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Conversation: 500-022

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Start Date: 18-May-1971 2:30 PM

End Date: 18-May-1971 3:04 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")Bull, Stephen B.

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:43:48

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 03:12:07

500a.mp3

500b.mp3

500c.mp3

500d.mp3

NARA Description:

On May 18, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 2:30 pm to 3:04 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 500-022 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 500-22

Date: May 18, 1972
Time: 2:30 pm - 3:04 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
[Discontinuities appear in the original recording]

     Drugs
          -Statements by Dr. Bertram S. Brown of National Institute of Mental Health
          -President's previous statement at California press conference
                -Distribution
          -Officials' views

     Presidential appointments
          -Peter G. Peterson
          -Rogers C.B. Morton
                -Age
                -Health
                -Age
          -[Name unintelligible]
                -Age

     Drugs
          -Marijuana
               -Effects
                     -Compared with alcohol
               -Types
          -Effect on nations
          -Alcohol
               -Japan, Great Britain, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR], People's
                     Republic of China [PRC], Malaysia
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[Unintelligible]

     -Arthur G. (“Art”) Linkletter [?]
          -Anti-narcotics campaign [?]

A special item

Business magazine editors meeting                            Conv. No. 500-22 (cont.)
     -Original list of attendants
          -Time, Newsweek, Fortune, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Barron's,
                 Forbes
     -[Name unintelligible], C. L. Sulzberger
     -Time, Newsweek, and New York Times business sections

President's schedule
     -Donald H. Rumsfeld and Robert H. Finch
     -A call

Mansfield Amendment
    -Senate
          -Possible vote

Supersonic Transport [SST]
     -President's conversation with John D. Ehrlichman
           -Boeing contracts
     -Administration's efforts, Boeing's efforts
     -Republican senators
     -Southern Democrats
     -House of Representatives
           -Leadership
     -Senate
           -Leadership
                 -Everett M. Dirksen
                 -Hugh Scott

President's schedule
     -Quadriad meeting, May 21, 1971
            -John B. Connally

Anna C. Chennault
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**********************************************************************

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 21s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3                                             Conv. No. 500-22 (cont.)

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          -Current position
                -US Chamber of Commerce
          -Trip to Far East and Southeast Asia
                -Previous conversation with John N. Mitchell
                -Possible letters from President
                      -Park Chung Hee
                      -Chiang Kai-shek
                      -Prime Minister and Air Marshall of Thailand
                -Letter to Haldeman
                -Henry A. Kissinger
                -Possible letters from President
                -Letters to Ambassadors
          -Vietnam
                -Mitchell’s view
                      -Forthcoming election in South Vietnam
                -Kissinger’s view
          -Trip
                -Possible letters
                      -President
                      -Ambassadors
                      -Kissinger
                      -US ambassador
                            -Taiwan, Korea
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:30 pm.

     President’s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:04 pm.

     Chennault
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     Racial problems
          -Ehrlichman's assessment
          -Possible action
                -Demonstrators
                -Mayors, police chiefs
                -Ehrlichman
                -Law Enforcement Assistance Administration [LEAA] Conv. No. 500-22 (cont.)
                -Ehrlichman
          -Blacks, Chicanos
          -Police

     Clark MacGregor
          -Location
          -Possible meeting with President and Kissinger

[Haldeman talked with an unknown person [Bull?] at an unknown time between 2:30 pm and
3:04 pm]

[Conversation No. 500-22A]

     President's schedule
          -Kissinger and MacGregor

[End of telephone conversation]


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 40s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5

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Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:30 pm.

     MacGregor's location
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Bull left at an unknown time before 3:04 pm.


**********************************************************************

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[Personal Returnable]                                             Conv. No. 500-22 (cont.)
[Duration: 1m 56s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6

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     John A. Volpe
          -Haldeman's conversation with Mitchell
          -Relations with President
               -Dinner at Clifford M. Hardin's residence
               -Telephone conversation with Ehrlichman
               -Meetings with President
          -Transportation issues
               -National Railroad Passenger Corporation [AMTRAK or RAILPAX]
               -SST
                     -Volpe's
                     -William M. Magruder
                     -Volpe compared with Connally

     Rumsfeld
         -Possible position with Office of Emergency Preparedness [OEP]
              -Ehrlichman
         -Forthcoming meeting with Haldeman
         -Possible OEP position
              -Cabinet meetings
              -National Security Council [NSC]
              -Mission
         -Forthcoming meeting with President and Finch

     Hardin[?]

Haldeman left at 3:04 pm.
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