Conversation: 812-012
Prev: 812-011 Next: 812-013Start Date: 3-Nov-1972 11:17 AM
End Date: 3-Nov-1972 11:27 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.; Butterfield, Alexander P.; Bull, Stephen B.;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On November 3, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, Alexander P. Butterfield, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:17 am to 11:27 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 812-012 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 812-12
Date: November 3, 1972
Time: 11:17 am - 11:27 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.
Vietnam War
-Kissinger’s recent meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
The President’s schedule
Vietnam War
-Settlement agreement
-Public relations [PR]
-Kissinger’s meeting with John W. Chancellor, November 2, 1972
-Washington Post editorials, Louis P. Harris
-Washington Star
-Kissinger’s role
-Second term
-William P. Rogers’s role
-Melvin R. Laird’s role
-Kissinger’s role
-Soviet Union
-Press relations
-Max Frankel
-Crosby S. Noyes
-Washington Star
-Howard K. Smith
-Tone
-Rebuttal to George S. McGovern
-Strategy
-“Peace is at hand”
-Focus on issues
-Format
-Television [TV]
-Ronald L. Ziegler’s view
-Backgrounder
-Attribution
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan.-08)
Conversation No. 812-12 (cont’d)
-Quotes
-Tone
-Conservatives
-John Birch Society
-Advantages
-Press relations
-Format
-Possible meeting with senior correspondents
-Timing
-November 3, 1972
-Advantages
-Second term
-First month
-“Peace is at hand”
-Compared to Kissinger’s India-
Pakistan War press conference,
December 14, 1971
-Timing
-Press coverage
-November 4 and 5, 1972
-Advisability
-Ziegler
-Airplane
-Alternative to Kissinger
-Ziegler
-Single story
-Tone
Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 11:20 am.
The President’s forthcoming telephone calls
-List
Vietnam War
-Settlement agreement
-PR
-McGovern
The President’s telephone calls
-List
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan.-08)
Conversation No. 812-12 (cont’d)
-[William Mills] of Los Angeles
-November 4, 1972
Butterfield left at 11:24 am.
Vietnam War
-Settlement agreement
-PR
-McGovern
-Rebuttal
-Kissinger’s role
-Arguments
-“Peace is at hand”
-Hoax
-Peace
-Disintegration
-Success
-Rebuttal
-Politicos’ role
-Kissinger’s role
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:24 am.
The President’s schedule
-Coat
-Briefcase
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon’s location
The President, Kissinger, and Bull left at 11:27 am.