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Conversation: 351-008

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Start Date: 27-Jul-1972 4:46 PM

End Date: 27-Jul-1972 4:56 PM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

351-008.mp3

NARA Description:

On July 27, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 4:46 pm to 4:56 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 351-008 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 351-8

Date: July 27, 1972
Time: 4:46 pm - 4:56 pm
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                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. Mar-02)


Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

     Hugh Scott
         -Thomas C. Korologos
         -Compromise language on a bill or resolution
               -Administration's acceptance

     The President's press conference, July 27, 1972
          -Kissinger’s view
          -Kissinger's attendance
          -Kurt Waldheim
          -Kissinger’s view
                -Impact on North Vietnam
                      -Bombing
                           -Negotiations

     North Vietnamese
          -Comment
          -The President's press conference statement on bombing
               -Dikes
               -State Department
               -Surface-to-air missiles [SAM] sites on dikes
                     -Melvin R. Laird
               -Retaliation
                     -Condition


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 49s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

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     The President's press conference
          -Bombing of North Vietnam
               -Impact on negotiations
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                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. Mar-02)


                    -Possible effect on talks
                         -Delay
         -Spiro T. Agnew as Vice President
               -Harry S. Truman and Theodore Roosevelt
               -Kissinger's evaluation
                    -Oval Office
                         -Compared to television
               -Comparison with Truman and Roosevelt
                    -Lyndon B. Johnson
                    -Mark Hanna's assessment Theodore Roosevelt
                         -Thomas F. Eagleton
         -Truman
               -Major decisions
         -Vice presidency
               -Character
         -Media coverage

    Congressional relations
        -Hugh Scott
              -The President’s trip to the Soviet Union

    The President's press conference
         -Question on health problems
              -The President's answer
         -Psychiatrists
              -[Eagleton]
              -Details of clients' cases
                    -Public release
                         -Lawyers


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 56s       ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4

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    Golf game
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                        NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                         Tape Subject Log
                                           (rev. Mar-02)


              -George Meany
                   -George P. Shultz
                   -William P. Rogers
                   -Laird

      Vietnam
           -State Department
           -South Vietnamese Casualties
                 -Refugees
                 -An Loc
           -Quang Tri
           -South Vietnam
                 -Airborne Division
                 -Marines
           -Future fighting
           -Hanoi
                 -Negotiations

      Scott

      Senators
           -Meeting with the President

      The President's next meeting

Kissinger left at 4:56 pm.