Conversation: 470-013
Prev: 470-012 Next: 470-014Start Date: Friday, March 19, 1971 5:38 PM
End Date: Friday, March 19, 1971 6:05 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); White House operator; Ford, Gerald R.Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 03:10:32
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 03:32:08
NARA Description:
On March 19, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, White House operator, and Gerald R. Ford met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:38 pm and 1:05 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 470-013 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 470-13
Date: March 19, 1971
Time: Unknown between 12:38 pm and 1:05 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
Prisoners of War and Missing in Action [POW/MIA] families
-Compared with Congressmen and Senators
-Hardships on families
-Effect on wives and children
President’s schedule
-Camp David
-Arthur F. Burns meeting
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Tape Subject Log
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-Length
-Thomas E. Dewey funeral
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon
-John M. Harlan
-Call from Chief Justice Warren E. Burger
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-Camp David
-Possible length of stay
-March 22, 1971 program
John A. Scali
-Possible White House position
-Relations with President
-Support for Administration
-Associated Press [AP] career
-Compared with Ronald L. Ziegler
-Possible White House position
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Title
-Leonard Garment
-Implications
-Functions
-Title
-Charles B. (“Bud”) Wilkinson
-Kissinger
-Need
-Haldeman’s conversations with Kissinger
-Kissinger
-Responsibilities
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-Kissinger
-State and Defense Departments
-Henry Catto and Robert J. McCloskey
-William P. Rogers and Melvin R. Laird
-Role
-Coordination policies
-Public relations
-Laird, [David] Kenneth Rush, and KissingerConv. No. 470-13 (cont.)
-Charles W. Colson
-Kissinger’s press relations
-Herbert G. Klein
-Ziegler
-Compared with Ziegler
-AP experience
Vietnam
-Laos operation
-Purpose
-President’s and Kissinger’s public statements
-Goals
-Kissinger’s statements
-Problems
Scali
-Advice on briefing
-Colson
-Press
Kissinger
-Briefing method
-Columnists
-Stewart J. O. Alsop
-Television
-Wire services
Burns
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Background memorandum
President’s schedule
-California
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Gerald R. Ford, Hugh Scott
Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Haldeman’s call to John L. McClellan
-Reason
-Vote
[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown timeConv.
between
No. 12:38
470-13pm and
(cont.)
12:50 pm]
[Conversation No. 470-13A]
Call to Ford
[End of telephone conversation]
Scali
-Possible White House position
-Possible staff assignment
-Kissinger
-State and Defense Departments
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Scali’s view
[The President talked with Ford between 12:50 pm and 12:52 pm]
[Conversation No. 470-13B]
SST vote
Congress
SST vote
-William E. Timmons
-President’s opponents
-Goal
-Environmentalists
-Senate
-William M. Magruder
-Media position
-Future plans
[End of telephone conversation]
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-Ford’s response
President’s schedule
-Burns
-Dewey funeral
-Seating on plane
-Mrs. Nixon Conv. No. 470-13 (cont.)
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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[Duration: 2m 9s ]
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Scali
-Possible White House position
-Kissinger
-Responsibilities
-Ziegler
-Kissinger
-Colson
-Career
-Change
-Future
White House staff
-Careers before and after White House
Haldeman left at an unknown time before 1:05 pm
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