Conversation 048-003

On February 25, 1971, during the signing of the Foreign Policy Message, President Richard M. Nixon and Mary D. Stifflemire, Bernice V. Alexander, Judith L. Johnson, William G. Hyland, W. Marshall Wright, Peter W. Rodman, C. Fred Bergsten, Harold H. Saunders, Nancy L. Meinking, Arnold Nachmanoff, Col. Robert M. Behr, John H. Holdridge, John Glancy, Col. Richard T. Kennedy, Winston Lord, Sheila R. Lopez, Dianne C. Matthews, Julienne L. Pineau, Dr. K. Wayne Smith, Helmut ("Hal") Sonnenfeldt, and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Cabinet Room of the White House at an unknown time between 10:56 am and 11:50 am. The Cabinet Room taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 048-003 of the White House Tapes.