Conversation: 500-010
Prev:  500-009 Next: 500-011Start Date: 18-May-1971 9:41 AM
End Date: 18-May-1971 10:00 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.; Bull, Stephen B.; Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:16:59
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:38:16
NARA Description:
On May 18, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:41 am to 10:00 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 500-010 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 500-10 Date: May 18, 1971 Time: 9:41 am - 10:00 am Location: Oval Office The President met with Henry A. Kissinger. Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] -Kissinger’s meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin -Andrei A. Gromyko -Status -Wording -Other negotiations -People's Republic of China [PRC] -Berlin -Dobrynin -Possible announcement -Gerard C. Smith -President's schedule -Notification of William P. Rogers -Notification of Smith -Congressional action -Phillip J. Farley -Vladimir S. Semenov Republican congressional leadership meeting -Robert P. Griffin Charles McC. Mathias Amendment -Senators' position -Hubert H. Humphrey's position -Provisions -Force levels -Effects -Mansfield Amendment -Executive Branch -Europe 6 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 9/08) SALT -Possible agreement -Wording -Soviet Union -Peter G. Peterson -Negotiations for a truck plant -Smith -Rogers Conv. No. 500-10 (cont.) -Possible announcement Mathias Amendment -Republican leadership meeting -President's statement to Griffin Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield Amendment -Position of "The Establishment" Senators -Vietnam SALT -Importance -May 18, 1971 Republican leadership meeting -President's statements -Goals of treaty -Congressmen -White House congressional strategy -Republican congressional leadership President -Nelson A. Rockefeller -Vietnam, Anti-ballistic Missile treaty [ABM] -Humphrey -Efforts -Abraham Lincoln -Support -Effect of television Republican leadership meeting -Peter H. Dominick -Railroad strike -President’s views 7 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 9/08) SALT -Forthcoming developments -Farley, Rogers -Smith's schedule -Vienna, Austria -Announcement -Smith's, Rogers', President's roles Conv. No. 500-10 (cont.) -John A. Scali -US position -ABM -Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] position -Dobrynin -Gromyko, Brezhnev Senate -Hugh Scott -Griffin -Norris Cotton -Gordon L. Allott -Margaret Chase Smith -Dominick -Health -Compared with Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr. ********************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 15s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6 ********************************************************************** Foreign policy -Scali -Conversations with Kissinger and Peter Lisagor -President's place in history 8 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 9/08) -SALT -Effect -Congress -Wording -Dobrynin, Gromyko -USSR -Joseph C. Kraft -Berlin Conv. No. 500-10 (cont.) -Salt -Dobrynin -Kissinger’s negotiating ability -Wording of announcement -Semenov -Soviet view -Prospects Senate -Possible foreign policy action -Griffin -President's statement in May 18, 1971 Republican leadership meeting -Rogers' May 18, 1971 meeting -Mathias Amendment -Mathias Amendment -Compared with Mansfield Amendment -Humphrey's possible action Congress -President's meetings with leaders -Cabinet meeting -Gerald R. Ford -Melvin R. Laird's role -Laird's views -US forces in Europe -Robert La Follette President's background -Quakers -Peace Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:41 am. President's schedule 9 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 9/08) Bull left at an unknown time before 10:00 am. SALT -Possible announcement -Timing -Soviet response -Dobrynin Conv. No. 500-10 (cont.) The President and Kissinger left at 10:00 am.