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Conversation: 001-053

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Start Date: Friday, April 9, 1971 3:06 AM

End Date: Friday, April 9, 1971 3:15 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.

Recording Device: White House Telephone

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:55:10

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:03:37

001-053.mp3

NARA Description:

On April 8, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger talked on the telephone from 10:06 pm to 10:15 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 001-053 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 1-53

Date: April 8, 1971
Time: 10:06 pm - 10:15 pm
Location: White House Telephone

Henry A. Kissinger talked with the President .

     Vietnam
          -Kissinger's dinner with Rand Corporation officials
                -William R. Hewlett
                -William Webster
          -President's speech of April 7, 1971
          -President's dinner for W. Clement Stone
                -Charles H. Percy
                -Richard B. Ogilvie
                -Reaction
          -Supersonic Transport [SST]
          -Kevin and Mrs. Karl Taylor
                -Account by Mamie D. Eisenhower
                -Reaction to speech
          -Eric Sevareid
          -Presidential use of the media
                -Ronald L. Ziegler
          -President's Vietnam policy options
                -Prisoners of war [POW] issue
                -Ziegler
          -Melvin R. Laird
                -Forthcoming lunch with Kissinger
          -Lt. William L. Calley, Jr.
                -Reaction
                -Liberals
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           -Congressional reaction