Conversation: 635-017
Prev: 635-016 Next: 635-018Start Date: Friday, December 10, 1971 5:47 PM
End Date: Friday, December 10, 1971 6:01 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
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
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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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1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END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1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
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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.