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Conversation: 512-018

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Start Date: 4-Jun-1971 1:18 PM

End Date: 4-Jun-1971 1:42 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 03:30:16

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 03:47:55

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NARA Description:

On June 4, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Oval Office of the White House from 1:18 pm to 1:42 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 512-018 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 512-18

Date: June 4, 1971
Time: 1:18 pm - 1:42 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

     Arlen Specter
          -Views
          -Pre-indictment probation for drug offenders
                -John N. Mitchell’s reaction
          -Legalization of marijuana
                -Unknown man’s views
          -Possible role in Administration’s anti-drug efforts
          -Possible appointment to Supreme Court
                -Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 33s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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     Strength of character
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                                 Tape Subject Log
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President’s economic program
     -Economic group
           -John B. Connally, John D. Ehrlichman, George P. Shultz
           -Timing of meeting
     -Unemployment

Pending legislation
     -McGovern-Hatfield resolution

Specter
     -Richard S. Schweiker
     -Henry A. Kissinger

Polls
        -Domestic Council
        -Crime
        -National economy
        -[Charles D.?] Bennett
             -Haldeman’s conversation with Leonard Garment
        -Payment
        -Opinion Research Corporation [ORC]
             -George H. Gallup
             -Use by news media
             -Louis Harris
        -Harris versus Gallup

National economy
     -Status
     -Effect on college students
           -Haldeman’s experiences as recruiter
           -President’s experiences visiting law schools, 1961-1968

Vietnam

President’s People’s Republic of China [PRC] policy
     -Visit to PRC
           -Dr. David K. E. Bruce
           -Effect on public
                 -Compared with visit to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
           -Safety
                 -District of Columbia
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                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                         Tape Subject Log
                                           (rev. 10/08)



                      -Mexico
                      -Latin America
                      -Soviet Union
                            -Moscow
                            -Leningrad

    President’s possible trip to the Soviet Union
         -Lyndon B. Johnson                                    Conv. No. 512-18 (cont.)
         -Yalta conference
         -Moscow

    President’s possible visit to PRC
         -Kissinger’s reaction
         -President’s role in policy formation
               -Nicolae Ceausescu
         -Kissinger
               -Versus William P. Rogers
               -Schedule
                     -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[National Security]
[Duration: 44s ]


    PRC NEGOTIATIONS


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3

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         -Timing
         -Kissinger

    Vietnam
         -Possible administration action
         -McGovern-Hatfield resolution
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                           NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 10/08)



                -Businessmen’s group
                     -John W. Gardner
                     -[Forename unknown] Willens [sp?]

The President and Haldeman left at 1:42 pm


                                                                    Conv. No. 512-18 (cont.)