Conversation: 517-022
Prev:  517-021 Next: 517-023Start Date: 11-Jun-1971 2:40 PM
End Date: 11-Jun-1971 2:57 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Sanchez, Manolo; Kissinger, Henry A.; Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 04:11:45
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 04:29:39
NARA Description:
On June 11, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Manolo Sanchez, and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House from 2:40 pm to 2:57 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 517-022 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 517-22 Date: June 11, 1971 Time: 2:40 pm - 2:57 pm Location: Oval Office The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman ****************************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 41s ] Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 2:40 pm Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:57 pm END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ****************************************************************************** Henry A. Kissinger entered at 2:41 pm 41 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/08) [Pause] President’s schedule -William P. Rogers -John A. Scali role US foreign policy Conv. No. 517-22 (cont.) -John B. Connally involvement in administration -Kissinger meetings -Connally qualities -Future plans -Kissinger meetings -Content -People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip ****************************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2 [National Security] [Duration: 14s ] FOREIGN AFFAIRS END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2 ****************************************************************************** -Status of US in the world -US world position -Baron Guido Zerilli-Marimo -James C. Dunn -US embassy -Competence -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew -Graham A. Martin -Contacts with Italian government -Henry J. Tasca 42 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/08) -Robert C. Hill -Need for vigor -Martin -State Department relations -Qualities -Need for vigor in representing US -Frederic V. Malek -Donald H. Rumsfeld role Conv. No. 517-22 (cont.) -Office of Economic Policy [OEP] -Benefits -State Department job -John N. Irwin, II -State Department -Peter M. Flanigan -Benefits -Value to President -Business community contacts -Loyalty to President -Emil (“Bus”) Mosbacher, Jr. role -Rogers’ call to Haldeman -Concern over expropriation -European Community -State Department attitudes -Expropriation -Erosion of US position -John Foster Dulles -Soviet Union -Italian ambassador -Spain -Hill staff -Aide to John H. (“Jock”) Whitney -Whitney aide -Requirements 43 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/08) ****************************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3 [National Security] [Duration: 11s ] SPAIN Conv. No. 517-22 (cont.) END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3 ****************************************************************************** -Press conference -Lifting of trade restrictions -US-PRC staffing -Comparison with Soviet Union -Use in House elections -Upcoming announcement -Scali -Vietnam -John Sherman Cooper visit with Kissinger -Vietnam Negotiations -Italy -Martin -Removal -Zerilli-Marimo -Types of people -Anglo/Saxons -Russians -”Orientals” -Italians -Qualities -Soviet Union -Party speech -Aleksei N. Kosygin content -Nikolai V. Podgorny -Praise for Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] -Place in hierarchy 44 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/08) -Kremlin politics -Podgorny -Kosygin -Age -Health -Age of leaders -Leonid I. Brezhnev -Toughness of Soviet politics Conv. No. 517-22 (cont.) -Josef V. Stalin -Connally role in policy formulation -Kissinger relation with Connally -Relation to John N. Mitchell -Haldeman, Kissinger, and John D. Ehrlichman decision on Flanigan’s role Haldeman and Kissinger left at 2:57 pm