Selected Documents and Other Material cited in “The French Factor in U.S. Foreign Policy during the Nixon-Pompidou Period, 1969-1974”

Note: Most of the documents listed here were downloaded from the Kissinger Transcripts and Kissinger Telephone Conversations collections in the Digital National Security Archive website (http://nsarchive.chadwyck.com/home.do). William Burr of the National Security Archive played a key role getting access to and assembling this material, some of which was published in his book The Kissinger Transcripts: The Top Secret Talks with Beijing and Moscow (New York: New Press, 1998). For a number of other documents, I give the original link, but—because URLs change and material is sometimes removed from the internet—I also give a link to a downloaded version. For fuller information about source location, check the initial reference in the article, available online at: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/polisci/faculty/trachtenberg/ffus/FrenchFactor.pdf

Documents (in chronological order):

Kissinger-Bahr meeting, April 10, 1965 (pdf).

Nixon-de Gaulle meeting, March 1, 1969, p. 3 (original link) (pdf)

Kissinger-Pompidou meeting, February 23, 1970 (pdf).

Nixon-Pompidou meeting, February 24, 1970 (pdf).

NSC meeting, October 14, 1970 (pdf).

Laird to Kissinger, July 29, 1971 (pdf).

Nixon-Kissinger phone conversation, October 28, 1971 (pdf).

Pompidou-Kissinger meeting, December 13, 1971 (pdf).

Nixon-Kissinger-Pompidou meeting, December 13, 1971, 4 p.m. (pdf).

Pompidou-Kissinger meeting, December 14, 1971 (pdf).

Kissinger meetings with Sir Burke Trend, July 28, 1972 (pdf).

Kissinger-Strauss meeting, September 10, 1972 (pdf).

Nixon-Kissinger phone conversation, March 7, 1973 (pdf).

Kissinger meeting with Kosciusko-Morizet meeting, March 29, 1973 (pdf).

Kissinger meeting with Kosciusko-Morizet meeting, April 13, 1973 (pdf).

Kissinger meeting with Sir Burke Trend, April 19, 1973 (pdf).

Kissinger-Simon telephone conversations, March 14 and 15, 1973 (pdf) (pdf).

Kissinger-Kosciusko-Morizet meeting, May 14, 1973 (pdf).

Kissinger-Jobert meeting, May 17, 1973 (pdf).

Kissinger-Pompidou meeting, May 18, 1973 (pdf).

Kissinger-Jobert meeting, May 22, 1973 (pdf).

Kissinger meeting with Nixon et al., May 25, 1973 (pdf).

[Henry Kissinger], “Proposed Outcome of the Meeting between Presidents Nixon and Pompidou in Iceland,” undated but evidently written in late May 1973 (pdf).

Nixon-Pompidou meeting, May 31, 1973, 10 a.m. (pdf).

Nixon-Pompdou meeting, May 31, 1973, 3 p.m (pdf).

Kissinger-Jobert meeting, June 8, 1973, p. 17, DNSA/KT00748 (pdf).

Kissinger-Schlesinger meeting, August 9, 1973 (pdf).

Kissinger-Shultz telephone conversation , August 15, 1973 (pdf).

Kissinger-Schlesinger meeting, September 5, 1973 (pdf).

Irwin to Kissinger, Rush and Schlesinger, September 21, 1973 (original link) (pdf).

Rush-Galley conversation, September 25, 1973 (original link) (pdf).

Kissinger-Jobert meeting, September 26, 1973 (pdf).

Irwin to Kissinger and Schlesinger, October 6, 1973, (pdf).

Irwin to Kissinger, October 8, 1973 (pdf).

Secretary’s Staff meeting, October 23, 1973 (pdf).

Kissinger-Kosciusko-Morizet meeting, October 25, 1973 (doc. dated Oct. 26) (pdf).

Secretary’s Staff Meeting, October 25, 1973 (notes dated Oct. 29), pp. 21-24 (pdf).

Kissinger-von Staden meeting, October 26, 1973 (pdf).

Kissinger-Cromer meeting, October 31, 1973 (pdf).

Maurin-Irwin meeting, November 15, 1973 (original link) (pdf).

Irwin to Kissinger, November 16, 1973 (original link) (pdf).

Secretary’s staff meeting, November 20, 1973 (pdf).

Secretary’s staff meeting, November 27, 1973 (pdf).

Kissinger meeting with Rusk, Bundy, McCloy, et al., November 28, 1973 (pdf).

Stone to Stoessel, November 29, 1973 (original link) (pdf).

Kissinger-Kosciusko-Morizet meeting, December 3, 1973 (pdf).

Kissinger-Pompidou meeting, December 20, 1973 (pdf).

Secretary’s staff meeting, December 26, 1973 (pdf).

Kissinger phone conversations with John McCloy, February 8, 1974, 11:10 a.m. and 9:40 p.m., DOS ERR/KT (orig. links: 11:10; 9:40) (downloaded copies: (pdf; pdf).

Nixon-Kissinger telephone conversation, February 11, 1974 (6:30 p.m.) (original link) (pdf).

Kissinger-Scheel meeting, March 3, 1974 (pdf).

Kissinger phone conversations with John McCloy, February 8, 1974 (11:10 pdf) (9:40 pdf).

Kissinger-Sonnenfeldt telephone conversation, February 8, 1974 (pdf).

Kissinger-Sonnenfeldt telephone conversation, March 5, 1974 (original link) (pdf).

Kissinger meeting with key advisors, March 18, 1974 (pdf).

Kissinger-Kosciusko-Morizet meeting, March 22, 1974 (pdf).

Kissinger-Bundy telephone conversation, March 23, 1974 (original link) (pdf).

Kissinger-Rush telephone conversation, March 30, 1974 (pdf).

Kissinger-Sauvagnargues meeting, July 4, 1974 (pdf).

CIA Director Colby to Kissinger and Schlesinger, August 6, 1974, “French Request for Data on Locations of Soviet Missile Sites” (gif p. 1; gif p. 2).

Other Material:

Text of Shultz’s September 26, 1972, speech laying out the U.S. proposal for the reform of the international monetary system (from the New York Times, September 27, 1972) (pdf).

Hendrik Houthakker, “Cooling Off the Money Crisis,” Wall Street Journal, March 16, 1973, p. 10 (pdf).

Text of Kissinger’s “The Year of Europe” speech, April 23, 1973 (from the Department of State Bulletin, May 14, 1973, pp. 593-598) (pdf).

Text of the U.S.-Soviet agreement on Preventing Nuclear War, signed on June 22, 1973 (from the Department of State Bulletin, no. 1778, July 23, 1973) (pdf).

European Community draft declaration, September 20, 1973 and revised American draft of September 29 (pdf) (pdf).

C.L. Sulzberger, “United States and France: I,” New York Times, March 16, 1974, p. 31 (pdf).

Georges-Henri Soutou , “La problématique de la Détente et le testament stratégique de Georges Pompidou,” Cahiers du Centre d’Études d’Histoire de la Defense, cahier no. 22 (2004) (original link) (pdf).

Gottfried Niedhart, “Frankreich und die USA im Dialog über Détente und Ostpolitik, 1969-1970,” Francia: Forschungen zur westeuropäischen Geschichte 31, no. 3 (2004), pp. 65-85 (link to text)