. 666-2 (cont.)
-Negotiations
-Acknowledgement
-Statements
-Agreement with administration
-Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu
-Election
-Military compared to political issues
-May 31, 1971 proposal
-Proposed details
-Thieu
-Election
-President’s instructions
-Rogers
-Political condition
-North Vietnamese
-Propaganda
-Negotiations
-Transcript
Ziegler left at an unknown time before 11:54 am.
Vietnam negotiations
-Military compared to political issues
-August 971
-May 31, 1971
Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:43 am.
Kleindienst
-Arrival
The President, Kissinger, and Bull left at 11:54 am.
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