Conversation: 500-026
Prev: 500-025 Next: 500-027Start Date: 18-May-1971 3:42 PM
End Date: 18-May-1971 4:05 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Colson, Charles W.; Bull, Stephen B.; Kissinger, Henry A.;Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 03:48:49
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 04:15:14
NARA Description:
On May 18, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Charles W. Colson, Stephen B. Bull, and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House from 3:42 pm to 4:05 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 500-026 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 500-26
Date: May 18, 1971
Time: 3:42 pm - 4:05 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Charles W. Colson.
[Unintelligible]
Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Status of legislation
-Vote
-Boeing Corporation
-Future government contracts
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
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-John D. Ehrlichman
-Handling
-Termination costs
-President's future dealings
-Daniel J. Evans
Colson
-Henry A. Kissinger's view Conv. No. 500-25 (cont.)
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:42 pm.
President's schedule
-Rose Mary Woods
-Ambassadors
Bull left at an unknown time before 3:55 pm.
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1972 election
-Issues
-Vietnam war
-Effect of President's foreign policy accomplishments
-Isolationism
-The economy
-Jobs
-Racism
-Welfare reform
-White House staff suggestions regarding Family Assistance Plan
-Social Security
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Reform
-Public opinion
-1970 Vermont gubernatorial election
-Deane C. Davis
-President's statement
-Popularity
Senate Conv. No. 500-26 (cont.)
-President’s view
-Kissinger, Bryce N. Harlow
-President's May 18, 1971 meeting with Congressional leadership
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] negotiations
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield and Charles McC. Mathias Amendments
Democrats
Approval ratings
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Louis P. Harris poll
-President's position on police
-Mail
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Effect of ratings
-Ronald W. Reagan's action at University of California at Berkeley
Henry A. Kissinger entered at 3:55 pm.
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] negotiations
-USSR reply
-Announcement
-Text
-Timing
-Wording
-President's schedule
-Announcements
-Meetings with Gerard C. Smith, William P. Rogers
-Times
Colson left at 3:58 pm.
-Kissinger's schedule
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-President’s upcoming address to the American National Red Cross, May 19,
1971
-Smith
-Kissinger's schedule
-Time
-Announcement
-Smith's possible response
-Senate Conv. No. 500-26 (cont.)
-Congressional leaders
-John A. Scali
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Congressional leaders
-Time
-Possible response
-Rogers and Melvin R. Laird
-President's Laos statement, November 3, 1969, speech
-Cambodia incursion announcement, 1970
-Anti-ballistic missile [ABM] announcement
-President's schedule
-Dobrynin
-Congressional leaders
-President's role
-Possible response
-President's possible actions
-Mansfield
-Possible leak
The President, Haldeman, and Kissinger left at 4:05 pm.