Secret White House Tapes

169–2

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169–2
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Henry A. Kissinger
June 19, 1973
Conversation No. 169-2

Date: June 19, 1973
Time: 9:58 pm - 10:07 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Memorandum

-Policy recommendations

-Delivery


Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Meeting with President

-Vodka

-Friendship

-Conversations with Kissinger

-Relationship with President

-Friendship

-Admiration

-Mao Tse-tung

-Negotiations

-Meeting with President
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2011)

Conversation No. 169-2 (cont’d)

-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]-People’s Republic of China
[PRC] relations
-Kissinger’s conversation with PRC
-Sequoia
-Meeting with USSR officials
-Atmosphere
-Schedule
-Camp David meetings, June 29, 1973
-Organization
-Private meetings between Brezhnev and President
-Viktor M. Sukhodrev and President
-President, Anatoliy F. Dobrynin, Kissinger
-William P. Rogers, Andrei A. Gromyko
-Dobrynin and Kissinger
-Meetings with President

-Washington, Camp David, San Clemente

-Meetings, June 20, 1973

-Conversation with President


Watergate
-Brezhnev’s wish for President’s reelection
-President’s possible resignation
-Spiro T. Agnew

-Kissinger’s assessment


Brezhnev’s visit
-Preparation
-Kissinger and Dobrynin
-Watergate
-Insignificance compared to diplomacy

Watergate
-President’s opponents
-Brezhnev’s visits
-Negotiations

-Peace

-John W. Dean, III

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. August-2011)

Conversation No. 169-2 (cont’d)

-Handling of funds
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.’s conversation with Kissinger

Brezhnev’s visit

-Relations with President

-Hubert H. Humphrey

-Ability to handle negotiations

-Arrangement of summit meetings

-President’s previous actions

-Cien Fuegos

-Jordan

-May 8, 1972 speech

-President’s meeting with Brezhnev at Dacha in 1972

-President’s actions
-Value to Brezhnev

-Coexistence with West

-Summit schedule

-Relations with PRC


Chou En-lai

-Visit to US


President’s schedule

-USSR, PRC


Brezhnev’s visit

-Schedule
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