Conversation: 919-003
Prev: 919-002 Next: 919-004Start Date: 16-May-1973 9:07 AM
End Date: 16-May-1973 9:25 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.; [Unknown person(s)];Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On May 16, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:07 am to 9:25 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 919-003 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 919-3
Date: May 16, 1973
Time: 9:07 am - 9:25 am
Location: Oval Office
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. September-2012)
Conversation No. 919-3 (cont’d)
The President met with Henry A. Kissinger and an unknown man.
Question
-Name [?]
Greeting
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 9:25 am.
Vietnam peace negotiations
-Paris
-Kissinger’s conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Possible White House statement
-Kissinger’s forthcoming press conference
-Blast
-April
-Effect of Watergate
-Economic aid
-President’s support abroad
-Forthcoming Soviet Summit
Forthcoming Soviet Summit
-Middle East
-Israel
-Nuclear treaty
-Israel
-Kissinger’s conversations
-Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with Hafiz Ismail
Middle East
-War
-Arabs
-1967 Arab-Israeli war
-President’s telephone call with Eugene V. Rostow
-Straits of Tiran
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. September-2012)
Conversation No. 919-3 (cont’d)
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National security]
[Duration: 12 s ]
INTELLIGENCE
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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Middle East
-Possible negotiations
-Forthcoming Soviet Summit
-Principles
-Wording
-United Nations [UN] Security Council resolution
-Egypt’s concession
-Israel’s acquiescence
-Interim settlement
-Overall settlement
-Israel
-Delay
-Principles
-Soviet Union’s support
Leonid I. Brezhnev’s letter to the President
-Kissinger’s visit to Soviet Union
-Reply
-Joseph W. Alsop’s column, May 16, 1973
Watergate
-Public mood
-Weariness
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. September-2012)
Conversation No. 919-3 (cont’d)
-Revelations
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Wiretaps
-Haig and Kissinger’s statement
-National security
-Effect of leaks on United States foreign policy
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-President’s knowledge
-Henry Brandon
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Theories on role
-Comparison to Teapot Dome scandal
-Warren G. Harding
-Herbert G. Klein’s conversation with editors
-President’s possible resignation
-President’s possible resignation
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s resignation
-President’s possible activities
-Amateurishness of perpetrators
-Wiretaps
-Daniel Ellsberg
-Democratic National Committee [DNC] break-in
-Cover-up
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters’s testimony
-John D. Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-John W. Dean III
-Attempt to place defendants on CIA payroll
-White House strategy
-White House staff resignations
-President’s possible resignation
-Assassination
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Hoover
-Possible handling
-Blackmail
-President’s activities
-Joseph C. Kraft
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. September-2012)
Conversation No. 919-3 (cont’d)
Vietnam
-Possible US withdrawal
-Kissinger’s view on loss of Indochina
-US attitude
-South Vietnam’s sovereignty
-Battle
-1975
-Soviet Union and People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Europe
Forthcoming Soviet Summit
-Kissinger’s conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin, May 15, 1973
-Agenda
-Effect on Watergate hearings
Forthcoming European Summit
-Bureaucratic discipline
Watergate
-Popular mood
-Effect
-Compared with Pentagon Papers trial
-Forthcoming trials
-John N. Mitchell
-Press attention
-White House strategy
Chou En-Lai
-State visit to US
-President’s approval
Watergate
-Effect on President
-Loss of close associates
-Kissinger, Haig, Ziegler
-Congress’s attitude
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. September-2012)
Conversation No. 919-3 (cont’d)
-Compared with other events
-Pentagon Papers
-Laos
-Cambodia
-Possible White House counterattack
-Timing
-Wiretaps
-Newsmen
-Congress
-Actions
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Forthcoming White House social event
Vietnam peace negotiations
-Reports during trip
-Possible statement
-Kissinger’s schedule
Kissinger left at 9:25 am.