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Start Date: 2-Dec-1971 11:35 AM

End Date: 2-Dec-1971 12:13 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Ziegler, Ronald L.Kissinger, Henry A.Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:04:59

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:43:02

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628b.mp3

628c.mp3

NARA Description:

On December 2, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Ronald L. Ziegler, Henry A. Kissinger, and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:35 am to 12:13 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 628-002 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 628-2
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                           NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 10/06)




Date: December 2, 1971
Time: 11:35 am - 12:13 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

     John B. Connally's reports of the Group of Ten meeting
          -Questions
               -Gold issue
                     -Prices
                     -Ziegler's comments
                           -The President's instructions

Ziegler left and Henry A. Kissinger entered at 11:37 am.

     David M. Kennedy
          -Appointment
               -North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]

     Golda Meir meeting
          -Talking points
               -Sent to the President
               -William P. Rogers
          -Kissinger's talk with Meir
               -Rogers
                     -President’s hard line with Meir
          -Phantoms
               -Joseph J. Sisco and Yitzhak Rabin
          -Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] Summit meeting
               -Middle East topic
                     -Preparatory talks
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                        NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                   Tape Subject Log
                                     (rev. 10/06)



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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration: 44s ]


    MIDDLE EAST


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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         -Agreements
              -Summit
              -Rogers' plan
              -USSR
              -Settlement
                    -Rogers’ plan
                         -Frontier
                               -Meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
                               -Anwar el-Sadat
                               -Military action
                                     -Leonid I. Brezhnev-Sadat meeting
                                     -No interim agreement
                         -USSR
                         -Israelis
                         -Berlin comparison
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                           NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                       Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. 10/06)
                                                                Conv. No. 628-2 (cont.)


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[National Security]
[Duration: 20s ]


     MIDDLE EAST


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3

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          -Kissinger's talk with Dobrynin
                -Israelis
                      -United Nations [UN] forces
          -Type of discussion
                -Rogers' plan
                      -Phantoms
                      -State Department
                            -Sisco
                                  -Possible Israeli attitudes
          -Military action in the Middle East
                -Potential outcome
          -Summit
                -Agreement
                -Egyptian-USSR meetings
                      -Negotiations style
                            -Brezhnev
          -Talking points

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 11:46 am.

     The President's schedule
          -Dr. Arthur A. Fletcher
               “Meet and greet” session
          -Business Council meeting
               -Sears
               -J.C. Penney's
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                             NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 10/06)
                                                                  Conv. No. 628-2 (cont.)


                -Federated stores
                     -Representatives
                -Retail sales
                     -Percentage
                -Phase II
                     -Thanksgiving
                     -Christmas
                            -Anticipated revenue
                -Foreign policy
                     -Peter M. Flanigan
                -Kissinger
                     -Praise from the President
                     -Potential schedule conflicts
                -Flanigan
                -Meeting with Kissinger
                -Los Angeles, Chicago, and Cincinnati
                     -Kissinger’s schedule
                -Gordon M. Metcalf and Fred Lazarus, Jr.
                -Timing
          -Fletcher meeting
                -Time
                -“Meet and greet”
          -Meir meeting
                -Timing
          -Earl L. Butz's swearing-in ceremony
                -Corn issue
                -Senate vote
                     -Possible outcome
                -Corn price supports
                -John C. Whitaker
                -Timing
          -Business Council meeting
                -Time

Haldeman left at 11:56 am.

     Meir meeting
          -USSR
               -Summit
                   -Possible preparatory talks
                   -Withdrawal of forces
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                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                 Tape Subject Log
                                   (rev. 10/06)
                                                               Conv. No. 628-2 (cont.)


          -Egyptians
          -USSR position
                -Sisco
     -Kissinger's talk with Meir
          -Rogers
          -Settlement
                -Dobrynin
                       -Potential discussions with Kissinger
                       -Passage issue
                            -Rogers
                       -Troops
                       -Roger and Sisco
                            -A question of trust
     -Egyptians and USSR
     -Rogers' plan
     -USSR
          -Possible scenarios
     -Phantoms
     -Sisco-Rabin meeting
          -Written instructions from the President
     -USSR summit
     -Kissinger's talk with Meir
          -The President
          -Negotiation style towards Meir
     -USSR
     -The President-Meir photograph
          -Kissinger and Rabin
                -“Goodwill” gesture

Cambodia
    -North Vietnamese
    -South Vietnamese
         -Cautious approach
    -Bombing
         -Other objectives
    -North Vietnamese planes
         -Airfields
               -Numbers of planes
    -Bombing
         -Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
               -Upcoming conversation between Kissinger and Moorer
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                             NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                        Tape Subject Log
                                          (rev. 10/06)
                                                                          Conv. No. 628-2 (cont.)


                        -Gen. John D. Ryan
                              -Call for youth
                        -Melvin R. Laird
                              -Potential conversation between Kissinger and Laird
                        -Briefing on air strikes
                              -Moorer
                        -David Packard
                        -Laird
                              -Location
                                    -Briefing
                                          -Timing

     India
             -State Department
                   -New license cut off
                         -Announcement
                             -President's instructions
                                   -Old license cancellation
                   -Briefing

[Sounds of note taking]

     Kennedy appointment
         -NATO
         -Conditions
              -Statement by the President
              -National Security Council [NSC] meetings
              -Attendance at Georges J.R. Pompidou, Willy Brandt, Edward R.G. Heath and
                    Eisaku Sato meetings
              -John R. Schaetzel and Joseph A. Greenwald
                    -Information on economic issues
              -Brussels staff
                    -Upgrade
              -Rogers
                    -Talk with Kissinger

     Television
          -Rogers in Europe
                -Call from the President
                      -Report
                      -National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]
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                              NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                       Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. 10/06)
                                                                   Conv. No. 628-2 (cont.)


                      -Length of conversation
                      -Kennedy
                           -NATO

     People's Republic of China [PRC]
          -Kissinger announcement
                -Media coverage
                     -James B. Reston column
                           -Favorable
                           -J. William Fulbright committee
                     -Chinese reaction
                           -Two-China issue
                -Thelma C. (Pat”) Nixon
                -Media
                     -Reactions
                -Vietnam War
                     -Support of foreign policy
                -Charles H. Percy
                     -Talk with Kissinger
                     -Senate
                     -Establishment

Kissinger left at 12:13 pm.