Conversation: 022-071
Prev: 022-070 Next: 022-072Start Date: Tuesday, April 4, 1972 12:24 AM
End Date: Tuesday, April 4, 1972 12:26 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.Recording Device: White House Telephone
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:59:08
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 03:01:22
NARA Description:
On April 3, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger talked on the telephone from 7:24 pm to 7:26 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 022-071 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 22-71
Date: April 3, 1972
Time: 7:24 pm - 7:26 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.
Vietnam
-Naval bombardment
-Range to shore
-Merit
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer’s response
-Instructions
-Indian Ocean
-Aircraft carrier
-Bombing compared to shelling
-Cruisers and destroyers
-Quang Tri
-Range
-Cruisers
-Da Nang
-Impact
-Authorization
-Kissinger’s call to Moorer
-Message to Melvin R. Laird
-Commander-in-Chief, Pacific [CINCPAC]
-Bombardment
-Carriers
-Hawaii
-Cruisers and destroyers
-Sea of Japan
-Impact