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Start 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

406-019.mp3

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.