Conversation: 865-016
Prev: 865-015 Next: 865-017Start Date: 28-Feb-1973 10:24 AM
End Date: 28-Feb-1973 10:43 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.; Ziegler, Ronald L.;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On February 28, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Stephen B. Bull, and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the Oval Office of the White House from 10:24 am to 10:43 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 865-016 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 865-16
Date: February 28, 1973
Time: 10:24 am-10:43 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Stephen B. Bull and Ronald L. Ziegler.
President's schedule
-Signature request
-File
-Paraguayan ambassador
-Daughter
-Credentials
-Timing
-Report from William F. (“Billy”) Graham
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar.-09)
Conversation No. 865-16 (cont’d)
-Edward V. Hill
-Democrat, Nixon supporter
-John Cardinal Cody
-Chicago
-Gold Meir dinner
-Press coverage
-Arrival photographs
-Toasts
-Van Cliburn
-Governors’ Conference dinner
-Press coverage
-Photographs
-Van Cliburn
-Photograph
-Sammy Davis, Jr.
-Accommodations
-Astronauts
-Meeting with President
-Wives
-Sammy Davis, Jr.
-Breakfast with President
Bull left at an unknown time before 10:43 am.
William P. Rogers's meeting
-Henry A. Kissinger
Joint military commission
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-North Vietnam
Press briefings
-President
-Postponement
-Ziegler’s statement
-POW list
-Jerry W. Friedheim
-Elliot L. Richardson
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar.-09)
Conversation No. 865-16 (cont’d)
-Mines in North Vietnam’s waters
-Escalation
-Kissinger
-Richardson’s statement
-North Vietnam
-Deliberation
-Compared with December 1972 combing
George J. McGovern
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-Estimate of North Vietnam
-Withdrawal of US troops
-POWs
Vietnam Negotiations
-Saigon
-South Vietnam
-Joint Military Commission
-Accommodations
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-POWs
-Richardson
-Kissinger
-Aid
-POW list
-Timing of President’s press conference
-Vietnam settlement
-Aid to North Vietnam
-POWs
-Agreement
-Violations
Ziegler’s press statement
-Compared to Kissinger
-Aid to North Vietnam
-George P. Shultz, Roy L. Ash
-Funding
-President’s statement at Governors’ Conference
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar.-09)
Conversation No. 865-16 (cont’d)
-Press reaction
Kissinger
-Meeting with President
President’s schedule
-Press conference
-Timing
-Receiving of POW list
-Golda Meir arrival
-Meir dinner, Evening at the White House
-Friedheim’s statement
-Press reaction
-Vernon E. Wilson [?]
-Richardson
-Kissinger
Ziegler left at 10:43 am.