Conversation: 447-013
Prev:  447-012 Next: 447-014Start Date: 19-Jun-1973 12:10 PM
End Date: 19-Jun-1973 12:35 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.; Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
NARA Description:
On June 19, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 12:10 pm to 12:35 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 447-013 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 447-13 Date: June 19, 1973 Time: 12:10 pm - 12:35 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President met with Henry A. Kissinger. President’s previous conversation with Leonid I. Brezhnev -Agreements -11- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. March-2012) Conversation No. 447-13 (cont’d) -Economic relations -George P. Shultz -Nikolai S. Patolichev -Transportation -Sequoia -Schedule -Sequoia dinner -Brezhnev’s view -Patolichev, Shultz -Camp David -Kissinger, Andrei A. Gromyko, Andrei Aleksandrov -William P. Rogers -Signing of agreement -Timing -Press relations -Ceremony at White House -San Clemente -Appearance -Negotiations -Allies -Anatoliy F. Dobrynin -Compared with Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] agreement signed in Moscow, 1972 -Jet lag -Interpreters -Brezhnev’s relationship with President -Interactions -Interpreters President’s forthcoming conversation with Brezhnev -Agenda -Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction [MBFR], SALT closing date -Rogers, Gromyko -Kissinger, Dobrynin Rogers -Forthcoming talks on Middle East, Conference on Security and Cooperation in -12- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. March-2012) Conversation No. 447-13 (cont’d) Europe [CSCE] -Statement length -Gromyko Brezhnev’s schedule -Kissinger, Dobrynin -Sequoia -Shultz, Patolichev -Camp David -Aleksandrov -Gromyko, Kissinger -Ronald L. Ziegler -Soviet counterpart [Leonid M. Zamyatin] -Security President’s previous conversation with Brezhnev -Jews -Public relations -Possible demonstrations -Sequoia -Blacks Brezhnev’s schedule -Senators -Capitol -Administrative assistants -Hubert H. Humphrey -Response -Briefing -Signing of agreements -Compared to John F. Kennedy’s administration -Oceanography -Nuclear Test Ban Treaty -Transportation, agriculture, oceanography, cultural exchange -Tax Treaty -Shultz -Peaceful use of nuclear energy, SALT -13- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. March-2012) Conversation No. 447-13 (cont’d) -SALT principles -Joint Chiefs of Staff’s [JSC] reaction -Timing of agreement President’s previous conversation with Brezhnev -State Dinner -Russian proverb -Friendship in adversity -Kissinger’s conversation with People’s Republic of China [PRC] ambassador [Huang Hun] Possible visit by PRC officials to US in 1973 -Talks, August 1973 -Possible announcement -Chou En-Lai Head of State visits -Previous meetings with R. G. Heath, Georges J. R. Pompidou, [Shah of Iran] Mohammed Reza Pahlavi -Kissinger’s experience Brezhnev’s schedule -Dobrynin -Sequoia -Photographic session -Dinner -Helicopter -Camp David -Arrangements -SALT -Kissinger and Dobrynin -Rogers -Camp David Prevention of Nuclear War agreement -Rogers’s views concerning North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] guidelines -Rogers’s conversation with U. Alexis Johnson -14- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. March-2012) Conversation No. 447-13 (cont’d) -Great Britain, Germany -Alexander M. Haig, Jr. -Article 51 objectives -Compared to commitments -Rogers’s views at Hangchow Forthcoming briefings on agreements -Kissinger’s schedule -SALT -Congressional relations -President Brezhnev’s visit -Possible demonstrations -Security -Camp David -Sequoia Watergate -John W. Dean, III -Republicans, Democrats -Handling of funds -Fred Thompson’s possible questioning -White House response -President’s activities -President’s opponents -Goals -Media coverage -Delay of hearings -Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield -Rogers compared to Haig -Partisanship Senate -Scott -President’s refusal to speak with Scott, June 18, 1973 -Vietnam -Cease-fire agreement -15- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. March-2012) Conversation No. 447-13 (cont’d) -John C. Stennis -Hospitalization -Herman E. Talmadge -Members Brezhnev’s schedule -Lunch -Senate Foreign Relations Committee -Economic meeting -Shultz -Sequoia Kissinger left at 12:35 pm.