Conversation: 503-009
Prev: 503-008 Next: 503-010Start Date: 21-May-1971 11:29 AM
End Date: 21-May-1971 11:41 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Rogers, William P.; Butterfield, Alexander P.;Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:48:44
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:59:59
NARA Description:
On May 21, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, William P. Rogers, and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:29 am and 11:41 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 503-009 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 503-9
Date: May 21, 1971
Time: Unknown after 11:29 am until 11:41 am
Location: Oval Office Conv. No. 503-6 (cont.)
The President met with William P. Rogers; the recording begins while the conversation is in
progress.
Foreign policy
-Germany
-Russians
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Chinese reaction
-Rogers’ luncheon speech
-Chinese scientists visiting the US
-Western European scientists
-Egyptian doctors in antiquity
-Egypt
-Pyramids
-Temples
-Egyptian civilization
-Egyptian people
-Anwar el-Sadat
-Egypt's relationship to the US
President's schedule
-Scientists
-International Telecommunications Satellite Consortium [INTELSAT]
Rogers schedule
-Haircut
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Privacy]
[Duration: 28s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2 Conv. No. 503-9 (cont.)
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[National Security]
[Duration: 58s ]
CANADA
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
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PRC
-Development of US-PRC relations
-United Nations [UN] issue
-US-Soviet Union relations
-US's dealings with PRC
-Soviets
-Visits by US officials
-Maurice H. Stans
-David M. Kennedy
-Handling
-Soviet Union
-Rogers’ speech [May 21, 1971?]
-President speech to Red Cross [May 20, 1971?]
-President's meeting with a Chinese teacher
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-Brotherhood
-1981
-Open Travel to PRC, Soviet Union
-Brotherhood
Soviet Union
-Llewellyn E. (“Tommy”) Thompson's views on how to deal with the Russians
-Tass’ [?] attack on US imperialism Conv. No. 503-9 (cont.)
-PRC
-US foreign policy
-Handling
-President's message of January 8th to Aleksei N. Kosygin, Leonid I. Brezhnev
Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 11:29 am.
President's schedule
Butterfield left at an unknown time before 11:41 am.
Soviet Union
-Party Congress
-Laos
-PRC initiative
-Middle East
The Middle East
-Rogers' role in Middle East settlement
-President’s instructions to Rogers
-Jews
-Role for the President in reaching a settlement
-Jews
-Richard Bolling
-Pacificists
-Quakers
-US elections
-Democrats
-Bolling
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[National Security]
[Duration: 29s ]
MIDDLE EAST Conv. No. 503-9 (cont.)
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
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Science
Youth
-Zero growth rate
The President and Rogers left at approximately 11:41 am.