Conversation: 890-015
Prev: 890-014 Next: 890-016Start Date: Friday, March 30, 1973 4:10 PM
End Date: Friday, March 30, 1973 4:29 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.; Dobrynin, Anatoliy F.; Johnson, Roger E.; Burtrova, Alla; Muromcew, Cyril; Furtseva, YekaterinaRecording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On March 30, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, Anatoliy F. Dobrynin, Roger E. Johnson, Alla Burtrova, Cyril Muromcew, and Yekaterina Furtseva met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:10 am to 11:29 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 890-015 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 890-15
Date: March 30, 1973
Time: 11:10 am - 11:29 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Yekaterina Furtseva, Anatoliy F. Dobrynin, Henry A. Kissinger, Cyril
Muromcew, Alla Burtrova and Roger E. Johnson. Members of the press and the White House
photographer were present at the beginning of the meeting.
Greetings
-Moscow
-Leningrad
Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Report on function on March 29, 1973
Tricia Nixon Cox
-Trip to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Edward R. F. Cox
Furtseva
-Reception, March 29, 1973
-Success
US-USSR cultural exchanges
-Ambassador
-Value
-Art
-Product of US-USSR relations
-Visual indication
-President's relationship with Leonid I. Brezhnev, Furtseva
-Ambassador
-Salary
Painting [“Russian Winter, 1972” by Boris Shebakor]
-Presentation to President
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2010)
Conversation No. 890-15 (cont’d)
USSR
-Trees
-Birch
Brezhnev's visit to US
-Stay at Camp David Birch Cottage
-Time of year
-Weather
-Washington, DC
-California
Kissinger
[Photograph session]
Leon Tolstoy's home
California
-USSR gift painting of winter scene
-Snow in California
Furtseva
-Acquaintanceship with President [?]
-Age
US-USSR relations
-President's efforts to improve
-Improved climate
-Compared to 1959
-Affinity between peoples
-Jokes
-Music
-Kissinger
-Affinity for USSR
-Travels
-President's goals by 1976
-Past improvements
-Continued meetings
-Brezhnev’s cooperation
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2010)
Conversation No. 890-15 (cont’d)
-Anecdote to use
-President's visit to Urals in 1959
-Marker
-School children
-Remarks to President
-Flowers
-Friendship
-Zhukov[?]
-English word “friendship”
Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Location
-California
-Invitation
Presidential gifts
-Seal of president
-Pin
-Friendship
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-General Assembly
Greetings from President
-Brezhnev
-Aleksei N. Kosygn
-Strength
-Compliment
-Intelligence
-Bargaining skills
-USSR leadership
Broadcast
Furtseva, et al., left at 11:29 am.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2010)
Conversation No. 890-15 (cont’d)