Secret White House Tapes

41–43

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41–43
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Henry A. Kissinger
June 22, 1973
Conversation No. 41-43

Date: June 22, 1973
Time: 1:51 pm - 1:58 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

[See also Conversation No.448-5]

Kissinger’s schedule

-Sans Souci restaurant


President’s conversation with Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Kissinger

-Champagne toast

-Conversation with William J. Fulbright


President’s agreement with Brezhnev on prevention of nuclear war

-Reaction

-Enthusiasm
-Hawks [?]
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer, Paul H. Nitze
-James R. Schlesinger
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. November-2012)

Conversation No. 41-43 (cont’d)

-Treaty compared to agreement
-William Rogers’s suggestion
-Congress
-Melvin R. Laird’s view
-Congress
-Approval
-Edward F. Hebert
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Support
-President’s assessment
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield’s comment to president
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]

-Chou En-Lai

-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Brussels, Belgium
-Support
-Japan
-Support
-Great Britain
-France
-Germany
-Kissinger’s briefing on airplane
-President’s conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler

-Message from President

-Will of the parties

-President and Brezhnev relationship
-Politburo
-Kissinger’s conversation with Marvin L. Kalb
-Kalb’s assessment
-Possible reaction
-New York Times, Washington Post
-Provisions
-Use of threat of force

-Third parties, allies

-USSR restraint

-Jordan
-Cien Fuegos
-PRC
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM


Tape Subject Log

(rev. November-2012)

Conversation No. 41-43 (cont’d)

-Mansfield
-President

-Achievements of the administration

-Attendees at signing ceremony

-Fulbright

-President’s assessment

-President’s remarks

-Pragmatism

-Roles of President and Kissinger

-Rogers’s suggestion

-Congress

-laird’s view

-Debates

-Approval
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