Conversation: 300-023
Prev:  300-022 Next: 300-024Start Date: 9-Nov-1971 9:45 AM
End Date: 9-Nov-1971 11:00 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:39:26
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:50:00
NARA Description:
On November 9, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 9:45 am to 11:00 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 300-023 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 300-23 Date: November 9, 1971 Time: 9:45 am - 11:00 am Location: Executive Office Building The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman. The President's forthcoming speeches in New York and Chicago, November 9, 1971 -Ronald L. Ziegler -Richard A. Moore -Television coverage -Cameras -Demonstrators -Possible actions -Jerry Rubin Demonstrators -Attitude -Activities -White House vigil -Regulation -Court ruling -1968 campaign -Chicago -Loud speakers -Democrats -Organization 12 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 300-23 (cont.) -The President's schedule -Colleges -Compared to high schools The President's forthcoming speeches in New York and Chicago -Make-up The President’s schedule -W. Clement Stone Earl L. Butz -John N. Mitchell The President's schedule -State dinners -Harry L. Sears -John Sears -Rose Mary Woods -Joseph M. Margiotta -[William McMahon] -Emilio Garrastazu Medici Appointments -Butz -Background -Indiana -Secretary of Commerce -Peter G. Peterson -Ethnic and religious considerations -Possible Catholic Mitchell's attendance at dinner -Telephone call -Technical problem -Robert P. Griffin -Tape The President's schedule -George P. Shultz National economy 13 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 300-23 (cont.) -Pay Board -Shultz's view -Compared to Charles W. Colson -Labor’s position vis-a-vis the Administration’s policies -Compared to World War II -Labor's possible action -Colson -Frank E. Fitzsimmons's view -Construction workers -George Meany -Fitzsimmons -Meany -Shultz's efforts -James D. Hodgson -Meany -Investment tax credit legislation -Rate -Wilbur D. Mills's conversation with Clark MacGregor, November 8, 1971 -Senate -Business -Pay Board -Labor -Shultz’s view -Donald H. Rumsfeld’s activities -Public relations -Radio -Rumsfeld, Shultz and Colson -Cooperation The President's schedule -Departure from the White House 14 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 300-23 (cont.) ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 13s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ***************************************************************** Robert J. Dole -Press story -Kenneth W. Clawson -Colson -Views -Contacts -Washington Post -Franklyn C. (“Lyn”) Nofziger -Colson's contacts with Clawson -William E. Timmons -Schedule -Farm belt -Traveling -Exposure -John A. Scali -Colson -Mitchell Clawson -Mitchell -Richard G. Kleindienst -Dole Law and order issue -Mitchell -News summary -1972 election 15 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 300-23 (cont.) -Robert H. Finch’s statement -Herbert G. Klein ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 2m 56s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2 ***************************************************************** Press coverage -White House staff role -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew -John B. Connally -News summary -The President’s schedule -Unknown trip ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 1m 40s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3 ***************************************************************** Speeches -Mitchell’s -Compared to Vice President Agnew’s -Speechwriting 16 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 300-23 (cont.) -Henry A. Kissinger White House staff -Speechwriters -Raymond K. Price, Jr. -Unknown man from Philadelphia -Priest [Rev. John J. McLaughlin] -John K. Andrews, Jr. -William L. Safire -Patrick J. Buchanan -Price -Humor The President's forthcoming speeches in New York and Chicago, 11/9 -Length -Price -Television coverage White House staff -Speechwriters -Length of speeches -Administration needs -Structure -Timing -Price -Haldeman’s efforts -1972 campaign -Republican National Committee [RNC] -Speechwriters -The President's possible conversation with Price -Suggested remarks for the President -The President's use -Examples -Welcoming comments for Indira Gandhi -Price Board -The President's use -Ideas 17 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 300-23 (cont.) -Facts -Anecdotes -Forthcoming speech in New York Tricia Nixon Cox talked with the President between 10:27 am and 10:28 am. [Conversation No. 300-23A] [See Conversation No. 14-1; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation] [End of telephone conversation] The President talked with an unknown person [Kissinger?] at an unknown time between 10:28 am and 10:29 am. [Conversation No. 300-23B] The President's schedule [End of telephone conversation] White House staff -Speechwriters -Efforts -The President's use -Preparation -Ideas, facts, statistics, anecdotes Stephen B. Bull [?] entered at an unknown time after 10:28 am. The President's schedule Bull [?]left at an unknown time before 10:29 am. Kleindienst -Role in administration -John D. Ehrlichman -Mitchell's views -Confirmation -Possible fight -Kleindienst’s background 18 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 300-23 (cont.) -Harvard Law School Kissinger entered at 10:29 am. Vietnam -Troop withdrawal rate -Melvin R. Laird's comments -The President's possible response -The President’s forthcoming announcement -[Arnold] Eric Sevareid’s report of November 8, 1971 -Laird's recommendations -Sevareid -The President’s previous announcements -The President's schedule -Laird Korea -Possible troop withdrawal -Defense Department’s recommendations -White House -State Department -Laird Milton Viorst -Conversation with Peter G. Peterson -State Department role in the President's People's Republic of China [PRC] initiative -Briefing with unknown person -Evidence -Action since March 1969 PRC -Initiative -Kissinger’s role The President's schedule -Brazilian foreign visitors -Camp David -Return dinners -The President’s possible attendance -Protocol 19 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 300-23 (cont.) -Agnew Message to PRC, November 9, 1971 Kissinger's meeting with PRC delegates to the United Nations [UN] -Possible communications in Ottawa, Canada -Individuals -Personal Secretary of Chou En-Lai -Others The President's schedule -Possible trip to Latin America -Rogers -Possible stops -Jamaica, Panama -Call to Rogers -Phase II, State of the Union, budget -Jamaica -Panama -Darien Gap -Possible demonstrations -Leadership -Treaty -Possible flight from Miami -Travel time -Compared to Europe -Possible stops -Jamaica -Rogers -Panama -The President’s forthcoming meeting with Willy Brandt -State of the Union address Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with Arthur K. Watson -Georges J.R. Pompidou The President's schedule -Pompidou -Brandt -Edward R.G. Heath -Latin American trip 20 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 300-23 (cont.) -Emilio Garrastazu Medici -Procedures -Brazilian visitors -Haldeman -Kissinger -National Security Council [NSC] -Emil Mosbacher, Jr. and Ambassador Joao A. Castro -Camp David -Return dinners -Haldeman's forthcoming conversation with Rogers -Willy Brandt -Rogers’s knowledge -Pompidou -Foreign trips -The President’s schedule -Latin America -Panama, Jamaica -Dinners Haldeman left at 10:45 am. India -State Department policy -Possible effect ************************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5 [National Security] [Duration: 11s ] INDIA-PAKISTAN END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. ************************************************************************** Pakistan -Military situation 21 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 300-23 (cont.) -PRC -East Pakistan -India’s possible intention -West Bengal -PRC -State Department policy -Effect on US Senators -Arms cut-off -PRC -Rogers -Briefing paper -Economic aid -The President's possible meetings with State Department Bureaucracy -State Department -1972 election -Aftermath -Possible action -Joseph J. Sisco and Marshall Green -Middle East policy -Schedules -Initiatives -Israel Vietnam -David K.E. Bruce -Bombing -North Vietnam -Level -Compared to Lyndon B. Johnson -US troop withdrawal -Infiltration -Cambodia -Laos -Number of sorties -Decline -Cornell study -Professor [Forename unknown] Kardina [sp?] -Press coverage -Ho Chi Minh Trail 22 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 300-23 (cont.) -Purpose -US troop withdrawal -The President's opponents -Argument -Refugees -Analogy to World War II -Defense of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] and Poland -Concentration camp Laird -The President's schedule -Meeting with the President -Troop withdrawal rate -Rogers Vietnam -Troop withdrawals -The President's role -Laird -Negotiations -Forthcoming meeting of November 20, 1971 -Laird's knowledge Rogers -Handling of job -Compared to Laird -Troop withdrawals -The President's PRC initiative The President's forthcoming State of the World message -1971 -Laos -The President's trip to PRC -Vietnam -Troop withdrawals The President’s schedule -Trip to Latin America -State Department -Jamaica -Jamaica 23 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 300-23 (cont.) ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8 [National Security] [Duration: 15s ] JAMAICA END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8 ***************************************************************** -Panama -Argentina -Brazil -Unknown meeting The President's PRC initiative -State Department role -Green -March 1969 -Trade -Elliot L. Richardson -The President's meeting with Charles E. (“Chip”) Bohlen and Llewellyn E. (“Tommy”) Thompson, Jr. in June 1969 -Romania -Warsaw talks -Messages -Kissinger's possible meeting with newsmen -Timing -Forthcoming Summit -Stewart J.O. Alsop -1972 election -Laird and Rogers -Possible television appearance -State Department role 24 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 300-23 (cont.) -Rogers -Briefing books for Kissinger -Kissinger's staff -Unknown person’s comment State Department briefing books -The President’s knowledge of since 1953 The President's foreign policy -Democrats -Vietnam negotiations -Possible administration action The President's forthcoming trip to PRC -Press list -Timing of announcement -Ziegler -Joseph C. Kraft -Calls to Alexander M. Haig, Jr. -Calls to Kissinger -Kissinger's response Kissinger left at 11:00 am.