Conversation: 733-006
Prev:  733-005 Next: 733-007Start Date: 14-Jun-1972 11:15 AM
End Date: 14-Jun-1972 11:55 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.; Bull, Stephen B.; Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:42:17
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 03:23:13
NARA Description:
On June 14, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:15 am to 11:55 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 733-006 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 733-6 Date: June 14, 1972 Time: 11:15-11:55 am Location: Oval Office The President met with Henry A. Kissinger. Kissinger 's previous talk with Charles McC. Mathias, Jr. -Dinner -Remarks -Humor -Charles H. Percy Clark MacGregor -Mathias -Richard G. Kleindienst Kissinger's remarks -Vietnam -Response by audience 20 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) -The President's foreign policy ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal returnable] [Duration: 1m 33s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ***************************************************************** Nikolai V. Podgorny’s trip to Hanoi -India -Press reports -Calcutta -Aircraft -Soviet aviation -Kissinger's call to Anatoliy F. Dobrynin The President’s previous meeting with William P. Rogers -Reasons for trip abroad -The President’s view -Press conference -Charles W. Colson -"Issues and Answers" -Strategic Arms and Limitation Treaty [SALT] -“Issues and Answers” -Congressional testimony Rogers's forthcoming trip -Romania -Possible Soviet Union response -The President’s view -Leonid I. Brezhnev -Kissinger’s forthcoming conversation with Dobrynin -Rogers trip -Greece -Brezhnev -The President 21 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 733-6 (cont.) -Ceylon -Behrain -Iran -Mohammed Reza Pahlavi [Shah of Iran] -Oil -John B. Connally -Value of trip -Greece -Vietnam Possible press conference by Rogers -Colson Rogers's itinerary -Romania -Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW] Convention -Value of trip -Travel around country -Commonwealth Club Kissinger -Public appearances -Forums -Television appearances -Nelson A. Rockefeller -Elite groups -Benefits John D. Lavelle’s removal -Melvin R. Laird -Circumstances -Air strikes -Laird’s role -Kissinger’s view Laird's performance -Compared to Rogers's -Kissinger’s view -Budget requests -Kissinger, George P. Shultz -Supplemental requests -Military expenditures for Vietnam 22 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 733-6 (cont.) Lavelle -The President’s view -Compared to Daniel Ellsberg case -Military responses Adm. Thomas H. Moorer -Air strikes -Kissinger’s instructions -US relationship with Soviet Union Lavelle -Administration action -Replacement -Gen. John W. Vogt, Jr. -Timing of removal -Laird -Informing the President -Kissinger’s knowledge -Public relations aspects -Rogers -Administration response -Press response -Number of unauthorized air raids -Public response People’s Republic of China [PRC] announcement -Press coverage -Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr. The President talked with an unknown person [Stephen B. Bull?] at an unknown time between 11:15 and 11:55 am. [Conversation No. 733-6A] Ronald L. Ziegler [End of telephone conversation] PRC announcement -Michael J. Mansfield -Podgorny trip -Publicity 23 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 733-6 (cont.) Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:15 am. Ziegler’s location -Press briefing Bull left at an unknown time before 11:55 am. Lavelle -Administration action -Laird Moorer -Air strikes -Kissinger’s instructions -Laird -Opposition to the President -Lyndon B. Johnson -Soviet Union -Podgorny’s trip -The President’s conversation with Brezhnev Rogers -Purpose of Podgorny trip ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5 [Personal returnable] [Duration: 5m 46s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5 ***************************************************************** Warren E. Burger -Letter John C. Stennis Laird 24 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 733-6 (cont.) -Negotiations with Soviet Union -Rogers -Mining of North Vietnam harbors -Cambodia, Laos -Lavelle -Political ambitions -Kissinger’s view ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7 [Personal returnable] [Duration: 3m 18s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7 ***************************************************************** Lavelle -Haig -News summary Kissinger's trip -Schedule -Departure -Dinner for Luis Echeverria Alvarez -Schedule -Echeverria -Kissinger PRC -Military information SALT ratification -Approval -Timing -Republican convention -Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson's response -The President’s concern -Soviet Union responses 25 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 733-6 (cont.) -Jackson's concerns -Defense appropriations -Opposition -George S. McGovern -Jackson -Opposition -B-1 bomber -Undersea long-range missiles [ULMS] -McGovern -Kissinger’s possible responses -Defense appropriation -Appropriations -Anti-ballistic missiles [ABMs] -Relations with Soviet Union -John J. McCloy -Support to SALT and military program -Wall Street Journal -Talk with Kissinger -Keisling (sp?) [New York editor] Kissinger left at 11:55 am.