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Start Date: 12-Jun-1973 11:17 AM

End Date: 12-Jun-1973 11:31 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Scowcroft, Brent G. (Gen.)

Recording Device: Oval Office

937-015.mp3

NARA Description:

On June 12, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:17 am to 11:31 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 937-015 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 937-15

Date: June 12, 1973
Time: 11:17 am - 11:31 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft.

     Vietnam negotiations      

          -Henry A. Kissinger’s meeting in Paris 

          -South Vietnam’s position      

               -Elections article in communiqué      

               -Terminology         

                                -27-

       NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                         Tape Subject Log
                          (rev. June-2012)

                                               Conversation No. 937-15 (cont’d)

-Wording of possible communiqué
      -Statement on elections
-Scowcroft’s conversation with ambassador Tran Kim Phoung, June 13, 1973
      -Validity of agreement
-Scowcroft’s forthcoming telephone call to Phoung
      -President’s views          

             -Elections article     

             -Nguyen Van Thieu        

                    -Letter
      -Possible Congressional response       

             -North Vietnam

             -Missing in Action [MIA]      

      -President’s possible statement
             -Timing
                    -Kissinger
                          -Paris
-Kissinger
      -Two-party document
             -Value
-Potential failure to reach agreement
      -Possible duration
-Popular interest
      -Prisoners of War [POWs]
      -Draft
-Forthcoming Leonid I. Brezhnev visit
-Implications of possible failure
      -Congress
             -Thailand, Cambodia, Laos
-Survival of South Vietnam
      -Army
-Status of Paris meeting
-Communiqué
-South Vietnam’s view
      -Elections        

      -Zones of control         

      -Partitions       

      -Psychology          

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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                      Tape Subject Log 

                                       (rev. June-2012)

                                                             Conversation No. 937-15 (cont’d)

           -US neo-isolationism

                 -Impact on Europe         

                 -Defense spending         

                 -Effects     

                       -Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] 

           -President’s conversation with Phuong 

           -President’s messages to Thieu 

                 -Congressional support        

                 -Phuong’s role       

           -Kissinger’s meeting in Paris 

                 -Communiqué         

                 -North Vietnam

           -Possible failure     

                 -Congressional response         

                 -North Vietnam’s depiction of meeting 

           -South Vietnam’s position         

           -Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson 

           -Outcome

           -Informing President       


Scowcroft left at 11:31 am.