Conversation: 001-004
Prev: 001-003 Next: 001-005Start Date: Tuesday, April 6, 1971 4:53 PM
End Date: Tuesday, April 6, 1971 5:10 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.Recording Device: White House Telephone
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:01:19
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:10:33
NARA Description:
On April 6, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 11:53 am and 12:10 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 001-004 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 1-4
Date: April 6, 1971
Time: Unknown between 11:53 am and 12:10 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.
President's upcoming speech on Vietnam
-Input from White House staff and others
-Rose Mary Woods
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-John A. Scali
-Possible American withdrawal
-Leonard Garment
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Laos
-Creighton W. Abrams
-Administration’s credibility
-Garment's views
-Kissinger's future statement
-Tone
-White House "Doves"
-George P. Shultz
-Ehrlichman
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Clark MacGregor
-Robert H. Finch
-Domestic issues
-George S. McGovern
-Drop in American and Vietnamese casualties
-Bombing reduction
-Regions
-Defense of Administration
-Staff
-New York Times, Washington Post
-Joseph W. Alsop column
Recording ends while the conversation is in progress.
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