Conversation: 278-033
Prev: 278-032 Next: 278-034Start Date: Tuesday, September 14, 1971 12:50 AM
End Date: Tuesday, September 14, 1971 2:15 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.; Sanchez, ManoloRecording Device: Old Executive Office Building
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:56:42
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:12:51
NARA Description:
On September 13, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 8:50 pm and 10:15 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 278-033 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 276-18/278-33
Date: September 13, 1971
Time: Unknown between 8:50 pm and 10:15 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.
[The recording begins at an unknown time while the conversation is in progress and is a
continuation of Conversation No. 276-18]
Foreign relations
-Forthcoming announcement
-Scheduling of forthcoming summits
-Moscow trip
-Kissinger's schedule
-Vietnam negotiations
-Date
-Announcement
-Ceasefire offer
-Melvin R. Laird
-Vietnam
-Popular opinion shifts
-Post-World War II elections
-Comparison with other countries
-Africa
-Communists' action
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 278-33 (cont.)
Attica Prison riots
-Casualties
-Guards
-Numbers
Vietnam
-Prisoners of war [POWs] issue
Foreign relations
-Soviet Union trip
-Announcement
-Kissinger's trip to the People's Republic of China [PRC]
-The President's trip to the PRC
-Timing
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Vietnam
-Troop withdrawal
-Press conference
-Response by Soviets
-Date of trip
-Vietnam negotiations
-South Vietnam elections
-North Vietnam
-President’s view
-Michael J. Mansfield
-South Vietnam
-Status, future
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-POWs
-The President's PRC trip
-US military action in Vietnam
-Unknown person
-Japan
-Reaction to PRC trip
-President’s handling
-State Department
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 8:50 pm.
Refreshments
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 278-33 (cont.)
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:15 pm.
Foreign relations
-Kissinger's trips to the PRC
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration: 2m 19s ]
ASIAN AFFAIRS
-JAPAN
-CHINA
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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Vietnam
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Withdrawal of US troops
-Future settlement
-Aftermath
-PRC
-North Vietnamese attacks
-Possible response
Attica Prison riots
-Casualties
-Guards
-Amnesty
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 278-33 (cont.)
Vietnam
-Withdrawal of US troops
-Announcement of Kissinger trip
-Foreign policy of the US
-Military protection
[Unintelligible]
Kissinger left at 10:15 pm.