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On April 15, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger talked on the telephone from 11:05 pm to 11:27 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 022-131 of the White House Tapes. Topics include: The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger. Dinner for Latin American ambassadors Vietnam - Kissinger's previous meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin - Message from the North Vietnamese - Reply to Kissinger's message to Yuli M. Vorontsov - Reply to Kissinger's previous talk with Dobrynin - Content - Transmittal by Soviets of message from North Vietnam to the US - Contents - Private and plenary meetings between North Vietnam and the US - Dobrynin's response - American presidency - Impact of Vietnam war - Private and plenary meetings - Scheduling - Message from the North Vietnamese - Contents - Politburo - Foreign Minister - Moscow - Paris - Air strikes - Intensity - Hanoi reply - Continuance - Kissinger's trip to Moscow - Instructions from the President - Chairman of the communist party - Relation to Vietnam settlement - Air strikes - Truck parks - Number of trucks - Ho Chi Minh trail - Haiphong attacks - Dobrynin's meeting with Kissinger - Kissinger's trip to Moscow - Possible US- Soviet Summit - Soviet response - Soviet- West Germany agreements -[Franz Josef?] Strauss - Willy Brandt - Dobrynin - Instructions from central committee - Soviet intermediary role - Lyndon B. Johnson - Hanoi - Air strikes - Timing - North Vietnamese message - Peace talks delay - Melvin R. Laird - William P. Rogers - Previous talk with the President - Response to critics - Kissinger's letter to someone - Talking points - Private talks - The president's directives - Leadership meeting - Rogers - State department officials - Advice - Washington Special Action Group [WSAG] meetings - Lack of attacks in South Vietnam - An loc - Kissinger's view - Air strikes - Number of sorties - Kissinger's message to Rogers - South Vietnamese air force - Extent of destruction - Casualties - B-52s - South Vietnam - Kissinger's view - Blockade - Kissinger's settlement with the Soviets - Filibuster - Forthcoming US- Soviet summit - US conditions - Strength of South Vietnam - Failure of North Vietnam US- Soviet relations - Kissinger's forthcoming trip to Moscow - Schedule - Politburo meeting - Departure Vietnam - Air strikes - Intensity - Location - Hanoi - Haiphong - Agreements - Naval gunfire - Limits -20 th Parallel - Haiphong - Air strikes - Concentration - Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr. - US discussions with the Soviets - North Vietnamese interpretations - Air strikes - News reports - B-52s - Tonnage dropped - Haiphong area - Extent of destruction - Visual strikes - Weather - Johnson's strategy - Compared with the president's - Kissinger's view - Power plants - Destruction - Hanoi - Intensity and plane capacity - Compared with World War I and World War II - Rogers - Support of policies - Forthcoming US- Soviet summit - Possible settlement - Kissinger's forthcoming trip to Moscow - Timing - Meeting with North Vietnamese - Administration strategy - Laird strategy - Results - Kissinger's view - Impact on soviets - Defense of an loc - Blockade - Aircraft carriers - Air attacks - Weather - I Corps - Panhandle - Abrams The president's previous meeting with Latin American leaders - Organization of American States [OAS] - The President's view - Brazil Vietnam - Kissinger's forthcoming briefing at the Pentagon - Rogers - Public statements - Compared with Laird. Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.