Conversation: 532-020
Prev: 532-019 Next: 532-021Start Date: 30-Jun-1971 12:40 PM
End Date: 30-Jun-1971 1:30 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Butterfield, Alexander P.;Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 03:18:22
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 04:03:59
NARA Description:
On June 30, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:40 pm to 1:30 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 532-020 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 532-20
Date: June 30, 1971
Time: 12:40 pm - 1:30 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
Law enforcement speech
-Authorship
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Charles W. Colson
Personnel
-Recruitment
-Tom C. Korologos
-Declassification project
-Background
-Responsibilities
-Strengths
-Writing ability
Presidential statements
-Drug statement
-Impact
-John B. Connally
-Impact of President's statements
-Press conferences
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-Opportunities
-President's contributions
-Drug statement
-Success
-Use of slogans
-”Public enemy number 1”
-”Era of permissiveness”
-Buchanan
-Price
-Democratic efforts
-Republican efforts
-”New American Revolution”
-"Open door" idea
-"Open World"
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Literary quality
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Era of permissiveness
-Crime statistics
-Program emphasis
-Use of numbers
-Use of numbers for emphasis
-Phraseology
-Buchanan
-Effort of writers
Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 12:45 pm.
Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] file
Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:48 pm.
Speech writing
-Effort of writers
-Remarks for Winton M. (“Red”) Blount and Chowder and Marching Society
dinners
-Noel C. Koch's ideas
-James Buchanan's Postmaster General
-Abraham Lincoln
-President's talents
-Writers' intelligence
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Butterfield entered at 12:47 pm.
President's schedule
Butterfield left at 12:48 pm.
Presidential statements
-Format for comments Conv. No. 532-20 (cont.)
-William L. Safire
-Style
-Suitability for President
-Buchanan's style
-Price's style
-Rationale
-Administration accomplishments
-Upcoming speech
-Content
-Shortcomings
-Use of slogan
-Impact
-Remarks at Blount dinner
-President’s comments on J. Edgar Hoover
-Effectiveness
-Law enforcement focus
-Drug program
-Police
-Demonstrators
-Hijacking
-President, Attorney General
-“Era of permissiveness”
-Administration's accomplishments
-Drug deal with Turkey
-Crime reduction
-Length of comments
-Nature of memorable speeches
-President's background
-Need for focus
-Congressional complaints
-Multiplicity of topics
-Staff role
-Staff, audience relationship
-Press reaction
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-Attacks on administration
-Response by administration
-Focus
-“Era of permissiveness” line
-Scope of attack
-Objectives
-Hoover
-Richard J. Daley Conv. No. 532-20 (cont.)
-Administration accomplishments
-Crime
Administration policies
-Postal reform
-Administration action
-Shortcomings
-Bureaucracy
-Blount visit with the President
-Politics
-Public perception of reform
-Strategy
-Focus
-Reorganization
-Environment
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Appeal
-Connally
-Jobs
-Houston ship Channel decision
-Jacksonville bird sanctuary
-Reaction
-Sierra Club
-Edmund S. Muskie stance
-Focus on jobs
-Connally
-Issues
-John C. Whitaker
-William D. Ruckelshaus
-Congressional efforts
-Ehrlichman
-President's approval of programs
-Focus on job programs
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Congressional relations
-Robert J. Dole's assessment
-War issue
-Economy
-Legislative focus on war
-George S. McGovern-Mark O. Hatfield Amendment
-Public perception
-Reporting Conv. No. 532-20 (cont.)
-Status of War
-Casualty figures
-Comparisons
-Colson
Personnel management
-Toughness
-President’s meeting with the Cabinet
-Colson
-Rogers C.B. Morton
-Comments to Haldeman
-Haldeman staff meeting
-Scope
-Staff information
-Nature of leaks
-Source of leaks
-Henry A. Kissinger's staff
-Unknown employee
-Use
-Tapes
-Background
-Dictation skills
-Benefits in use
-Shorthand skill
-Tapes
-Rose Mary Woods
-Marjorie P. Acker
-Role on trips
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Soviet Union
-PRC
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Privacy]
[Duration: 47s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
Conv. No. 532-20 (cont.)
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-Assignment
-Rose Mary Woods
-Use
Public opinion
-Cynthia Frink valedictory address
-Content
-Terry McGinnity
-Colson
-Left and right tension
-Daniel Ellsberg
-Support for the US
-Demonstrators
-"Up with People" group
-Make up of group
-Enthusiasm
-Ovation
Haldeman left at 1:30 pm.