Conversation: 336-007
Prev: 336-006 Next: 336-008Start Date: Friday, May 5, 1972 7:36 PM
End Date: Friday, May 5, 1972 7:46 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.; Woods, Rose MaryRecording Device: Old Executive Office Building
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:07:04
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:19:06
NARA Description:
On May 5, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, and Rose Mary Woods met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 3:36 pm to 3:46 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 336-007 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 336-7
Date: May 5, 1972
Time: 3:36-3:46 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.
Vietnam
-President’s forthcoming speech
-Draft
-Status
-Completion time
-President’s work
-Camp David
-US command structure
-President’s meeting with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Melvin R. Laird
The President talked with Rose Mary Woods at an unknown time between 3:36 and 3:46 pm.
[Conversation No. 336-7A]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-01)
Conv. No. 336-7 (cont.)
President’s schedule
-Camp David departure
-Time
[End of telephone conversation]
Vietnam
-US command structure
-Laird
-The President’s view
-Change
-Commander-In-Chief, Pacific [CINCPAC]
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Removal
-Haig
-Allied commander for Southeast Asia
-Reasons
-CINCPAC
-Gen. Bruce Palmer
-An Admiral
-Gen. Frederick C. Weyand
-[Forename unknown] Huxtable [?]
-Lt. Gen. William E. Dupuy [?]
-Gen. John W. Vogt
-Haig
-Abrams
-Ambassadorship
-Spain
-Laird
-Handling
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Abrams
-Possible Chief of Staff
-Transfer from South Vietnam
-Possible Chief of Staff
-Haig
-Palmer
-Kissinger’s view
-Dupuy
-The President’s view
-A Navy Commander
-Palmer
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-01)
Conv. No. 336-7 (cont.)
-An Admiral
-Necessary qualifications
-Kissinger’s meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Soviets
-The President’s view
-Mutual pressures
-Vietnam
Vietnam
-US command
-Changes
-Laird
-William P. Rogers
-Camp David
-Support from Laird and Rogers
-President’s orders
-The President’s view
-Laird, Kissinger, and Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Meeting with Rogers
-Timing
-Rogers
-Forthcoming meeting with President
-Command structure change
-President’s previous meeting with Haig
-Reason for change
-Abrams
-Job transfer
-Haig
-Change
-Palmer
-Day
-Announcement
-President’s forthcoming speech
-Laird
-Palmer
-Abrams
-Lines of communication
-Palmer
-Reports to the President
-Laird
Kissinger’s schedule
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-01)
Conv. No. 336-7 (cont.)
-New York
-Return
Kissinger left at 3:46 pm.