Conversation: 416-035
Prev: 416-034 Next: 416-036Start Date: Thursday, March 15, 1973 3:39 PM
End Date: Thursday, March 15, 1973 3:55 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
NARA Description:
On March 15, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 10:39 am to 10:55 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 416-035 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 416-35
Date: March 15, 1973
Time: 10:39 am-10:55 am
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.
People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Top experts
-John H. Holdridge
-Language abilities
-Trips to PRC
Dollar crisis
-George P. Shultz
-Instructions from President
-Europe
-Intervention
John T. Downey
-Captivity in PRC
-Two Americans on mission
-Questions
-Whereabouts
Vietnam settlement
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Escapees, absent without leave [AWOL]
-Asylum
-Condition after release
-US note to North Vietnam
-Quality
-North Vietnam’s acceptance
-Economic aid
-South Koreans
-Military equipment to South Vietnam
Laos
-Souvanna Phouma
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar.-09)
Conversation No. 416-35 (cont’d)
-Harry F. Byrd, Jr.
-Clifton Daniel
-Most Favored Nation [MFN] status [?]
Mansfield Amendment
-Democratic caucus
-Vote
-Impact on foreign policy
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy [?]
Message for President
-Arrival
-Press conference
Meeting with Leonid I. Brezhnev
-News summary
-Negotiations
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Meeting with President
Willy Brandt visit
-Date
Nuclear Treaty
-Kissinger’s conversation with Dobrynin
-Kissinger’s letters
-Soviet Union’s responses
-Soviet Union
-Relations with North Vietnam
-President’s letter to Brezhnev
[Pause]
Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan’s conversation with Indira Gandhi
-Restraint
Kissinger left at 10:55 am.
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar.-09)