April 24, 1972

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Vol. VIII, Vietnam, January-October 1972

The Easter Offensive, March 30-May 7, 1972

• 94. Memorandum From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger) to President Nixon, Washington, April 24, 1972

  Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, Box 998, Alexander M. Haig Chronological Files, Haig Memcons, January–December 1972 [3 of 3]. Top Secret; Sensitive; Exclusively Eyes Only. Printed in full in Foreign Relations, 1969–1976, volume XIV, Soviet Union, October 1971–May 1972, Document 169.

Vol. XIV, Soviet Union, October 1971-May 1972

Kissinger's Secret Trip to Moscow, April 19-25, 1972

• 159. Memorandum of Conversation, Moscow, April 24, 1972, 11:15 a.m.-1:45 p.m.

  Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, Kissinger Office Files, Box 72, Country Files, Europe, USSR, HAK Moscow Trip—April 1972, Memcons. Top Secret; Sensitive; Exclusively Eyes Only. The meeting was held at the Guest House on Vorobyevskii Road.

• 160. Memorandum of Conversation, Moscow, April 24, 1972, 1:50-3 p.m.

  Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, Kissinger Office Files, Box 72, Country Files, Europe, USSR, HAK Moscow Trip—April 1972, Memcons. Top Secret; Sensitive; Exclusively Eyes Only. The meeting was held at the Guest House on Vorobyevskii Road.

• 161. Message From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger) to President Nixon, Moscow, April 24, 1972

  Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, Kissinger Office Files, Box 21, HAK’s Secret Moscow Trip Apr 72, TOHAK/HAKTO File. Top Secret. Sensitive; Eyes Only. Received at 6:22 a.m., retransmitted to Camp David, and received there at 7:16 a.m. The President’s notations on the retransmitted copy and cited in footnotes below. (Ibid., White House Special Files, President’s Personal Files, Box 74, President’s Speech File, April 1972, Kissinger Trip to Moscow)

• 162. Message From the President’s Deputy Assistant for National Security Affairs (Haig) to the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger) in Moscow, Washington, April 24, 1972, 12:38 p.m.

  Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, Kissinger Office Files, Box 21, HAK’s Secret Moscow Trip Apr 72, TOHAK/HAKTO File [2 of 2]. Top Secret; Sensitive; Exclusively Eyes Only; Flash.

• 163. Message From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger) to the President’s Deputy Assistant for National Security Affairs (Haig), Moscow, April 24, 1972

  Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, Kissinger Office Files, Box 21, HAK’s Secret Moscow Trip Apr 72, TOHAK/HAKTO File. Top Secret. Sensitive; Eyes Only. Received at 12:57 p.m. and forwarded to Camp David for Rose Mary Woods, who retyped it for the President. Nixon’s notations on the retyped version are cited in footnotes below. (Ibid., White House Special Files, President’s Personal Files, Box 74, President’s Speech File, April 1972, Kissinger’s Trip to Moscow)

• 164. Message From the President’s Deputy Assistant for National Security Affairs (Haig) to the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger) in Moscow, Washington, April 24, 1972, 3:35 p.m.

  Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, Kissinger Office Files, Box 21, HAK’s Secret Moscow Trip Apr 72, TOHAK/HAKTO File [2 of 2]. Top Secret; Sensitive; Exclusively Eyes Only; Flash.

• 165. Message From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger) to the President’s Deputy Assistant for National Security Affairs (Haig), Moscow, April 24, 1972

  Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, Kissinger Office Files, Box 21, HAK’s Secret Moscow Trip Apr 72, TOHAK/HAKTO File [2 of 2]. Top Secret; Sensitive; Exclusively Eyes Only. No time of transmission is on the message; it was received at 4:09 p.m.

• 166. Message From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger) to the President’s Deputy Assistant for National Security Affairs (Haig), Moscow, April 24, 1972

  Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, Kissinger Office Files, Box 21, HAK’s Secret Moscow Trip Apr 72, TOHAK/HAKTO File [2 of 2]. Top Secret; Sensitive; Exclusively Eyes Only. No time of transmission is on the message; a stamped notation indicates it was received at 4:57 p.m.

• 167. Message From the President’s Deputy Assistant for National Security Affairs (Haig) to the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger) in Moscow, Washington, April 24, 1972, 6:45 p.m.

  Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, Kissinger Office Files, Box 21, HAK’s Secret Moscow Trip Apr 72, TOHAK/HAKTO File [2 of 2]. Top Secret; Sensitive; Exclusively Eyes Only; Flash.

• 169. Memorandum From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger) to President Nixon, Washington, April 24, 1972

  Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, Kissinger Office Files, Box 72, Country Files, Europe, USSR, HAK Moscow Trip—April 1972, Memcons. Top Secret; Sensitive, Exclusively Eyes Only. Although prepared on White House stationery, the memorandum was probably written on the airplane en route Andrews Air Force Base from Moscow. No evidence has been found to indicate whether Kissinger submitted it to Nixon at Camp David on April 24 or at the White House at a later date. The memorandum, however, indicates the President saw it; and, on April 29, Nixon wrote on the top: “K—Superb job!” Kissinger, who published excerpts from the memorandum in his memoirs, remarked that the President’s commendation “might have reflected his real judgment, or his acceptance of a fait accompli.” (White House Years, pp. 1162–1163)

Vol. XXXII, SALT I, 1969-1972

Kissinger's Secret Trip to Moscow and Aftermath, April 19-May 17, 1972

• 265. Memorandum of Conversation, Moscow, April 24, 1972, 1:50-3 p.m.

  Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, Kissinger Office Files, Box 72, Country Files, Europe, USSR, HAK Moscow Trip—April 1972, MemCons. Top Secret; Sensitive; Exclusively Eyes Only. The conversation took place at the Guest House on Vorobyevskii Road. All brackets, except those indicating the omission of unrelated material, are in the original. The full text of the memorandum of conversation is printed in Foreign Relations, 1969–1976, volume XIV, Soviet Union, October 1971–May 1972, Document 160.

• 266. Backchannel Message From the Chief of the Delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (Smith) to the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger), Helsinki, April 24, 1972, 1335Z

  Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, Box 427, Backchannel Files, Backchannel Messages, 1972 SALT. Top Secret; Sensitive; Exclusive Eyes Only. Copies were sent to Haig and Howe.

Vol. XL, Germany and Berlin, 1969-1972

Germany and Berlin, 1969-1972

• 357. Memorandum From Secretary of State Rogers to President Nixon, Washington, April 24, 1972

  Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, Box 40, President’s Daily Briefs, April 18–29, 1972. Confidential. Eliot signed the memorandum for Rogers. Butterfield stamped the memorandum to indicate that the President had seen it.

Vol. E-5, Part 2, Documents on North Africa, 1969-1972

Tunisia

• 161. Telegram 1963 From the Embassy in Tunisia to the Department of State, Tunis, April 24, 1972, 1015Z

  In this 6 page telegram, Ambassador John Calhoun offered an overview statement on the PADM and PARA review for Tunisia in 1972, praising Tunisia’s alignment with the United States and friendly voice in Arab, Mediterranean, and Third World councils.
  
  Source: National Archives, RG 59, Central Files 1970–73, POL 1 TUN. Secret.

Vol. E-7, Documents on South Asia, 1969-1972

U.S. Relations with India and Pakistan, 1972

• 257. Memorandum From Harold Saunders and Samuel Hoskinson of the National Security Council Staff to the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger), Washington, April 24, 1972

  Saunders and Hoskinson summarized for Kissinger a CIA assessment of India’s foreign policy in the wake of the war with Pakistan. They also drew policy implications from the assessment.
  
  Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, Box 598, Country Files, Middle East, India, Vol. V, 31 Dec 71-July 1972. Secret. Sent for information. A notation on the memorandum indicates Kissinger saw it. The 25-page Office of National Estimates memorandum summarized by Saunders and Hoskinson, entitled “India’s Postwar Foreign Policy,” April 5, is ibid.

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Roll WHPO-8950 Photographer: Schumacher, Karl | Color or B&W: B&W

• Frame(s): WHPO-8950-, Ehrlichman holding a briefing. 4/24/1972, Washington, D.C. unknown. Ehrlichman, unidentified persons.

Roll WHPO-8951 Photographer: Schumacher, Karl | Color or B&W: B&W

• Frame(s): WHPO-8951-, Judy Agnew on the dais at a function during the National Republican Women's Convention. 4/24/1972, unknown unknown. Judy Agnew, Republican Women officials.

Roll WHPO-8952 Photographer: Schumaker, Byron | Color or B&W: Color

• Frame(s): WHPO-8952-, Julie Eisenhower speaking to members of the 4-H Clubs. 4/24/1972, Washington, D.C. White House, East Room. Julie Eisenhower, 4-H club members.

Roll WHPO-8953 Photographer: Schumaker, Byron | Color or B&W: B&W

• Frame(s): WHPO-8953-, Julie Eisenhower speaking to members of 4-H Clubs. Julie greeting members as they leave the East Room. 4/24/1972, Washington, D.C. East Room, Grand Hall, White House. Julie Eisenhower, 4-H club members.
• Frame(s): WHPO-8953-04, Julie Eisenhower speaking to members of 4-H Clubs gathered near the East Room stage. 4/24/1972, Washington, D.C. East Room, Grand Hall, White House. Julie Eisenhower, 4-H club members.

Roll WHPO-8954 Photographer: Kightlinger, Jack | Color or B&W: Color

• Frame(s): WHPO-8954-, Julie Eisenhower with National Teacher of the Year James (Jay) Rogers, Jr., and others in various groupings. 4/24/1972, Washington, D.C. White House, State Dining Room. Julie Eisenhower, James (Jay) Rogers, Jr., Elliott Richardson, sponsoring officials, Rogers family members, guests.

Roll WHPO-8955 Photographer: Kightlinger, Jack | Color or B&W: Color

• Frame(s): WHPO-8955-, Elliott Richardson and Julie Eisenhower speaking during the National Teacher of the Year Awards ceremony. Teacher James (Jay) Rogers, Jr. standing nearby. 4/24/1972, Washington, D.C. White House, State Dining Room. Julie Eisenhower, James (Jay) Rogers, Jr., Elliott Richardson, sponsoring officials.

Roll WHPO-8956 Photographer: Knudsen, Robert L. | Color or B&W: Color

• Frame(s): WHPO-8956-05-29, Pat Nixon standing and seated with "Tuesday at Home" Woman of the Year Ernesta Procope, President of the E.G. Bowman Insurance company in Brooklyn, New York - the largest Black-owned insurance brokerage firm in the country. and others. 4/24/1972, Washington, D.C. Red Room, Yellow Oval Room, White House. Pat Nixon, Ernesta Procope, Judith Turnbull, Mrs. W. Leonard Evans, Jr.
• Frame(s): WHPO-8956-23, Pat Nixon seated informally during a meeting in the Yellow Oval Room with "Tuesday at Home" Woman of the Year Ernesta Procope, President of the E.G. Bowman Insurance company in Brooklyn, New York - the largest Black-owned insurance brokerage firm in the country. 4/24/1972, Washington, D.C. White House, Yellow Oval Room. Pat Nixon, Ernesta Procope.
• Frame(s): WHPO-8956-29, Pat Nixon seated informally during a meeting in the Yellow Oval Room with "Tuesday at Home" Woman of the Year Ernesta Procope, President of the E.G. Bowman Insurance company in Brooklyn, New York - the largest Black-owned insurance brokerage firm in the country. 4/24/1972, Washington, D.C. White House, Yellow Oval Room. Pat Nixon, Ernesta Procope.

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• WHCA-SR-D-030
  Julie Nixon Eisenhower's talk to National 4H representatives. (4/24/1972, East Room, The White House)
  
  Runtime: none listed
  
  Production credits: Audio feed supplied by WHCA; Recorded by CBW (initials of WHCA engineer)
  
  Original Format: 1/4-inch reel-to-reel audiotape. Original source type: Original.
• WHCA-SR-D-031
  Julie Nixon Eisenhower presents the Teacher of the Year award, with Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Elliot Richardson, Sidney Marland, and James Rogers. (4/24/1972, State Dining Room, The White House)
  
  Runtime: none listed
  
  Production credits: Audio feed supplied by WHCA; Recorded by FF (initials of WHCA engineer)
  
  Original Format: 1/4-inch reel-to-reel audiotape. Original source type: Original.

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• WHCA-5300
  "60 Minutes" AND "Newsmakers". Secretary of Transportation John A. Volpe.
  Group W Productions
  Runtime: 01:30:56
• WHCA-5300B
  "Today" Show excerpts. reviews of President Nixon's performance with the press
  ALL NETWORKS
  Runtime: 1:00
• WHCA-5301
  "Martin Agronsky: Evening Edition".
  ALL NETWORKS
  Runtime: 00:29:32
• WHCA-5302
  "Can You Go Home: The Amnesty Question".
  ALL NETWORKS
  Runtime: 00:29:35

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