On September 23, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 10:01 am to 10:35 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 280-003 of the White House Tapes. Topics include: The President met with Henry A. Kissinger. People's Republic of China [PRC] - Message to Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters - Time - Mao Tse- Tung - Kissinger's communication with PRC delegation - Meeting - Time - Mao - Health - Cancellation of flights - Resumption of civilian flights - Military flights - Chou En- Lai - PRC Army - Air Force - Leadership Foreign economic policy - Preparation of statement for the President - The President's appearance at the Detroit Economic Club - Speech - Length of statement - Announcement - Possible speech by John B. Connally - Confidence in the US - Surcharge - Floating currencies - Restrictions - Surcharge - Automatic adjustment of currencies - Trade - Devaluation of currencies - Negotiations - Floating of currencies - New program - Old system - Germany, Japan - Arthur F. Burns - Cabinet meeting - Date - Connally - Meeting - The President's speech at International Monetary Fund [IMF] - Changes - Memorandum to the President - US balance of payments - Preservation of system - Reform international monetary system - Import surcharge - Policies - Negotiations - Old monetary system - New program - Crisis- Free - Connally - Adjustment of exchange rate - Negotiations - Assessments - Competitive position - Kissinger's preparation of talking point paper - Preparation - Connally - Attaching Burns' memorandum - Cabinet meeting - Time - Connally's schedule - Time - Burns - Length of meeting - Technical discussions Kissinger's schedule - W[illiam] Averell Harriman - Call to Kissinger - Harriman's fiancee [Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward] - Background - Leland Hayward - Randolph Chuchill - The President's meeting, Chicago Convention -1952 - Background - Opposition to the administration - Opposition to draft bill - Vietnam negotiations - Nguyen Van Thieu - Motivation - Edmund S. Muskie - Actions - Democrats - Pressure Polls - Gallup - Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] - US involvement in Vietnam - Vietnam election - David Brinkley -[Arnold] Eric Sevareid - Brinkley and Sevareid - Brinkley - Kennedy family - National Broadcasting Company [NBC] - President's view - Kennedy family PRC - Domestic situation - Message - The President's trip to the PRC - Possible cancellation - Changes in the PRC - Kissinger's forthcoming visit - Possible cancellation - Announcement - Soviet Union- US summit - Harriman - Support for the President's PRC initiative - Concerns - Effect on Soviet Union Japanese- US relations - Edwin O. Reischauer - George W. Ball - Amount of Retainer as Lobbyist - John N. Mitchell - Ball's actions [Previous National Security (B) withdrawal reviewed under MDR guidelines case number LPRN- T- MDR-2014-017. Segment declassified on 01/19/2018. Archivist : MAS] [National Security] [280-003- W003] [Duration: 7s] Japanese- US relations - Handling of announcement - US communication with the Japanese - Potential Japanese leak of communication Japanese- US relations - The President's Administration - Relations with Japan - Visit by the President to Tokyo - Stopover from Peking - PRC response - Japanese response - Possible visit by the President - Eisaku Sato - Japanese Government - Textile negotiations - Japanese representative - Visit to Kissinger - Negotiations deadline - President's conversation with Takeo Fukuda - Date - Announcement Foreign policy - Sato - Soviet Union reaction - Japanese reaction - State Department Reaction - Characterized - Soviets - PRC - Soviets - Leonid I. Brezhnev - Josip Broz Tito - Soviet response - Kissinger's conversation with PRC delegation - US strategy The President's schedule - Trip to Alaska - West Coast - Kissinger's schedule - Taft Schreiber - Meeting with businessmen - Visit to Ronald W. Reagan - Cabinet meeting - Kissinger's attendance - William P. Rogers - Peter G. Peterson - Handling of issue [Council on International Economic Policy [CIEP staffing?] - Connally - Paul A. Volcker - Peterson Kissinger's schedule - Eugene J. McCarthy - Herbert Stein meeting - Vietnam War opponents - Agreements - Administration actions - Public support - Stein - McCarthy - Kissinger's conversation - The President - Politics - Political parties - The President's conversation with Haldeman - Philadelphia Public relations -1972 campaign - Television - Cabinet officers - Kissinger's role - Celebrity - Television - Coverage - Kissinger's television appearance - Audience size - Trip to the PRC - Quality of coverage - Mike Wallace - CBS - Invitation for television appearance - Foreign relations groups - University appearances - Kissinger's trip to the PRC - Post- Trip activities - New York City - Universities appearances - Debate at Yale University - Princeton University - Kissinger's schedule - Appearances - Off- The- Record - On- The- Record - Philadelphia - Southern California - University of Southern California [USC] - Schreiber - Kissinger's conversation with H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman - Businessmen - Dinner Number of guests - Mass audiences - Universities - Audience - Off- The- Record - Outcome of events in PRC PRC - Delay in PRC's response - Amount of information - Kissinger's negotiations with PRC delegation - Advance men - Questions - Aircraft - Kissinger's trip to the PRC - PRC's response - Announcement of the President's trip - Walters - Time - Television - Press conference - Oval Office - Walters - Mao - Delay - Vietnam - PRC's response - Effect on the President's trip - Soviet Union - PRC - Relations with the US - Hanoi - Domestic situation - Possible events - Airports - Chou En- Lai - President's trip Kissinger's schedule - Walter L. Cronkite, Jr. - The President's visit Vietnam negotiations - Seven Points - US position - Constitutional process - Demands - Prisoners of War [POWs] - Communist takeover - US position Kissinger's schedule - Walters Kissinger left at 10:35 am. Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.
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