Conversation: 709-016
Prev: 709-015 Next: 709-017Start Date: Monday, April 17, 1972 5:02 PM
End Date: Monday, April 17, 1972 5:06 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Rice, Donald B.; Weinberger, Caspar W. ("Cap"); Shultz, George P.; Bull, Stephen B.; White House photographerRecording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 03:24:18
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 03:30:36
NARA Description:
On April 17, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Donald B. Rice, Caspar W. ("Cap") Weinberger, George P. Shultz, Stephen B. Bull, and White House photographer met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:02 pm to 12:06 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 709-016 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 709-16
Date: April 17, 1972
Time: 12:02 pm - 12:06 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Donald B. Rice, Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger and George P. Shultz;
Stephen B. Bull and the White House photographer were present at the beginning of the meeting.
Rice's next job
-Locaiton
Photographs
Rand Corporation
-Rice's job
-Experience
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Shultz
-Press office
-Location
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 709-16 (cont.)
-Work
-Home
-Rice's family
Presidential gifts
-Money clip
-Cuff links
-Wife
-Compact
-Golf balls
Best wishes
Rice and Weinberger left at 12:05 pm.
Vietnam
-Bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong
-Troop withdrawals
-Negotiations
-US peace offers
-US bombing
-Soviet Summit
-Possible cancellation
-Toughness
-Blockade
-Implementation
-North Vietnamese invasion
-Number of divisions
-Lyndon B. Johnson's Administration
-US response
-Defense of South Vietnam
-Odds
-Ground forces
-Press reports
-US Marines
Shultz left at 12:06 pm.