Conversation: 016-037
Prev: 016-036 Next: 016-038Start Date: Wednesday, December 8, 1971 4:31 AM
End Date: Wednesday, December 8, 1971 4:41 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.; [Unknown person(s)]Recording Device: White House Telephone
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:11:28
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:21:27
NARA Description:
On December 7, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, and unknown person(s) talked on the telephone from 11:31 pm to 11:41 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 016-037 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 16-37
Date: December 7, 1971
Time: 11:31 pm - 11:41 pm
Location: White House Telephone
Henry A. Kissinger talked with the President.
India-Pakistan War
-United Nations [UN] General Assembly Session
-Vote
-Romania
-Issues
-Withdrawal
-Ceasefire
-Opposition
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-India
-East European communists
-India
-Bhutan
-Nepal
-Frank F. Church
-Edward M. Kennedy
-New York Times
-Time
-Helen A. Thomas
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
-Reaction to Kissinger’s backgrounder
-Forthcoming columns
-Indian aggression
-Pakistan
-Refugees
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Liberals
-UN Security Council
-Vote
-Vote
-India
-US recommendation
-Abstentions
-British
-French
-Edward R.G. Heath
-Rhodesia
-Pakistan
-John B. Connally
-British
-Vote
-Evaluation
-Peoples Republic of China [PRC] influence
-Albania
-Ceasefire
-Withdrawal
-India
-UN Security Council
-Vote
-Liberals
-Reaction
-Harvard University
-John Kenneth Galbraith
-Interview
-Dinner for Kissinger
-Galbraith’s view
-India
-Rhodesia
-South Africa
-India
-Moral judgments
-Moral judgments
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
-Portugal
-Cambodia
-US action
-Significance of vote
-Leonid I. Brezhnev itinerary
-Warsaw
[President conferred with an unknown person]
-Brezhnev
-Unknown letter
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration: 13s ]
INDIA-PAKISTAN WAR
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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-Galbraith
-UN
-World opinion
-India
-UN
-Kissinger’s backgrounder
-Press
-Liberals
-Kennedy
-Church
-Domestic strategy
-Hugh Scott
-Charles W. Colson
-Clark MacGregor
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Fighting
-Kissinger’s predictions
-East Pakistan
-Massacre
-West Pakistan
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[National Security]
[Duration: 1m 4s ]
INDIA-PAKISTAN WAR
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
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