Secret White House Tapes

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249–16
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Henry A. Kissinger
April 15, 1971
Conversation No. 249-16

Date: April 15, 1971
Time: 4:05 pm - 4:32 pm Conv. No. 249-15 (cont.)
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger

Donald H. Rumsfeld and Robert H. Finch
-Trip

People’s Republic of China [PRC] policy
-President’s initiative
-Critics
-Press reaction
-Time and Newsweek
-Kissinger’s meeting with unknown person
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Cambodia
-Finch and Rumsfeld
-Invitation to Chinese doctors
-Rumsfeld

Preparations for press conference, April 16, 1971
-Vietnam War
-Possible statement on Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Cease fire
-Residual force
-Robert C. Byrd

United States-PRC relations
-Soviet statement
-Kissinger’s conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler

Kissinger’s call from Martin [?]
-Campus atmosphere
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Kissinger’s Conversation with Charles H. Percy
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)



-Senate

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] negotiations
-USSR
-Summit
-Deadline

Vietnam negotiations Conv. No. 249-16 (cont.)
-Message to Hanoi
-North Vietnamese intentions
-Residual force
-United States’ objectives
-Withdrawal
-Return of prisoners
-Defense of South Vietnam
-Laos
-State Department

Preparation for press conference
-Pakistan
-Middle East
-Melvin R. Laird
-Balance
-Arms shipments
-Negotiations

President’s PRC initiative
-Liberals
-Peter Lisagor
-Marshall Green
-President’s role
-Leadership
-Kissinger’s Conversation with [Name unintelligible]
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-State Department
-Policy directive of February 5, 1969
-Policy directive of May 15, 1969
-Relaxation of economic controls, June 26, 1969
-Other dates of announcements
-Lifting of restrictions
-Leadership
-Elliot L. Richardson
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)



-Muskie
-State Department
-Announcements
-J. Edward Murray
-Chou En-lai
-Chinese
-Timing
Conv. No. 249-16 (cont.)
Kissinger’s press interviews
-[Forename unknown] Fentris [sp?]
-Instructions to Kissinger
-Reaction to news story on Vietnam

Kissinger left at 4:31 pm
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