Conversation: 909-006
Prev: 909-005 Next: 909-007Start Date: 2-May-1973 9:31 AM
End Date: 2-May-1973 9:50 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On May 2, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:31 am to 9:50 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 909-006 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 909-6
Date: May 2, 1973
Time: 9:31 am - 9:50 am
Location: Oval Office
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 909-6 (cont’d)
The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.
Kissinger’s meeting with Willy Brandt, May 1
Kissinger’s schedule
-Departure for Moscow
Foreign policy report
-Format of release
-Signing ceremony
-Radio speech
-Preparation
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Quality
-Timing
-Vietnam War
Kissinger’s schedule
-Moscow
-Timing
-Negotiation of US-Soviet Union agreements
-Treaty on the Prevention of Nuclear War
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Bi-lateral agreements
President’s forthcoming meeting with David Packard
-Finances
-William P. Rogers’s conversations
-John C. Stennis and Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
Vietnam
-Kissinger’s possible meeting
-Success
-Threats
-Bombing
US-Soviet Union negotiations
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
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Conversation No. 909-6 (cont’d)
-Rogers’s knowledge
-SALT
-Kissinger’s activities
-US bureaucracy
-Strategy
Rogers’s possible departure from State Department
-Timing
-Knowledge of US-Soviet Union negotiations
Watergate
-Daniel Ellsberg break-in
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Pentagon Papers
-Kissinger’s knowledge
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[Privacy]
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Watergate
-Ellsberg break-in
-Kissinger’s knowledge
-Ehrlichman
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr. and G[eorge] Gordon Liddy
-Ehrlichman’s investigation
-President’s knowledge
-Compared to John F. Kennedy administration
-Theft of Pentagon Papers
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
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Conversation No. 909-6 (cont’d)
-India-Pakistan leaks
-Investigation
-Ehrlichman’s investigation
-Kissinger’s knowledge
-India-Pakistan leaks
-Navy yeoman [Charles E. Radford]
-Jack N. Anderson
-Reassignment
-Number involved
-Vulnerability to disclosure
-Leaks
-White House investigation
-National Security Council [NSC], State Department
-Compared with Lyndon B. Johnson and John F. Kennedy
administrations
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Ambition
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] guards in offices
-Leonard Garment
-Motives
-Presidency
-President’s assessment
-FBI guards in offices
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Perception
-Richardson
-Compared with Garment
-Watergate investigation
-Motives
-FBI guards in offices
-Garment
-Replacement
-Judgment
-Loyalty
-Emotion
-White House staff
-Experience
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
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Conversation No. 909-6 (cont’d)
-Cambodia, Laos, May 8, November 18
-White House staff and Congress
-Kissinger
-Stennis
Olaf Palme
-Bilderberg Conference
-Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands
-Sweden
-Kissinger’s attendance
-Conversation between Palme and Kissinger
-Objection
-Message to Prince Bernhard
-Cancellation
-Location
SALT
-Draft proposal
-Negotiations with Soviet Union
Foreign policy report
-President’s schedule
-Signing ceremony
-Timing, format
Vietnam ceasefire
-Reaction
-US response
-Watergate impact
-Congress
-Rainy season in Cambodia
-Timing
Forthcoming Soviet summit
-June 18, 1973
-Leonid I. Brezhnev’s schedule
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. October-2012)
Conversation No. 909-6 (cont’d)
-Arrival
-Camp David
-President’s attendance
-Return to Washington, DC
-San Clemente
-Soviet Union embassy
-Signing of agreements
-Treaty on the Prevention of Nuclear War, SALT
-Location
-Dinner at Soviet Union embassy
Treaty on the Prevention of Nuclear War
-Germany
-Great Britain
-France
Watergate
-Charles H. Percy
-Call for Special Prosecutor
-Richardson
-Richardson
-Independence
-Public opinion
-President’s previous speech
President’s schedule
-Labor-Management Advisory Committee meeting
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Duration
Kissinger left at 9:50 am.
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Tape Subject Log
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