Conversation: 791-007
Prev: 791-006 Next: 791-008Start Date: 3-Oct-1972 12:27 PM
End Date: 3-Oct-1972 12:47 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.; Sanchez, Manolo;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On October 3, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, and Manolo Sanchez met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:27 pm to 12:47 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 791-007 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 791-7
Date: October 3, 1972
Time: 12:27 pm - 12:47 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Manolo Sanchez and Henry A. Kissinger.
Refreshment
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:47 pm.
US-Soviet Union relations
-Kissinger’s meeting with Andrei A. Gromyko at Camp David, October 2, 1972
-History of the President’s Administration
-Four-power declaration on Berlin
-Briefing house
-Problems
-Text
-State Department
-Soviet Union
-Different versions
-Vodka and Georgian wine to the President
-United States Secret Service [USSS]
-Ukraine
-Delivery to Kissinger’s office
-Sanchez
-Camp David
-European Security conference
-Mutual and balanced force reductions [MBFR]
-Agenda for meeting
-Vietnam
-Schedule
-Gromyko
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Anatoly F. Dobrynin
-Vietnam
-Kissinger’s role in April 1972 trip to Soviet Union
-Seriousness of negotiations
-Secretary General
-President’s recent telephone call to Kissinger
-Last offer
-Military options
-North Vietnam claim
-Negotiations
-Details
-US-Soviet Union compared to US-North Vietnamese
-Texts
-North Vietnamese demands
-US forces withdrawal
-Constitution changes
-Committees
-Removal of [Nguyen Van Thieu]
-Non-communists
-Communists
-Possible Soviet Union management
-Thieu
-Possible resignation
-Dobrynin
-Soviet Union message to North Vietnam
-1972 election
-George S. McGovern
McGovern
-Possible Vietnam speech
-Effect
-Charges of corruption in the administration
-Press relations
-Relations with Kissinger
-Conversation with Kissinger
-Social event
-Israel
-Attitude toward the President
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Press relations
21
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Press relations
-Washington Post
-New York Times
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]
-American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC]
-Time-Life
The President's relationship with press and media
-Congressional relations
-Stewart J.O. Alsop
-The President’s plane
-US-Soviet relations
-Watergate
-Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
-John B. Connally
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Washington Post
-Katherine L. Graham
-Joseph W. Alsop
-Recent conversation with Kissinger
-Stewart Alsop’s health
-President’s telephone calls
-Thomas W. Braden, Graham
-The President’s view
Vietnam
-North Vietnam
-Soviet Union message
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Upcoming meeting with Thieu
Kissinger’s schedule
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Vietnam
-Japan
-The President’s recent conversation with Gromyko
-McGovern’s possible trip to the Soviet Union
-Hanoi
22
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-McGovern’s possible trip
-Possible administration action
-Break off of talks, publicity
Government reorganization
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Fredrick V. Malek
-Purge
-Vietnam
-US military action
-Air strikes
-B-52’s
-20th parallel
-18th parallel, 19th parallel
-Ground action
-Possible increase
-Media
-Command changes
-Second term plans
-Kissinger’s recent conversation with Haldeman
-Public comment by Kissinger
-President’s decision
-Cabinet
Vietnam negotiations
-McGovern
-Kissinger
-Television [TV]
-Timing
-1972 election
-Settlement agreement
-Timing
-October 20, 1972
-Prisoners of war [POWs], cease fire
-Military action
-B-52’s
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Haig
-Advantages in accompanying Kissinger
-Kissinger’s staff
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Saigon
-Washington, DC
-Briefing for the President
-Saigon
-Hanoi
-Washington, DC
-Saigon
-North Vietnamese
-Soviet Union
-PRC
-American domestic opponents
-Joseph C. Kraft
-Kissinger’s recent meeting with Gromyko
-Meeting in Paris
-Announcement
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Length
-Saigon
-Hanoi
-Washington
-Saigon
-Paris
-Saigon
-North Vietnamese
US-Soviet Union relations
-The President’s recent conversation with Gromyko
-Kissinger’s recent conversation with Haldeman
-Nuclear weapons
-1972 election
-European security conference
-Strategic Arms limitation Treaty [SALT]
Kissinger left at 12:47 pm.