Conversation: 249-016
Prev: 249-015 Next: 249-017Start Date: Thursday, April 15, 1971 9:05 PM
End Date: Thursday, April 15, 1971 9:32 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:10:05
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:27:54
NARA Description:
On April 15, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 4:05 pm to 4:32 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 249-016 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 249-16
Date: April 15, 1971
Time: 4:05 pm - 4:32 pm Conv. No. 249-15 (cont.)
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Henry A. Kissinger
Donald H. Rumsfeld and Robert H. Finch
-Trip
People’s Republic of China [PRC] policy
-President’s initiative
-Critics
-Press reaction
-Time and Newsweek
-Kissinger’s meeting with unknown person
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Cambodia
-Finch and Rumsfeld
-Invitation to Chinese doctors
-Rumsfeld
Preparations for press conference, April 16, 1971
-Vietnam War
-Possible statement on Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Cease fire
-Residual force
-Robert C. Byrd
United States-PRC relations
-Soviet statement
-Kissinger’s conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler
Kissinger’s call from Martin [?]
-Campus atmosphere
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Kissinger’s Conversation with Charles H. Percy
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Senate
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] negotiations
-USSR
-Summit
-Deadline
Vietnam negotiations Conv. No. 249-16 (cont.)
-Message to Hanoi
-North Vietnamese intentions
-Residual force
-United States’ objectives
-Withdrawal
-Return of prisoners
-Defense of South Vietnam
-Laos
-State Department
Preparation for press conference
-Pakistan
-Middle East
-Melvin R. Laird
-Balance
-Arms shipments
-Negotiations
President’s PRC initiative
-Liberals
-Peter Lisagor
-Marshall Green
-President’s role
-Leadership
-Kissinger’s Conversation with [Name unintelligible]
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-State Department
-Policy directive of February 5, 1969
-Policy directive of May 15, 1969
-Relaxation of economic controls, June 26, 1969
-Other dates of announcements
-Lifting of restrictions
-Leadership
-Elliot L. Richardson
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Muskie
-State Department
-Announcements
-J. Edward Murray
-Chou En-lai
-Chinese
-Timing
Conv. No. 249-16 (cont.)
Kissinger’s press interviews
-[Forename unknown] Fentris [sp?]
-Instructions to Kissinger
-Reaction to news story on Vietnam
Kissinger left at 4:31 pm