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890–15

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890–15
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Henry A. Kissinger
  • Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
  • Roger E. Johnson
  • Alla Burtrova
  • Cyril Muromcew
  • Yekaterina Furtseva
March 30, 1973
Conversation No. 890-15

Date: March 30, 1973
Time: 11:10 am - 11:29 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Yekaterina Furtseva, Anatoliy F. Dobrynin, Henry A. Kissinger, Cyril
Muromcew, Alla Burtrova and Roger E. Johnson. Members of the press and the White House
photographer were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings
-Moscow
-Leningrad

Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Report on function on March 29, 1973

Tricia Nixon Cox
-Trip to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Edward R. F. Cox

Furtseva
-Reception, March 29, 1973
-Success

US-USSR cultural exchanges
-Ambassador
-Value
-Art
-Product of US-USSR relations
-Visual indication
-President's relationship with Leonid I. Brezhnev, Furtseva
-Ambassador
-Salary

Painting [“Russian Winter, 1972” by Boris Shebakor]
-Presentation to President
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2010)
Conversation No. 890-15 (cont’d)


USSR
-Trees
-Birch

Brezhnev's visit to US
-Stay at Camp David Birch Cottage
-Time of year
-Weather
-Washington, DC
-California

Kissinger

[Photograph session]

Leon Tolstoy's home

California
-USSR gift painting of winter scene
-Snow in California

Furtseva
-Acquaintanceship with President [?]
-Age

US-USSR relations
-President's efforts to improve
-Improved climate
-Compared to 1959
-Affinity between peoples
-Jokes
-Music
-Kissinger
-Affinity for USSR
-Travels
-President's goals by 1976
-Past improvements
-Continued meetings
-Brezhnev’s cooperation
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2010)
Conversation No. 890-15 (cont’d)


-Anecdote to use
-President's visit to Urals in 1959
-Marker
-School children
-Remarks to President
-Flowers
-Friendship
-Zhukov[?]
-English word “friendship”

Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Location
-California
-Invitation

Presidential gifts
-Seal of president
-Pin
-Friendship
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-General Assembly

Greetings from President
-Brezhnev
-Aleksei N. Kosygn
-Strength
-Compliment
-Intelligence
-Bargaining skills
-USSR leadership

Broadcast

Furtseva, et al., left at 11:29 am.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-2010)
Conversation No. 890-15 (cont’d)
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