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On June 9, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander P. Butterfield, and Henry A. Kissinger met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 9:23 am to 10:29 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 255-030 of the White House Tapes. Topics include: The President talked with Alexander P. Butterfield [See Conversation No. 4-84] [End of telephone conversation] Henry A. Kissinger entered at 9:24 am Kissinger's schedule Kissinger's previous meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin - Public statements - Summit - Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] - State Department - Soviet internal divisions - Leonid I. Brezhnev - Forthcoming trip to France - Vietnam negotiations - Possible summit - Timing - September - US Presidential elections - Effect - Vietnam - People's Republic of China [PRC] announcement - Trade restrictions - Jay Lovestone - Maritime union Gerald R. Ford - Support Canada - Trade agreement with Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] - Chinese Mexico Summits - USSR - PRC - Soviet summit - Berlin - Trade - Inflation Japan - Okinawa - Forthcoming treaty signing - President's schedule - State Department - Eisaku Sato - William P. Rogers - Textiles -[Forename unknown] Meyers - State Department - Donald McI. Kendall - Economic advisors Vietnam - Negotiations - Draft - Kissinger's conversation with Dan Rather, June 8 - Melvin R. Laird's memorandum - Prisoner of War [POW] issue - Clark M. Clifford -[William H.?] Sullivan - North Vietnamese - Negotiations - Bombing halt - Combat roles - John N. Mitchell - Laird and Rogers - Combat roles - Casualty figures - Troop withdrawal [?] - Press conference - General Nguyen Van Thieu - Laird - Richard M. Helms and Mitchell - Possible enemy offensive - Troop withdrawal Kissinger's conversation with William F. Buckley, Jr. [?] - SALT - PRC - Richard ("Dick") Wilson Vietnam - POWs - Troop withdrawal - Collapse of South Vietnam - Clifford - Charles W. Colson - Administration opposition to critics - Colson and John A. Scali - POW issue - Patrick J. Buchanan - Washington Post article - Student demonstrators - Dobrynin - Soviet press coverage of US demonstrators - Press questions - Timetable - Public statements by North Vietnamese negotiators - Administration's response - Buchanan and Scali - Hanoi - General Creighton W. Abrams, Jr. - Possible troop withdrawal, July 1 - Xuan Thuy - Series of meetings between Kissinger and Thuy - Laos - Cambodia - Vietnam - Laird - American embassy - Military presence - Effect of peace talks - Public reaction - Laos - American presence - Dobrynin - POW issue - Public announcement of US proposal - North Vietnamese rejection - Troop withdrawal - Laird - Cabinet meetings - Survival of South Vietnam - Dobrynin - Laos - American presence - Military operations - Public support - Cambodia - Casualties - Football - Vincent T. ("Vince") Lombardi - Coaching - History of warfare - Napoleonic Wars - Waterloo - Prussians - Causes - British [Previous National Security (B) withdrawal reviewed under MDR guidelines case number LPRN- T- MDR-2014-008. Segment declassified on 12/20/2017 and 01/12/2018. Archivist: AY] [National Security] [255-030- W001] [Duration: 51s] Vietnam - Unidentified person - Bangkok - White House staff Vietnam - Edmund S. Muskie - PRC - Soviet Union - North Vietnamese - Korea - Rogers - Laird - Cambodia - PRC - June 15th Kissinger left at 10:29 am. Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Butterfield, Alexander P.; Kissinger, Henry A.