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Start Date: 30-Mar-1973 11:10 AM

End Date: 30-Mar-1973 11:29 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Kissinger, Henry A.Dobrynin, Anatoliy F.Johnson, Roger E.Burtrova, AllaMuromcew, CyrilFurtseva, Yekaterina

Recording Device: Oval Office

890-015.mp3

NARA Description:

On March 30, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, Anatoliy F. Dobrynin, Roger E. Johnson, Alla Burtrova, Cyril Muromcew, and Yekaterina Furtseva met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:10 am to 11:29 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 890-015 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 890-15

Date: March 30, 1973
Time: 11:10 am - 11:29 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Yekaterina Furtseva, Anatoliy F. Dobrynin, Henry A. Kissinger, Cyril
Muromcew, Alla Burtrova and Roger E. Johnson. Members of the press and the White House
photographer were present at the beginning of the meeting.

       Greetings
             -Moscow
             -Leningrad

       Julie Nixon Eisenhower
             -Report on function on March 29, 1973

       Tricia Nixon Cox
             -Trip to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
                   -Edward R. F. Cox

       Furtseva
             -Reception, March 29, 1973
                  -Success

       US-USSR cultural exchanges
           -Ambassador
           -Value
                 -Art
           -Product of US-USSR relations
                 -Visual indication
                 -President's relationship with Leonid I. Brezhnev, Furtseva
           -Ambassador
           -Salary

       Painting [“Russian Winter, 1972” by Boris Shebakor]
             -Presentation to President
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            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                               Tape Subject Log
                               (rev. August-2010)
                                                    Conversation No. 890-15 (cont’d)


USSR
    -Trees
          -Birch

Brezhnev's visit to US
     -Stay at Camp David Birch Cottage
     -Time of year
           -Weather
                   -Washington, DC
                   -California

Kissinger

[Photograph session]

Leon Tolstoy's home

California
      -USSR gift painting of winter scene
           -Snow in California

Furtseva
      -Acquaintanceship with President [?]
      -Age

US-USSR relations
    -President's efforts to improve
    -Improved climate
          -Compared to 1959
    -Affinity between peoples
          -Jokes
          -Music
    -Kissinger
          -Affinity for USSR
          -Travels
    -President's goals by 1976
          -Past improvements
          -Continued meetings
                 -Brezhnev’s cooperation
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                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                         Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. August-2010)
                                                              Conversation No. 890-15 (cont’d)


              -Anecdote to use
                   -President's visit to Urals in 1959
                         -Marker
                         -School children
                                -Remarks to President
                                       -Flowers
                                       -Friendship
                         -Zhukov[?]
                                -English word “friendship”

        Julie Nixon Eisenhower
              -Location
                    -California
              -Invitation

        Presidential gifts
              -Seal of president
              -Pin
                    -Friendship
              -Andrei A. Gromyko
                    -General Assembly

        Greetings from President
              -Brezhnev
              -Aleksei N. Kosygn
                    -Strength
                           -Compliment
                    -Intelligence
                    -Bargaining skills
                    -USSR leadership

        Broadcast

Furtseva, et al., left at 11:29 am.
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                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                     (rev. August-2010)
                                                            Conversation No. 890-15 (cont’d)