Secret White House Tapes

38–11

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38–11
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Henry A. Kissinger
  • Manolo Sanchez
April 13, 1973
Conversation No. 38-11

Date: April 13, 1973
Time: 6:00 pm - 6:07 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

President’s meeting with Joseph J. Sisco

-Sisco’s travel to Middle East

-Meeting with ambassadors

-Conduct of diplomacy

-State Department’s role

-Blame for failure

-Problems with Sisco [?]

-Moscow


Ambassadorships
-Soviet Union

-State Department career appointment

-Malcolm Toon

-[David] Kenneth Rush

-William J. Casey

-U. Alexis Johnson

-William J. Porter

-Diplomacy

-White House role

-Major appointment

-Thailand

-Henry Kearns

-Kissinger’s conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

-Pakistan

-Kearns


The President conferred with Manolo Sanchez at an unknown time between 6:00 pm and 6:07
pm.

[Begin conferral]
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Conversation No. 38-11 (cont’d)


Instruction

[End conferral]

Ambassadorships
-Kearns

-Pakistan

-Thailand

-Pakistan
-William R. Kintner
-Thailand
-Cambodia
-Henry A. Byroade
-Kearns

President’s schedule

-Meeting with Haig

-Dentist

-Kissinger’s schedule

-John D. Ehrlichman
-Watergate

Vietnam
-Need for plan
-Consultation
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Congress
-State Department
-Defense Department
-Overflights
-Reply concerning meeting with Le Duc Tho

Soviet Union

-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

-Kissinger’s message

-Negotiations with US
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Europe
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(rev. January-2011)

Conversation No. 38-11 (cont’d)

-Brezhnev
-Internal problems
US diplomatic successes
-Summit
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