Conversation: 520-008
Prev: 520-007 Next: 520-009Start Date: 15-Jun-1971 12:45 PM
End Date: 15-Jun-1971 12:54 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.;Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:43:42
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:54:51
NARA Description:
On June 15, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:45 pm and 12:54 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 520-008 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 520-8
Date: June 15, 1971
Time: Unknown between 12:45 pm and 12:54 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Henry A. Kissinger
President’s meeting with Willy Brandt
-Issues
-Vietnam
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Mutual reductions
-Simultaneous reductions
-Timetable
-Prospects
-Effect on alliance
-Military problem
-Balance of payments problems
-Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction [MBFR]
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/08)
-Egon Bahr role
-US-People’s Republic of China [PRC] relations
-Kissinger-Bahr conversation
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security] Conv. No. 520-7 (cont.)
[Duration: 7s ]
FOREIGN RELATIONS
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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-Kissinger-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin meeting
-Meeting with President
-Presentation of note
-Implications
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] proposal on SALT
-Five Power Conference
-Role of Department of State
-Reaction of PRC
-William P. Rogers
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[National Security]
[Duration: 20s ]
NEGOTIATIONS
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
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Tape Subject Log
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US-PRC relations
-Press coverage
-[Forename unknown] Durton [sp?]
Conv. No. 520-8 (cont.)
Vietnam
-Le Duc Tho-Kissinger meeting
-Tho Contact with PRC
-Ellsworth F. Bunker meeting
-Announcement by President at Midway Island meeting, July 6
-General Nguyen Van Thieu
-Implications
-Kissinger’s role
-Rogers
-Kissinger’s meeting with Bunker
-President’s meeting with Thieu
-Election benefits to Thieu
-Trip by President to Vietnam
-Cover for Kissinger trip to Vietnam
-Rogers
Five Power Foreign Ministers’ meeting
-Kissinger’s message to Dobrynin
-President’s meeting with Dobrynin
-President’s stance on foreign ministerial meeting
-Conduct of foreign relations
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-Georges J. R. Pompidou
-Edward R. G. Heath
-Walter Scheel
Records of 1967 negotiations
-Kissinger’s role
-Bureaucratic records
-Leaks
-Contact with Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense
-Trust within Cabinet
-President’s records on leaving office
-Ordering
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/08)
-Use by historians
-Weakness of leader class
President’s schedule
-John B. Connally’s meeting with Kissinger
-President’s meeting with Dobrynin
Kissinger left at an unknown time before 12:54 pm Conv. No. 520-8 (cont.)