Secret White House Tapes

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  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Henry A. Kissinger
April 6, 1971
Conversation No. 1-4

Date: April 6, 1971
Time: Unknown between 11:53 am and 12:10 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

President's upcoming speech on Vietnam
-Input from White House staff and others
-Rose Mary Woods
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-John A. Scali
-Possible American withdrawal
-Leonard Garment
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Laos
-Creighton W. Abrams
-Administration’s credibility
-Garment's views
-Kissinger's future statement
-Tone
-White House \"Doves\"
-George P. Shultz
-Ehrlichman
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Clark MacGregor
-Robert H. Finch
-Domestic issues
-George S. McGovern
-Drop in American and Vietnamese casualties
-Bombing reduction
-Regions
-Defense of Administration
-Staff
-New York Times, Washington Post
-Joseph W. Alsop column

Recording ends while the conversation is in progress.
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