Conversation: 451-004
Prev: 451-003 Next: 451-005Start Date: Thursday, February 18, 1971 2:56 PM
End Date: Thursday, February 18, 1971 3:09 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.; Safire, William L.; Ziegler, Ronald L.Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:09:44
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:23:13
NARA Description:
On February 18, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, William L. Safire, and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:56 am to 10:09 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 451-004 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 451-4
Date: February 18, 1971
Time: 9:56 am - 10:09 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Henry A. Kissinger
Visit of Emilio Colombo
-Photograph with the President
-Timing
-Aldo Moro
-Political future
-Kissinger’s presence
[The President talked with William L. Safire at an unknown time between 9:56 am and 9:57 am]
[Conversation No. 451-4A]
Forthcoming speech at [Thomas] Woodrow Wilson Foundation
-Changes
-Kissinger’s role
-Wilson
-President’s view
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-World situation
-Kissinger’s role
-Length
[End of telephone conversation]
Ronald L. Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 9:57 am
Speech
-Revisions
Ziegler left at an unknown time before 10:05 am
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[National Security]
[Duration: 55s ]
ITALY
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
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Arms control
-Opposing views
-Antiballistic Missile [ABM] agreement
-US negotiators
-Kissinger’s talks with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Joseph C. Kraft column
-William P. Rogers and Gerard C. Smith
-The President’s proposals
-Soviet reaction
-Kissinger’s position
-Kraft’s column, 2/18
-Timing
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-History
-Effect on elections
-Smith’s view
-”ABM only” agreement
Ziegler entered at 10:05 am
Schedule Conv. No. 451-4 (cont.)
-The Vice President
-Lawyers
Vietnam
-Press conference coverage
-Charles W. Colson
Ziegler left at 10:06 am
Arms control
-Soviet Union press
-Kraft column
-Effect of media on United States’ position
-Administration reaction
-Ziegler’s role
-Kissinger/Dobrynin meeting
-Vietnam
-Press accounts
-Need for public relations effort
-Laos operation
-US strategy
-US position
Kissinger left at 10:09 am