Conversation: 945-001
Prev: 944-010 Next: 945-002Start Date: 19-Jun-1973 9:18 AM
End Date: 19-Jun-1973 9:34 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On June 19, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:18 am to 9:34 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 945-001 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 945-1
Date: June 19, 1973
Time: 9:18 am - 9:34 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.
China
-Ambassador’s schedule
-President’s signature
-Meeting
Leonid I. Brezhnev’s visit
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin’s telephone call to Kissinger, June 19, 1973
-Reaction of Union of Soviet Socialist Republic [USSR]’s officials
-Schedule
-Brezhnev’s schedule
-Nap
-Senate foreign Relations Committee meeting
-Sequoia
-Guests
-Numbers
-William P. Rogers, George P. Shultz, Kissinger
-John B. Connally
-Helmut (“Hal”) Sonnenfeldt
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Attendance at Senate Foreign Relations Committee meeting
-Shultz
-Request of USSR officials
-Maximum occupancy of Sequoia
-Potomac River
-Return by helicopter
-Television [TV] coverage
-Brezhnev’s presence
-Chou En-Lai
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2011)
Conversation No. 945-1 (cont’d)
-Letter from President
-Reaction to US and USSR agreements
-Treaty
-Dobrynin’s telephone call to Kissinger
-USSR reaction
-State dinner
-Schedule
-Importance
-Guests
-Media coverage
-Historic nature of summit
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Forthcoming announcement
-Nuclear agreement
-Possible world reaction
-US allies, PRC
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Briefing
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-British, Germans
-Plenary session
-Shultz’s and Kissinger’s papers
-Most-Favored Nation [MFN]
-Gas projects
-Brezhnev’s interests
-Long-term projects
-President’s support
-Specificity
-USSR Politburo
-Speech
Watergate
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Television coverage by networks
-Archibald Cox
-Studies concerning indictment of a President
-Associates
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2011)
Conversation No. 945-1 (cont’d)
-Kennedy clan
-Elliot Richardson
-Comparison with John J. McCloy
-Effect of Brezhnev visit
-Ervin Committee
-Forthcoming John W. Dean, III’s testimony
-Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.’s statement
-President’s possible press conference
-Dean’s testimony
-Testimony of other staff
World situation
-World Peace
-Mao Tse-Tung
-Brezhnev
-President
-Actions by media
Watergate
-Effect of Watergate
-Dean
-Testimony
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony of H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D.
Ehrlichman, Charles W. Colson and Richard A. Moore
-Colson
-Appearance June 18, 1973 on Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] News
-Popular opinion
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Attitudes of Republican Senators and Congressmen
-Hugh Scott
-Media demeanor
-White House events
Brezhnev’s visit
-Importance
-Agreements
-[Agreement on Prevention of Nuclear War]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2011)
Conversation No. 945-1 (cont’d)
-[Convention of Taxation]
-[Protocol on Expansion of Air Services]
-Shultz
-Sequoia
-Dobrynin
-Guests
-Length of cruise
-Plenary session
-Foreign Relations Committee
-Blair House
-Brezhnev’s nap
Watergate
-Cox
-Possible indictment of President
-White House response
-Kissinger’s suggestion
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-President’s opponents
-Congressional response
-Carl T. Curtis
Brezhnev’s visit
-Meeting with press
-Brezhnev’s demeanor
-President’s forthcoming actions
-Media conduct
-USSR officials
-Haldeman’s former role on white house staff
-Responsibilities
-Reaction of USSR officials
-Schedule
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-2011)