426–8

Conversation No. 426-8

Date: March 29, 1973
Time: 4:55 pm -5:10 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

President's schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger

[The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 4:55 pm and
4:59 pm.]

[Conversation No. 426-8A]

[See Conversation No. 44-73]

[End of telephone conversation]

President's speech typescript
-Changes
-Press copy, reading copy coordination
-Raymond K. Price, Jr. [?]
-Changes
-Ronald L. Ziegler's copy
-Paragraphs
-International diplomacy

Kissinger entered at 4:59 p.m.

Kissinger’s telephone [?] conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Leonid I. Brezhnev

Woods left at 4:59 pm.

Kissinger's conversation with Dobrynin

President's forthcoming speech
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep.-2010)
Conversation No. 426-8 (cont’d)


-National defense
-Unilateral disarmament
-Woods
-Copy of speech

Woods entered at an unknown time after 4:59 pm/

Page from speech

Woods left at an unknown time before 5:10 pm.

-Wording
-Vietnam War
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Relationship
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Elimination of nuclear arms
-National defense
-Budget
-Negotiations
-USSR
-Nuclear arms
-Mutual and Balanced Forces Reduction [MBFR]
-Kissinger’s critique
-Respect for US strength
-USSR
-MBFR
-Wording
-Impact on PRC, USSR

-Critics of President
-Vietnam
-Watergate
-Future press conference
-President’s efforts for disarmament, world peace
-Defense budget

Kissinger left at 5:10 pm.
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sep.-2010)
Conversation No. 426-10 (cont’d)