Conversation: 699-001
Prev: 698-010 Next: 699-002Start Date: 31-Mar-1972 10:13 AM
End Date: 31-Mar-1972 11:14 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose Mary; Sanchez, Manolo; Kissinger, Henry A.;Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:03:28
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:06:37
NARA Description:
On March 31, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, Manolo Sanchez, and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House from 10:13 am to 11:14 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 699-001 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 699-1
Date: March 31, 1972
Time: 10:13 am - 11:14 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Rose Mary Woods.
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[Duration: 5m 8s ]
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 10:13 am.
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Woods and Sanchez left and Henry A. Kissinger entered at 10:17 am.
Vietnam
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Timing
-Firebases
-Directives
-Timing
-US air strikes
-Surface-to Air-Missile [SAM] sites
-Timing
-Air Force
-Orders
-SAM sites
Harold J. Gibbons
-Today show appearance
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Foreign Policy
-William P. Rogers’s forthcoming trip to Europe
-Announcement of trip to Europe
-Timing
-Kissinger's trip to Japan
-Messages to heads of state
-Announcement
-Timing
-Europeans
-Messages to heads of state
-Willy Brandt
-Georges J. R. Pompidou
-Timing
-The President’s Message to Luis Echeverria Alvarez
-Camp David
-The People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Messages from the President
-Josip Broz Tito
-Nicolae Ceausescu
-Kissinger’s conversation with John C. Stennis
-War Powers Act
-Vote
-The President’s preparation for US-Soviet summit
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Troop cuts
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Number
-Melvin R. Laird
-Support troops
-Combat troops
-Possible military base closures
-1972 election
-War Powers Act
-Clark Macgregor
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Intellectual community
-Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT] Study [The Limits of Growth]
-Howard K. Smith
-Politics
-Conservatism
-Education
-Perfect society
-Communism
-Socialism
-Marxists
-Jeremy Bentham
-Views regarding the US
-Academic life
-Teenager’s effect on professors
-Insecurity
-National reputation
-Arthur M. Schlessinger, Jr.
-Kissinger
-Average Harvard University professor
-Tenure
-Compared to the law profession
-Kissinger at Harvard
-Books
-Nuclear Weapons and Foreign policy
-19th century diplomacy [A World Restored:Castlereagh,
Metternich and the Restoration of Peace 1812-1822]
-Socialist theory
-Low social standing
-Manipulativeness
-Kennedy family
-The President’s possible interaction with intellectuals
-Reelection of the President
-Vietnam War
-1972 campaign
-Reelection
-Percentage of votes
-Events
-Press
-Republican National Convention
-Soviet trip
-Democrats
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-Wisconsin primary
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[Duration: 7m 47s ]
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Gabriel Heatter
-News characteristics
-World War II
News commentators
-White House attitude toward opponents
-1970 decision
-"Americanism"
-Economy
-William L. Safire
-Economy
-Unemployment
-Vice-President Spiro T. Agnew
-Democrats
-Basic American values
-Attack on opponents
-Timing
-Election
-Democratic National Convention
-Republican National Convention
-The President's trips
-Possible trip around US
-Soviet Union
Soviet summit
-Kissinger's meeting with Anatoliy E. Dobrynin
-Dobrynin’s previous meeting with Rogers
-SALT
-State Department announcement
-Submarine-launched Ballistic Missiles [SLBM]
-SALT
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-SLBMs
-State Department
-Defense Department
-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-Democrats
-Expectations for summit
-Trade
-State Department
-Negotiations
-Agriculture Department
-Earl L. Butz's trip
-Timing
Negotiations
-State Department
-Ambassadors
-Agencies
-Example
-Drugs
-State Department
-Ambassadors
-John B. Connally
-John N. Mitchell
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Vietnam
-Ambassadors
-State Department
-Meeting
-Connally
The President left at an unknown time after 10:17 am.
[No Conversation]
Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 10:17 am.
[General conversation]
The President entered and Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:10 am.
Foreign Policy
-Kissinger's Meeting With Connally
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-Future meetings
-Frequency
-Connally's understanding of foreign policy issues
-Dinner
-Economy
-Bloc of countries
-US
-Argentina
-Japan
-Canada
-Indonesia
-Europeans
-Varied interests of possible member nations
-Canada
-The President compared to Connally
-Arthur Krock
-Analysis
-Joseph McCarthy
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Leaders
-Politics and foreign affairs
-Anti-foreign sentiment
-Azores trip
-Pompidou
-US cooperation with Europe
-Kissinger
-Germans
-Israel
-Rogers
-Joseph J. Sisco
-George H. W. Bush
-Talk with the President
-Bureaucratic system
-United Nations [UN]
-State Department
-Israelis
-United Arab Republic [UAR]
-Jordan
-The President and Rogers
-Hussein ibn Talal [Hussein, King of Jordan]
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[National Security]
[Duration: 27s]
MIDDLE EAST
END W/D ITEM NO 7
-Prince Klemens Furst von Metternich
-Quote on foreign policy
-Pakistan
-The President's talk with Foreign Minister [Aziz Ahmed]
-PRC
-Soviets
-India
-Bangladesh
-Recognition
-Connally
-Multi-lateral agreements
-Analysis
-Common Market
-Tactics
-Relations with foreigners
Economy
-Food prices
-Peter G. Peterson
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-George P. Shultz
-Connally
The PRC trip
-Rogers
-Marshall Green
-Appearance on Face the Nation
-Rogers
-Public statements
-Stewart J. O. Alsop's column
-Foreign Affairs Committee
-Public appearances
-Council of Foreign Relations [CFR]
-Advertising Council
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-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Television
-Knowledge
-Tone
-Liberals compared to conservatives
-Human nature
-Interests compared to ideals
-The President’s meeting with foreign leaders
-Tito
-Ceausescu
-Dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Alsop
-Meeting with Mao Tse-Tung
-Joseph Alsop
-Dinner
-Articles
The President's schedule
-CFR
-Rogers
-Bohemian Grove
-1967
-Kansas City
-Briefing of the press
-CFR
-Rogers
-J. William Fulbright
-Michael J. Mansfield
-PRC trip
-Meetings with Chou En-Lai
-Rogers's conversation with Foreign Minister
-US presence in Asia
-Minutes
-Meeting With Mao Tse-Tung
-Chou En-Lai
-The President's meeting with Tito
-Tone
-Cigars
-Winston S. Churchill
-Scotch
Liberals
-Beliefs
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Rogers
-Washington Post
-Kissinger
-Administration's accomplishments
-PRC
-Soviet Union
-1972 election
-Washington Post
-Clark M. Clifford
-Preparation
India-Pakistan relations
-Bangladesh
-Kissinger's meeting with Indian Ambassador
-Newsweek Story
-Jack N. Anderson papers
-Aid
-Continuation as an issue
-Democrats
-PRC
-Soviet Union
-Liberals
-The PRC trip
-India-Pakistan
-Jordan
-Minister of Culture’s talk with Kissinger
Kissinger’s schedule
Vietnam
-Possible US bombing
-Timing
-Plan
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Approval
-SAM sites
-Demilitarized Zone [DMZ]
-Laotian border
-B-52s
-North Vietnam
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Kissinger left at 11:14 am.