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168–13
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Henry A. Kissinger
June 2, 1973
Conversation No. 168-13

Date: June 2, 1973
Time: 11:13 am - 11:24 am
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

President’s trip to Iceland
-Press coverage
-President’s previous conversations with Alexander M. Haig and Ronald L.
Ziegler
-Kissinger’s assessment
-Accomplishments
-Kissinger’s backgrounders
-Substance
-Monetary issues
-“Year of Europe”
-France’s support
-President’s conversation with Georges J. R. Pompidou
-Press coverage
-President’s expectations

President’s accomplishments
-Kissinger’s mail
-Support for President
-Peace
-“Big picture”

Watergate
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Herman E. Talmadge’s and Edward J. Gurney’s plan
-Testimony by H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman, Charles
W. Colson, John N. Mitchell, and John W. Dean, III
-President’s role

-Popular opinion

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Tape Subject Log

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Conversation No. 168-13 (cont’d)

-President trip to Iceland
-Peter Lisagor’s column, June 2, 1973

President’s trip to Iceland
-Meeting in Reykjavik

-Turning point

-“Year of Europe”

-Possibility of failure
-Monetary issue
-Kissinger’s conversation with George R. S. Baring [Earl of Cromer], June 2, 1973
-Kissinger’s meetings
-Sir Burke St. John Trend, June 4, 1973

-Michel Jobert, June 6, 1973

-Egon Bahr, June 11, 1973

-Pompidou

-European summit


Watergate

-President’s role

-Firing of Haldeman and Ehrlichman


Vietman
-Agreement [Joint communiqué]
-Negotiations
-Kissinger’s briefing in Paris
-President’s briefing of bipartisan Congressional leaders
-Ziegler
-Announcement
-Simultaneous briefings

-Announcement

-President’s talking points

-Cambodia

Kissinger’s health

-Travel



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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. March-2011)

Conversation No. 168-13 (cont’d)

President’s schedule

-Movie

-Sleep


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Watergate
-President’s opponents’ tactics

-Legal

-Riots

-Elections

-Columnists

-Lisagor

-Stewart J. O. Alsop

-Compared to President’s Iceland trip

President’s Iceland trip
-Press coverage

-Respect

-Compared to Shanghai communiqué

-Kissinger’s backgrounder

-“Opinion leaders”

-Briefings

-Republican Congressional leaders meeting

-Kissinger

-White House strategy
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