Conversation: 949-005
Prev: 949-004 Next: 949-006Start Date: 12-Jul-1973 2:56 PM
End Date: 12-Jul-1973 3:25 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Scheel, Walter; Kissinger, Henry A.;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On July 12, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Walter Scheel, and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House from 2:56 pm to 3:25 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 949-005 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 949-5
Date: July 12, 1973
Time: 2:56 pm - 3:25 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Walter Scheel and Henry A. Kissinger. This recording began at an
unknown time while the conversation was in progress
US-Europe relations
-Scheel
-Conversation with Michel Jobert
-France
-Ability for initiatives
-Declaration
-Kissinger’s briefing of President
-Year of Europe
-President’s conversations with Leonid I. Brezhnev, Jobert
-Imposition
-Compared to Marshall Plan
-Joint venture
-Germany, Great Britain, France
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] Council
-Declaration
-Problem
-President’s personal relations with Europe’s leaders
-Denmark, Norway
-Year of Europe
-Germany’s position
-Compared to US
-President’s travel
-Timing
-Conference
-Publicity
-France, Germany’s role
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 949-5 (cont’d)
-Brussels
-NATO Council
-Foreign defense ministers
-European Economic Community [EEC]
-France’s participation
-Summit
-Paris
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] participation
-All-European summit
-President’s conversation with Brezhnev
-Joint communique
-Camp David
-Phases
-Head of State compared to ministerial level
-Summit
-USSR participation
-Concessions
-Timing
-Intergovernmental communication
-Formal communication
-State Department cables
-Impact on France
-USSR’s positioning
-William P. Rogers [?]
-Kissinger
-Jobert
-Georges J. R. Pompidou
-Sir Burke Trend
-Great Britain
-Results
-God, motherhood, country pronouncements
-President’s view
-Summit
-Paper
-Distribution
-Scheel’s draft
-France, Great Britain’s knowledge
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 949-5 (cont’d)
-Significance of US-USSR relations
-Agreement on the Prevention of Nuclear War
-Importance of international meetings
-Willy Brandt
-[James] Harold Wilson, Edward R. G. Heath
-Pompidou, Gen. Charles A. J. M. de Gaulle
-Mariano Rumor
-Heath’s concern about conference
-Letter to President
-President’s statement to NATO Council
-Josepf Luns
-President’s travels to Europe
-Compared to People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Compared to NATO
-Brezhnev
-Atlantic compared to European cooperation
-Germany
-Public statement
-Detente
-NATO
-Scheel’s statement in Helsinki
-Impact of alliance’s strength
-US-USSR summits
-Scheel’s statement in Helsinki
-Warsaw Pact
-Declaration
-Compared to communique
-Compared to Atlantic Charter, Four
Freedoms
-Fate of Western civilization
-Scheel’s draft
-Philosophy
-Humane Society
-Pragmatism
-Theory
-Youth
-Pragmatism compared to idealism
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 949-5 (cont’d)
-USSR
-Youth
-Communism
-US compared to Germany
-Impatience
-John Dewey
-Reconstructionism [?], Pragmatism [?]
-USSR
-Role and utilization of idealism
-Youth
-Charles Malik’s views
-Lebanon [?]
-Idealistic language
-Substantive content
-Cynicism
-Press
-Camp David
-President
-Brandt, Pompidou
-Pragmatism compared to idealism
-Balance of payments, inflation
-Wheat
-USSR
-President’s view
-Philosophy
-Economic pragmatism
-Chance of US success
-Freedom and diversity
-John Foster Dulles
-Houses, automobiles, roads, air conditioning
-East Germany and West Germany
-Individual freedom
-USSR
-Foreign and domestic policies
-Impact of detente
-Social, cultural exchange
-Scheel’s speech
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 949-5 (cont’d)
-Differing political systems
-Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe [CSCE]
-Competition
-Nikita S. Kruschev’s 1959 statement
-President’s speeches
-London Guidhall speech
-1968 acceptance speech
-Idealism
-[Year of Europe]
-Great Britain, France’s support
-President’s interaction with Pompidou
-France
-Idealism
-French Revolution
-Cooperation with Germany
-Nuclear policy
Brandt
-President’s well wishes
Year of Europe
-Declaration
-Metaphor
Scheel and Kissinger left at 3:25 pm.