On June 15, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:45 pm and 12:54 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 520-008 of the White House Tapes. Topics include: The President met with Henry A. Kissinger President's meeting with Willy Brandt - Vietnam - Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] - Mutual reductions - Simultaneous reductions - Timetable - Prospects - Effect on alliance - Military problem - Balance of payments problems - Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction [MBFR] - Egon Bahr role - US- People's Republic of China [PRC] relations - Kissinger- Bahr conversation [Previous National Security (B) withdrawal reviewed under MDR guidelines case number LPRN- T- MDR-2014-028. Segment declassified on 05/03/2019. Archivist: DR] [National Security] [520-008- W001] [Duration: 7s] President's meeting with Willy Brandt - Issues - US- People's Republic of China [PRC] relations - Kissinger- Bahr conversation - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] - Belief President's meeting with Willy Brandt - Issues - Kissinger- Anatoliy F. Dobrynin meeting - Meeting with President - Presentation of note - Implications Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] proposal on SALT - Five Power Conference - Role of Department of State - Reaction of PRC - William P. Rogers [Previous National Security (B) withdrawal reviewed under MDR guidelines case number LPRN- T- MDR-2014-028. Segment declassified on 05/03/2019. Archivist: DR] [National Security] [520-008- W002] [Duration: 20s] Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] - Proposal on Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] - Henry A. Kissinger talks with People's Republic of China [PRC] US- PRC relations - Press coverage -[Forename unknown] Durton [sp?] Vietnam - Le Duc Tho- Kissinger meeting - Tho Contact with PRC - Ellsworth F. Bunker meeting - Announcement by President at Midway Island meeting, July 6 - General Nguyen Van Thieu - Implications - Kissinger's role - Rogers - Kissinger's meeting with Bunker - President's meeting with Thieu - Election benefits to Thieu - Trip by President to Vietnam - Cover for Kissinger trip to Vietnam - Rogers Five Power Foreign Ministers' meeting - Kissinger's message to Dobrynin - President's meeting with Dobrynin - President's stance on foreign ministerial meeting - Conduct of foreign relations - Andrei A. Gromyko - Georges J. R. Pompidou - Edward R. G. Heath - Walter Scheel Records of 1967 negotiations - Kissinger's role - Bureaucratic records - Leaks - Contact with Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense - Trust within Cabinet - President's records on leaving office - Ordering - Use by historians - Weakness of leader class President's schedule - John B. Connally's meeting with Kissinger - President's meeting with Dobrynin Kissinger left at an unknown time before 12:54 pm. Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.
- Part of White House Tapes: Sound Recordings of Meetings and Telephone Conversations of the Nixon Administration, Oval Office Sound Recordings