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Start Date: 29-Feb-1972 11:45 AM

End Date: 29-Feb-1972 11:59 AM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:01:33

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:15:38

675a.mp3

675b.mp3

NARA Description:

On February 29, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:45 am to 11:59 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 675-010 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 675-10

Date: February 29, 1972
Timing: 11:45 am - 11:59 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.
[Recording begins while the conversation is in progress]

     President’s trip to People’s Republic of China [PRC]
          -President’s previous briefing
                -Taiwan, Republic of China
                       -Troops
                            -Vietnam
                -PRC understanding
          -Communiqué
          -President’s briefings
                -Length
                       -Administration’s stance
          -William P. Rogers’s briefings
                -Taiwan
                       -Comparisons with PRC
                            -Possible State Department stance
                            -Peking
          -Rogers
                -The President’s accomplishments
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               NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                           Tape Subject Log
                             (rev. 10/06)
                                                             Conv. No. 675-9 (cont.)


-Rogers’s schedule
      -The President’s previous comments
      -Mao Tse-tung
      -PRC Foreign Minister
            -Recognition of the President’s efforts
-President’s previous briefing
      -Cabinet
      -Rogers’s role
-PRC people
      -Comparisons and differences
            -Youth
-President’s previous briefing
      -Administration’s stance
      -Mao Tse-tung
-President’s previous briefing
      -Rogers’s role
-Communist nations
      -East and West Berlin, Austria, Hungary
-Rogers’s role
      -Report about foreign reaction
      -Allen J. Ellender
      -New York Times story concerning Soviet reaction
      -Rogers’s view
            -Concern
            -Rogers’s schedule
            -Mao Tse-tung
-President’s forthcoming briefing
      -Importance
      -Kissinger’s role
            -President’s instructions
-President’s previous briefing
      -Rogers’s role
            -Concern for Rogers
      -Taiwan
            -Barry M. Goldwater
                  -Praise for the President
      -Rogers’s role
            -Foreign reaction
                  -Japan and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
                  -Ellender
                  -New York Times
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                              NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                       Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. 10/06)
                                                                           Conv. No. 675-9 (cont.)


                                   -Rogers’s possible attitude
                 -Hugh Scott, Michael J. Mansfield
                      -President’s presentation
                 -Rogers’s comments
                      -USSR strengths
                      -Chinese
                      -Purpose
                      -Taiwan
                             -PRC comparisons
                                   -Rogers’s possible diplomatic actions
                      -Singapore
                      -Hong Kong
                      -Kissinger
                             -Communiqué
                                   -Deputy Minister [Chiao Kuan-Hua]
                      -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
                             -Acknowledgement from Rogers
           -Importance
           -President’s forthcoming briefings
                 -Cabinet members
                 -Kissinger’s role
                      -Mao Tse-tung, Chou En-lai
           -President’s previous briefing
                 -Rogers’s comments
                      -Technology and trade
                      -USSR and Japanese
                      -Possible message to PRC
                      -US-USSR relations
                             -State Department stance
                 -Rogers
                      -Congressional Committee
                      -State Department
                             -Press
                      -Taiwan compared to PRC
                             -Rogers

Kissinger left at 11:59 am.
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                           NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                       Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. 10/06)