Conversation: 865-024
Prev: 865-023 Next: 865-025Start Date: 28-Feb-1973 12:02 PM
End Date: 28-Feb-1973 12:15 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.; Ziegler, Ronald L.;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On February 28, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:02 pm to 12:15 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 865-024 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 865-24
Date: February 28, 1973
Time: 12:02pm-12:15 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Henry A. Kissinger and Ronald L. Ziegler.
William P. Rogers meeting with Nguyen Duy Trinh
-North Vietnam
-Compliance with agreement
-Prisoner of War [POW] release
-Future release
-Joint Military Commission
-Press release
-POW release
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar.-09)
Conversation No. 865-24 (cont’d)
-Timing
-Roger’s viewpoint
-Press release
-POW issue
-International Conference on Vietnam
-Roger’s role
-North Vietnam’s negotiating position
-Trinh
-US withdrawal, mining
-Kissinger’s briefing of Rogers
-Confirmation of POWs release
-Timing
-International Conference on Vietnam
-Rogers’s return
-Roger’s statement
-Ziegler’s statement
-Rogers’s meeting with Trinh
-North Vietnam’s statement
-POWs
-Joint Military Commission
-International Conference on Vietnam
-Rogers’s participation
-POWs release
-Continuation
-Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft
-Rogers
-Stonewalling
-Continuation of International Conference on Vietnam
Kissinger and Ziegler left at 12:15 pm.