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On October 6, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at 10:30 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 283-021 of the White House Tapes. Topics include: The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield President's schedule [Signing documents] Henry A. Kissinger entered at 6:05 pm Changes in document - Cyrus R. Vance - Form of address US troops in Europe - The President's statement - Importance -"The Establishment" - Herbert H. Humphrey Butterfield left at 6:08 pm - Distribution - Possible changes - John A. Scali - Distribution, endorsement - Ronald L. Ziegler's views - Timing - Possible changes - Kissinger's conversation with Vance - Mansfield resolution - The President's response - Kissinger's conversations - Clark MacGregor, Hugh Scott, Robert P. Griffin - Michael J. ("Mike") Mansfield - Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] announcement - The President's statement - Kissinger's possible call to Lyndon B. Johnson - Harry S. Truman - Dean G. Acheson's possible call - Relations with the President - Johnson - Truman - Acheson's call Forthcoming announcement on Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT] - Kissinger's conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin - Text of the statement - Working - Possible problems - Dobrynin's instructions - Memo for the President's file - Soviet Union interpretation - Timing - Press coverage - Soviet Union concerns - US concerns - William P. Rogers - Kissinger's possible conversation with Gerard C. Smith - Kissinger's role - Rogers - Knowledge of Middle East peace negotiations - Defense Department - Forthcoming conversation with the President - Alexei N. Kosygin - Dobrynin - Understanding - Smith - John McRoberts - Murrey Marder - Senators - J. William Fulbright - Press Coverage - Negotiations - Smith The President's schedule - Robert D. Murphy - Conversation with Kissinger, May 13, 1971 - Report The President's previous meeting regarding U.S. forces in Europe - Henry Cabot Lodge - Gen. Lauris Norstad - John Hay Whitney - Acheson - Rogers Rogers Kissinger's schedule - Address to Brookings Institute Board of Directors - Democratic National Committee - North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] - Vietnam President's foreign policy - Berlin agreement - SALT - Forthcoming Congressional recess - Forthcoming Soviet summit - People's Republic of China [PRC] Vietnam - Laotian incursion - Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr. - Negotiations - Le Duan's Schedule Demonstrations in Washington, D.C. - Radio Peking's reports - Johnson's Administration - Effect - Johnson compared to the President Presidency - The President contrasted with Lyndon B. Johnson Johnson - Trip to Vietnam - Public statements - Compared with the President - Foreign policy - Compared with the President - Advisors - Kissinger's briefings - Interests The President - Kissinger's interview with New York Daily News - Nelson A. Rockefeller support in 1968 - Kissinger's statements John F. Kennedy - Knowledge of world leaders Mansfield - Resolution regarding NATO - Popular opinion - Vance's comment regarding Herbert H. Humphrey, Edmund S. Muskie - Prospects in Congress - The President's response - Statement - Endorsement by "Establishment" The President and Kissinger left at 6:28 pm. Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator.