Secret White House Tapes

16–37

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16–37
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Henry A. Kissinger
  • UNKNOWN
December 7, 1971
Conversation No. 16-37

Date: December 7, 1971
Time: 11:31 pm - 11:41 pm
Location: White House Telephone

Henry A. Kissinger talked with the President.

India-Pakistan War
-United Nations [UN] General Assembly Session
-Vote
-Romania
-Issues
-Withdrawal
-Ceasefire
-Opposition
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-India
-East European communists
-India
-Bhutan
-Nepal
-Frank F. Church
-Edward M. Kennedy
-New York Times
-Time
-Helen A. Thomas
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
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-Reaction to Kissinger’s backgrounder
-Forthcoming columns
-Indian aggression
-Pakistan
-Refugees
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Liberals
-UN Security Council
-Vote
-Vote
-India
-US recommendation
-Abstentions
-British
-French
-Edward R.G. Heath
-Rhodesia
-Pakistan
-John B. Connally
-British
-Vote
-Evaluation
-Peoples Republic of China [PRC] influence
-Albania
-Ceasefire
-Withdrawal
-India
-UN Security Council
-Vote
-Liberals
-Reaction
-Harvard University
-John Kenneth Galbraith
-Interview
-Dinner for Kissinger
-Galbraith’s view
-India
-Rhodesia
-South Africa
-India
-Moral judgments
-Moral judgments
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Tape Subject Log
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-Portugal
-Cambodia
-US action
-Significance of vote
-Leonid I. Brezhnev itinerary
-Warsaw

[President conferred with an unknown person]

-Brezhnev
-Unknown letter


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration: 13s ]


INDIA-PAKISTAN WAR


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-Galbraith
-UN
-World opinion
-India
-UN
-Kissinger’s backgrounder
-Press
-Liberals
-Kennedy
-Church
-Domestic strategy
-Hugh Scott
-Charles W. Colson
-Clark MacGregor
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Tape Subject Log
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-Spiro T. Agnew
-Fighting
-Kissinger’s predictions
-East Pakistan
-Massacre
-West Pakistan


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[National Security]
[Duration: 1m 4s ]


INDIA-PAKISTAN WAR


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

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