Conversation: 872-006
Prev: 872-005 Next: 872-007Start Date: 8-Mar-1973 11:55 AM
End Date: 8-Mar-1973 12:05 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.; [Unknown person(s)];Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On March 8, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:55 am and 12:05 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 872-006 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 872-6
Date: March 8, 1973
Time: Unknown between 11:55 am and 12:05 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.
National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-Kissinger’s schedule [?]
-NSC group
-Qualities of members
-Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
-Kissinger’s opinion
-President's questions
-Private negotiations
-Summit
-President's handling of meeting
-Kissinger’s paper
-Need to focus on the “big picture”
-Rolf Pauls
-Comments about President
-Compared with John B. Connally, Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Handling of meeting
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-2010)
Conversation No. 872-6 (cont’d)
-Compared to Rockefeller, Connally
-Decision making
-Nuclear Test ban Treaty
-President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
[PFIAB] [?]
-Meeting
-Study
President's meeting with Analoliy F. Dobrynin
-Purpose
-Meetings at San Clemente, Camp David
Pakistan
-President's meeting with Mustafa Kahn and Aziz Ahmed
-Release of contracts
-President’s commitment
-Notification of India
-India’s reaction
-Existing contracts
-Aid package
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Rogers's reaction
-India’s production of tanks
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National security]
[Duration: 2s]
PAKISTAN
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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Meeting with NSC
-Television [TV] broadcast
-President's handling
-Subject
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-2010)
Conversation No. 872-6 (cont’d)
-William P. Rogers, [David] Kenneth Rush
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Discussion
-William P. Clements, Jr.
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Points raised
-Technology
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] negotiations
-Throwweight of missiles
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[National security]
[Duration: 4s]
THROWWEIGHT
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
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-Missile program
-Public relations
-Throwweight, launching
-MIRVs
-Verification
-Testing
-Test ban
-Throwweight advantage
-MIRV
-Trident
-USSR’s objection
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 11;55 am.
President’s meeting with Kahr and Ahmed
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-2010)
Conversation No. 872-6 (cont’d)
-Press photographs
Pakistan
-Embassy functions
-State Department
-Ecuador, Uruguay
-President’s attendance
-Spiro T. Agnew
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 12:05 pm.