Conversation: 946-005
Prev: 946-004 Next: 946-006Start Date: 22-Jun-1973 9:20 AM
End Date: 22-Jun-1973 9:43 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On June 22, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:20 am to 9:43 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 946-005 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 946-5
Date: June 22, 1973
Time: 9:20 am - 9:43 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.
Leonid I. Brezhnev’s visit
-Talking point memorandum
-President’s forthcoming briefing of Congressional leaders
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation No. 946-5 (cont’d)
-Preparation
-Kissinger’s forthcoming briefing
-President’s conversation with Brezhnev, June 21, 1973
-Forthcoming agreement [Prevention of nuclear war]
-State department
-[David] Kenneth Rush, William P. Rogers
-Review
-Legal language
-Congressional resolution
-Obligation
-Use of force
-Congressional resolution
-War
-Prevention
-Conduct
-Threat or use of force
-Kissinger’s talking points
-President’s foreign policy goals
-President’s briefing of bipartisan Congressional leadership
-Structure of peace
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Basic Principles of Relations between the United States of America and
the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
-SALT
-Basic Principles
-Moscow
-Specific agreement
-Treaty on conduct of war
-Media coverage
-Agreement on the Prevention of Nuclear War
-Substance
-Opponents
-Obligation for Soviet Union
-“Hard line”
-Kissinger’s talk with Andrei A. Gromyko
-Gromyko’s plans
-Topics of discussion
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation No. 946-5 (cont’d)
-President’s meeting with Brezhnev
-Dobrynin’s conversation with Kissinger
-Grain deal
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Middle East
-Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction [MBFR], Vietnam
-Steven [?] Prichard
-President’s relations with Brezhnev
-Brezhnev’s purpose
-President’s leadership abroad
-Watergate
-France’s opinion
-Soviet Union concessions
-Prediction
J. William Fulbright
-Invitation to White House
-Haig
-Support for President
-Kissinger’s briefing of Foreign Relations Committee
-Conversation with Kissinger
-Cambodia
-Watergate
-Foreign policy
-Brezhnev
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Peace agreement
-Signature
-President’s role
-Foreign Relations Committee
-Kissinger’s briefings
PRC
-Madam Mao’s invitation to Dr. David K. E. Bruce
-Mao Tse-Tung’s relationship with US
Fulbright
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation No. 946-5 (cont’d)
-Future relations
-William E. Timmons
Brezhnev’s visit
-Agreement on the Prevention of Nuclear War
-Congressional action
-Rogers’s view
-Comprehension
-State Department
-Editing
-Prerogative
-Nuclear war
-Gromyko’s conversation with President, 1973
-Brezhnev’s relations with President
-Politboro approval of policies
-Positive statements
-Brezhnev’s prestige
-Significance
-Media coverage
-Kissinger’s statement
-SALT [?]
-1974
-Commitments
-Kissinger’s forthcoming press briefing on agreements
-“Structure of peace”
-Threat of war
-Crisis management
-Strength
-Agreements
-SALT
-Restraint
-Basic principles
-Agreement on the Prevention of Nuclear War
-President’s meeting with Brezhnev
-Gromyko
-Universality
-Post-World War II-era
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation No. 946-5 (cont’d)
-Historical turning point
-Hostility
-Allies
-PRC
-Possible response
-US and Soviet relations
-President’s letter to Chou En-Lai
-Agreement on the Prevention of Nuclear War
-Article 4
-US consultation with USSR
President’s foreign policy
-Successor’s policy
-Compared to Otto von Bismark
-US Congress
-Post-1976 election
Brezhnev’s visit
-Public opinion
-Compared to PRC trip
-Watergate
-Public’s perspective
Nancy S. Maginnes
-President’s assessment
Nelson A. Rockefeller and Ronald W. Reagan
-Experience
-Presidential aspirations
Rockefeller
-Support for President
-Conversations with Kissinger
Brezhnev’s visit
-PRC
-Forthcoming television speech
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)
Conversation No. 946-5 (cont’d)
-Timing
-Coverage
-New York Times, Washington Post
White House staff
-Meeting
-Morale
Kissinger left at 9:43 am.