Conversation: 455-016
Prev: 455-015 Next: 455-017Start Date: Monday, February 22, 1971 6:13 PM
End Date: Monday, February 22, 1971 6:37 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Whitehouse, Charles; Haig, Alexander M., Jr.; Price, Raymond K., Jr.; White House photographerRecording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 03:53:52
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 04:15:28
NARA Description:
On February 22, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Charles Whitehouse, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Raymond K. Price, Jr., and White House photographer met in the Oval Office of the White House from 1:13 pm to 1:37 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 455-016 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 455-16
Date: February 22, 1971
Time: 1:13 pm - 1:37 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Charles Whitehouse, General Alexander M. Haig, Jr., and Raymond K.
Price, Jr.; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting
Greetings
Vietnam
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Whitehouse’s efforts
-President’s appreciation
-Economic situation
-South Vietnamese survival
-Whitehouse’s analysis
-United States’ role
-Administration policies
-Pacification efforts
-Laos and Cambodia
-Future conflict
-Vietnam compared to United States’ Civil War
-Problems
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-Dissenters
-South Vietnamese
-Democracy
-Effect
-American press
-Effect
-Democratic tradition compared to other areas
-Italy
-Southern Hemisphere
-Philippines
-India
-Thailand
-Taiwan
-Indonesia
-Malaysia
-Singapore
-Africa
-Ghana
-Trip by the president
-Arthur Clark
-Reception
-President’s conversation with Clark
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-Democracies
-Mexico
-Colombia
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-Uruguay
-Costa Rica
-Brazil
-Emilio Garrastazu Médici
-Forthcoming visit to US
-Establishment of democratic government in South Vietnam
-US efforts
-History Conv. No. 455-16 (cont.)
-General Charles A. J. M. de Gaulle constitution
-Henry Cabot Lodge’s view
-Georges J. R. Pompidou
-South Korea
-Prospects
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-US efforts
-France
-Vietnamese population
-People’s Republic of China
-Whitehouse’s view
-Foreign service personnel efforts
Whitehouse
-Future assignment
-Europe
-Laos
-Africa
-William P. Rogers and Kissinger
-Ambassadorship
-Vietnam
-Press secretary
-Paris Peace Talks
-Role
-Ambassadorship
-President’s view
-Relationship to Joseph W. Alsop’s wife
Presentation of gifts by the President
Whitehouse, et al. left at 1:37 pm
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