Conversation: 906-006
Prev: 906-005 Next: 906-007Start Date: 27-Apr-1973 8:36 AM
End Date: 27-Apr-1973 8:45 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On April 27, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House from 8:36 am to 8:45 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 906-006 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 906-6
Date: April 27, 1973
Time: 8:36 am - 8:45 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.
President’s trip to Mississippi
Vietnam
-Henry A. Kissinger’s meeting with Le Duc Tho
-William H. Sullivan’s trip
-Timing of announcement
-Leak
-North Vietnam’s denial
John B. Connally’s forthcoming world trip
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 906-6 (cont’d)
-Request for introductions to heads of state
-US Embassies
-Clearances, protocol
-Treasury Secretary
-Report to President upon return
-Extension of courtesy
-Possible business
-Kissinger’s concern
-Press
-VIP treatment
-Invocation of President
Ambassadorships
-Appointments of William R. Kitner and Henry A. Byroade
-William P. Rogers’s refusal
-President’s memorandum [memo]
Kissinger’s visit to Moscow
-Announcement
-State Departmen
-US - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Leaks
-Rogers
Georges J. R. Pompidou
-Announcement
-Meeting with President in Iceland
Byroade appointment
Federal bureaucracy
-Need for control
-Defense Department
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman replacement
President’s memo concerning Byroade
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 906-6 (cont’d)
US-Japan relations
-Hirohito [Emperor of Japan] visit to US
-Masayoshi Ohira
-Kakuei Tanaka’s visit
-Announcement
-Hirohito’s visit to US
-Reasons for cancellation
-Domestic political opposition
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Kissinger’s position
-Treaty on the Prevention of Nuclear War
US-USSR summit
-Announcement
Ohira
-Visit with President
Nicolae Ceausescu’s message to president
-Special emissary
-Kissinger’s intercession
-Value
-Spain
President’s Atlantic speech
-France’s reaction
Byroade appointment
-Rogers
-Theodore Lyman Elliot, Jr.
William J. Casey
[David] Kenneth Rush
-Trip
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 906-6 (cont’d)
President’s meeting with John C. Stennis [?]
Watergate
-Kissinger’s meeting with Stennis
Time
Kissinger left at 8:45 am.