Conversation: 090-002
Prev: 090-001 Next: 090-003Start Date: Wednesday, February 9, 1972 12:58 PM
End Date: Wednesday, February 9, 1972 4:31 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.; [Unknown person(s)]Recording Device: Cabinet Room
NARA Description:
On February 9, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, and unknown person(s) [members of Kissinger's staff] met in the Cabinet Room of the White House at an unknown time between 7:58 am and 11:31 am. The Cabinet Room taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 090-002 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 90-2
Date: February 9, 1972
Time: Unknown after 7:58 am until 11:31 am
Location: Cabinet Room
Henry A. Kissinger’s staff met; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of
the meeting
[General conversation/Unintelligible]
Photograph
-Pose
[General conversation/Unintelligible]
The President and Kissinger entered at 11:22 am
President’s gratitude
-Work
President’s schedule
7
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/08)
-Socializing
Foreign policy accomplishments
Credibility gaps
President’s remembrance
-1971
-Importance
-1972
-Theodore (“Teddy”) Roosevelt
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson
-Democrat
-Relation to Nixon
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 17s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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-Wilson’s life
-Intellect
-Idealism
-Accomplishment
-Peace
-Lessons
-Present US needs
-Idealism
-Pragmatism
-US - People’s Republic of China [PRC] relations
-Missionaries
-Chinese history
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
8
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/08)
-H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells
-Historian
-Better educated nations
-United Nations
-Value
-Education
-Conflict settlement
-Idealism
-Hopes
-PRC
-Reasons for being
-Optimism
-Ideals
-Nations
-Leaders
-Differences
-Failures
-Past
-Future
Future
-Success
-Homework
-Work for peace
-1972
[General conversation/Unintelligible]
The President, et al. left at 11:31 am