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Conversation: 635-017

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Start Date: 10-Dec-1971 12:47 PM

End Date: 10-Dec-1971 1:01 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Kissinger, Henry A.

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 03:54:42

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 04:09:35

635a.mp3

635b.mp3

635c.mp3

NARA Description:

On December 10, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:47 pm to 1:01 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 635-017 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 635-17

Date: December 10, 1971
Time: 12:47 pm - 1:01 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger
                                            39

                         NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                    Tape Subject Log
                                      (rev. 10/06)



    India-Pakistan situation
          -Kissinger's meeting with Yuli M. Vorontsov
                -Message to Leonid I. Brezhnev
          -[Vladimir K. Matskevich]
                -Brezhnev
          -Andrei A. Gromyko
          -Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
          -Treaty
                -Democrats
                -John F. Kennedy agreement
                      -Obligation
                -Brezhnev
          -Movement of military forces
                -Timing
          -Brezhnev
                -Possible summit with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
          -State Department briefing by Kissinger
          -Possible reaction at the United Nations [UN]
                -U. Alexis Johnson


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration: 6s ]


    PRC


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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          -Kissinger’s view
               -Ceasefire
                     -Timing
               -USSR
                                        40

                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                Tape Subject Log
                                  (rev. 10/06)
                                                                  Conv. No. 635-17 (cont.)


                 -Possible agreement with US
     -Kissinger's meeting with People’s Republic of China [PRC]
     - Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
           -Talk with Kissinger
     -The President's meeting with Matskevich
           -Brezhnev
     -Pakistan
     -State Department
           -UN
           -Johnson
                 -USSR
                 -PRC
                       -Proposed talks
           -William P. Rogers
                 -USSR
     -UN
     -US-USSR relations
           -Possible motives
     -Israel
     -Egypt
     -Middle East
     -Golda Meir
           -Potential sale of jets
           -Nicaragua
                 -Anastasio Somoza Debayle
     -Negotiations
           -USSR Summit
                 -1972 election

The President's meeting with David Packard
     -Praise from the President
     -Finances
     -Secretary of Defense
           -Offered to Packard
           -Melvin R. Laird
     -Defense budget
           -The President’s previous conversation with Packard
           -Figures
                 -George P. Shultz
           -Memorandum
                 -Jobs
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                             NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                       Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. 10/06)
                                                                  Conv. No. 635-17 (cont.)


                             -F-111's
                                  -Texas and California
                             -Airborne Command Posts
                                  -Boeing aircraft
                 -Figures
                 -Shultz
                 -Laird
                      -Support
                 -Conservatives
                 -Figures
                 -Packard
                 -Laird and Shultz

     India-Pakistan situation
           -Rogers
                -The President’s schedule
                      -Camp David
                            -Briefing materials
                -Talk with Kissinger
                -USSR
           -USSR-Indian relations
                -US-USSR relations

Kissinger left at 1:01 pm.