Conversation: 331-002
Prev: 331-001 Next: 331-003Start Date: Monday, April 17, 1972 7:10 PM
End Date: Monday, April 17, 1972 7:28 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.; Kissinger, Henry A.; Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:02:01
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:18:02
NARA Description:
On April 17, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Ronald L. Ziegler, Henry A. Kissinger, and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 2:10 pm to 2:28 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 331-002 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 331-2
Date: April 17, 1972
Time: 2:10 pm - 2:28 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.
William P. Rogers
The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger at an unknown time between 2:10 and 2:15 pm.
[Conversation No. 331-2A]
Current meeting
-Review of something
-Briefing
[End of telephone conversation]
Ziegler's schedule
-Morning briefing
-Conversation with unknown person
-Gerald L. Warren
The President talked with an unknown person [H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman?] at an unknown time
between 2:10 and 2:15 pm.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 331-2 (cont.)
[Conversation No. 331-2B]
Clark MacGregor
-Report
The President's schedule
[End of telephone conversation]
Press conference
-Questions
-Soviet ships
-Soviet summit
-Indochina
-Answers
The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Announcement
-Invitation to Poland
-Warren
Kissinger entered at 2:15 pm.
Ziegler’s schedule
-Forthcoming briefing
Soviet Union
-Question at Rogers's press conference
-Soviet ships
-Use of official channels
-US reply to a message
-Vietnam
-Soviet ships
-US public opinion
-Ziegler's statement on bombing
-US message to Soviet Union
Ziegler left at 2:17 pm.
Ziegler’s work
Kissinger's conversation with Stewart J.O. Alsop
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 331-2 (cont.)
Kissinger's schedule
Ziegler's press conference
Soviet Union
-Vietnam
-Kissinger's meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Soviet ships
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[National Security]
[Duration: 11s ]
REPORTS
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
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-Kissinger's meeting with Dobrynin
-Relations with US
-Soviet summit
-Soviet position
-German Treaty
-Middle East settlement
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-PRC
-The President
-Compared to Lyndon B. Johnson
-Kissinger's Moscow trip
-Announcement
-Timing
-Haiphong bombing
-Significance
Vietnam
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 331-2 (cont.)
-Kissinger's meeting with Alsop
-The President's trip to Moscow
-Invasion by North Vietnam
-Alsop article
-Ziegler's press conference
-Kissinger's meeting with Dobrynin
-US bombing
US-Soviet relations
-Middle East
-European security
-State of relations
-Current situation
-PRC
-Vietnam
-Blockade
-1972 election
-Impact
-Soviet concerns
-Summit
-Risks of bombing
-Hanoi and Haiphong
-Kissinger’s trip
-Timing
Vietnam
-Senate Foreign Relations Committee
-Testimony by Melvin R. Laird and Adm. Thomas H. Moorer, April 18, 1972
-Meeting with the President
-Rogers's testimony
-Time
-Kissinger's call
-Arrangements
-Laird and Moorer
-Public stance
-Compared with Rogers's testimony
-Laird’s previous testimony
-Meeting with the President
-Necessity
-Ziegler
-Time
-Ziegler’s announcement
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 331-2 (cont.)
-The President’s talks with Rogers
-Forthcoming meetings with the President
-Timing
Kissinger left at 2:28 pm.