Conversation: 617-017
Prev: 617-016 Next: 617-018Start Date: Friday, November 12, 1971 9:31 PM
End Date: Friday, November 12, 1971 9:39 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Khan, Sultan Mohammad; Kissinger, Henry A.Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:16:33
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:27:12
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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[National Security]
[Duration: 20s ]
INDIA
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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
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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.