Conversation: 498-003
Prev: 498-002 Next: 498-004Start Date: 13-May-1971 10:04 AM
End Date: 13-May-1971 10:30 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Richardson, Elliot L.; Duval, Merlin K. ("Morty") (Dr.); Ehrlichman, John D.; Ziegler, Ronald L.; MacGregor, Clark; White House photographer;Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:51:00
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:16:29
NARA Description:
On May 13, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Elliot L. Richardson, Dr. Merlin K. ("Morty") Duval, John D. Ehrlichman, Ronald L. Ziegler, Clark MacGregor, and White House photographer met in the Oval Office of the White House from 10:04 am to 10:30 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 498-003 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 498-3
Date: May 13, 1971
Time: 10:04 am - 10:30 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Elliot L. Richardson, Dr. Merlin K. (“Monty”) DuVal, John D.
Ehrlichman, Ronald L. Ziegler and Clark MacGregor at 10:04 am; the White House
photographer and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting
[General conversation]
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Tape Subject Log
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Ziegler and the photographers left at an unknown time before 10:30 am.
DuVal
-Dartmouth
-Role with administration
-Health care
-Position of doctors
-Nickname Conv. No 498-2 (cont.)
-Jack Armstrong radio show in 1930's
-Background
-Father
-Travels
-Mexico (Nogales area)
-Wife
-Friends
Mexico
-People
US
-Blacks, Latin Americans
DuVal
-Role with administration
-Travel to Arizona
-Indians
-Los Angeles area
-Health care
-Predecessors
-Authority
-Robert A. Taft, Jr.
-Role
-American Medical Association [AMA]
-Taft
-Title and functions
-John W. Gardner
-Work
-Health care program
-Welfare
-Revenue sharing
-[Unintelligible name]
-Lewis H. Butler, Robert E. Patricelli
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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-White House staff
-Duke of Wellington's comment at Waterloo
-Staff needs, program needs
-National Institutes of Health [NIH], National Institute of Mental Health
[NIMH]
-Autonomy
-Narcotics
-Mary Lasker, James A. Shannon Conv. No. 498-3 (cont.)
-NIH, NIMH
-NIH director
-Dr. Robert Q. Marston
-Inter-departmental cooperation regarding narcotics
-Defense, Justice, and of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
-U.S. troops in Europe
-Robert H. Finch
-Cancer
-Research, publicity
-Marston
-Bureaucracy
Bureaucracy
-State Department, Foreign Service
-Changes
-Problems of new appointees
-Richardson
-Fears
Medical profession
-Health care system
-US
-Burma
-US
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
-Roger O. Egeberg, Richardson
-The President's plan in 1948
-Christian A. Herter
-Medical profession's response
-Morris Fishbein
-Russell Davenport
-Herter
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-AMA
-Popular opinion
-Senators, Congressmen, and doctors
-Richardson's health care plan
-Political funding
Richardson's health care plan
-MacGregor’s work in congress Conv. No. 498-3 (cont.)
-Kennedy program
-W. Clement Stone's comments ten years ago
-Medical profession
-Views of administration
Presentation of gifts by the President
-Cufflinks, golf balls
Richardson, et al., left at 10:30 am