Conversation: 330-036
Prev: 330-035 Next: 330-037Start Date: 12-Apr-1972 2:47 PM
End Date: 12-Apr-1972 3:09 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.; Butterfield, Alexander P.; Huebner, Lee W.;Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 04:01:59
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 04:21:55
NARA Description:
On April 12, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, Alexander P. Butterfield, and Lee W. Huebner met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 2:47 pm to 3:09 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 330-036 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 330-36
Date: April 12, 1972
Time: 2:47 pm - 3:09 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.
Vietnam
-Kissinger’s meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Consultations
-Soviet Union
-Relations with North Vietnam
-Military equipment
-Propositions
-Negotiations
-Hanoi’s interest in summit
-Message to the President from Dobrynin
-Kissinger’s meeting with Dobrynin
-Kissinger’s meeting with Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Secrecy
-Message to Hanoi
Kissinger's schedule
-Postponed meeting
Vietnam
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-Soviet Union
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Reactions to US-Soviet relations
-Kissinger’s message to Soviets
-Appearances
-Kissinger’s trip
-Secrecy
-Guarantees
-Kissinger’s trip to Soviet Union
-Brezhnev
-William P. Rogers
-Soviet Summit
-Influence with Hanoi
-Reaction to US attacks
-Kissinger’s message to Brezhnev
-US military effort
-Secrecy
-Effect on Hanoi
-Irini N. Dobrynin's visit with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Letter from Mrs. Dobrynin to Viktoriya Brezhnev
-Soviet attitudes
-Desire to discontinue summit
-Brezhnev's statements to Kissinger
-Comments concerning the President
-India
-Kissinger’s trip
-Negotiations with Hanoi
-Aid
-US election
-Dobrynin
-Advisability
-Negotiations with Soviets
-The President's forthcoming trip to Soviet Union
-US limitations
-Soviet summit
-Soviet requests
-The President's Canadian speech
-Message to the President
-The President's response to Dobrynin
-Camp David
-The President's forthcoming trip to Soviet Union
-The President's Canadian trip
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
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Conv. No. 330-36 (cont.)
-Domestic problems
-PRC
-Democrats
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Cessation of war
-Chances
Alexander P. Butterfield and Lee W. Huebner entered at an unknown time after 2:47 pm.
The President's Canadian speech
-Changes
-Kissinger's approval
-Wording of a sentence
Kissinger left at 3:01 pm.
-Wording of a sentence
-Tone
-Change
-Wording
-Changes
-Further work
-National Security Council [NSC] considerations
-A copy
-Retyping
-Further work
-Changes
-Consistency
-Compared with a speech at a conference
-Copies
-Retyping
-Rose Mary Woods
-Sentences
-Shortening
-Tone
-Distribution
-Work at Camp David
-Huebner's schedule
-Completion of speech
Butterfield's schedule
-Camp David
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
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Conv. No. 330-36 (cont.)
-Haldeman
-Arrangements for Huebner
-Secretary
-Typewriters
Butterfield and Huebner left at 3:09 pm.