Conversation: 505-014
Prev: 505-013 Next: 505-015Start Date: 26-May-1971 5:17 PM
End Date: 26-May-1971 5:57 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Lee, Harold; Bull, Stephen B.; Sanchez, Manolo; Kissinger, Henry A.;Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 03:31:33
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 04:09:47
NARA Description:
On May 26, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Harold Lee, Stephen B. Bull, Manolo Sanchez, and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House from 5:17 pm to 5:57 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 505-014 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 505-14
Date: May 26, 1971
Time: 5:17 pm - 5:57 pm
Location: Oval Office
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Tape Subject Log
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The President met with Harold Lee.
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 1m 24s ] Conv. No. 505-13 (cont.)
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Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:17 pm.
President's schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Meeting with the Attorney General
-Length
-John D. Ehrlichman
Bull left at an unknown time before 5:22 pm.
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 24s ]
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Kissinger
-Joint meeting
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Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 5:17 pm.
Refreshments
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:22 pm.
Vietnam
-End of war Conv. No. 505-14 (cont.)
-US withdrawal
-South Vietnamese
-Writers
-Robert Downey[?]
-Press
-North Vietnamese military activity
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Mutual mistrust
-President's Experience
-Detente
-Arms control announcement, May 20, 1971
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
Kissinger entered at 5:22 pm.
Introductions
Vietnam
Joseph W. Alsop
-Kissinger's forthcoming meeting
-Unknown woman
US-USSR relations
-Alsop’s view
-Mutual mistrust
-SALT
-Alsop
Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 5:22 pm.
Refreshments
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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:57 pm.
-Kissinger’s analysis
-Initial response to the President
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Political rivalry
-Ideological leadership of Communist Party
-Federal Republic of Germany [FRG] Conv. No. 505-14 (cont.)
-Middle East
-USSR missile build up
-Jordan
-Syria
-Cuban Base
-Ideology
-PRC
-FRG
-Domestic situation
-Berlin
-Middle East
-Risk of war
-FRG
-Eastern Europe
-Poland
-Improvement
-President's message
-January 8, 1971
-Detente
-Possible effect on western unity
-US-PRC relations
-Lee
-US policy
-Ping Pong team
-Travel and trade
-Taiwan
-British
-United Nations [UN]
-Mao Tse Tung
-Chou En-lai
-Cambodia
-PRC
-Laos
-Alsop
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-PRC and USSR
-Conciliation
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[National Security] Conv. No. 505-14 (cont.)
[Duration: 8m 49s ]
CHINA
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Overseas Chinese
-Southeast Asia
-Singapore
-Lee Kuan Yew
US foreign policy
-PRC and USSR
-American people
-Idealism
-Korea
-Pragmatic
-Idealists
-Press
-USSR
-Unilateral disarmament
-Reaction to pragmatism
-Fear of war
-Reaction to signs of progress
-”Millennium”
-USSR and PRC
-World Situation
-PRC
-USSR
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-Pragmatic leaders
-US policy
-Pragmatism
-Interest
-USSR and PRC
-Evenhandedness
Japan Conv. No. 505-14 (cont.)
-Future in world situation
-Achievements
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[National Security]
[Duration: 7m 2s ]
CHINA, JAPAN
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Korea
-Kissinger trip
-Agnew
Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo
Presentation of gifts by the President
-Lee's children
-Cuff links
-Tie clasps
-Paper weight
[General conversation]
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-Golf
-Chinese food
-Walter H. Annenberg
-Tricia Nixon and Edward R.F. Cox
-Wedding date
Lee and Kissinger left at 5:57 pm.
Conv. No. 505-14 (cont.)