Conversation: 937-015
Prev: 937-014 Next: 937-016Start Date: Tuesday, June 12, 1973 3:17 PM
End Date: Tuesday, June 12, 1973 3:31 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Scowcroft, Brent G. (Gen.)Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On June 12, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:17 am to 11:31 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 937-015 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 937-15
Date: June 12, 1973
Time: 11:17 am - 11:31 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft.
Vietnam negotiations
-Henry A. Kissinger’s meeting in Paris
-South Vietnam’s position
-Elections article in communiqué
-Terminology
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. June-2012)
Conversation No. 937-15 (cont’d)
-Wording of possible communiqué
-Statement on elections
-Scowcroft’s conversation with ambassador Tran Kim Phoung, June 13, 1973
-Validity of agreement
-Scowcroft’s forthcoming telephone call to Phoung
-President’s views
-Elections article
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Letter
-Possible Congressional response
-North Vietnam
-Missing in Action [MIA]
-President’s possible statement
-Timing
-Kissinger
-Paris
-Kissinger
-Two-party document
-Value
-Potential failure to reach agreement
-Possible duration
-Popular interest
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Draft
-Forthcoming Leonid I. Brezhnev visit
-Implications of possible failure
-Congress
-Thailand, Cambodia, Laos
-Survival of South Vietnam
-Army
-Status of Paris meeting
-Communiqué
-South Vietnam’s view
-Elections
-Zones of control
-Partitions
-Psychology
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. June-2012)
Conversation No. 937-15 (cont’d)
-US neo-isolationism
-Impact on Europe
-Defense spending
-Effects
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-President’s conversation with Phuong
-President’s messages to Thieu
-Congressional support
-Phuong’s role
-Kissinger’s meeting in Paris
-Communiqué
-North Vietnam
-Possible failure
-Congressional response
-North Vietnam’s depiction of meeting
-South Vietnam’s position
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Outcome
-Informing President
Scowcroft left at 11:31 am.