{"conversationCode":"407-026","tapeNumber":407,"conversationNumber":26,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-407-026","startDateTime":"1973-01-24T02:05:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-01-24T02:40:00.000Z","startDate":"23-Jan-1973","startTime":"9:05 PM","endDate":"23-Jan-1973","endTime":"9:40 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Timmons, William E.; Mansfield, Michael J. (\"Mike\"); Eastland, James O.; Albert, Carl B.; O'Neill, Thomas P. (\"Tip\"), Jr.; Ford, Gerald R.; Scott, Hugh; Agnew, Spiro T. (Vice President); Kissinger, Henry A.; Ziegler, Ronald L.; Bull, Stephen B.; Warren, Gerald L.; D'Arcy, John P.; Atkins, Oliver F. (\"Ollie\");","description":"On January 23, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, William E. Timmons, Michael J. (\"Mike\") Mansfield, James O. Eastland, Carl B. Albert, Thomas P. (\"Tip\") O'Neill, Jr., Gerald R. Ford, Hugh Scott, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, Henry A. Kissinger, Ronald L. Ziegler, Stephen B. Bull, Gerald L. Warren, John P. D'Arcy, and Oliver F. (\"Ollie\") Atkins met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 9:05 pm to 9:40 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 407-026 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"EOB","recordingDevice":"Old Executive Office Building","latitudeEstimated":38.897567,"longitudeEstimated":-77.039147,"chronCode":"5.3","chronRelease":"Fifth Chronological Release: Part III","chronReleaseDate":"23-Jun-2009","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 407-26\n\nDate: January 23, 1973\nTime: Between 9:05 pm and 9:40 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President met with William E. Timmons, Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield, James O.\nEastland, Carl B. Albert, Thomas P. (“Tip”) O'Neill, Gerald R. Ford, Hugh Scott, Spiro T.\nAgnew, Henry A. Kissinger, Ronald L. Ziegler, and Stephen B. Bull.\n\n       [General conversation]\n            -Vietnam settlement\n\n       Greetings\n\n       Photograph session\n            -Arrangements\n            -Kissinger\n            -Press\n\f                                             -22-\n\n                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM\n\n                                                             Conversation No. 407-26 (cont’d)\n\nGerald L. Warren, John P. D'Arcy, the White House photographer, and members of the press\nentered at 9:07 pm.\n\n       -Vietnam settlement\n             -Soviet Union [?]\n             -Signing [?]\n             -The President's speech\n\n       Photograph session\n            -Arrangements\n\n       [General conversation]\n\n       Photograph session\n            -Length\n\nBull, Warren, D'Arcy, the White House photographer, and members of the press left at 9:11 pm.\n\n       Refreshment order\n            -Manolo Sanchez\n\n       Vietnam settlement\n            -Meeting with bipartisan Congressional leaders\n                   -Release of agreement\n                   -Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, Armed Services,\n                    Appropriations Committees\n                   -Other attendees\n                   -Length\n            -Initialing\n            -Signing in Paris\n                   -Foreign ministers\n            -Provisions\n                   -Cease-fire\n                   -Troop withdrawals\n                   -South Vietnamese government\n            -The President's use of term Indochina\n                   -Laos and Cambodia\n                         -Continuing negotiations\n                               -Confidentiality\n\f                                -23-\n\n      NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM\n\n                                            Conversation No. 407-26 (cont’d)\n\n-Briefings\n      -Timmons\n      -Bipartisan Congressional leaders\n      -Other members of Congress\n      -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.\n      -William P. Rogers\n      -Importance\n      -Timing, location\n      -Attendees\n            -Wilbur D. Mills [?]\n            -Charles H. Percy [?]\n      -The President’s schedule\n            -Press briefing\n            -Lyndon B. Johnson funeral\n-Laos and Cambodia\n      -Provisions\n      -North Vietnam\n      -People’s Republic of China, PRC\n      -Negotiations\n-Cease-fire\n      -Signing\n      -Laos\n            -Withdrawal of foreign troops\n-Cambodia\n-Cease-fire\n      -Indochina\n      -Cambodia, Laos\n      -Military operations\n-Laos\n      -North Vietnamese forces\n      -Ho Chi Minh Trail\n-Cambodia\n-South Vietnam\n-Supplies\n      -Laos, Cambodia\n      -Ho Chi Minh Trail\n      -Saigon\n-Signing\n-Withdrawal of forces\n-Bombing\n\f                               -24-\n\n     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM\n\n                                               Conversation No. 407-26 (cont’d)\n\n-South Vietnam\n-Laos\n-Prisoners of War [POWs]\n-International Commission of Control and Supervision [ICCS]\n-Missing In Action [MIAs]\n-Cease-fire\n-POWs\n      -Location of return\n      -Time of return\n-Announcement\n      -North Vietnam\n      -Compared to October 26, 1972\n-Release of text\n      -Le Duc Tho's press conference in Paris\n-POWs\n      -Laos\n      -PRC\n      -The President's conversation\n      -Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]\n      -John Downey\n      -PRC\n      -Cambodia, Laos\n-Cease-fire\n      -Effective time\n-Press relations\n      -The President’s speech\n             -Broadcast\n             -Distribution of text\n             -Laos and Cambodia\n                   -Complexity\n                   -Congressional leaders\n-Briefings\n      -Ziegler\n      -James R. Schlesinger [?]\n-Laos and Cambodia\n      -Lon Nol\n      -Khmer Rouge\n-Expectations for future\n      Initial conflict\n      -Compared to Korea\n\f                                            -25-\n\n                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM\n\n                                                        Conversation No. 407-26 (cont’d)\n\n                   -Supervision\n             -Four Party signing\n                   -Viet Cong\n             -ICCS supervision\n                   -Nguyen Van Thieu\n                         -Canada, Poland, Hungary [?]\n                         -Regions\n                         -Military equipment\n                         -Commission Report\n             -Briefings\n                   -Kissinger's schedule\n                   -Haig\n                   -Scheduling\n                   -Kissinger\n                   -Haig\n                   -Kissinger\n                   -Length\n                   -Location\n             -The President’s speech\n\nTimmons, et al., left at 9:40 pm.","filename":["407-026.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. 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Ok."},{"start":299.55,"end":324.39,"text":"Spill."},{"start":358.44,"end":367.13,"text":"Thank you for watching!"},{"start":407.26,"end":417.56,"text":"... ... ... ..."},{"start":463.15,"end":477.14,"text":"... ... ... ... ..."},{"start":614.77,"end":620.7,"text":"... ... ... ..."},{"start":655.36,"end":672.28,"text":"I am."},{"start":684.25,"end":703.23,"text":"We will make briefs available for other members of the House and Senate who want them."},{"start":703.25,"end":705.19,"text":"Now, what we will do there, we can't have, and we never want, a table to be available for briefs."},{"start":705.21,"end":706.75,"text":"Of course, Bill will do it, and he will come out here to actually be curious."},{"start":706.77,"end":707.95,"text":"And we have to see if others can participate in the briefs."},{"start":707.97,"end":708.93,"text":"I can't do all of that, so I'll leave it to him."},{"start":708.95,"end":710.44,"text":"We want to be sure, for example, that we've got, you know, we've got that."},{"start":710.46,"end":711.74,"text":"And I would want to study the next House, and we're not worried."},{"start":729.47,"end":751.86,"text":"We can take them, but I think we can work it out for you wherever you want."},{"start":751.88,"end":752.54,"text":"Do a call you can't do right now?"},{"start":774.71,"end":777.56,"text":"Right, tomorrow morning."},{"start":777.7,"end":778.21,"text":"Tomorrow morning."},{"start":843.8,"end":844.83,"text":"God bless you."},{"start":883.72,"end":893.7,"text":"We have not overlooked the fact that we can see it right there."},{"start":893.72,"end":894.56,"text":"I think the ambition to save the sometimes"},{"start":989.24,"end":992.39,"text":"Nå er det vekk."},{"start":992.41,"end":992.72,"text":"Nå er det vekk."},{"start":992.74,"end":993.04,"text":"Nå er det vekk."},{"start":993.06,"end":993.36,"text":"Nå er det vekk."},{"start":1025.19,"end":1039.16,"text":"... ... ... ..."},{"start":1151.8,"end":1154.35,"text":"Ja, ja, ja."},{"start":1183.26,"end":1187.21,"text":"It's the very latest."},{"start":1187.23,"end":1188.08,"text":"It'll be better than handling our control."},{"start":1188.1,"end":1188.54,"text":"It's a great question."},{"start":1258.82,"end":1260.29,"text":"God bless you."},{"start":1294.82,"end":1297.92,"text":"Fertilisering avgjord."},{"start":1342.42,"end":1365.1,"text":"... ... ... ..."},{"start":1376.04,"end":1388.62,"text":"They are addresses."},{"start":1388.64,"end":1391.11,"text":"The communists have an absolute passion for meticulous inheritance to basically make an agreement not to fall for this law."},{"start":1417.88,"end":1419.85,"text":"Faktor at vi er bestemt."},{"start":1459.6,"end":1478.77,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":1509.01,"end":1512.91,"text":"Fidas, deg, hermana, luta, lobo, lobo, lobo, lobo, lobo."},{"start":1551.27,"end":1567.92,"text":"... ... ... ... ..."},{"start":1603.98,"end":1604.97,"text":"Nei, det går an."},{"start":1678,"end":1702.67,"text":"I think we can tell you"},{"start":1756.65,"end":1761.73,"text":"... ... ... ... ..."},{"start":1785.71,"end":1812.73,"text":"..."},{"start":1886.4,"end":1915.36,"text":"... ... ... ... ... ..."},{"start":1929.82,"end":1955.64,"text":"... ... ... ..."},{"start":1962.46,"end":1967.12,"text":"... ... ... ..."},{"start":2004.51,"end":2028.09,"text":"... ... ... ... ... ... ..."},{"start":2042.58,"end":2071.05,"text":"... ... ... ..."},{"start":2101.12,"end":2119.86,"text":"... ... ... ... ..."},{"start":2126.05,"end":2147.34,"text":"Thank you very much."},{"start":2171.29,"end":2190.78,"text":"... ... ... ..."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with bipartisan Congressional leadership, Vice President Agnew, and Henry Kissinger to discuss the imminent Vietnam peace settlement and the subsequent withdrawal of U.S. forces. 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Nixon coordinated with the congressional delegation regarding the distribution of briefings to broader legislative members and finalized plans for his public address announcing the agreement.","topics":["Vietnam Peace Settlement","Cease-fire","Congressional Relations","Prisoners of War","Indochina","Troop Withdrawals"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T18:35:04.622Z"},"topicSlugs":["vietnam-peace-settlement","cease-fire","congressional-relations","prisoners-of-war","indochina","troop-withdrawals"],"audioDurationSec":2215,"audioFiles":[{"file":"407-026.mp3","bytes":53173308,"durationSec":2215.4,"bitrate":192013,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:45.438Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:43:35.015Z","transcriptGapSeconds":389,"transcriptGapShare":0.18,"transcriptQuality":"incomplete","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/407-026.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/407-026","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/407/conversation-407-026","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). 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