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Start Date: 12-Nov-1971 4:31 PM

End Date: 12-Nov-1971 4:39 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Khan, Sultan MohammadKissinger, Henry A.

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:16:33

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:27:12

617a.mp3

617b.mp3

617c.mp3

NARA Description:

On November 12, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Sultan Mohammad Khan, and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House from 4:31 pm to 4:39 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 617-017 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 617-17

Date: November 15, 1971
Time: 4:31 pm - 4:39 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Sultan Mohammad Khan and Henry A. Kissinger.

     Greetings

     India-Pakistan
           -The President's conversations
                 -Previous Pakistani ambassador
                 -Indira Gandhi
           -William P. Rogers's conversation with Gandhi
           -US diplomacy
                 -Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
           -US aid to Pakistan
                 -Announcement
                       -Arms
                       -Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan’s response
           -Public relations campaign in US
                 -Democrats
                 -Republicans
                 -Press
           -US role
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                         NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                    Tape Subject Log
                                      (rev. 10/06)
                                                                      Conv. No. 617-17(cont.)


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration: 20s ]


    INDIA


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO.

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         -Role
               -Kissinger's conversations with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin [?]
         -Military situation
               -US response
         -United Nations [UN]
               -People's Republic of China [PRC]
                     -State Department
               -Possible role
                     -General Assembly
                     -Security Council
                           -PRC
                                -Consultations
                           -Possible veto

    US-Pakistan relations
        -Dwight D. Eisenhower
        -John F. Kennedy
        -Lyndon B. Johnson
        -The President's travels
              -Pakistan
              -India
        -Treaty arrangements
        -Johnson

    India-Pakistan
                                               26

                           NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                       Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. 10/06)
                                                                      Conv. No. 617-17(cont.)


           -US concerns

     Presentation of gifts by the President

Khan and Kissinger left at 4:39 pm.