Conversation: 688-004
Prev: 688-003 Next: 688-005Start Date: 18-Mar-1972 11:05 AM
End Date: 18-Mar-1972 11:52 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Butterfield, Alexander P.; Kissinger, Henry A.;Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:09:26
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:58:50
NARA Description:
On March 18, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander P. Butterfield, and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:05 am to 11:52 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 688-004 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 688-4
Date: March 18, 1972
Time: 11:05 am - 11:52 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield and Henry A. Kissinger.
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BUTTERFIELD LEFT AT 11:07 AM.
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France
-Left wing and right wing writers
-Re-election of the President
-The President’s previous trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 688-4 (cont.)
Cambodia
-Lon Nol
-Communists
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Gerard C. Smith
-Possible meeting with the President
-Kissinger's view
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Signed instructions
-Smith's schedule
-Leaks
-Timing
-Anti-ballistic Missiles [ABM]
-Two-for-two
-Grand Forks
-Agreement
-Soviets
-Negotiation
-PRC
-Missile fields
-Soviets
-Smith
-One-for-one
-Zero
-Two-for-two
-Melvin R. Laird
-Soviets
-Radar
-Number of locations
-Number of US locations
-Grand Forks
-Missile defense
-Intercontinental Ballistic Missile [ICBM] field
-Master Radar Tracking Station [MARTS]?
-Limited radar fields
-Grand Forks option
-MARTS
-Washington DC
-Malmstrom Air Force Base
-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-Washington DC
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 688-4 (cont.)
-Laird
-Smith
-Meeting with the President
-Paul H. Nitze
-The President’s view
-One-for-one
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Defense argument
-Smith
-Arms control
-Agreement
-William P. Rogers
-Submarines
-Kissinger’s view
-Smith
Forthcoming US-Soviet summit
-Memorandum from the President
-Press
-Peter G. Peterson
-Commercial side
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Possible talk with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Memoranda
-Kissinger
-Agreement
-SALT
-Dobrynin
-Submarines
-Smith
-Two-for-one
-One-for-one
-Dobrynin
-Bureaucracy
-Political opponents
-Commercial issues
-SALT
Bangladesh
-US recognition
-Announcement
-Timing
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 688-4 (cont.)
-Chinese
Forthcoming Soviet trip
-Kissinger's schedule
-William P. Rogers
-Subsidiary negotiations
-Martin J. Hillenbrand
-Dobrynin
-The President’s private talks with Soviet leaders
-Hillenbrand
-Plenary sessions
-Rogers
-Talks with Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Aleksei N. Kosygin
-Dobrynin
-Talk with Kissinger
-Flanigan
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Yuli M. Vorontsov
-Brezhnev
-Rogers
-Schedule
-South America
-Possible trip to Europe
-Edward R.G. Heath
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Willy Brandt
-European Security Conference
-Brezhnev
-Dobrynin
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-US position
-Kissinger's schedule
-Forthcoming trip to Europe
-Vietnam
-Talks
-European Security Conference
-Timing
-Talk with Kissinger
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Heath
-Pompidou
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 688-4 (cont.)
-Latin America
-Foreign Ministers and Heads of Government
-The PRC trip
-Hangchow
-Ultimatum
-Soviets
-Dobrynin
-Talks with Kissinger
-Rogers
-Talk with Haig
-Possible European trip
-Heads of State
Kissinger's schedule
-Japan
-Possible Vietnamese meeting in Paris
-Belgium
-NATO
Forthcoming Soviet trip
-Rogers
-The President's talk with Joseph M. Luns
-Kissinger's schedule
-Possible trip to Europe
-News stories
-John B. Connally
-Welcome ceremony
-Dobrynin
-American press
-PRC
-Type of society
-PRC comparison
-Diplomatic relations
-Public reception
-Communiqué
-Agreements
-Brezhnev
-Forthcoming visit to the US
-SALT
-Brezhnev
-SALT
-PRC
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 688-4 (cont.)
Kissinger's schedule
-Forthcoming trip to Acapulco
-Georgetown
-Philadelphia
-New York
Press
-The PRC trip
-Television coverage
-Biological warfare agreement
-John F. Kennedy
-Noble Peace Prize
-Berlin Agreement
-Brandt
-Nobel Prize
-Ostpolitik
Departments
-Rivalries
Kissinger's schedule
-Previous dinner with the President of John Hopkins University
-Steven Muller
-The President's papers
-Lyndon B. Johnson's papers
-Liberals
-Attitude toward the President
Rogers
-State Department
-Meeting with Dobrynin
-Dobrynin
-John Foster Dulles
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-The President's schedule
-Domestic issues
-State Department compared to the White House
-1972 election
-Tenure in office
-Soviet Summit
-Dobrynin
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 688-4 (cont.)
-Talks with Rogers
Middle East
-Israel
-Rogers
-1972 election
-Agreements
-Soviet trip
-Kissinger's schedule
-Jewish community
-Soviets
-Rogers
-Israel
-Withdrawal of Soviet forces
-1967 boundaries
-US national interests
-Timing
-1972 election
-US Jews
-Rogers
-Negotiations
-Soviet proposal
-Gromyko
-Egypt
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-Agreement
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 688-4 (cont.)
Vietnam
-Laird
-Offensive
-Timing
-Soviet summit
-Dobrynin
-Kissinger’s view
Middle East
-Soviets
-1972 election
-Democrats
-Israel
-Soviet troops
-Withdrawal
Vietnam
-Soviets
-North Vietnam
-Delegation to Paris
-Internal Situation in the US
-George C. Wallace's supporters
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Chinese
-Dobrynin
-1972 election
-Middle East
-Soviet summit
-Possible interim agreement
-Jewish community
-Press
Kissinger's schedule
-Acapulco
-Cliff divers
Kissinger left at 11:52 am.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 688-4 (cont.)