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Start Date: 30-Mar-1972 5:18 PM

End Date: 30-Mar-1972 5:30 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Kissinger, Henry A.[Unknown person(s)]Sanchez, Manolo

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:01:37

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:13:15

698a.mp3

698b.mp3

NARA Description:

On March 30, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, unknown person(s), and Manolo Sanchez met in the Oval Office of the White House from 5:18 pm to 5:30 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 698-008 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 698-8

Date: March 30, 1972
Time: 5:18 pm - 5:30 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger; the conversation began in progress.
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     Vietnam
          -Democrats
              -Negotiations


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 2m 41s ]


An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 5:18 pm.

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 5:18 pm.

The unknown man and Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:30 pm.


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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     Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
         -Interview with Kissinger
               -Timing
                    -Audience
                         -Campared to George Putnam's show

     Soviet trip
          -Poland
                 -Stopover
          -Possible itinerary
                 -Baku to Iran
                 -Iran to Warsaw
                       -Arrival ceremony
                            -Crowds
                       -Departure time
                 -Washington, D.C.
          -Poland
                 -Stopover
                       -Public reception
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                              -Campared to Spain
                              -Compared to Romania
                              -The President’s reception in Warsaw while Vice President
                   -Poles
                        -Reaction to the President's visit
           -Iran
                -Reception
           -Warsaw reception
           -Soviet reaction
           -Kissinger's meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
                -Accommodations
                      -Kremlin
                            -Leonid I. Brezhnev
                            -Soviet reaction
           -Public expectations for Moscow summit
                -Strategic Arms Limitations Talks [SALT]
                      -Gerard C. Smith
                      -Kissinger's talk with Dobyrnin

     Middle East
         -Interim settlement
         -Final settlement
         -Kissinger's schedule
               -Trips
                     -Middle East
                     -The People's Republic of China [PRC]
                     -Soviet Union
                     -1972 campaign
                          -Television
                          -Foreign policy
                          -PRC
                               -Timing
                                     -Democratic National Convention

     European trip
          -William P. Rogers
          -Announcement
                -Kissinger's forthcoming trip to Japan
                     -Announcement
                -Kissinger's forthcoming meeting with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Kissinger left at 5:30 pm.
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