Conversation: 022-077
Prev: 022-076 Next: 022-078Start Date: Wednesday, April 5, 1972 1:45 AM
End Date: Wednesday, April 5, 1972 1:50 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.Recording Device: White House Telephone
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 03:06:29
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 03:11:29
NARA Description:
On April 4, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger talked on the telephone from 8:45 pm to 8:50 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 022-077 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 22-77
Date: April 4, 1972
Time: 8:45 pm - 8:50 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.
63
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
[See Conversation No. 329-9]
Vietnam
-Weather
-Report
-Kissinger’s call to Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Projection
-Results
-Shelling
-Time
-Time Of Day
-Ground Action
-Weather
-Projection
-Possible clearing
-Opportunities for air strikes
-Possible air strike at Haiphong
-Plan
-Weather
-Timing
-Possible diplomatic reaction
-List of ships in the harbor
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Kissinger summary
-South Vietnamese ambassadors
-Talks with other ambassadors
-Demilitarized zone [DMZ] attacks
-US ambassadors
-The President’s instructions
-Air attacks
-Air Force
-Men
-Equipment
-B-3 area
-Attacks
-Instructions to Moorer
-Military Region One [MR 1]
-Air sorties
-Number
-B-52s
-Areas of bombardment
64
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
-MR 1
-Authority
-DMZ
-Surface-to-air Missiles [SAMs]
-Moorer
-Weather