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On February 14, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger talked on the telephone from 10:32 pm to 10:40 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 020-092 of the White House Tapes. Topics include: The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger. White House dinner - Andre Malraux - Quality of meeting - Malraux speech - Kissinger view - Afternoon meeting - Economic aid - Mao Tse- Tung - Liberals - Mao's forthcoming meeting with president - Reason - Comment to president - People's Republic of China [PRC] trip - Gen. Charles A.J.M. de Gaulle - Effect on world - Effect of occasion - The President's comments - The President's forthcoming trips to Soviet Union and PRC - Comments on Mao Tse- Tung and Jawaharal Nehru - Feeling for mystique - American mystique - Abraham Lincoln - French view of mystique - PRC view of mystique - Kissinger's trip - Discussion with Chinese Marshal - Mao Handling of PRC trip - Need for dignity and confidence - Ability of others to handle - PRC trip - Vice President Spiro T. Agnew - John B. Connally - President's qualification to understand PRC - President's schooling - Tragedies - PRC - Kissinger role in setting up trip Malraux - Comments - Health - Economic preoccupation - Interpretation of Edward M. Kennedy remarks Forthcoming PRC trip - Reason - Fear - Malraux's view - Economic aid - Marxist view - Legitimacy - Malraux's view - Mao's desires - Chines unification - Taiwan, Republic of China - Respect - Economic progress - Historical significance White House dinner - Malraux - Howard K. Smith - Soviet Union trip. Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.