Conversation: 722-001
Prev: 721-013 Next: 722-002Start Date: Tuesday, May 9, 1972 1:54 PM
End Date: Tuesday, May 9, 1972 2:00 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.; [Unknown person(s)]; Woods, Rose MaryRecording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:00:20
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:09:35
NARA Description:
On May 9, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, unknown person(s), and Rose Mary Woods met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:54 am to 10:00 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 722-001 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 722-1
Date: May 9, 1972
Time: 9:54 am - 10:00 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Henry A. Kissinger; the recording began at an unknown time while the
meeting was in progress.
Kissinger's schedule
-Meeting with President
-Memorandum from President
-Press briefing
-Time
Vietnam
-Air strikes
-Discussion
-Intensity
-Targets
-Railroad bridges
-Petroleum, oil and lubricant [POL] dumps
-Haiphong
-Power plants
-Soviets
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-The President’s May 8, 1972 speech
-Agreements with US
-Protests to US
Egon Bahr
-Call to Kissinger
Kissinger talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 9:54 and 10:00 am.
[Conversation No. 722-1A]
Possible call From Bahr
[End of telephone conversation]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
Conv. No. 722-1 (cont.)
Vietnam
-President's memorandum to Kissinger
-Blockade
-President's decision
-Julius Caesar
-Success
-Requirements
-Press reports
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Public response
-George Meany
-President’s telephone call
Rose Mary Woods entered at an unknown time after 9:54 am.
-Memorandum for Kissinger
-Blockade
-President's speech
-Press reaction
-Student interviews
-George Washington University
-Tone
Woods left at an unknown time before 10:00 am.
Vietnam
-Blockade
-William P. Rogers's statement
-Purpose
-Seaborne supplies
-Mining
-Soviet ships
-Avoidance
-North Vietnamese territorial waters
-Soviets
-President's previous letter
-Kissinger's previous meeting with Dobrynin
-Cancellation of Summit
-Statement
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
Conv. No. 722-1 (cont.)
Kissinger's schedule
-Washington Special Actions Group [WSAG]
-Meetings with President
-Time
Kissinger left at 10:00 am.