Conversation: 473-011
Prev: 473-010 Next: 473-012Start Date: Thursday, March 25, 1971 9:23 PM
End Date: Thursday, March 25, 1971 9:40 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 04:25:22
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 04:31:04
NARA Description:
On March 25, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:23 pm and 4:40 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 473-011 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 473-11
Date: March 25, 1971
Time: Unknown between 4:23 pm and 4:40 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger
Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Status
-Dr. David K. E. Bruce
-Delay by North Vietnamese
-US strategy
-Delays
-Bruce
-The President’s instructions
-Melvin R. Laird
-Press briefing
-Military option
-South Vietnamese
-Bombing
-President’s view
-Laird’s comments to Stewart J. O. Alsop
-South Vietnamese military
-US military supplies
-President’s talk with Alsop
-President’s position
-Material and equipment
-Possible meeting with Laird, Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, and
David Packard
-Scheduling
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-An unnamed man
-Laird
-An unnamed man’s advice
-Moorer
-General Nguyen Van Thieu
-Laos operation (Lam Son)
-Importance compared with Cambodia
-President’s policies
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