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Start Date: 6-May-1971 11:00 AM

End Date: 6-May-1971 11:26 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")Khan, Mohammed AyubZiegler, Ronald L.

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:35:44

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:59:48

493a.mp3

493b.mp3

NARA Description:

On May 6, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Mohammed Ayub Khan, and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:00 am and 11:26 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 493-009 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 493-9

Date: May 6, 1971
Time: Unknown between 11:00 am and 11:26 am
Location: Oval Office

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

     H[arold] R[oyce] Gross
          -Position on President’s war policies
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                                Tape Subject Log
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Vietnam
     -Demonstrators
         -North Vietnam
         -Carrying of Viet Cong flag
         -Possible counterattack
               -Possible speech
                    -Robert J. Dole
     -Democrats

Agriculture
     -”Salute to Agriculture”
           -Publicity
           -Dr. Norman E. Borlaug’s work
     -US efforts worldwide
           -Demonstrators
           -Food
           -Peace Corps
                 -Costs
                 -Workers
                 -President’s future action
                       -Compared with Walter J. Hickel’s dismissal

Camp David
    -Use by staff and Cabinet
         -Alexander P. Butterfield
         -Laurel cabin
         -John B. Connally
               -Work

Borlaug [?]

Demonstrators
    -Viet Cong flag
          -Network publicity
          -Public opinion
               -North Vietnam, Communists
          -White House publicity

President’s schedule
     -George Meany
           -Meeting, May 7, 1971
           -Health
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                                        Tape Subject Log
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                 -Schedule
                      -Golf, convention
                      -James D. Hodgson

     Supersonic Transport [SST]
          -Upcoming House vote
               -Effect on Senate
                     -California senators                                Conv. No. 493-9 (cont.)
                           -Lockheed
                     -Other senators
                           -Possible changes
               -Jobs

[The President talked with Mohammed Ayub Khan between 11:06 am and 11:07 am]

[Conversation No. 493-9A]

[See Conversation No. 2-106]

[End of telephone conversation]
Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 11:09 am

     Connally’s press briefing
         -Wholesale Price Index
         -Lockheed
         -Wholesale Price Index
               -Consumer Price Index comparison
               -Publicity
         -Farm prices
               -George P. Shultz
               -Consumers, retailers, wholesalers
         -Meeting with President

     Ziegler’s briefing
          -Time

[A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from
December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access [SA] 8, Ronald V. Dellums, et al. v.
James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271. The National Archives and Records Administration
produced this transcript. The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]

[End of transcript]
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Ziegler left at 11:20 am

     Press
             -Ziegler’s briefings
             -President’s conferences
             -Ziegler’s briefings
                   -Ziegler’s work                                   Conv. No. 493-9 (cont.)
                         -Staff

     Vietnam or Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] Negotiations [?]
          -Timing
          -Henry A. Kissinger
               -A paper
          -Timing
               -Importance
          -Kissinger
               -Draft
               -Possible trip
               -Draft
                     -General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 11:26 am