Conversation: 285-008
Prev: 285-007 Next: 285-009Start Date: Thursday, October 7, 1971 12:50 PM
End Date: Thursday, October 7, 1971 1:10 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:14:36
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:30:28
NARA Description:
On October 7, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 8:50 am to 9:10 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 285-008 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 285-8
Date: October 7, 1971
Time: 8:50 am - 9:10 am
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 285-8 (cont.)
Kissinger's schedule
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Embassy visit
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Michael J. Mansfield
US relations with the People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Handling story on Kissinger's trip
-Strategy
-Press statements
-White House staff
-Department of State
-USSR
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-White House staff
-Handling of announcement
-Forthcoming meeting
Kissinger’s memorandum for the President
-Dobrynin
-Gromyko
Kissinger's schedule
-Egyptian Foreign Minister
Ronald W. Reagan and Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Support for the President
Rockefeller
-State of mind after Attica Prison riot
-Democratic reaction
-Reaction to criticism
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 285-8 (cont.)
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Privacy]
[Duration: 54s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
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-Forthcoming meeting with Kissinger
-Attica Prison riots
-Impact on black vote
-Democrats
-Dick Cavett Show
-John V. Lindsay's comments
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
Press conference by unknown person
-Indochina
-Cambodia
-Vietnam
The President's schedule
-Reading of newspapers
-New York Times
-Television
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
-Stewart J.O. Alsop
-New York Times
-Access to the President
-Access to the White House staff
Vietnam
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 285-8 (cont.)
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 1m 18s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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The President’s actions
-PRC
-USSR
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Berlin
-William L. Safire
-Public relations
-White House efforts
-Seabed treaty
-Chemical and biological warfare
-Okinawa agreement
-Possible press comments
-Television
Kissinger left at 9:10 am.