Conversation: 501-004
Prev: 501-003 Next: 501-005Start Date: 19-May-1971 9:05 AM
End Date: 19-May-1971 10:14 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Rogers, William P.; Bull, Stephen B.; [Unknown person(s)]; Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob");Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:14:18
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:52:54
NARA Description:
On May 19, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, William P. Rogers, Stephen B. Bull, unknown person(s), and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:05 am to 10:14 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 501-004 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 501-4
Date: May 19, 1971
Time: 9:05 am - 10:14 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with William P. Rogers.
Weather
President's trip on the Sequoia, May 18, 1971
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:05 am.
An item to be copied
Bull left at an unknown time before 9:45 am.
President's trip on the Sequoia, May 18, 1971
Middle East
-A Newsweek article
-An unidentified Columbia University professor
-President's meeting with Landrum Bolling
-Quakers
-US policy
-Negotiations
-Anwar el-Sadat
-Rogers’ view
-Orientation to the West
-Military situation
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-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Meeting with Rogers
-Joseph P. Sisco
-State Department
-Importance of peace agreement
-USSR military assistance
-Costs
-Suez Canal Conv. No. 501-3 (cont.)
-Effect of Suez Canal agreement
-US support of Israel
-Effect of USSR presence
-Sisco
-USSR withdrawal
-Possible agreement
-Malik Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Saud [Faisal, King of Saudi Arabia]
-Visit to US
Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:05 am.
Bolling's letter
-Copy
-Israel
Bull left at an unknown time before 9:45 am.
Middle East
-An article in Newsweek
-Author
-Sadat
-President's May 18, 1971 meeting with Congressional leaders
-U. Alexis Johnson
-Editor of Al-ahram, Mohammed Heikal
-Relationship with Sadat
-Rogers’ tour
Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:05 am.
Copied items
Bull left at an unknown time before 9:45 am.
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Middle East
-Sadat
-Meeting with Rogers
-Heikal
-Relationship with Sadat
-Wife
-Sadat
-Meeting with Rogers Conv. No. 501-4 (cont.)
-Settlements
-Suez Canal
-Economic assistance
-US policy
-Egypt, Arab Countries, Jews
-Potential for breakthrough
-Compared with Vietnam
-European response
-Rogers’ trip
-France
-Robert Schumann
-Sadat
-Meeting with Rogers
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[National Security]
[Duration: 2m 25s ]
-ISRAEL
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-Israel
-Rogers’ trip
-Reception
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[National Security]
[Duration: 1m 7s ]
Conv. No. 501-4 (cont.)
ISRAEL
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-Economy
-Immigration
-US aid
-A Newsweek article
-1972 election
-American Jews
-Support for President's policies
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
-President's policies
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[National Security]
[Duration: 1m 23s ]
ISRAEL
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
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-US policy
-Public opinion
-USSR
-Rogers’ mail
-Quakers
-Work with Jews in peace causes Conv. No. 501-4 (cont.)
-Rogers’ trip
-Gulf of Aqaba
-Sharm El-sheik
-Miami Beach
-Agriculture
-US policy
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
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[Duration: 1m 6s ]
MIDDLE EAST
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-Golda Meir
-Meeting with Rogers
-Cabinet
-Sadat
-Sisco meeting
-Dr. Mahmoud Fawzi's schedule
-Fawzi
-Faisal's visit
[The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 9:05 am and 9:45
am]
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[Conversation No. 501-4a]
Return call from H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman[?]
[End of telephone conversation]
Middle East Conv. No. 501-4 (cont.)
-Faisal's visit
-State Dinner
-US relations with Egypt
-Rogers’ meeting with Sadat
-Sudan, Algeria, Syria
-Sudanese
-Egyptians
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-President's statement in San Clemente
-A Message to Vienna
-US position
-Antiballistic Missile [ABM]
-Offensive weapons
-Response to US proposal
-Timing
-Substance
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Agreement
[Haldeman talked with the President between 9:45 am and 9:46 am]
[Conversation No. 501-4B]
[See Conversation No. 3-64]
[End of telephone conversation]
SALT
-Agreement
-Public statement, letter
-Wording
-ABM
-Gerard C. Smith
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-Provisions
-ABM
-Public statement, letter
-Multiple Independently Targetable Reentry Vehicle [MIRV]
-President's schedule
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Instructions
-Provisions Conv. No. 501-4 (cont.)
-Congress
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield, Edmund S. Muskie
-Possible Leaks
-[Lyndon B.] [?] Johnson
-ABM
-Prospects
-ABM
-Charles H. Percy
-Provisions
-Interpretations
-Differences
-Schedule
-Meeting with Congressional leaders
-Televised announcement
-Timing
-Smith
-Brezhnev
-Pierre E. Trudeau's visit to USSR
-ABM
-J. William Fulbright
-Future
-Announcement
-Middle East negotiations
-USSR
-Cabinet and National Security Council
-Timing
Sadat
Israel
Rogers left at 10:14 am.
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