{"conversationCode":"670-022","tapeNumber":670,"conversationNumber":22,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-670-022","startDateTime":"1972-02-14T21:08:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-02-14T21:08:00.000Z","startDate":"14-Feb-1972","startTime":"4:08 PM","endDate":"14-Feb-1972","endTime":"4:08 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.;","description":"On February 14, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at 4:08 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 670-022 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"OVAL","recordingDevice":"Oval Office","latitudeEstimated":38.8974,"longitudeEstimated":-77.0374,"chronCode":3,"chronRelease":"Third Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"28-Feb-2002","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 670-22\n\nDate: February 14, 1972\nTime: 4:08 pm\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President met with Stephen B. Bull.\n\n     Meeting\n          -Timing\n               -Duration\n                    -Interruption\n\nThe unknown man left at 4:08 pm.\n\n                                                              Conversation No. 670-23/671-1\n\nDate: February 14, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 4:09 pm and 5:28 pm\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President met with Andre Malraux, Sophia K. Porson and Henry A. Kissinger.\n\f     Greetings\n\n     Kissinger\n          -Introduction\n\n     Malraux’s visit                                             Conv. No. 670-23/671-1 (cont.)\n          -The President’s trip to Paris in 1969\n          -Writings\n               -Anti-Memoirs\n                     -The President’s forthcoming trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]\n          -Chinese\n               -Mao Tse-tung\n                     -Relationship with Malraux\n                     -Malraux’s analysis\n                     -Mao Tse-tung’s view\n                           -Youth and intellectuals\n                                  -Possible reason\n                     -Young people\n                           -Concern\n                                  -Mask for army’s action\n                     -Cultural revolution\n                           -Compared to events in France in 1968\n                     -Intellectuals\n                           -Role according to Mao Tse-tung\n                                  -Communist Party\n               -Chinese revolution\n                     -Russian Revolution\n                     -Mao Tse-tung\n                           -Proletariat\n                     -Chinese\n                           -Relationship with Russians\n                                  -Consumer goods\n\nAn unknown person entered at an unknown time after 4:09 pm\n\n     Refreshments\n\nThe unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:28 pm.\n\n          -Malraux’s book in 1965 [?]\n               -1971\n                    -Chinese\n                         -Mao Tse-tung\n                         -Chou En-lai\n                         -A Presidential visit\n                               -Vietnam War\n                                     -Chinese helpfulness\n                                     -North Vietnam\n                                          -Passage of arms\n                                          -Possible conflict between the Chinese and Soviets\n\f-Chinese\n     -Foreign policy\n           -Assistance to Pakistan or Vietnam\n                 -Chinese tanks in Pakistan\n           -Expansionism\n           -Mao Tse-tung’s view\n                 -Continent                              Conv. No. 670-23/671-1 (cont.)\n                       -Australia\n                       -Chinese perspective of the world\n                             -Sultan of Zanzibar\n           -Domestic policy\n           -Mao Tse-tung\n                 -Fear of Soviet or US attack\n                       -Industrial centers\n                       -Bomb cities\n                       -Malraux’s questions to Mao Tse-tung\n           -Reasons for meeting with US representatives\n                 -Mao Tse-tung\n                       -Policies\n                             -Standard of living\n                                   -Agriculture standard of living\n                                   -Machines\n                                         -Incapability of creating large machinery\n                                         -US procurement\n                                              -Credits\n                             -Chou En-lai\n                                   -Negotiations with US\n           -Chinese self-reliance\n                 -Soviets\n                       -Aid\n                             -Mao Tse-tung\n                             -Chou En-lai\n                 -US trades and credits\n                 -Soviets\n           -Standard of living compared to the cultural revolution\n           -Economic questions\n                 -Chou En-lai\n           -Mao Tse-tung’s anticipation\n                 -The President of US\n                       -A world plan\n                             -Compared to the Marshall Plan\n                             -Questions for the President from Mao Tse-tung\n-Vietnam\n     -Chou En-lai\n-John Foster Dulles policy\n     -Mao Tse-tung\n           -Effect of policy on the People’s Republic of China [PRC]\n-World policy\n     -Prime Minister of Somalia\n           -Visit\n                 -Malraux’s view\n\f                                -Pakistan\n                                -Africa\n          -Mao Tse-tung\n               -Possible successor\n               -Chou En-lai\n               -Chou En-lai\n                     -Foreign policy                            Conv. No. 670-23/671-1 (cont.)\n                     -Prime Minister\n          -US relations with Japan and PRC\n          -US relations with Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]\n          -USSR relations with PRC\n               -Breach\n                     -Leadership\n          -Powers of Pacific countries\n               -Possible future\n                     -US economic agreement with PRC\n                           -Impact on USSR and Japan\n          -The President\n               -Destiny\n               -Policy\n                     -Impact on revolution in PRC and USSR\n                           -Standard of living concerns\n          -Mao Tse-tung\n               -Need for a policy\n                     -Importance\n               -Josef V. Stalin\n                     -Nikita S. Khrushchev\n               -Successor\n                     -Revolutionary\n               -Mao Tse-tung’s view of the President\n          -Gen. Charles A.J.M. De Gaulle\n               -Vietnam\n                     -Withdrawal\n          -Japan\n               -US foreign policy\n                     -Pacific\n                           -Withdrawal from Indonesia\n                           -Withdrawal from Japan\n                           -Withdrawal from South Korea\n                                -Possible Malraux opinion\n               -Chinese\n               -Soviets\n               -Peace\n\nRecording was cut off at an unknown time before 5:28 pm while the tape was changed; it\ncontinues as Conversation No. 671-1.","filename":["670-022.mp3"],"tapeStart":"05:04:20","tapeEnd":"05:04:46","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. 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