On March 8, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, unknown person(s), and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 3:55 pm to 4:35 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 321-024 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 321-24
Date: March 8, 1972
Time: 3:55 pm - 4:35 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.
H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
Kissinger’s schedule
-Dr. Kenneth W. Riland
Lunch
-Sans Souci
-Art Buchwald
-Wife
-Vote for the President
-Spiro T. Agnew
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[Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 10/09/2019.
Segment cleared for release.]
[Personal Returnable]
[321-024-w001]
[Duration: 1m 30s]
Henry A. Kissinger
-Democrats
-Edmund S. Muskie
-George S. McGovern
-The President’s opinion
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
-Unknown person’s view on 1976 candidacy
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Trustworthiness
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Set of questions
[Kissinger talked to an unknown person at an unknown time between 3:55 pm and 4:35 pm.]
[Conversation No. 321-24A]
Delivery of questions by unknown person
[End of telephone conversation]
President’s schedule
-Moscow trip
-Possible announcement
-William P. Rogers
-Previous conversation with the President
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Kissinger’s meeting
-Kissinger’s forthcoming call
-Announcement of Paris channel
-Timing
-Possible press conference
-Possible questions from Patrick J. Buchanan
-Impact of People’s Republic of China [PRC] communiqué
-Vietnam
-Japan
-Taiwan, Republic of China
-Japan
-Reaction
-Eisaku Sato
-Takeo Fukuda
-Taiwan
-Buchanan
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Communiqué
-Settlement of issues
-Exchange rate
-Diplomatic contact with Taiwan
-Taiwan
-Renunciation of force
-PRC
-Questions
-Communiqué
-Kissinger’s opinion
-Backgrounder
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Opinion
-PRC authority
-Acknowledgement
-Buchanan
-Questions
-PRC leadership
-Age
-Need for urgent action
-Chou En-lai
-Mutual interests
-Personal reflections
-Preparations
-Vietnam
-US-Japan relationship
-PRC
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:55 pm.
Request to put away unknown item
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:35 pm.
PRC trip
-Communiqué
-Shanghai
-Buchwald
-Evaluation of the President
-Liberal program
-Buchanan
-Communiqué
-Taiwan
-William F. Buckley, Jr.
-Buchanan
-William L. Safire
-Foreign policy
-Questions
News summary
-Prospects for resolving Buchanan issue
-Reaction time
-Buckley
-Kissinger’s intended call
Canada
-Forthcoming trip by the President
-Timing
-Rogers’s request
-Dinner for foreign ministers of Organization of American States [OAS]
-Timing
-President’s opinion
-Canada
White House staff
Possible press conference
-Taiwan
-Kissinger’s answers
-President’s viewing
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[National Security]
[321-024-w003]
[Duration: 1m 2s]
JAPAN
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The President’s schedule
-Unknown place
-Florida
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Gridiron dinner
-Japan
-Pierre E. Trudeau
-Rogers
-Aid
Possible press conference
-Questions
-Middle East
-Nuclear test ban
-Compared to press conferences in Great Britain
-House Of Commons
-[James] Harold Wilson
-Memory skills
-Questions
-English Press
-Compared to US press
Press conference
-Old rules used by the press
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Questions
-Preparation by the President
-Intellectual exercise
-Busing
-Social Security
-Minimum wage
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[Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 10/09/2019.
Segment cleared for release.]
[Personal Returnable]
[321-024-w004]
[Duration: 39s]
Democratic presidential candidates
-Henry A. Kissinger’s opinion
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Intelligence
-The President’s analysis
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Forthcoming Moscow trip
-Significance
-Compared to PRC trip
PRC trip
-Newsweek
-Honor guard
-Unknown person
-Possible talk with Kissinger
Gridiron dinner
-Kissinger’s presence
-President’s appearance at dinner
-PRC issue
President’s schedule
-Press conference
-Timing
-Canada
Kissinger’s trips
-Length
-Guam
-Korea
-Taiwan
-Korea
-Taiwan
-Paris
-Anchorage
-Meetings
-Schedule
-Timing
-Japan
-Paris
-President’s opinion
-Canadians
-Kissinger’s location
Kissinger left at 4:35 pm.This transcript was generated automatically by AI and has not been reviewed for accuracy. Do not cite this transcript as authoritative. Consult the Finding Aid above for verified information.