Conversation: 426-008
Prev: 426-007 Next: 426-009Start Date: Thursday, March 29, 1973 9:55 PM
End Date: Thursday, March 29, 1973 10:10 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose Mary; White House operator; Kissinger, Henry A.; Nixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose Mary; White House operator; Kissinger, Henry A.Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
NARA Description:
On March 29, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, White House operator, and Henry A. Kissinger met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 4:55 pm to 5:10 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 426-008 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 426-8
Date: March 29, 1973
Time: 4:55 pm -5:10 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Rose Mary Woods.
President's schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger
[The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 4:55 pm and
4:59 pm.]
[Conversation No. 426-8A]
[See Conversation No. 44-73]
[End of telephone conversation]
President's speech typescript
-Changes
-Press copy, reading copy coordination
-Raymond K. Price, Jr. [?]
-Changes
-Ronald L. Ziegler's copy
-Paragraphs
-International diplomacy
Kissinger entered at 4:59 p.m.
Kissinger’s telephone [?] conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
Woods left at 4:59 pm.
Kissinger's conversation with Dobrynin
President's forthcoming speech
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep.-2010)
Conversation No. 426-8 (cont’d)
-National defense
-Unilateral disarmament
-Woods
-Copy of speech
Woods entered at an unknown time after 4:59 pm/
Page from speech
Woods left at an unknown time before 5:10 pm.
-Wording
-Vietnam War
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Relationship
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Elimination of nuclear arms
-National defense
-Budget
-Negotiations
-USSR
-Nuclear arms
-Mutual and Balanced Forces Reduction [MBFR]
-Kissinger’s critique
-Respect for US strength
-USSR
-MBFR
-Wording
-Impact on PRC, USSR
-Critics of President
-Vietnam
-Watergate
-Future press conference
-President’s efforts for disarmament, world peace
-Defense budget
Kissinger left at 5:10 pm.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep.-2010)
Conversation No. 426-10 (cont’d)