Conversation: 417-003
Prev:  417-002 Next: 417-004Start Date: 5-Mar-1973 2:55 PM
End Date: 5-Mar-1973 3:25 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.; Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
NARA Description:
On March 5, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 2:55 pm to 3:25 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 417-003 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 417-3 Date: March 5, 1973 Time: 2:55 pm - 3:25 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President met with Henry A. Kissinger. Kissinger's meeting with Great Britain’s Defense Minister -Agreement on the Prevention of Nuclear War [APNW] -Draft -Complications -Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] response -Work on draft -Sir Denis Greenhill -Sir Burke Trend -Sir Thomas Brimelow -Meeting with Kissinger -USSR acceptance -Basic Principles of Relations between the US and USSR -Response of the People's Republic of China [PRC] -Explanation PRC -President's letter to Mao Tse-Tung ****************************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [National security] [Duration: 5s] INTELLIGENCE END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ****************************************************************************** APNW -Impact on allies -3- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. June-2010) Conversation No. 417-3 (cont’d) -Impact on domestic opposition -Allies -Great Britain -Response -PRC -Knowledge -Kissinger draft of letter -Administration's critics -Confusion -Advancement in US-USSR relations -USSR -Possible acceptance -Compared with Kellog-Briand Treaty France’s elections -Guallists -Results -United Press International [UPI] report -Communists -Compared with Socialists -Effect on Gaullists -Polls -Constituencies -Analysis for Kissinger -Guallists Chile -Election -UPI reports -Salvador Allende Gossens -Minority vote -Significance -Reasons -Press reports -UPI -Compared with France France’s electoral system -4- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. June-2010) Conversation No. 417-3 (cont’d) -Majority -Districts -Gerrymandering -Communist vote -Distribution News reports -President’s annotations -Johnny Express freighter incident -Captain Jose Villa -Panama -Release -Information -Cuban community in US -Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo -News summary -Kissinger’s memo -Impact on Cuban community in US -Wife, children -Telephone call -Visit with Rebozo Kissinger's talk with Hugh S. Sidey and Joseph C. Kraft -Sidey's viewpoint -President compared with John F. Kennedy’s foreign policy -President's humanitarian concerns -Kraft -George S. McGovern as conservative -President as progressive on foreign policy -Compare with France’s Communist Party -Fear of change US ambassador to Vietnam -Frederick C. Nolting, Jr. -President’s note Party for William P. Rogers -5- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. June-2010) Conversation No. 417-3 (cont’d) -Kissinger's attendance -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s attendance -Casts of plays -Nicholas von Hoffman -Support for President in 1960 -Kennedy -Foreign policy -Criticism of President Kissinger -Avoidance of disillusioning supporters -Contacts with Sidey, Kraft -Frequency Foreign policy -Administration record -Press relations -Clayton Fraizer’s [?] story -News summary -Comments on Vietnam settlement -Frustration -Prisoners of war [POWs] statements upon return -London Sunday Times -Frank Giles [?] -Criticism of December 1972 bombing [?] -President’s foreign policy compared with Gen. Charles A. J. M. de Gaulle -Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy -Demoralization Rogers -Luncheon -Plaque unveiling -President's attendance -Interactions with agencies -Small groups -Defense Department -Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft [?] -6- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. June-2010) Conversation No. 417-3 (cont’d) -Kissinger's call -President's attendance at a meeting -Handling of POW situation -Subject of discussion -Arrangements compared to Defense Department President’s letter to Willy Brandt -Effect International monetary policy -Letter from Edward R. G. Heath -President's talk with George P. Shultz -Kissinger -Meeting with Shultz -Meeting with George R. S. Baring [Earl of Cromer] -President’s response -Brimelow -Attendance at Brandt discussion -Bilateral actions -Common float -Restriction on capital movement West Germany’s position -Telephone call to Kissinger -Helmut H. W. Schmidt -Finance minister -West Germany-US relations -Request for US intervention -Shultz’s knowledge -Impact on European Economic Community [EEC] -US intervention -Necessity -Shultz’s, President’s opinion -US dollar -Schmidt -US inaction -US criticism of Europe -Europe’s commitment -7- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. June-2010) Conversation No. 417-3 (cont’d) -Reform of international monetary situation -Japan -Kakuei Tanaka -Reaction to invitation to US -Arrival of advisor -[Emperor of Japan] Hirohito Tanaka -Visit to US -time USSR visit to US President's schedule -Visits to San Clemente -Kissinger visit -Weather Tanaka visit Mohammed Reza Pahlavi [Shah of Iran] Tanaka visit -Public statements about US Press relations -Problems -1972 election -Vietnam settlement -Giles [?] -Von Hoffman -Elizabeth Ashley [?] -President’s foreign, domestic policy -Compared with post-World War II presidents -Age -Comments on President's foreign policy -De Gaulle -8- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. June-2010) Conversation No. 417-3 (cont’d) International monetary policy -President’s leadership -Actions on currency -Reform of monetary system -West Germany’s position -Shultz’s viewpoint -President's view of intervention -Political impact -EEC President’s policy toward Latin America and Africa -Tokenism -Carlos Sanz de Santamaria -Organization of American States [OAS] -Alliance for Progress -Head of state visits -Brazil -Africa -Nigeria -Congo -Reception -Length -Brazil -Mexico -Reception -Radicals -Size of group -Brazil -Africa -Ivory Coast -Liberia -Nigeria -Congo -East Africa -Nigeria -Great Britain -Congo -Belgium -9- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. June-2010) Conversation No. 417-3 (cont’d) -Ivory Coast -France -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon’s visit -Felix Houphouet-Boigny’s visit to US International monetary policy -Europe -Kissinger’s meeting with Shultz -Dealings with US -Kissinger's call to Schmidt -Responsibility for reform -Heath, Tanaka -Georges J. R. Pompidou -Runoff election -Public statement -Kissinger’s call Kissinger left at 3:25 pm.