Conversation: 842-008
Prev: 842-007 Next: 842-009Start Date: Thursday, January 25, 1973 4:39 PM
End Date: Thursday, January 25, 1973 5:42 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Rabin, Yitzhak; Atkins, Oliver F. ("Ollie"); Kissinger, Henry A.; [Unknown person(s)]; Sanchez, ManoloRecording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On January 25, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Yitzhak Rabin, Oliver F. ("Ollie") Atkins, Henry A. Kissinger, unknown person(s), and Manolo Sanchez met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:39 am to 12:42 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 842-008 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 842-8
Date: January 25, 1973
Time: Between 11:39 am and 12:43 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Yitzhak Rabin; the White House photographer was present at the
beginning to the meeting.
Rabin's schedule
Golda Meir
-Speeches
-Honorary degree
-Lyndon B. Johnson
Henry A. Kissinger entered at 11:40 a.m.
Ambassadors
Middle East
-Meir
-Anwar Sadat
Rabin
-Knowledge of US
-Knowledge of Israel
-Knowledge of world
-Experience in US
The President's election victory in 1972
US foreign policy
-Vietnam settlement
-World War II
Johnson
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-09)
Conversation No. 842-8 (cont’d)
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination
US aid to Israel
Israel's history
-United Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR)
-US actions
-Jordan
Middle East options for future
-Egypt
-USSR
-Change from war to peace
-USSR
-Israeli strength
-Cease-fire
-Negotiations
-Strategy and goals
-French-Germans
-Germans-Poles
-Poles-Russians
Foreign policy makers
-Attitudes
-Winston S. Churchill
-Austrian diplomat during World War I
-Major world power
-British
-French
-Germans
-Italians
Middle East
-Balance of power
-Negotiations
-Golan Heights
-Syrians
Rabin's trip home
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-09)
Conversation No. 842-8 (cont’d)
Rabin left at 12:06 pm.
Vietnam settlement
-Press relations
-Washington Post
-American diplomacy
-Edward R. G. Heath
-Georges J. R. Pompidou
-Australians
-Negotiations
-Location
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Schedule
-Kissinger's schedule
-Trip to Hanoi
-Cabinet meeting
-Press relations
-Future
-The President’s advice
An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 12:00 pm.
Refreshment
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:43 pm.
Agnew
-Trip to South Vietnam
-Kissinger
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Hanoi
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-President's schedule
-Domestic speech
-John Negroponte
-Col. Richard T. Kennedy
-Schedule
-Press relations
-Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-09)
Conversation No. 842-8 (cont’d)
-Australia
-Pierre E. Trudeau
Australia and New Zealand
Pompidou
-Charles A. J. M. deGaulle
Italy
France
Vietnam settlement
-Kissinger's briefings of Congress
-Location
-Content
-Press relations
-Mary McGrory
-The President’s critics
-Kissinger's remarks
-Bombing
-Kissinger's conversation with Col. Richard T. Kennedy
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Press relations
-Washington Star
-Negotiations
-North Vietnam
-Joseph W. Alsop
-Richard (“Dick”) Wilson
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Alsop, William S. White, Dick Wilson, Robert Allen
-McGrory, Peter Lisagor, James B. ("Scotty") Reston, Thomas G. (“Tom”)
Wicker
-Washington Post, Washington Star
-The President's judgement
-Howard K. Smith
-Barry M. Goldwater
-John G. Tower
-PRC, USSR
-Johnson
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-09)
Conversation No. 842-8 (cont’d)
-Lisagor
The President's meeting with Rabin
-Johnson
-Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination
-US Civil unrest
-King
-Robert F. Kennedy assassination
-Washington, DC
-Detroit
-Watts
The President's foreign policy
-PRC
-USSR
-Vietnam
-John F. Kennedy
-Cuban Missile Crisis
-Henry Fairlie's book
British press
-Opinion of the President
-Compared to John F. Kennedy
-Characterized
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:06 pm.
Book on Benjamin Disraeli
-Kissinger
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:43 pm.
British ambassadors
-John Freeman
-R. Anthony Eden
Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
Freeman
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-09)
Conversation No. 842-8 (cont’d)
The President read from a book on Disraeli.
-William E. Gladstone
-Charles Darwin
Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
Harvard
-Kissinger's daughter
President's Vietnam policy
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Opponents of policy
-POW wives
-Timing of settlement
-Cambodia
-Laos
-Bombing
-Goldwater
-Press relations
-Bernard Gwirtzman
-Charles H. Percy
-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
-Charles E. Goodell
-Goldwater
-William B. Saxbe
-Bombing
-Le Duc Tho
-North Vietnam
-PRC
-Congressional leaders
-Hugh Scott
-John C. Stennis
-J. William Fulbright
Johnson
-Dean Rusk's eulogy
-The President’s remarks
-Vietnam
-Ngo Dinh Diem
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-09)
Conversation No. 842-8 (cont’d)
-Application of power
John F. Kennedy
-Health
-Max Jacobson
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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift.]
The President’s schedule
-Ehrlichman
-Kissinger
-Sleep
[End segment reviewed under deed of gift.]
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H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Domestic concerns
Vietnam settlement
-The President's role
-Chairmen of Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-William P. Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
Kissinger left at 12:43 pm.