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Start Date: 13-Apr-1972 4:37 PM

End Date: 13-Apr-1972 4:46 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Woods, Rose MaryKissinger, Henry A.White House operator

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:30:09

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:40:52

708a.mp3

NARA Description:

On April 13, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, Henry A. Kissinger, and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House from 4:37 pm to 4:46 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 708-009 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 708-9

Date: April 13, 1972
Time: 4:37 pm - 4:46 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

       The President's Canadian speech
            -Draft
                  -Typing
                        -Airplane
                  -Changes
                        -Place
                        -Press copy
                              -Deletion
            -The President's meeting with Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
                  -Instruction in French language

       The President's trip o Canada
            -Dinner
                  -Attire
            -Scheduling

       Weather

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 4:38 pm.

       The President's trip to Canada
            -Speech
                  -Kissinger's review
                  -Deletion
                  -Draft
                          -Press copy
                                             9

                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. 10/06)
                                                                      Conv. No. 708-9 (cont.)


Woods left at 4:40 pm.

       Vietnam
            -George H. Mahon
            -John C. Stennis
                  -Briefing
            -F. Edward Hebert
                  -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
                  -Speech
                         -Press
                  -Call from Kissinger
            -US policies
                  -Public support
            -Kissinger's briefing
                  -Mahon
                         -Support for US policies
            -Haiphong
                  -Air strikes
                         -Petroleum, oil, lubricants [POL] dumps
                         -Timing
                               -Current plans
                               -People's Republic of China [PRC] and Soviet Union
                         -Necessity
                               -Lyndon B. Johnson and W[illiam] Averell Harriman
                         -Effectiveness
            -Cambodia operation
                  -Melvin R. Laird
                         -Conversation with Kissinger
            -Laos operation
                  -Effectiveness
                  -North Vietnamese tank losses
                  -Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
            -Haiphong
                  -Target
                         -POL dumps
                         -Truck parks
                  -Air strikes
                         -Aircraft
                               -Number
                         -B-52s
                               -Surface to air missile [SAMs]
                                                10

                            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                        Tape Subject Log
                                          (rev. 10/06)
                                                                          Conv. No. 708-9 (cont.)


                                     -Effectiveness
                                           -Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
             -Casualties
                  -Rate
                  -Comparisons

       William P. Rogers
             -Kissinger's call
                   -Schedule
                         -United Nations [UN]

Kissinger talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:40 and 4:46 pm.

[Conversation no. 708-9A]

[See Conversation no. 22-123]

[End of telephone conversation]

       Vietnam
            -Kissinger's call to Hebert
                  -Thanks for support

       The President's trip to Canada

Kissinger talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:40 and 4:46 pm.

[Conversation No. 708-9B]

[See Conversation No. 22-124]

[End of telephone conversation]

       The President's Canadian speech
            -Soviets

       Rogers

       Rogers's testimony

       Kissinger's call from Albert Stein
                                               11

                             NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 10/06)
                                                                        Conv. No. 708-9 (cont.)


             -US bombing

Kissinger left at 4:46 pm.