Conversation: 460-025
Prev: 460-024 Next: 460-026Start Date: Friday, February 26, 1971 10:15 PM
End Date: Friday, February 26, 1971 10:45 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Rogers, William P.Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 03:44:56
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 04:17:27
NARA Description:
On February 26, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and William P. Rogers met in the Oval Office of the White House from 5:15 pm to 5:45 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 460-025 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 460-25
Date: February 26, 1971
Time: 5:15 pm - 5:45 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with William P. Rogers
Conv. No. 460-23 (cont.)
Greetings
Vietnam
-Charles W. Yost
-Yost’s conversation with U Thant
-South Vietnamese Ambassador to United Nations
-Meeting with Thant
-Laos
-Military situation
-Thant’s comments
-US response
-Rogers
-George H. W. Bush
-Possible publicity
-Thant
-Instructions for Yost
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[National Security]
[Duration: 16m 59s ]
MIDDLE EAST
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
People’s Republic of China
-Rogers’ speech
-Kissinger
-US position
-Bush
-Timing
-Korean elections
-Vietnam references Conv. No. 460-25 (cont.)
-Soviet Union
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Possible speech by the President
-Negotiations
-President’s view
-Soviet Union
-Future negotiations on other issues
-Antiballistic missiles
-Timing
-Negotiations
-Rogers’ view
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Need for progress
-Public relations
-Administration efforts
-Public relations
-Defense Department
-The President
-Woody Hayes
-Vincent T. (“Vince”) Lombardi
-Theodore S. (“Ted”) Williams
-Press
-Admiral Thomas H. Moorer
-Conversation with the President
-Department of State policy
-Need to develop United States’ strategy
The President’s schedule
-Camp David
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon
-New York
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
Appointments
-Paul W. Thompson
-Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD]
-George W. Romney
-Housing integration
-Blacks
-Jews
-Public housing Conv. No. 460-25 (cont.)
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Public housing
-Suburbs
-Washington state problems
-Economics
Rogers C. B. Morton
John B. Connally
-Camp David
Rogers left at 5:45 pm