Conversation: 784-007
Prev:  784-006 Next: 784-008Start Date: 21-Sep-1972 10:15 AM
End Date: 21-Sep-1972 10:50 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.; Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On September 21, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House from 10:15 am to 10:50 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 784-007 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 784-7 Date: September 21, 1972 Time: 10:15 am - 10:50 am Location: Oval Office The President met with Henry A. Kissinger. US-People’s Republic of China [PRC] relations -Kissinger’s recent trip to New York -Bangladesh -Membership in United Nations [UN] issue 5 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Nov-03) -Meaning of treaty -Soviet Union position paper -India joke -UN General Assembly -Debate -Timing -1972 election -Visit to US -Medical delegation -October 1972 -Scientific delegation -November 1972 -Acrobatic team -December 1972 -Announcements -Timing -1972 election -Scientific delegation -The President’s schedule -National Career Conference in Los Angeles, September 28, 1972 -Medical exchange with the PRC -The President’s conversation with Chou En-lai Presidential correspondence -Willy Brandt Edward M. Kennedy -Possible visit to Stockholm -H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman -Recent release of three US prisoners of war [POWs] -Hanoi -Propaganda -Democrats Sir Alexander F. (“Alec”) Douglas-Home -Name spelling Kennedy -Possible trip -Attack in Congress Presidential correspondence 6 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Nov-03) -Letter from the President to Home -Meeting with the President -George P. Shultz -Monetary tactics -International monetary situation -Personal channels -Timing -1972 election -British -The President’s recent meeting with John D. Ehrlichman, Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger, Kenneth R. Cole, Jr. -The President’s schedule after 1972 election -Camp David -Letter from the President to Andrei A. Gromyko -Accommodations for Anatoliy F. Dobrynin -Letter from the President concerning Saints and Sinners roast -Roast -Jokes -Harry Hirshberg [sp?] -Unknown person -Herbert E. Kaplow -The President ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2 [Personal returnable] [Duration: 1m 26s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2 ***************************************************************** Presidential correspondence -Letter form the President to Brandt -Death of Israeli athletes at Munich Olympic Games -Letter from the President to Leonid I. Brezhnev -Politburo circulation -Hydrofoil 7 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Nov-03) -Nikolai V. Podgorny -[National Security Council] [NSC] -State Department -Raymond K. Price, Jr. -Winston S. Churchill, Josef V. Stalin, and Franklin D. Roosevelt -Correspondence in World War II -Quality preparation -Preparation -Drafting letters -Grace notes -State Department -Staffing -Letter to [William McMahon] of Australia -Alexander M. Haig, Jr. -Kissinger -Value -Haile Selassie -Mohammed Reza Pahlavi [Shah of Iran] -1972 election -Purpose -Europe -European charter Economic affairs -The President’s role and agreements -Azores agreement -US-Soviet Union trade deal -The President's recent conversation with Haldeman -Ehrlichman Personnel management -President’s Science Advisory Committee [PSAC] -Staffing reorganization -Office of Science and Technology -Dr. Edward E. David, Jr. -Space Committee -President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board [PFIAB] -Arms Control and Disarmament Agency [ACDA] -The President's conversation with Henry M. ("Scoop") Jackson -Budget -Bureaucracy 8 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Nov-03) -Attitude toward the President -Gerard C. Smith -William P. Rogers -State Department -Economic advisers -State Department -The President’s recent conversation with Haldeman -Peter M. Flanigan -Loyalty -Post-1972 election -Peter Flanigan -U. Alexis Johnson -Ambassadorship -Robert S. Ingersoll -White House -State Department -Frank C. Carlucci -Loyalty to Administration -Burundi -Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] -Defense Department -George S. McGovern's forthcoming defense paper -Morton H. Halperin -Leslie H. Gelb -Defense Department -State Department -Foreign Service -Presidential appointments Vietnam -Defense Department -Melvin R. Laird -B-52s -Withdrawal -Effect on negotiations Campaign -1972 election 1972 -McGovern -Laird 9 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Nov-03) -Defense plans -Spending of funds -1977 -Gross National Product [GNP] -Possible Soviet Union attack on Europe -Abram Chayes’s comments in London Economist -Defense capabilities -Airlift -Timing -The President’s News Summary annotation -Airfields -Rhine River -World War II -Foreign policy advisor -Chayes Israel -Kissinger’s conversation with Yitzhak Rabin -Jewish issues -Israel -Munich Olympic killings -Terrorism -Anti-terrorist committee -Rogers -Contingency plans -Haig -Rose Mary Woods -Jeane L. Dixon -Rabin -Possible kidnapping in exchange for release of blacks in prison -Hijacking, kidnapping -Soviet Jewish emigration -Possible Dr. Gilbert Klaperman phone call by the President -Possible telephone call by Kissinger -Public statement -Soviets -Kissinger’s conversation with Rabin -Emigration decree -US-Soviet Union trade deal -Peter G. Peterson -Charles H. Percy, Abraham A. Ribicoff, Jacob K. Javits 10 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Nov-03) -Possible rider -Timing of legislation -January 1973 -Kissinger’s conversation with Rabin -Credit -Possible industrial assistance -Tanks -Airplanes -France -Bureaucratic opposition -Arms package -Timing -October 1972 -Political effect -Arabs -Haig -Kissinger’s possible conversation with Rabin -Jewish US senators -1972 election -The President’s friendship -US Jews -Compared to Catholics in Biafra Kissinger’s schedule -Forthcoming meeting with North Vietnamese Vietnam War -Recent release of POWs -Exploitation -Hanoi -Stockholm -Copenhagen -Press conferences -Opposition leaders -John Hart of Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] -Washington Star -Orr Kelly Kissinger left at 10:50 am. 11 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Nov-03)