Conversation: 406-019
Prev:  406-018 Next: 406-020Start Date: 30-Jan-1973 5:30 PM
End Date: 30-Jan-1973 5:50 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.; Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
NARA Description:
On January 30, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 5:30 pm to 5:50 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 406-019 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 406-19 Date: January 30, 1973 Time: 5:30 pm - 5:50 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President met with Henry A. Kissinger. Discontinuities appear in the original recording. Vietnam settlement -Recognition -Elections -National Council -Requirements -Replacement of arms -Soviet Union, People's Republic of China [PRC] -Modern weapons -Memorandum -Possible questions for the President -Amnesty -The President's policy -Press relations -Joseph W. Alsop -Press coverage -Sophistication -Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] -Negativity -Kissinger's trip -Aid to North Vietnam -Bombing of North Vietnam -Prisoner of War [POWs] -Signing -Paris -Provisions -Moscow -13- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. Mar.-09) Conversation No. 406-19 (cont’d) -POWs -Value to US -Elections -Hanoi -Soviet Union -PRC -Bombing -Press response -Stewart J.O. Alsop -Time -Life -Newsweek -National Review -Kissinger's briefing -Protocols -Liberals -Press response -Stewart Alsop -[First name unknown] Rose [?] -Liberal -Kissinger’s schedule -Nguyen Van Thieu visit -President's conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman -San Clemente, Washington, DC -Cabinet meeting -National Security Council [NSC] Meeting -Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft -Spiro T. Agnew [?] President's schedule -California -Stop Kissinger’s trip to PRC Kissinger’s schedule -Trip to Vietnam -Cabinet meeting -Meetings with Congressional leaders -14- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. Mar.-09) Conversation No. 406-19 (cont’d) -Agnew -Vacation Vietnam settlement -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s trip [?] -Report -Manila -POWs President’s schedule -Barber’s appointment Vietnam settlement -Discouragement The President and Kissinger left at 5:50 pm.