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Conversation: 482-016

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Start Date: 19-Apr-1971 2:32 PM

End Date: 19-Apr-1971 3:03 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")Kissinger, Henry A.

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:05:14

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:20:09

482-016.mp3

NARA Description:

On April 19, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 2:32 pm and 3:03 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 482-016 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 482-16

Date: April 19, 1971
Time: Unknown between 2:32 pm and 3:03 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President talked with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

     Schedule
          -Visit to Julie Nixon Eisenhower
          -Camp David
          -Thelma C. (Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon
          -Camp David
          -Gettysburg church
                -Timing
                -Choir
          -Cabinet

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 2:50 pm.

[End of telephone conversation]

     Kissinger's dinner with Stewart J.O. Alsop
          -Alsop's call to Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
          -National interest

     President's meeting with American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE], April 16, 1971
          -J. Edgar Hoover

     Earth Day

     President's opponents
          -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
          -Dump President movement
          -Numbers
                                         30

                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                   Tape Subject Log
                                      (rev. 9/08)




Hoover
    -Resignation
    -Enemies
    -President's enemies

President's appearance before Daughters of the American Revolution [DAR]
     -Significance
DAR
     -Patriotism
     -Support for President
            -Cambodia
            -Laos
     -Civic mindedness
            -Appalachia
     -President's appearance

President's supporters/opponents
     -William F. Buckley's views
     -Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] relations

Harvard committee
     -Study of People's Republic of China [PRC] policy
     -Congratulatory letter to President

Kissinger's relations with Alsop
     -Society people

Republican conservatives
    -Middle America
    -Barry M. Goldwater
    -Ronald W. Reagan
    -President
          -Political orientation
    -Goldwater and Reagan
    -President's speech, October 7, 1971

Issues
     -Spanish Civil War
     -Chiang Kai-Shek
     -Fidel Castro
     -Quemoy & Matsu
                                         31

                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                 Tape Subject Log
                                    (rev. 9/08)



     -National Defense
           -Antiballisitic Missiles [ABM]
     -Liberals
           -Communists
           -Leftists
     -Communists
     -Clifford M. Case, Richard S. Schweiker, Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
           -Interpretation of world                           Conv. No. 482-16 (cont.)

National defense
     -US missile capacity
           -ABM sites
     -Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
     -Soviet missile capacity
     -Liberals
           -Outlook
     -Cuban missile crisis
           -Liberals
                 -Support for John F. Kennedy
           -Harvard University faculty
           -George B. Kistiakowsky's call to Kissinger
           -Harvard reaction
     -Laos
           -US withdrawal
           -Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
           -President's press conference, March 4, 1971
           -US casualties
     -Vietnam
           -Firebase 6
                 -Liberals
                 -South Vietnamese military operations
                       -US air support
                       -Success
                       -North Vietnamese reaction

Kissinger's lunch with Benjamin C. Bradlee

George H.W. Bush's meeting with Newsweek editors, April 5, 1971
    -President's speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
    -Bradlee
    -Opposition to US policy regarding Vietnam, Laos
    -Osborn Elliott
                                           32

                       NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                   Tape Subject Log
                                      (rev. 9/08)



        -Robert C. Christopher

Kissinger's conversation with Bradlee
     -Press correspondents in Vietnam
           -Liaisons
           -Saigon
           -Money
           -Liaisons                                                Conv. No. 482-16 (cont.)
     -Press briefings
           -Anecdote
           -Unknown correspondent's activities

Press
        -Newsweek
             -President's speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
             -Christopher
        -Newsweek
        -Time
        -Newsweek
             -Democratic left

Alsop's column, April 19, 1971
     -President and the Democrats
     -President's prospects
     -PRC
     -Democrats' program
           -SALT
           -Defense
           -Vietnam
           -Alternatives

President's 1972 reelection prospects
     -Democrats' reaction
     -1968 election
            -Lyndon B. Johnson
     -Possible effect on Democrats
            -Effect on entrenched bureaucracy
            -President’s trip

State Department
      -William P. Rogers
      -Bureaucracy
                                              33

                             NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                        Tape Subject Log
                                           (rev. 9/08)



           -Ivy League

     Health Education and Welfare [HEW]
          -Entrenched Democrats

     Bureaucracy
          -Democrats
               -Dwight D. Eisenhower                              Conv. No. 482-16 (cont.)
          -Republicans
          -Democrats
               -Franklin D. Roosevelt
               -New Deal
          -1972 elections
               -President's possible victory
          -1976 elections
          -Purge
          -Democrats
               -Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
          -Liberal Republicans
               -Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.
                     -Trip to Laos

     President's reelection prospects

Kissinger left at 3:03 pm.