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Start Date: 29-Jun-1972 6:25 PM

End Date: 29-Jun-1972 6:25 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Kissinger, Henry A.

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:06:15

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:16:45

345a.mp3

345b.mp3

NARA Description:

On June 29, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at 6:25 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 345-019 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 345-19

Date: June 29, 1972
Time: 6:25 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry Kissinger at 6:25 pm

     Strategic Arms and Limitation Treaty [SALT] ratification
           -James L. Buckley
           -Barry M. Goldwater
           -Effects of non-ratification
                 -Anti-ballistic missiles [ABM]
                 -Submarines
                 -Missiles
           -Critics
                 -Senators
                 -Melvin R. Laird
                       -Defense budget

     1972 campaign
          -George S. Mcgovern's statement
               -May 8, 1972 decision
               -Chou En-lai
               -Leonid I. Brezhnev

     Foreign relations
          -South Vietnam

     Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

     Vietnam negotiations
          -Preparations for forthcoming press conference
               -Ceasefire without prisoners of war [POWs] release
                     -US options
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                       NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. Jan-02)


                      -Bombing
                          -Duration

Kissinger left at 6:32 pm.