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Start Date: 26-May-1971 3:35 PM

End Date: 26-May-1971 4:10 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Price, Raymond K., Jr.Andrews, John K., Jr.[Unknown person(s)]Ziegler, Ronald L.Butterfield, Alexander P.

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:09:15

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:38:24

253a.mp3

NARA Description:

On May 26, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Raymond K. Price, Jr., John K. Andrews, Jr., unknown person(s), Ronald L. Ziegler, and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 3:35 pm to 4:10 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 253-022 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 253-22

Date: May 26, 1971
Time: 3:35 pm - 4:10 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Raymond K. Price, Jr. and John K. Andrews, Jr.

     President’s forthcoming speech
          -President’s marks on draft
          -Audience
          -Length
          -Vietnam
          -United States’ position in world
                -A background statement
          -Vietnam
                                  12

               NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                          Tape Subject Log
                             (rev. 9/08)



-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR], Middle East, People’s Republic of
      China [PRC]
-Vietnam
-President’s revisions of draft
      -Graduates
            -Possible service in war
                  -Vietnam
                  -Dwight D. Eisenhower                    Conv. No. 253-22 (cont.)
                  -Vietnam, World Wars I and II
      -Peace
            -President’s Birmingham, Alabama speech
      -Duty and honor
      -Graduates’ grandfathers
      -Superpowers
      -PRC
      -Europe
      -Middle East
      -US position in world
            -Peace
            -US strength
                  -President’s Alabama speech
      -Arms limitation
            -Purpose
            -Mutual, unilateral
                  -USSR, Asia, Israel
      -Middle East
            -Israel
-Length
-Tone
      -Vietnam, USSR, PRC
      -US military, economic, and moral strength
-Graduates’ contribution to US
-20th Century wars
      -US goals
            -World Wars I and II, Korean War, Vietnam War
-US responsibilities
      -Consequences of denial
      -Neo-isolationists
      -President’s conversations with world leaders
      -Neo-isolationists
      -Consequences of denial
-Pride
                                             13

                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 9/08)



          -Challenge to graduates
               -War casualties
          -US today
          -Survival
          -Burden for US
          -Draft
               -President’s revisions
          -Vietnam                                             Conv. No. 253-22 (cont.)
          -War
               -Arms control
          -Eisenhower
               -Peacetime vs. wartime service
          -Honor, responsibility
          -Army
               -Public opinion
               -Problems
                     -Insubordination

     J. Edgar Hoover

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 3:35 pm

     President’s schedule
          -Meeting with Hoover, John N. Mitchell
                -Location
                -Possible photograph

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 4:01 pm

     President’s speech
          -Forthcoming draft
                -President’s review
                -Price’s and Andrews’ work

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 3:55 pm

     President’s schedule
          -Forthcoming meeting with Hoover
                -Location
                -Photograph
                -Mitchell
                      -John B. Connally
                                              14

                              NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                       Tape Subject Log
                                          (rev. 9/08)



                 -Location

     President’s speech
          -Work by Price and Andrews

     Andrews

Price and Andrews left at 4:01 pm                                     Conv. No. 253-22 (cont.)

     President’s schedule

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 4:02 pm

           -Press ladies’ shower for Tricia Nixon
                -Time
           -Hoover

Butterfield left at 4:04 pm

     A statement concerning New York, New York police shooting
           -President’s letters to families
           -Charles W. Colson
           -President’s November 1970 directive to Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
           -Possible scholarship fund
                 -Vietnam
           -President’s forthcoming meeting

The President and Ziegler left at 4:10 pm