Conversation: 460-017
Prev: 460-016 Next: 460-018Start Date: 26-Feb-1971 1:26 PM
End Date: 26-Feb-1971 2:20 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Butterfield, Alexander P.; Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Bull, Stephen B.; [Unknown person(s)]; Chapin, Dwight L.;Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:08:04
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:06:04
NARA Description:
On February 26, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander P. Butterfield, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Stephen B. Bull, unknown person(s), and Dwight L. Chapin met in the Oval Office of the White House from 1:26 pm to 2:20 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 460-017 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 460-17
Date: February 26, 1971
Time: 1:26 pm - 2:20 pm
Location: Oval Office
Alexander P. Butterfield met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
Conv. No. 460-17 (cont.)
Schedule
-Open Hour
-Delays
-Participants
The President entered at an unknown time after 1:26 pm
The President’s schedule
-Frank J. Shakespeare
-Report to the President
-Yugoslavia
-Saudi Arabia
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-Egypt
-Shakespeare’s meeting with Egyptian publishers
-Possible meeting with the President
-Timing
-Henry Brandon
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-Shakespeare
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Possible conversation with President
-Ambassadorship
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Open Door Hour
Conv. No. 460-17 (cont.)
Butterfield left at 1:30 pm
-Camp David
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon’s trip to New York
-John B. and Idanell (Brill) (“Nellie”) Connally
Butterfield entered at 1:31 pm
-Camp David
-The Connallys
-Arrangements
-Accommodations
Butterfield left at 1:35 pm
George H. W. Bush
-White House ceremony
Wilbur D. Mills
-Breakfast meeting with the President
White House ceremonies
-Bush
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Need for ceremony
-Mills
-Bush
Portraits of John Quincy and Louisa C. (Johnson) Adams
-Press accounts
-The Johnsons
-The Kennedys
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-Mrs. Nixon
-Dolley P. T. Madison
-Book to Rose Mary Woods and Marjorie P. Acker
Media
-Mark I. Goode
-Tricia Nixon
-Previous talk at the John F. Kennedy Center for the
Conv.
Performing
No. 460-17
Arts(cont.)
-Assistance
-Mrs. Nixon
-T. Nixon
-Efforts
-Al Scott
-William H. Carruthers
-Goode
-Efforts
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Bryce N. Harlow
-Haldeman’s previous conversation with Harlow
-Contact with the Vice President
-Tennis
-Attendance at Gridiron Dinner
-The Vice President
-Position of Vice President
-Role of Vice President
-Intergovernmental relations
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The President’s schedule
-William P. Rogers
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Middle East
-Charles W. Yost
Conv. No. 460-17 (cont.)
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:35 pm
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-Timing
Bull left at an unknown time before 2:20 pm
Harlow
-Agriculture
-Hyde Murray
-Possible position
-Robert J. Dole
-Forthcoming Presidential trip to Iowa
-Murray
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Conversation with the President
-Page Belcher
-Gerald R. Ford’s view
-Attendees
-Murray
The President’s schedule
Louis Harris poll
-Congressional effectiveness
-The President’s relationship with Congress
-Questions
-Results
-Congressional reputation
-Pollution
-Cigarette advertisements
-Federal aid to education
-Vote for eighteen-year-olds
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-Supersonic Transport [SST] subsidy
-Antiballistic Missile [ABM] treaty
-Anti-crime efforts
-Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr. nomination
-G. Harrold Carswell nomination
-Hospitalization
-Welfare reform
-Social Security Conv. No. 460-17 (cont.)
-Revenue sharing
-Trends
Bull entered at an unknown time after 1:35 pm
Schedule
Bull left at an unknown time before 2:20 pm
State of the World message
-Media
-Kissinger
-New York Times
-Television
-Length
-New York Times
-Length
-William L. Safire
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-Radio
Media
-Radio compared to television
-Press conferences
-Benefits of radio
-Use by Administration
-Health message
-Revenue sharing
-Environment
-Health care
-Minorities
-Youth
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-Methods
Media techniques
-Television
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Still photography
-Goode
-Bull Conv. No. 460-17 (cont.)
-Length of television film
-Speeches
-Brevity
-[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars speech
-Ziegler
-Safire
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-Television
-State of the World speech
-Radio
-Television appearances
-Rogers’ view
-The President’s position
-Radio speech
-Safire
George H. Gallup poll
-Results
-Timing of release
[Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 1:35 pm and 2:20 pm]
[Conversation No. 460-17A]
Request for Chapin to join them
[End of telephone conversation]
Chapin entered at an unknown time after 1:35 pm
Gallup poll
-Results
-Timing of release
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Chapin left at an unknown time before 2:20 pm
-Interpretation
-Massachusetts
-Cambodia
-Harris poll
-Field poll Conv. No. 460-17 (cont.)
-Charles W. Colson
-Washington Post
-Edmund S. Muskie compared with the President
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Vietnam
-Economy
Haig
-Kissinger
Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Colson
-Harlow’s view
-Intergovernmental relations
-The Vice President
-Interests
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Haldeman left at 2:20 pm
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