Conversation: 322-014
Prev: 322-013 Next: 322-015Start Date: Tuesday, February 29, 1972 8:23 PM
End Date: Tuesday, February 29, 1972 9:00 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Ziegler, Ronald L.; Haig, Alexander M., Jr.; Kissinger, Henry A.; Sanchez, ManoloRecording Device: Old Executive Office Building
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:19:00
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:56:23
NARA Description:
On February 29, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Ronald L. Ziegler, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Henry A. Kissinger, and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 3:23 pm to 4:00 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 322-014 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 322-14
Date: February 29, 1972
Time: 3:23 pm - 4:00 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
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Tape Subject Log
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Meeting
-Haldeman and John B. Connally
-William P. Rogers
-Connally’s tenure
Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 3:25 pm.
People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Press briefing
-The President’s report
-Herbert G. Klein
-PRC
-Conference
-Questions
-Taiwan, Republic of China
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Shanghai
-Ziegler’s comments
-PRC
-John Thomas Downey
-William F. Buckley, Jr.
-Stanley Karnow
-Dan Rather
Kissinger and Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr. entered at 3:28 pm.
PRC trip
-Taiwan
-Rather’s report
-The President’s address of February 28, 1972
-Secretary of State
-Haig
-Statements on Taiwan
-President’s position
-Rogers
-Capitol Hill
-Statements on Taiwan
-Leaders meeting
-Rogers’s comments
-Statements
-Taiwan
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 322-14 (cont.)
-PRC
-Communism
-Trade
-Proposed deal
-Rogers
-Questions to Ziegler
-Leaders meeting
-President’s instructions
-Haig
-Rogers
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-PRC
-Rogers
-Haldeman’s talk with Rogers
-Industrialization
-Exhibit
-Singapore
-Taiwan
-Trade
-Taiwan
-Rogers
-Possible leaks
-Possible remarks to staff
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Press
-Remarks by Rogers
-Leaders
-Cabinet
-Kissinger
-Rogers’s behavior
-PRC
-Translator
-Foreign Minister
-Response
-Statements from Rogers
-Translation
-Foreign Minister
-Ziegler’s observation
-Boxer Rebellion
-Haig
-Chi Peng-fei [?]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 322-14 (cont.)
-Transcripts of meetings
-Chou En-lai
-Meeting with Rogers
-[Unintelligible]
-Foreign Minister
-Compared to vice foreign minister
-Rogers
-Job performance
-Taiwan
-Memorandum
-Press
-Social events
-Timing
-Industrialization
-Shanghai exhibit
-USSR
-Haig
-Instructions
-USSR
-PRC
-USSR, 1959
-Predicted survivability
-PRC achievements
-Cultural Revolution
-Weapons
-Standard of living
-Industry
-Education
-Haig’s upcoming telephone call to Rogers
-President’s request
-Haig
-Kissinger
-Representation
-Rogers’s situation
-Discussions on phone
-PRC
-Press
-Comments
-Leaders
-Consistency
-Communists
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 322-14 (cont.)
-Kissinger
-US foreign policy
-PRC trip
-Outcome of trip
-USSR
-Haig
-Meeting
-Backgrounder
-Press
-Taiwan
-Possible comparisons
-Public reaction to PRC trip
-Indonesia
-PRC
-Diplomacy options
-USSR
-Cambodia
-PRC system compared to US system
-Advantages
-Africa
-Ziegler
-Instructions
-Florida
-Timing
-Gerald L. Warren
-Fill-in for Ziegler
-Haig
-President’s schedule
-Kissinger
-Briefings
-Rogers
-State Department
Vietnam negotiations
-Withdrawal
-Cambodia, Laos
-Concessions
-Briefing papers
-Haig’s talk with Chou En-lai
-Peaceful settlement
-Kissinger’s negotiations in October 1971
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 322-14 (cont.)
-Possible US opposition
-Withdrawal
-USSR
PRC trip
-Communiqué
-Vietnam
-Settlement
-Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu
-USSR
-Instructions to Haig
-Rogers
-Conservatives
-Washington Post
-Upcoming editorial
-Ronald W. Reagan
Haldeman and Ziegler left at 3:55 pm.
Vietnam
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters’s Meeting
-Discussion
-Length of time
-Location
-Le Duc Tho
PRC
-Communiqué
-Criticism
-W[illiam] Averell Harriman
-Rogers’s comments
-Haig’s view
-Kissinger’s view
-The President’s view
-Substance and principles
-Chou En-lai
-Statements
-PRC
-USSR
-Technology
-Kissinger
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 322-14 (cont.)
-Previous conversation with Jonathan T. Howe
-Chou En-lai
-PRC foreign minister
-Rogers
-US presence in Japan
Japan
Kissinger and Haig left and Manolo Sanchez entered at 4:00 pm.