Conversation: 506-012
Prev: 506-011 Next: 506-013Start Date: 28-May-1971 5:10 PM
End Date: 28-May-1971 5:12 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Butterfield, Alexander P.;Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:10:00
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:12:47
NARA Description:
On May 28, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House from 5:10 pm to 5:12 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 506-012 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 506-12
Date: May 28, 1971
Time: 5:10 pm - 5:12 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.
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Location of items
Butterfield left at 5:12 pm.
Conversation
Conv. No. 506-12
No. 506-13
(cont.)
Date: May 28, 1971
Time: 5:27 pm - 6:50 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.
Changes in draft of speech at West Point
-Kissinger's recommendations
-Vietnam War
-Reading of speech
-Middle East truce
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-Vietnam
-Peter G. Peterson
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Peterson
-Wording
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration: 9s ]
COUNTRY
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-Wording
An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 5:27 pm and left at an unknown time
before 5:40 pm.
-Vietnam
-Importance of speech Conv. No. 506-12 (cont.)
-Military
-J. William Fulbright
-Speeches
-West Point
-Colorado Springs
-Annapolis
-Newport
-Kennedys
The Soviet Union
-Cuba
-Submarine tender
-Submarine
-Missiles
-US response
-Press conference
-1962 understanding
-Weapons
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[National Security]
[Duration: 3s ]
SOVIET UNION
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-US response
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Tone
-Summit
-Timing of announcement
Conv. No. 506-13 (cont.)
Vietnam
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-News coverage
-Troop levels
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Melvin R. Laird
-US Combat role
-Appropriations
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 19
[Privacy]
[Duration: 3s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 19
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-Peace offer
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 20
[Federal Statute]
[National Security]
[Duration: 1m 9s ]
Conv. No. 506-13 (cont.)
CHINA
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Changes in speech
-Last paragraph
-Wording
Rose Mary Woods entered at 5:40 pm.
Speech [?]
-Typing
Woods left at an unknown time before 5:42 pm.
Speech
-William P. Rogers
-Testimony
-Hearings
-Andrews
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
Haldeman entered at 5:42 pm.
President's schedule
-West Point
-William C. Westmoreland
-Commandant
-Alumni
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 21
[Privacy]
[Duration: 7s ]
Conv. No. 506-13 (cont.)
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 21
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-Gen. James D. ("Don") Hughes
-Haig
-Gen. George A. Lincoln
-Col. Richard W. Streiff
Schedule
-Kissinger
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Privacy]
[Duration: 3s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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Kissinger left at 5:44 pm.
John N. Mitchell entered at 5:44 pm.
Domestic Council
Blackjack statement
-Press conference
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-Missouri
-George W. Romney
-Speeches
-Mitchell
-Legal
-Political
-Attorney General
-Law Conv. No. 506-13 (cont.)
-Robert F. Kennedy
-Public
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 1m 13s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
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Walter J. Hickel
-Ambassadorial appointment
-Siberia
-Soviet Union
-Trans-Siberian Pipeline
-Ted Stevens
-Conversation with Mitchell
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 1m 54s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
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[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:44 pm and
5:51 pm]
[Conversation No. 506-13A]
Conv. No. 506-13 (cont.)
[See Conversation No. 3-183]
[End of telephone conversation]
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 24s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
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[The President talked with Woods between 5:51 pm and 5:52 pm]
[Conversation No. 506-13B]
[See Conversation No. 3-184]
[End of telephone conversation]
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 5m 6s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
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Japan
-Free trade
-David M. Kennedy
-Peterson Conv. No. 506-13 (cont.)
-Kennedy
-Forthcoming negotiations
-Textile representatives
-Negotiations
-Harry S. Dent
-Textile representatives
-Kennedy's trip to Japan
-Peterson
-Free trade
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 10
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 3m 51s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 10
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Richard J. Daley
-Otto Kerner
-Seventh Circuit Court
-Wiretap problems
-Chicago conspiracy trial
-Commission report
-Milton S. Eisenhower
-Racial war
-Sol M. Linowitz
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
-Illinois
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-Indictment
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 11
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 38s ] Conv. No. 506-13 (cont.)
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 11
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
-William E. Jenner
-Gen. George C. Marshall
-Trip to Indiana
-Jenner
-Jenner
-Compared to George C. Wallace
-Wallace
-Governors
-Speech
-Tom Bigby
-Newspapers
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 12
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 24m 37s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 12
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Immigration and Naturalization Service
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-Cubans
Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-James Stallman
-Audits
-IRS employee
-John B. Connally
Conv. No. 506-13 (cont.)
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 13
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 2m 29s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 13
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Louie B. Nunn
-Appointment
-Department of Agriculture
-Clifford M. Hardin
Cabinet and staff
-Conservatives
-Mitchell
-Connally
-Maurice H. Stans
-George P. Shultz
-Robert H. Finch
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-George W. Romney
-John A. Volpe
-Elliot L. Richardson
-James D. Hodgson
-Stans
-William P. Rogers
-Laird
-Rogers C.B. Morton
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-Nunn
-Hardin
-Purdue University
-Volpe
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Conv. No. 506-13 (cont.)
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 14
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 16s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 14
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Cabinet changes
-Department of Agriculture
-Hardin
-Nunn
-Hardin
-Nunn
-Office of Emergency Preparedness [OEP]
-National Security Council [NSC]
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 15
[Privacy]
[Duration: 27s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 15
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John Hay Whitney
-Ambassadorship
-Kentucky Derby
-Spanish Ambassador
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Conv. No. 506-13 (cont.)
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 17
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 23s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 17
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James R. (“Jimmy”) Hoffa
-Jail
-Pardon
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-Teamsters Union
-Fitzsimmons
-Teamsters
-Jail
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 18
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 3m 52s ]
WOODS ENTERED AT 6:45 PM
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Woods left at an unknown time before 6:48 pm.
Television
-Lawsuit
-Timing
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] case
-Viacom Conv. No. 506-13 (cont.)
Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 6:45 pm.
-Federal Communications Commission [FCC]
-Vote
-Dean Burch
-Decision
-CBS
-Burch
-Appeal
-Burch
President's schedule
-Meeting with policemen
-Mitchell
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Conversation with the President
-Mitchell
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
Haldeman and Mitchell left at 6:48 pm.
President's schedule
-State dinner
The President and Butterfield left at 6:50 pm.
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