Conversation: 339-023
Prev: 339-022 Next: 339-024Start Date: Friday, May 19, 1972 5:58 PM
End Date: Friday, May 19, 1972 7:20 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.; Haig, Alexander M., Jr.Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 03:04:38
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 03:14:23
NARA Description:
On May 19, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:58 pm and 3:20 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 339-023 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 339-23
Date: May 19, 1972
Time: Unknown between 1:58 and 3:20 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President dictated a memorandum to Henry A. Kissinger and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Vietnam
-President's orders
-Responsibility
-Departmental bureaucracies
-Weapons for South Vietnam
-Defense Department
-Consequences
-Psychological warfare program
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA], Richard M. Helms
-The President’s view
-Defense Department
-Staff
-The President’s view
-Robert S. McNamara
-Meeting with Kissinger
-B-52 deliveries
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Trip to Southeast Asia
-Bombing in North Vietnam
-Air Force performance
-The President’s view
-Responsibility
-Hanoi-Haiphong area
-Jurisdiction
-Targets
-Discipline
-State Department
-Defense Department
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Dec-01)
Conv. No. 339-23 (cont.)
-Air Force
-CIA
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Chiefs of Staff
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
Instructions to Rose Mary Woods
-Copies
-Haig
-Kissinger