Conversation: 001-145
Prev: 001-144 Next: 001-146Start Date: Sunday, April 18, 1971 3:23 PM
End Date: Sunday, April 18, 1971 3:35 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.Recording Device: White House Telephone
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 04:29:59
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 04:41:42
NARA Description:
On April 18, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger talked on the telephone from 10:23 am to 10:35 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 001-145 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 1-145
Date: April 18, 1971
Time: 10:23 am - 10:35 am
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.
Kissinger's location
US-People's Republic of China [PRC] relations
-Statement by PRC
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] relations
-Taiwan
Vietnam
-Creighton W. Abrams’ comment
-Laos
-Military operations
-President's instructions to Abrams and Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Press
-Melvin R. Laird
-Abrams
-Speculation
-Television reporting
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-Ronald L. Ziegler's possible comments
-Administration's policy
-North Vietnamese reaction
-Ziegler
-Timing
President's PRC initiative
-Media reaction Conv. No. 1-144 (cont.)
-Television
-Martin Z. Agronsky's panelist
-Hugh S. Sidey
-James J. Kilpatrick, Jr.
-Carl T. Rowan
-J. Edgar Hoover
Newspaper reporting on President
-Balance
-Weekly summaries
-PRC initiative
Kissinger's schedule
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Dobrynin's schedule
-Corneliu Bogdan
-PRC negotiations
-Chou En-lai
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
-Hugh Scott
-Bogdan
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[National Security]
[Duration: 3s ]
COUNTRY
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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-Communication
-Messenger
-Bucharest
-Comparison to Vietnamese negotiations Conv. No. 1-145 (cont.)
-Bogdan
-Soviet reaction