June 30, 1974

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The President's day began at Dacha II, Oreanda, U.S.S.R.

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Vol. XV, Soviet Union, June 1972-August 1974

Moscow Summit and the Cyprus Crisis, June-August 1974

• 190. Memorandum of Conversation, Oreanda, June 30, 1974, 3:15-5:45 p.m.

  Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, Kissinger Office Files, Box 77, Country Files—Europe—USSR, Memcons, Moscow Summit, June 27–July 3, 1974. Top Secret; Sensitive; Exclusively Eyes Only. The meeting was held at Brezhnev’s Beach House Grotto in Oreanda. On the afternoon of June 29, Nixon had traveled with Brezhnev from Moscow to Oreanda, located near Yalta. (Ibid., White House Central Files, President’s Daily Diary) Brackets are in the original.

Vol. XXII, Panama, 1973-1976

Panama, 1973-1976

• 47. Telegram From the Embassy in Panama to the Department of State, Panama City, June 30, 1974, 1420Z

  Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, Box 791, Country Files, Latin America, Panama, Vol. 3, January 1972–August 1974. Confidential; Immediate; Exdis. Repeated Priority to Governor Parker and USCINCSO.

Vol. XXXIII, SALT II, 1972-1980

SALT II, 1972-1980

• 71. Memorandum of Conversation, Oreanda, June 30, 1974, 3:15-5:45 p.m.

  Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, Kissinger Office Files, Box 77, Country Files–Europe–USSR, Memcons, Moscow Summit, June 27–July 3, 1974. Top Secret; Sensitive; Exclusively Eyes Only. Brackets are in the original. The meeting was held at Brezhnev’s Beach House Grotto in Oreanda. On the afternoon of June 29, Nixon traveled with Brezhnev from Moscow to Oreanda, located in the Crimea near Yalta. (Ibid., White House Central Files, President’s Daily Diary)

Vol. XXXIX, European Security

Basket III, May-December 1974

• 227. Memorandum From the Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs (Hartman) to Secretary of State Kissinger, Moscow, June 30, 1974

  Source: Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Kissinger Papers, Box CL 229, Geopolitical File, Soviet Union, Summits, 1974, June–July, Chronological File. Confidential. Sonnenfeldt wrote a note at the top of the first page: “HAK: I think you should agree with Gromyko on giving instructions to Sherer and Kovalyev in Geneva to carry on where we left off with Korniyenko.”

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The White House Photo Office collection consists of photographic coverage of President Richard Nixon meeting with prominent social, political, and cultural personalities; speaking engagements and news conferences of the President and various high-ranking members of the White House staff and Cabinet; Presidential domestic and foreign travel, including Presidential vacations; social events and entertainment involving the First Family, including entertainers present; official portraits of the President, First Family, and high-ranking members of the Nixon administration; the 1969 and 1973 Inaugurals; the President’s 1972 Presidential election campaign appearances (including speeches) and other official activities of the White House staff and the President’s Cabinet from January 20, 1969 until August 9, 1974 at the White House and the Old Executive Office Building; other locations in Washington, DC, such as The Mall; and the Presidential retreats in Camp David, Maryland, Key Biscayne, Florida, and San Clemente, California. Visit the finding aid to learn more.

Roll WHPO-E3200 Photographer: Atkins, Oliver | Color or B&W: Color

• Frame(s): WHPO-E3200-, President Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev relaxing at the Oreanda Hotel. 6/30/1974, Yalta, Ukraine Oreanda Hotel. President Nixon, Leonid Brezhnev.
• Frame(s): WHPO-E3200-04, President Nixon walks down a hallway at the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow. 6/30/1974, Moscow, Russia, USSR Kremlin Palace.

Roll WHPO-E3201 Photographer: Schumacher, Karl | Color or B&W: Color

• Frame(s): WHPO-E3201-03A-07A, White House photographers relaxing at the beach. 6/30/1974, Yalta, Ukraine unidentified beach in the Ukraine.
• Frame(s): WHPO-E3201-08A-27A, President Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev at sea during a cruise on Brezhnev's yacht. 6/30/1974, Brezhnev's Boat in the Black Sea. President Nixon, Leonid Brezhnev.

Roll WHPO-E3202 Photographer: Schumacher, Karl | Color or B&W: Color

• Frame(s): WHPO-E3202-08-12, White House Photographers relaxing at the beach. 6/30/1974, Yalta, Ukraine Beach.
• Frame(s): WHPO-E3202-13-18, President Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev at sea during a cruise on Brezhnev's yacht. 6/30/1974, Yalta, Ukraine Brezhnev's Boat in the Black Sea. President Nixon, Leonid Brezhnev.

Roll WHPO-E3203 Photographer: Kightlinger, Jack | Color or B&W: Color

• Frame(s): WHPO-E3203-, Pat Nixon visiting the Swallow's Nest castle. 6/30/1974, Near Yalta, Ukraine Swallow's Nest. Pat Nixon, Unidentified People.
• Frame(s): WHPO-E3203-34, Pat Nixon examines books with other women while visiting the Swallow's Nest castle in Yalta. 6/30/1974, Near Yalta, Ukraine Swallow's Nest. Pat Nixon, unidentified women.

Roll WHPO-E3204 Photographer: Kightlinger, Jack | Color or B&W: Color

• Frame(s): WHPO-E3204-05-17, White House photographers relaxing at the beach. 6/30/1974, Yalta, Ukraine unidentified beach. Karl Schumacher.
• Frame(s): WHPO-E3204-18-34, Pat Nixon visits Swallow's Nest castle in Yalta. 6/30/1974, Yalta, Ukraine Swallow's Nest. Pat Nixon, Unidentified People.

Roll WHPO-E3205 Photographer: Kightlinger, Jack | Color or B&W: Color

• Frame(s): WHPO-E3205-, Pat Nixon visiting Swallow's Nest castle. 6/30/1974, Near Yalta, Ukraine Swallow's Nest. Pat Nixon, Unidentified People.

Roll WHPO-E3206 Photographer: Kightlinger, Jack | Color or B&W: Color

• Frame(s): WHPO-E3206-, Pat Nixon visiting the Swallow's Nest castle with Irina Dobrynin and others. 6/30/1974, Yalta, Ukraine Swallow's Nest. Pat Nixon, Irina Dobrynin, Unidentified People.
• Frame(s): WHPO-E3206-06, Pat Nixon visits Swallow's Nest castle in Yalta. 6/30/1974, Yalta, Ukraine Swallow's Nest. Pat Nixon.

Roll WHPO-E3207 Photographer: Atkins, Oliver | Color or B&W: Color

• Frame(s): WHPO-E3207-01-12, President Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev relaxing at the Oreanda Hotel. 6/30/1974, Yalta, Ukraine Oreanda Hotel. President Nixon, Leonid Brezhnev.
• Frame(s): WHPO-E3207-13-33, President Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev at sea during a cruise on Brezhnev's yacht. 6/30/1974, Yalta, Ukraine Brezhnev's Boat in the Black Sea. President Nixon, Leonid Brezhnev.
• Frame(s): WHPO-E3207-20, President Nixon, Leonid Brezhnev, and other officials at sea during a cruise on Brezhnev's yacht. 6/30/1974, Yalta, Ukraine Brezhnev's Boat in the Black Sea. President Nixon, Leonid Brezhnev, other officials.

Roll WHPO-E3208 Photographer: Atkins, Oliver | Color or B&W: Color

• Frame(s): WHPO-E3208-, President Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev relaxing at the Oreanda Hotel. 6/30/1974, Yalta, Ukraine Oreanda Hotel. President Nixon, Leonid Brezhnev.
• Frame(s): WHPO-E3208-26, President Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev relaxing at the Oreanda Hotel. 6/30/1974, Yalta, Ukraine Oreanda Hotel. President Nixon; Leonid Brezhnev.

Roll WHPO-E3209 Photographer: Atkins, Oliver | Color or B&W: Color

• Frame(s): WHPO-E3209-01-09, President Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev relaxing at the Oreanda Hotel. 6/30/1974, Yalta, Ukraine Oreanda Hotel. President Nixon, Leonid Brezhnev.
• Frame(s): WHPO-E3209-10-33, President Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev at sea during a cruise on Brezhnev's yacht. 6/30/1974, Yalta, Ukraine Brezhnev's Boat in the Black Sea. President Nixon, Leonid Brezhnev.

Roll WHPO-E3210 Photographer: Atkins, Oliver | Color or B&W: Color

• Frame(s): WHPO-E3210-, President Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev relaxing at the Oreanda Hotel. 6/30/1974, Yalta, Ukraine Oreanda Hotel. President Nixon, Leonid Brezhnev.

Roll WHPO-E3211 Photographer: Atkins, Oliver | Color or B&W: Color

• Frame(s): WHPO-E3211-, President Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev relaxing at the Oreanda Hotel. 6/30/1974, Yalta, Ukraine Oreanda Hotel. President Nixon, Leonid Brezhnev.

Roll WHPO-E3212 Photographer: Atkins, Oliver | Color or B&W: Color

• Frame(s): WHPO-E3212-01A-20A, President Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev at sea during a cruise on Brezhnev's yacht. 6/30/1974, Yalta, Ukraine Brezhnev's Boat in the Black Sea. President Nixon, Leonid Brezhnev.
• Frame(s): WHPO-E3212-21A-26A, President Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev disembarking Brezhnev's yacht andthen relaxing at the Oreanda Hotel. 6/30/1974, Yalta, Ukraine Oreanda Hotel. President Nixon, Leonid Brezhnev.

Roll WHPO-E3213 Photographer: Atkins, Oliver | Color or B&W: Color

• Frame(s): WHPO-E3213-11-15, The Swallow's Nest in Yalta, Ukraine. 6/30/1974, Yalta, Ukraine

Roll WHPO-E3214 Photographer: Knudsen, Robert L. | Color or B&W: Color

• Frame(s): WHPO-E3214-, Leonid Brezhnev's yacht docked in harbor below hotel. Views of dock and sea area from hotel area. 6/30/1974, Yalta, Ukraine Oreanda Hotel.
• Frame(s): WHPO-E3214-04-08, Advance film crew team in group portrait - L-R: Al Snyder, Executive Protective Service Rep. Ron (??) in white suit, Tim Elbourne (red hair) and other unidentified men. 6/30/1974, Yalta, Ukraine Oreanda Hotel. Alvin Snyder, Executive Protective Service Rep. Ron (??), Tim Elbourne, Unidentified Men possibly cameramen from NPC.

Roll WHPO-E3215 Photographer: Knudsen, Robert L. | Color or B&W: Color

• Frame(s): WHPO-E3215-01-12, President Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev walking through Dacha Gardens. 6/30/1974, Oreanda, Yalta, Ukraine Dacha Gardens. President Nixon, Leonid Brezhnev.
• Frame(s): WHPO-E3215-13-36, President Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev at sea during a cruise on Brezhnev's yacht. 6/30/1974, Yalta, Ukraine On Brezhnev's Boat in the Black Sea. President Nixon, Leonid Brezhnev.

Roll WHPO-E3216 Photographer: Knudsen, Robert L. | Color or B&W: Color

• Frame(s): WHPO-E3216-, President Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev visit a garden area near the sea. 6/30/1974, Yalta, Ukraine Dacha Gardens (possibly). President Nixon, Leonid Brezhnev.
• Frame(s): WHPO-E3216-34, President Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev stand next to a ballustrade outside in a garden area near the sea. 6/30/1974, Yalta, Ukraine Dacha Gardens (possibly). President Nixon, Leonid Brezhnev.

Roll WHPO-E3217 Photographer: Knudsen, Robert L. | Color or B&W: Color

• Frame(s): WHPO-E3217-, President Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev walking through Dacha Gardens. 6/30/1974, Yalta, Ukraine Dacha Gardens. President Nixon, Leonid Brezhnev.

The White House Communications Agency Sound Recordings Collection contains public statements that took place between 1969 and 1974. Visit the finding aid to learn more.

K - Informal Presidential Remarks

• WHCA-SR-K-207
  Photo opportunity, walk along the beach-Dacha #2, USSR. (6/30/1974)
  
  Original Format: 1/4-inch reel-to-reel audiotape. Original source type: Original.
• WHCA-SR-K-208
  Photo opportunity with Leonid Brezhnev-Dacha #2, USSR. (6/30/1974)
  
  Original Format: 1/4-inch reel-to-reel audiotape. Original source type: Original.

S - White House Press Office Briefings (continuation of the L-series)

• WHCA-SR-S-657
  Press briefing by Ronald Ziegler and Leonid Zamyatin in Yalta. (6/30/1974, Oreanda Hotel, Yalta, USSR)
  
  Runtime: 55:00:00
  
  Keywords: Press conferences, news conferences, interviews, media, press secretary
  
  Production credits: Audio feed supplied by WHCA; Recorded by __ (initials of WHCA engineer)
  
  Original Format: 1/4-inch reel-to-reel audiotape. Original source type: Original.

The White House Communications Agency Videotape Collection contains “off-the-air” recordings of televised programs produced between 1968 and 1974. Visit the finding aid to learn more.

• WHCA-7030
  "Meet the Press" AND "Issues and Answers". John W. Dean III.
  NBC
  Runtime: 01:00:21
• WHCA-7035
  Weekly News Summary, Tape V.
  ALL NETWORKS
  Runtime: 1:00
  
  8. Kalber/Jones: Alberta Williams King shot and killed, was the mother of Martin Luther King, Jr.. Time Code Start: 24:26. Keywords: shootings, murders, deaths, famlies, women, religious persecutions, Marcus Chenault, civil rights, leaders, ministers, African Americans. Network: NBC.
  
  9. Kalber/Brokaw: Presidential trip. Time Code Start: 27:32. Keywords: Presidents, travel, trips. Network: NBC.
  
  10. Klaner/Dancy: President Nixon in Oreanda, Yalta in the Crimea Russia. Time Code Start: 29:34. Keywords: Presidents, travel, trips, Nixon trips, international, Soviet Union, Russia, USSR. Network: NBC.
• WHCA-7036
  "The Future of the GOP". John W. Dean III.
  ABC
  Runtime: 00:59:34
• WHCA-7037
  "The David Susskind Show", Part I. John W. Dean III.
  ABC
  Runtime: 01:32:15
• WHCA-7038
  "The David Susskind Show", Part II. John W. Dean III.
  ABC
  Runtime: 01:00:05

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