Conversation: 752-006
Prev: 752-005 Next: 752-007Start Date: 25-Jul-1972 9:55 AM
End Date: 25-Jul-1972 10:35 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.; Bull, Stephen B.;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On July 25, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:55 am to 10:35 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 752-006 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 752-6
Date: July 25, 1972
Time: 9:55 am - 10:35 am
Location: Oval Office
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)
The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.
Vietnam
-South Vietnamese military operations
-Quang Tri
-Television coverage
-News summary
-World War II
-Casualties
-Germans
-Artillery fire
-Effect
-Prospects for success
-Frederick C. Weyand
-Control of territory
-Airborne division
-Western orientation
-Quang Tri
-Delta
-Messages from US
-Forthcoming vote in Senate
-Kissinger's conversations with Charles H. Percy and Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
-Georgetown
The President's opponents
-White House response
-1972 election
-Domestic issues
-Welfare, revenue sharing, tax program
-George S. McGovern's statements about prisoners of war [POWs]
-Bombing
-Thailand
-US forces
-France
1972 campaign
-McGovern's statements
-Possible response from the Administration
-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-The President
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Melvin R. Laird, William P. Rogers
-Thomas F. Eagleton's statements about Vietnam
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)
-Prolonging war
-People's Republic of China [PRC], Soviet Union
-Insinuation
-Possible response from the Administration
-Haldeman
-McGovern
-Rowland Evans's conversation with Kissinger
-Chou En-Lai's comments
-Kissinger’s view
-Views about aid to Greece
-Thailand
-Eagleton’s comments
-Forthcoming briefing by Kissinger
-Comments
-Timing
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Richard M. Helms
-Kissinger's possible comments to press
Vietnam
-End the war resolution
-Effect on foreign aid
-Continuing resolution
-The President's forthcoming press conference
-Negotiations
-Location
-Oval Office
-Negotiations
-Government of National Concord
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 2m 8s ]
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Post-election plans
-President's opponents
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)
-White House response
-Bureaucracy
-Congress
-Establishment
-Intellectuals, business community
-Bureaucracy
-The President’s efforts
-Kissinger’s view
-Successors to the President
-State Department
-Department of Defense
-Military
Vietnam
-End the war resolution
-Foreign aid bill
-North Vietnamese reaction
-North Vietnamese military capability
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] analysis
-Guerilla war in 1973
Middle East
-Anwar el-Sadat
-Stability
-Policy toward Soviet Union
-Expulsion and retention of advisers
-Long-range offensive weapons and supplies
-US negotiations with Soviet Union
-The President's conversation with Andrei A. Gromyko
-Sadat’s speech of July 24, 1972
-Sadat
-Policy toward US
-Howard K. Smith
-Interview with the President in Los Angeles, July 1, 1970
-Soviet Union
-Israel
-Expulsion of Soviet advisers
-Possible motivation
-Israel
-Soviet Union
-Israel
-Possible action
-Sadat
-Policy
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)
-Offensive weapons
-Negotiations
-Contact with Helms
-Surface to air missiles [SAMs]
-Israeli planes
-Kissinger’s talk with Helms
-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with Yitzhak Rabin
-1972 campaign
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[National Security]
[Duration: 3s ]
ISRAEL
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
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-Possible US message to Egypt
-1972 election
-US policy
-Jewish community
-Soviet Union
-Negotiations
-Possible proposal to Egypt
-Camp David
-Kissinger's conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-US assurance regarding unilateral action
-Letter from Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Possible response
-Tone
Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Possible US actions
-Timing
-September 1972
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)
-1972 election
-North Vietnamese proposal
-Government change
-Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South
Vietnam [PRG]
-The President's January 25, 1972 proposal
-Elections
-Timing
-Possible US proposal
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-South Vietnamese constitution
-Change
-Thieu
-Statement of principles
-Ceasefie
-Electoral commission
-Elections
-Timing
-Thieu
-New government
-PRG
-Veto power
-US imposition
-1967
-Henry Brandon's conversation with Kissinger
-McGovern
-Negotiations
-Thieu
-1972 election
-Possible US proposal
-New York Times
-Morale in North Vietnam
-Quakers' view
-Effect of mining
-North Vietnamese statements
-Negotiations
-Treatment of Joseph C. Kraft
Kurt Waldheim
-Rogers
-State Department
-Unknown Argentinian
-George H.W Bush's statement
-Kissinger's forthcoming call to Nelson A. Rockefeller
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)
-Possible conversation with Nelson Rockefeller
United Nations [UN]
-Appropriations
-Paul G. Hoffman
-Rudolph A. Peterson
-US funding
-Possible cutoff
-Timing
-1972 election
-Otto E. Passman
-Waldheim's statements about Vietnam
-US bombing
-Dikes
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Refugees
-Civilian casualties
-Rogers's statements
-Bush
-The President's schedule
-Waldheim
-Possible reception
-Previous visits
-Speeches
-US delegation
-Bush
-Bureaucracy
-Richard F. Pedersen
-The President's schedule
-Reception
-Haile Selassie
-Significance
-Invitations
-Responses
-Kissinger, Haig, Rogers
-State Department
-Rogers
-[National Security Council [NSC]] staff
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 5m 1s ]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
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National economy
-John B. Connally
-As issue
-Compared to foreign policy
-Connally
-Leadership
-August 15, 1971 statement
-George P. Shultz, Herbert Stein, Arthur F. Burns
Vietnam
-As issue
-POWs, amnesty
-McGovern’s policy
-Press reports
-Volunteers
-Casualties
-Press reports
1972 campaign
-The President's forthcoming acceptance speech
-Miami
-Vietnam
-Draft
-Opponents’ policy
-Enemy terms
-Imposition of Communist government in South Vietnam
Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Record
-Possible publicity
-Prospects
-McGovern
-Standing in polls
-September 1972
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 2m 29s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9
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Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:55 am.
The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting
-Report presentation
-Photograph session
-Map
-Press
The President, Kissinger, and Bull left at 10:35 am.