Conversation: 022-090
Prev: 022-089 Next: 022-091Start Date: Thursday, April 6, 1972 12:00 AM
End Date: Thursday, April 6, 1972 12:09 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.; Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.Recording Device: White House Telephone
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 03:26:51
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 03:35:27
NARA Description:
On April 5, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger talked on the telephone from 7:00 pm to 7:09 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 022-090 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 22-90
Date: April 5, 1972
Time: 7:00 pm - 7:09 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.
Vietnam
-Gen. John W. Vogt, Jr.
-Assignment to Vietnam
-Schedule
-Proposed meeting with the President
-Instructions
-Washington Special Action Group [WSAG] meeting
-The president’s schedule
-Philadelphia
-Importance of his new command
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
-Future of the US Air Force
-Key Biscayne
-Adm. Thomas h. Moorer
-Timing
-Air strikes
-Reports
-Targets
-B-3 area
-Concentration of force
-Number
-Capability
-Kissinger’s talks with Moorer
-Nguyen van thieu
-Statements
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Call to Kissinger
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Call to Kissinger
-Weather
-Haiphong
-Potential for an attack
-Public attitude
-Intensity
-The President’s view
-William P. Rogers
-Kissinger’s view
-Supply lines
-Naval gunfire
-Restriction of air strikes
-19th parallel
-The President’s instructions
-Attack on road
-Number of ships
-Demilitarized zone [DMZ]
-Kissinger’s view
-Rear areas
-Supply routes
-18th Parallel
-Laos
-Destroyer deployment
-Moorer
-Deployment above the 19th Parallel
74
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
-DMZ
-Plans compared with Lyndon B. Johnson’s plans
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Bombing
-Naval shelling
-Kissinger’s recommendation
-Sustainability
-The President’s view
-Purpose
-Psychology
-Weather
-Orders to Moorer
-Dong Hoi
-Report to the President
-Philadelphia
-Necessity
-Dong Hoi
-Petroleum, oil, lubricants [POL]
-Supply depots
-Destroyers, planes, cruisers
-Thieu
-US public
-Follow up report