Conversation: 301-013
Prev: 301-012 Next: 301-014Start Date: 3-Nov-1971 12:20 PM
End Date: 3-Nov-1971 1:16 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.;Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 03:12:27
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 04:08:48
NARA Description:
On November 3, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 12:20 pm to 1:16 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 301-013 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 301-13
Date: November 3, 1971
Time: 12:20 pm - 1:16 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.
Henry A. Kissinger
The President talked with H. R. Haldeman at an unknown time between 12:20 pm and 12:22 pm.
[Conversation No. 301-13A]
Haldeman's schedule
-Ziegler and Kissinger
Kissinger's schedule
-(Jacques) Maurice Couve de Murville
[End of telephone conversation]
Ziegler's briefings
The President talked with Charles W. Colson between 12:22 pm and 12:23 pm.
[Conversation No. 301-13B]
[See Conversation No. 13-99]
[End of telephone conversation]
Supreme Court
-American Bar Association [ABA] endorsement of Lewis F. Powell and William H.
Rehnquist
-Margin
Foreign aid program
-Continuing resolution
-Deadline
-Press
-Understanding of issue
-Statements by John A. Hannah, the Secretary of State [William P. Rogers] and
Ziegler
-Allen J. Ellender
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 301-13 (cont.)
New York Times and Washington Post
-White House treatment
-James J. Kilpatrick
The President talked with Walter H. Annenberg between 12:25 pm and 12:31 pm.
[Conversation No. 301-13C]
[See Conversation No. 13-100; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]
[End of telephone conversation]
Haldeman entered at 12:25 pm.
Frank L. Rizzo
The President's schedule
-The President's conversation with Kissinger
-Kissinger’s schedule
-John B. Oakes
-New York Times editorial board
-Abraham M. Rosenthal
-Daniel Schwarz
-Possible meetings
-Timing
-Pentagon Papers
-Time magazine
-Simile
-Contact with People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-New York Times editorial board
-Oakes
William McMahon
-Comments to the President
-New York Times
Time magazine
-Relations with White House
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:31 pm.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 301-13 (cont.)
Matches
Refreshments
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:50 pm.
Kissinger's schedule
-Oakes and Max Frankel
-Washington Star event
White House relations with press
-New York Times and Washington Post
-Television networks editorial boards
-Kissinger's schedule
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]
-American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC]
-John Chancellor, Howard K. Smith and Dan Rather
-New York Times, Time and Washington Post
-Newsweek
-Times
-Kissinger's schedule
-Editorial boards
-Networks
-Ziegler
-United Press International [UPI] and Associated Press [AP]
-Scripps-Howard papers
-Knight papers
-Possible program
-Herbert G. Klein's possible efforts
-Location
-New York
-White House
-New York Times
-Scali
-AP and UPI
-New York Times, Washington Post and Washington Star
-Scali's views
-Staff members' schedules
-John D. Ehrlichman, Kissinger and Ziegler
-Meetings with Bureau chiefs compared to reporters
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 301-13 (cont.)
-Robert B. Semple, Jr.
-Los Angeles Times
-Donald Irwin
-Editorial Board
-The President's schedule
-Semple and Irwin
-J. Edward Murray [?]
-Irwin
-Influence
-Compared to Semple
-Kissinger’s schedule
-David Kraslow
-Press "freeze"
-Reasons
-White House staff members' schedules
-Henry Hubbard
-Scali
-Jerrold L. Schecter of Time
-Influence
-Compared to Hugh S. Sidey
-Objectivity
-Forthcoming Moscow summit
-The President's policy
-Kissinger's schedule
-New York Times
-Kissinger's schedule
-Semple
-Editorial Board
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
-Posture
-Influence
-Semple
-Frankel
-Frankel
-Pentagon Papers
-NBC
-Semple
-Time
-Theodore H. (“Teddy”) White
-The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Conversation with Ziegler
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 301-13 (cont.)
-The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Newsweek
-White
-Schecter
-The President’ forthcoming trip to the Union Soviet Socialist Republics
[USSR]
-Television networks
-Kissinger's schedule
-Editorial boards
-Rather and Harry Reasoner
-Editorial boards
-White House correspondents
-John F. Kennedy’s practice
-Smith, Walter L. Cronkite and Chancellor
-Influence
-[Arnold] Eric Sevareid
-Timing
-Kissinger's schedule
-Wire services
-New York Times Editorial Board
-Pentagon Papers
-Semple
Kissinger entered at 12:50 pm.
Kissinger's meeting with Couve de Murville
-The President’s comments about Couve
-Couve’s comments about the President
-Couve's meeting with Mao Tse-tung
-Chou En-lai
Nikita S. Khrushchev
-Treatment by US press
-Nikolai A. Bulganin
-John F. Dulles
-Views
-Conversation with the President
-Accomplishments
-Bureaucracy
-Communist Party
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 301-13 (cont.)
Kissinger's meeting with Couve
The President's schedule
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Guiana
-Willy Brandt
-Florida
-Compared to San Clemente
-Reception
-Nobel Peace Prize
-State dinner
-Edward R.G. Heath
-Bermuda
-Kissinger's forthcoming meeting with Earl of Cromer [George R.S. Baring]
-Emilio Colombo
-Telephone conversation with the President
The President's previous conversation with Annenberg
-Philadelphia mayoral election
-The President's forthcoming visit to USSR
-Notification
-Kissinger's conversation with Cromer
-Timing
-The President’s announcement
-Pompidou
-Heath
Heath
-Possible note from the President
-Great Britain's entry into Common Market
-Possible meeting
White House relations with the press
-Kissinger's schedule
-Scali
-Television networks
-Trip to PRC
-The President
-Reception
-Chou En-lai
-New York
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 301-13 (cont.)
-Editorial boards
-Television networks
-Rogers
-Timing
-United Nations [UN] vote on Taiwan, Republic of China
-Foreign aid vote
-Continuing resolution
-Vietnam
-Troop withdrawal
-Cincinnati
-Purpose of visit
-Influence
-Compared to meeting with Time, Washington Post, New York
Times
-Editorial boards
-AP and UPI
-Business group
-Clare Boothe Luce
-New York Times and Time
-Pentagon Papers
-Semple
-Ziegler
-Los Angeles Times
-Kraslow
-Views
-USSR initiative
-Oakes
-Irwin
-Semple and Kraslow
-Washington Post
-Washington Star
-George Sherman
-Mary McGrory
-Sherman
-State Department
-Networks
-Business group
-Klein and Scali
-New York
-Editorial boards
-Invitation to Kissinger
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 301-13 (cont.)
-Duration of meetings
-Timing
-Forthcoming trip to PRC
-Forthcoming announcement
-Luce
Luce
-Possible role with administration
-Confirmation
Kissinger’s schedule
-Ziegler
Kissinger left at 1:11 pm.
White House relations with the press
-Washington Post
-Maxine Cheshire
-Tricia Nixon Cox
[Unintelligible]
-Kissinger's schedule
-Editorial boards
-Ziegler’s role
-Klein's schedule
-Robert H. Finch
-South American trip
-Timing
-Kraslow
-Semple
-Oakes
-Washington Post
-“Freeze”
-Adam Clymer of New York Times
-Scripps-Howard papers
-Knight papers
-Hearst papers
-Newhouse papers
-Don Bacon
-Editorials
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 301-13 (cont.)
-Portland Oregonian
-Scripps-Howard papers
-Ted Knap
-Bacon
-Appearance
-Age
-Editorials
-Press attitude
-UN vote on Taiwan
-Senate vote on foreign aid program
-Kissinger's schedule
-Pauline Frederick
-Value
-Joseph C. Kraft
-William F. Buckley, Jr. and Stewart J.O. Alsop
-State Department
-Backgrounders
Haldeman and Ziegler left at 1:16 pm.