Conversation: 679-004
Prev: 679-003 Next: 679-005Start Date: 7-Mar-1972 10:07 AM
End Date: 7-Mar-1972 10:48 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.; Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob");Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:16:04
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:55:51
NARA Description:
On March 7, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Oval Office of the White House from 10:07 am to 10:48 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 679-004 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 679-4
Date: March 7, 1972
Time: 10:07 am - 10:48 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.
The People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Taiwan, Republic of China
-James L. Buckley
-Talk with Kissinger
-William F. Buckley, Jr.
-The President’s talk with Chou En-Lai
-US presence in Asia
-Communique
5
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
-William Buckley
-James Buckley’s view
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration: 24s ]
TAIWAN
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
*****************************************************************
-Message from PRC
-Kissinger’s view
-PRC acceptance of delegation
-Establishment of communications channel
-State Department
Greece
US military aid
PRC
-Letter to Mao Tse-tung
-Letter to Chou En-lai
-Statements by non-White House personnel
-William P. Rogers
-Press
-House of Representatives and Senate
-Number of responses to statements
-Vietnam
-Bombing
-The President’s meeting with Chou En-lai
-Postponement of meeting between the US and North Vietnam
-Chinese reaction
-North Vietnamese
-Significance of timing
-Offensive
6
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
-The President’s view
-Public opinion
-Kissinger’s view
-Le Duc Tho
-Peking And Moscow
-Chinese
-Rogers
-Hugh Scott’s statement
US recognition of Bangladesh
-Statement by the State Department
-Announcement
-Rogers
-The President’s view
-Timing
-Kissinger’s view
-Possible Congressional action
-Mujibur Rahman
-Communiqué with the Soviet Union
-PRC
-India
-Unknown country
PRC
-PRC relations with the US
Vietnam
-Postponement of meeting
-Kissinger’s forthcoming trip to Paris
-Timing
-Rogers’s forthcoming trip to South America
-Kissinger’s talk with the Israeli ambassador
-Soviet negotiations
Newsweek article
-Rogers
-State Department
-Morale
-Joseph McCarthy era
-Kissinger’s talk with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Joseph W. and Stewart J. O. Alsop
-The PRC trip
7
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
-Report in Time magazine
-Chinese officials
-Questions on treatment of Rogers
-Interaction with PRC officials
-The President’s role
-Chou En-lai
-Kissinger’s role
-Shanghai
-Shanghai Communiqué
-Marshall Green
-Source of recent stories
-Replacement
-Stewart Alsop
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-News summary
-Newsweek
-Time magazine
-The President’s preparation for the PRC trip
-Shanghai Communiqué
-London Times
-Writers
-Kissinger’s view
-John F. Kennedy
-Television
-John A. Scali
PRC trip
-Presidential image
-Toasts
-Meetings
-Kissinger’s previous conversation with Haldeman
-Kissinger’s call to a television producer on the West Coast
-Chou En-lai
-Rogers
Kissinger’s schedule
The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming presentation of the National Advisory Committee on Child Nutrition
Report
-Time
-Florida
8
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
******************************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 19s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
******************************************************************************
International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
Haldeman entered at 10:28 am.
State Department
-Joseph and Stewart Alsop
-Rogers’s press conference
The President’s schedule
-Possible meeting with Rogers
-Timing
-Congress
-Status of Secretary of State
-The President’s meeting with Mao Tse-tung
-The President’s meeting with congressional leadership
-Rogers
-Previous meeting with Haldeman
-Alsop
-State Department
-Statements about the PRC trip
-Shanghai Communiqué
-Green
-Time magazine
-Chinese perception of Rogers
-Articles critical of Rogers
-Newsweek
Kissinger’s schedule
-Meeting with John B. Connally
9
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Press
-Local press
-News summary
-American public opinion
-News magazines
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Writing press
-Television
-State Department
-Rogers
-The President’s meeting with Mao Tse-tung
-Questions from Congress
-Administration strategy for negotiations
-Plenary sessions
-Chou En-lai
-Foreign ministers
-White House
-Forthcoming US-Soviet summit
-Statements
-Rogers
-Congressional leaders
-Cabinet
-Time and Newsweek
-Issue
-Significance
-Secretaries of State
-Previous Presidential trips
-Dean Rusk
-John F. Kennedy
-Europe
-Nassau
-John Foster Dulles
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Rogers
-The President’s previous trips
-Asia
-Vietnam
-Romania
-The President’s view
-Meeting with the President
-Haldeman’s participation
-W[illiam]Stuart Symington
10
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
-Eisenhower’s support of the President
-Haldeman’s view
-Kissinger’s view
-Previous Secretaries of State
-Bureaucracy
-Rogers
-Congressional leaders meeting
-John D. Ehrlichman’s reaction
-Meeting with State Department officials
-Emil (“Bus”) Mosbacher, Jr.
-Foreign minister-level discussions
-Forthcoming US-Soviet summit
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-The President’s meeting with Mao Tse-tung
-Chou En-lai
-The President’s forthcoming meeting with Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Rogers’s participation
-The President’s meetings with foreign ministers
-Receiving lines
-Plenary sessions
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
-Max Frankel
-Press
-Joseph Alsop
-State Department statements
-The President’s PRC trip
-Shanghai Communiqué
-Stewart Alsop
-Haldeman’s view
-Kissinger’s backgrounder
-The President’s forthcoming meeting with Rogers
-The President’s view
-Benjamin C. Bradlee
-Rogers’s meeting with editorial staff of the Washington Post
-The President’s view
-Kissinger’s view
-Rogers compared to Clark M. Clifford
State Department
-Cambodia
-Kissinger’s view
-Settlement
11
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
-Sihanoukville
-Vietnam
-Vietnam
-PRC
-The President’s meeting with Mao Tse-tung
-Rogers
Kissinger left at 10:47 am.
The President’s schedule
-Charles W. Colson
-Unknown man
-Meeting
-Time
-The President’s view
-State dinner for Nihat Erim, March 21, 1972
Haldeman left at 10:48 am.