Conversation 608-002

On October 29, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House from 6:19 pm to 6:35 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 608-002 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 608-2

Date: October 29, 1971
Time: 6:19 pm - 6:35 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

[The recording begins while conversation is in progress]

     United Nations [UN]
          -Previous vote to expel Taiwan
               -France, Great Britain, Italy, Belgium, Canada
               -Belgium
               -Effect of the President's People's Republic of China [PRC] initiative

     Daniel J. Boorstin
          -Smithsonian Institution
          -Previous conversation with Kissinger
                -Boorstin's talk at University of Indiana
                      -PRC initiative

     UN
           -Previous vote to expel Taiwan
                -Reaction of the President's critics
                      -Chiang Kai-Shek
                      -Academic community

     Boorstin
          The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
               -Leonard Garment's note to Kissinger
                     -Boorstin
          -Previous conversation with Kissinger
               -US aerospace program

     US intellectual community

     The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
          -Boorstin
          -Kissinger's possible written account
          -Possible article
               -Timing

     UN
           -Previous vote to expel Taiwan
                -Timing
                -State Department's efforts
                      -Kissinger’s assessment
                            -Rogers

                -Botswana
                -Guyana
                      -Leader
                           -US aid
                -Vote list
                      -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
                -Timing
                      -The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
                      -1972 election
                -State Department's efforts
                      -Kissinger’s view
                -Timing
                -Public reaction
                      -View of UN
                      -Kissinger's previous conversation with Ronald W. Reagan

     Reagan
         -The President's schedule
              -Report on Reagan’s Asia trip
         -Kissinger's schedule

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          -The President's schedule

     Kissinger's forthcoming telephone call to Taiwanese ambassador

Kissinger talked with the White house operator at an unknown time between 6:03 pm and 6:35
pm.

[Conversation No. 608-2A]

[See Conversation No. 13-41]

[End of telephone conversation]

     Kissinger's forthcoming telephone call to Taiwanese ambassador
          -The President's schedule
                -Taiwanese foreign minister

     UN
          -Previous vote to expel Taiwan
               -Timing
               -US policy
                     -PRC initiative

     Taiwan
         -The President’s view
         -The President's efforts
              -Quemoy and Matsu
              -John Foster Dulles

Kissinger talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 6:03 pm and 6:35
pm.

[Conversation No. 608-2B]

[See Conversation No. 13-42]

[End of telephone conversation]

     The President's schedule
          -Josep Broz Tito
               -India-Pakistan
                      -Indira Gandhi
               -Chinese
               -Vietnam
                      -Negotiations
               -Interpreters
               -Location

Kissinger left at 6:35 pm.