Conversation: 626-010
Prev: 626-009 Next: 626-011Start Date: 30-Nov-1971 11:23 AM
End Date: 30-Nov-1971 12:03 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.; Ziegler, Ronald L.; Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob");Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:19:55
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:59:00
NARA Description:
On November 30, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, Ronald L. Ziegler, and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:23 am to 12:03 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 626-010 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 626-10
Date: November 30, 1971
Time: 11:23 am - 12:03 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.
India-Pakistan
-Report from India
-Pakistani troop dispositions
Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 11:24 am.
Announcement regarding Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's schedule
-Constance M. Stuart
-Call from Ziegler
H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 11:24 am.
-Timing
Ziegler left at 11:25 am.
William P. Rogers
-Conversation with John N. Mitchell
-Sale of aircraft to Israel
-Possible meeting with the President
-Schedule
20
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
-The President's forthcoming meeting with Golda Meir
-Meeting with congressmen
-Forthcoming speech
-Views regarding aircraft for Israel
-The President’s view
-State Department
India-Pakistan
-India
-Rogers's forthcoming announcement
-US policy
-Export licenses
-Kissinger’s view
-New licenses
-Radar equipment
-State Department
-Pakistan
-New and old licenses
-Pakistan
-State Department
Kissinger's forthcoming press briefing
-President’s forthcoming trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Size of press contingent
-PRC’s views
-Compared to other foreign trips
-India-Pakistan
-US aid to India
-Amount
-US policy
-United Nations [UN]
-Vietnam
-The President's previous press conference
-Infiltration
-The President’s view
-Middle East
-Arms balance
-Rogers
Middle East
-Rogers's views
21
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 626-10 (cont.)
-Conversation with Mitchell
-Soviet Union
-Israeli-Egyptian negotiations
-Aircraft
-Soviet Union
-Israel
-Forthcoming summit with the US
-The President's reelection
-Israeli-US relations
-Kissinger’s view
-Interim settlement
Kissinger's forthcoming press briefing
-International monetary situation
-John B. Connally's views
-Price of gold
-Connally's role
-Latin America
-Robert H. Finch
-Proposed statement
The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Eisaku Sato
-Japanese press reaction
-Kissinger’s view
-PRC
-San Clemente
-Compared to European press
**************************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[National Security]
[Duration: 4s ]
CANADA
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
22
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 626-10 (cont.)
**************************************************************************
William P. and McGeorge Bundy
-William Bundy’s article
-Kissinger’s view
-Vietnam responsibility
-Pentagon Papers
Vietnam
-Casualties
-Helicopter crash
-Number
-The President's chart of troop withdrawals
-Foreign policy report
-Casualty rate chart
-Incursions into Cambodia and Laos
Public relations
-Foreign visits and visitors
-Press coverage
-News summary
-Kissinger’s view
-Haldeman’s view
-The President’s view
-Press coverage
-Interludes between foreign visitors
-Domestic issues
-Health care reform
-Press coverage
-Japanese, Germans and British
-Communiqués
-Press coverage
-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with Burke Trend
-Television
International monetary situation
-Price of gold
-Revaluation of currency
23
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 626-10 (cont.)
The President's critics
-White House response
-Edmund S. Muskie
-White House response
-William L. Calley
-Public interest
Kissinger's forthcoming press briefing
-Nature of briefing
-State Department
-Rogers
Rogers's schedule
-Latin America
-Finch's previous visit
-Foreign Ministers meeting
-Safety concerns
Jerrold L. Schecter
-Conversation with Kissinger
-The President's foreign policy
-The President's article written in 1967
-PRC
-National Security Council [NSC] meetings
-Contacts with US
-PRC
-Contacts with US
-The President's conversations
-Eastern Europeans
-Romania
-Poland
-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-Pakistani Air Marshal
-Kissinger’s views
-Soviet Union
-The President's press conference
-Linkage
-Trade
-Berlin
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-The President's historical background
24
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 626-10 (cont.)
-World Wars I and II
-Kissinger's previous conversation with Hugh S. Sidey
-“Man of the Year” award
Liberals
-Views regarding the President
-The President as Time's “Man of the Year”
-Letters to the editor of Time
-"Man of the Year"
-The President
-Daniel Ellsberg
-The dollar
-Indira Gandhi
India
-Congress's views
-Clark MacGregor's forthcoming meeting
-Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen
Gandhi
-Visit To US
Kissinger left at 11:53 am
The President's schedule
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC] television show, "A Day in the Life of the
President"
-Domestic Council meeting
-The Vice President
-Economic meeting
-The Vice President
-Connally
-Dictation
-Rose Mary Woods
-Connally
-Open Door Hour
-Seventeen year old deaf boy
-Athletic ability
-John W. Chancellor
-Interview
-Timing
25
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 626-10 (cont.)
-Woods
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Schedule
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 25s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
*****************************************************************
-Date of showing
-Telephone calls
-Limitations
-Kissinger and Rogers
Unknown man
-Unknown actions
-Effect on the President
The President and Haldeman left at 12:03 pm.