Conversation: 505-007
Prev: 505-006 Next: 505-008Start Date: Wednesday, May 26, 1971 4:43 PM
End Date: Wednesday, May 26, 1971 5:17 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bruce, David K. E.; Kissinger, Henry A.; White House photographer; Sanchez, ManoloRecording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:21:40
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:50:20
NARA Description:
On May 26, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, David K. E. Bruce, Henry A. Kissinger, White House photographer, and Manolo Sanchez met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:43 pm to 1:17 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 505-007 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 505-7
Date: May 26, 1971
Time: 12:43 pm - 1:17 pm
Location: Oval Office
Conv. No. 505-6 (cont.)
The President met with David K.E. Bruce and Henry A. Kissinger; the White House
photographer and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting.
Greetings
Bruce's schedule
Malik Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Saud luncheon, May 27, 1971
-Time
-Bruce's attendance
-Number in attendance
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration: 14s ]
SAUDI ARABIA
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[Camera noise]
-Menu
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
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[Duration: 10s ]
SAUDI ARABIA Conv. No. 505-7 (cont.)
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Meeting between Bruce and Kissinger
-Lunch
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Progress
-Delay
-Appearance
-President's meetings
-Bruce's resignation
-Postponement
Manolo Sanchez [?] entered at an unknown time after 12:43 pm.
Refreshments
Sanchez [?] left at an unknown time before 1:17 pm.
-Kissinger conference with Bruce
Vietnam negotiations
-Possible progress
-Timing
-Bruce’s resignation
-Bruce's appointment
-Negotiation process
-Accomplishment
-Stalemate
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[Unintelligible]
Bruce's resignation
-Possible departure from Paris
-Unknown person
-Jean Monnet
-Bruce’s health Conv. No. 505-7 (cont.)
-Age
-Residence
-Vacation
-Bruce's health
-British
-Timing
-Spain
-Mediterranean
-Bruce's health
Vietnam negotiations
-Future
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-North Vietnamese
-Possible progress
-Timing
-Bruce's resignation
-Timing
-Paris talks
-US negotiations
-Rank
-Bruce's future
-POWs
-Families
-Future forum
-Bruce's possible appointment
-Consultant to the President
-Bruce’s experience
-State Department
-Bruce’s view of status
-Goals
-Terminal date
-Settlement
-Ceasefire
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-Troop withdrawal
-Ceasefire
-US troops
-North Vietnamese
-Bruce's schedule
-W. Averell Harriman
-State Department
-Llewellyn E. (“Tommy”) Thompson, Jr. Conv. No. 505-7 (cont.)
-Resignation
-Date
-Kissinger
People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Kissinger’s forthcoming discussion with Bruce
-President’s conversation with Kissinger
-US table tennis team
-Visit to PRC
-Trade and travel
-Presidential candidate
-Cabinet
-Maurice H. Stans
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Kissinger’s Harvard University colleague
-PRC
-President’s plans
-Bruce’s position
-PRC
-Compared with USSR
-President's talk with Kissinger
-Candidates for possible trip to PRC
-Bruce
-South Vietnamese
-End of war
-Timing
-US-PRC relationship
-Bruce’s view
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
[National Security]
[Duration: 3s ]
JAPAN Conv. No. 505-7 (cont.)
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-Jean Sainteny
-PRC
-Negotiating posture
[Unintelligible]
-Bruce
-Japanese
-Compared with Chines
-Chinese
-Japanese
-PRC
-Attitudes toward others
-World
-USSR
-Japanese
-USSR
-Indians
-Bruce
-Lunch
-PRC
-Bruce's health
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 1m 45s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5 Conv. No. 505-7 (cont.)
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Bruce and Kissinger left at 1:17 pm.