Conversation: 617-023
Prev: 617-022 Next: 617-024Start Date: Friday, November 12, 1971 11:03 PM
End Date: Friday, November 12, 1971 11:19 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Butterfield, Alexander P.; Kissinger, Henry A.; White House operator; Scott, Hugh; Eisenhower, Julie NixonRecording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 03:48:59
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 04:04:55
NARA Description:
On November 12, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander P. Butterfield, Henry A. Kissinger, White House operator, Hugh Scott, and Julie Nixon Eisenhower met in the Oval Office of the White House from 6:03 pm to 6:19 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 617-023 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 617-23
Date: November 15, 1971
Time: 6:03 pm - 6:19 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield and Henry A. Kissinger.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Hugh Scott's calls to the President
The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 6:03 pm and
6:04 pm.
[Conversation No. 617-23A]
[See Conversation No. 14-109]
[End of telephone conversation]
Vietnam
-Casualties
The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 6:03 pm and
6:04 pm.
[Conversation No. 617-23B]
[See Conversation No. 14-110]
[End of telephone conversation]
Butterfield left at an unknown time before 6:04 pm.
Budget
-Forthcoming vote
-George H. Mahon
-Call to Kissinger
-Continuing resolution
-Mahon's conversation with the President
-Vietnam
The President talked with Hugh Scott between 6:04 pm and 6:09 pm.
[Conversation No. 617-23C]
[See Conversation No. 14-111]
[End of telephone conversation]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 617-23 (cont.)
The President's previous meeting with Congressmen
Budget
-Forthcoming vote
-Mahon
-Clark MacGregor's conversation with Kissinger
Cabinet
-Foreign travel
-Maurice H. Stans
-Peter G. Peterson
-Previous meeting
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman's conversation with Kissinger
Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Forthcoming vote on continuing resolution
The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower between 6:09 pm and 6:10 pm.
[Conversation No. 617-23D]
[See Conversation No. 14-112; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]
[End of telephone conversation]
The President's schedule
-Earl of Cromer
-Economic policy
John B. Connally
-Conversation with the President
-Connally's conversation with Kissinger
-International monetary policy
-Credit
-Political future
-Trip to Vietnam
-Forthcoming call from Kissinger
-Kissinger's views on international monetary policy
-Peterson
-William P. Rogers
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 617-23 (cont.)
John A. Volpe
International monetary policy
-Connally
-Kissinger's conversation with East Germans
-Timing of action
-The President's schedule
-Connally
-Role
-Japan
-Devaluation
-Connally
-Conversation with Kissinger
-The President’s forthcoming letter to heads of state
Sultan Mohammad Khan
-Previous meeting with the President
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Messages for the President
-Conversation with Chou En-Lai
-Timing
-United Nations [UN] vote
-The President's forthcoming visit
PRC
-UN delegation
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR
-Chou's Schedule
-US conservatives
-Civil defense
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-USSR
-The President's forthcoming visit
-Lin Piao
-Army Chief of Staff
-Effect on US right wing
Foreign aid program
Congress
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 617-23 (cont.)
-Mansfield Amendment
-Cooper-Church Amendment
George E. Allen
-Conversation with the President
-The President's previous press conference
Chou En-Lai
-Film, “Patton”
-Appeal to the President
-Reason
-Views regarding the President
-Kissinger's first visit
-Film
The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-The President's preparation
-Rogers
-Negotiating strategy
Congress
-Quadriad
-Mansfield
-Kissinger's forthcoming speech
-University of Montana
Kissinger left at 6:19 pm.