Conversation: 626-007
Prev: 626-006 Next: 626-008Start Date: Tuesday, November 30, 1971 3:06 PM
End Date: Tuesday, November 30, 1971 4:05 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.; Finch, Robert H.; Klein, Herbert G.; Woods, Rose MaryRecording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:04:55
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:05:21
NARA Description:
On November 30, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, Robert H. Finch, Herbert G. Klein, and Rose Mary Woods met in the Oval Office of the White House from 10:06 am to 11:05 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 626-007 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 626-7
Date: November 30, 1971
Time: 10:06 am - 11:05 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Henry A. Kissinger, Robert H. Finch and Herbert G. Klein; members of
the press were present at the beginning of the meeting.
Greetings
International economy
-Military sales
-Import surcharge
-Working group
-Venezuela
-State department
-John B. Connally
-Possible reduction
-Mexico
-Brazil
-Canada
-International monetary situation
-Forthcoming Group of Ten meeting
-Negotiations
-Expropriations
-US policy
-Multilateral compared to bilateral aid
-Finch’s view
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 626-7 (cont.)
-Ecuador
Peru
Brazil
-Economy
-"Nixon Doctrine"
-Brasilia
-Government
-Foreign minister, Mario Gibson Alves Barbosa
-Emilio Garrastazu Medici
-Government
Argentina
-John D. Lodge
-Finch’s view
-Alejandro A. Lanusse
-Health
-US Deputy Chief of Mission
-State dinner
-Argentine cabinet
-Lodge
-Lanusse
-Economy
-Possible new post
-Finland
-European security conference
-Finances
-Finch’s view
-Finch’s view
-Peru
Ambassadorships
-Argentina
-Lodge
-Spain
-Cornelius V. Whitney
-Lodge
-Possible posting
-Australia
-Walter L. Rice
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 626-7 (cont.)
-Europe
-Belgium
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] ambassador
-David M. Kennedy
-Fredrick McC. Eaton
-Australia
-Rice
-Wife, Inger (Vestergaard) Rice
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Argentina
-Political situation
-Lanusse
-Connally
-Lodge
-Economic situation
State Department
-Charles A. Meyer
-US ambassadors to Latin America
-Finch’s view
Peru
-US embassy
-Tuna fisheries
-US negotiations
-Ecuador
-Licenses
-US negotiations
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 626-7 (cont.)
-Status
-Ecuador
-Previous United Nations [UN] vote on Taiwan
-Meyer
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Connally
-Law of the Sea Conference
Law of the Sea Conference
-Territorial limits
-Other countries
-Unknown man
George H. W. Bush
-Forthcoming conversation with Finch and Klein
Ambassadorships
-Lodge
-Spain
-Whitney
-Contribution to Committee to Reelect the President
-Spanish political situation
Peru
-Tuna fisheries
-US negotiations
-Taylor G. Belcher
-The President’s instructions to Kissinger
Ecuador
-Financial assistance
-Technical assistance
-Oil
-Health
-Agricultural assistance
US ambassadors
-Lodge
-Findley Burns, Jr.
-Belcher
-Singapore [Charles T. Cross]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 626-7 (cont.)
-Views of the Vice President and Ronald W. Reagan
Latin America
-US ambassadors
-The President’s views
-Lodge
-Relations with the President
-Finch’s view
-Finch’s and Klein’s previous trip
-Relations with US
-News reports
-Forthcoming dinner for Medici
-Klein and Finch
-Importance
The President's schedule
-Foreign visits and visitors
-Forthcoming meeting with the French
-Forthcoming meeting with the British
-Forthcoming meeting with the Japanese
-Pierre E. Trudeau
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Rose Mary Woods entered at 10:35 am.
Forthcoming dinner for Medici
-Finch
-Assistant Secretary for Natural Resources
-Kissinger
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 626-7 (cont.)
Woods left at 10:36 am.
US ambassadors to Latin America
-Spanish language
-Lodge
-Unknown man
-The President’s previous trip to Latin America as Vice President
Latin America
-Working group
-Finch’s possible participation
-US ambassadors
International economy
-Import surcharge
-Finch’s efforts
-US aid to Latin America
-Military sales
-US congress
-The President’s view
US foreign policy
-Friendly governments
-Democracy
-The President’s view
-Military governments
-Greece
-Pakistan
-US policy
-Foreign aid criteria
-Internal compared to external policy
-Colombia, Brazil, Greece and Rhodesia
Brazil
-Torture
-Medici
Mexico
-Luis Echeverria Alvarez
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s previous telephone call
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 626-7 (cont.)
US foreign policy
-Presidential telephone calls
-Story by James Perry of National Observer
-Edward R.G. Heath
-Previous telephone call from the President
Mexico
-Economy
-Import surcharge
-Finch’s view
Latin America
-Military sales
-The President’s instructions
-Visits by Cabinet members
-Previous trip by Finch and Klein
-Media coverage
-Medici
-Peru
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's previous trip
-Finch’s earthquake relief work
-Chile
-Peruvian-Chilean politics
-1970 Chilean coup
-Expropriation
-Loans
-Federal Loan Bank Board
-US aid
-1970 Peruvian earthquake
-Chile
-Views regarding Fidel Castro and Cuba
-Chile
-Organization of American States [OAS]
-Views regarding the President's forthcoming trips to People's Republic of China
[PRC] and Soviet Union
-Import surcharge
-Castro
-Mexico and Brazil
-Possible trade with PRC
-Possible official travel
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 626-7 (cont.)
-Maurice H. Stans’s previous trip to Europe
-Aleksei N. Kosygin
-Forthcoming US-Soviet Union summit
-William P. Rogers
-Finch’s and Klein’s previous trip
-Ecuador
-Rio de Janeiro
-Rogers
-Latin American views
-The Vice President
-Previous trips to Africa and Asia
-Mexico City
-Olympic games
-Crime statistics
-Tokyo compared with US
-Possible official travel
-Mexico City
-Brasilia
-Argentina
-Peru
-Colombia
-Venezuela
-Peru
-Possible official travel
-The Vice President
-Timing
-Forthcoming events
-Brazilian anniversary
-Brazil
-Population growth
-Brasilia
-Development
-US embassy
-Working group
-Department of State
-US Agency for International Development [AID]
-US ambassadors
-The President’s view
-Kissinger’s view
-Robert H. McBride
-Robert C. Hill
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 626-7 (cont.)
-Lodge
-Colombia
-Europe
-Polio
-Smallpox
-Klein's and Finch's possible conversations
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Views on Klein's and Finch's trip
-Suggestions for ambassadorial posts
-US ambassadors
-Unknown man from Nassau County, New York
-Rockefeller
-Import surtax
-Rogers’s schedule
-Brasilia
-Mexico City
-Possible conversation with Klein and finch
-Mexico
-Echeverria
-The Vice President's schedule
-Mexico
-Politics
-Echeverria
-Effect
-Los Angeles immigrants
-Working group
-Senior Review Group [SRG]
-Possible programs
-Echeverria, Medici, and Lanusse
-The President's policy
-World War II
-Unknown man
Finch and Klein left at 11:05 am.
Kissinger's schedule
-Rogers
Ronald W. Reagan
-President’s forthcoming conversation
-PRC
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 626-7 (cont.)
Kissinger left at 11:05 am.