Secret White House Tapes

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  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Henry A. Kissinger
  • Stephen B. Bull
February 1, 1972
Conversation No. 662-5

Date: February 1, 1972
Time: 11:39 am - 11:52 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger

Visit by Kissinger to James B. (“Scotty”) Reston home
-Call to Reston
-Attendance
-J. William Fulbright and John W. Gardner
-Reston’s attacks on the President
-Consequences

Scientific exchanges
-President’s instructions
-Fidel Castro
-Salvador Allende Gossens

Visit by Kissinger to Reston home
-Foreign Relations Committee
-Common Cause
-Moderation of criticism
-Duration
-Fulbright view
-Reston
-Kissinger view
-Vietnam policy defense by Kissinger
-Attendance
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)



-Fulbright
-Vietnam policy defense by Kissinger
-Criticism of the President’s plan
-Moral crisis
-Foreign Relations Committee
-North Vietnam
-Concessions by US
-John W. Gardner
-Kissinger’s praise for the President
-Troop reduction
-Number
-Fulbright view
-Possible assistance
-Reston
-Critics’ attitude
-Daniel Schwarz [?]
-Cambodia
-Moderation of criticism
-Freedom of the press
-Kissinger’s previous talk with Reston
-Reason for meeting
-Future contact
-Establishment
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Kissinger defense
-Benefits
-Criticism
-Effects
-Historic perspective
-Gardner view
-Future conversations with Kissinger
-Reston view
-Support of PRC trip
-Max Frankel
-Press briefings
-Historic perspective of PRC trip
-Fulbright view
-Reston view
-Daily briefings
-Possible press attitudes
-PRC
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 662-5 (cont.)


-New York Times role
-Attacks on the President’s speech, January 25, 1972
-Possible cease-fire
-Timing
-Vietnam negotiations
-Reston view
-Gardner position
-Establishment
-Appraisal of meeting
-Reston view
-Restraint and debate

Rogers’s previous conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:39 am.

President’s schedule
-Apollo XV astronauts
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Previous dinner at Camp David
-Haldeman

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:52 am.

PRC trip
-Preparation
-Rogers’s interest in consultations
-Haldeman’s talk with Rogers
-Reading
-Establishment impression
-Kissinger’s comments at meeting

Kissinger’s schedule

Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:39 am.

The President’s schedule
-Astronauts
-Gifts
-Watches
-Delivery
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 662-5 (cont.)


-Photograph session

Kissinger and Bull left at 11:52 am.
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