Conversation: 566-001
Prev: 565-002 Next: 566-002Start Date: 17-Aug-1971 9:44 AM
End Date: 17-Aug-1971 10:39 AM
Participants:
Butterfield, Alexander P.; Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Nixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)]; Colson, Charles W.; Bull, Stephen B.; Connally, John B.;Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:13:08
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:10:59
NARA Description:
On August 17, 1971, Alexander P. Butterfield, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, President Richard M. Nixon, unknown person(s), Charles W. Colson, Stephen B. Bull, and John B. Connally met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 9:44 am and 10:39 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 566-001 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 566-1
Date: August 17, 1971
Time: Unknown between 9:44 am and 10:39 am
Location: Oval Office
Alexander P. Butterfield met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
President’s schedule
-Telephone call to Roman L. Hruska
-Birthday greetings
-Hruska’s location
-Helsinki, Finland
President's speeches
-Drafts
-Patrick J. Buchanan and John J. McLaughlin
-William Safire
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Buchanan
-Safire
-Deadline
-Price’s call to Haldeman
-Book
-Rockford College speech
-“The Roots of American Discontent”
President's schedule
-Meeting with Arthur A. Shenfield, August 16, 1971
The President entered at an unknown time after 9:44 am.
Item for the President’s signature
-Ireland
President's schedule
-[Emperor of Japan] Hirohito
-Timing of announcement
-New York City
-Departure
-Traffic
-Itinerary
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 566-1 (cont.)
-Wall Street
-Traffic
-Hotel
-Dinner
-Return
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Speech drafts
Butterfield left at 9:49 am.
[Pause]
-Departure
-Kissinger
-Cables
-Departure
-Traffic
-Staff
-John D. Ehrlichman, George P. Shultz, Peter G. Peterson
-Speech drafts
-John B. Connally
National economy
-Textiles
-Peterson
-Connally
President's schedule
-Congressional leaders
-Connally
-Shultz
-Connally
-Paul A. Volcker
-Charls E. Walker
-Volcker
-Interruptions
-Kissinger
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 566-1 (cont.)
National economy
-President's economic program
-Phrase "New Economic Policy"
-Shultz’s point
-Vladimir I. Lenin
-Leon Trotsky
-Josef V. Stalin
-Compared to Franklin D. Roosevelt's program
-Shultz’s point
-Connally
-Success of New Deal
-Safire
-Connally
-Sam Whiting
-Media coverage
-News summary
-Buchanan
-September 21, 1971 Productivity Commission meeting
-Shultz
-Agenda
-Wage and price freeze
-Length of meeting
White House staff
-News article concerning unknown White House aide
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Shultz
-Haldeman's meeting with White House staff
-Possible reaction
-Staff
-Handling of subject, August 16, 1971
-Ronald L. Ziegler's role and capabilities
-Connally
-Herbert G. Klein
-John A. Scali
-Richard A. Moore
-Scali’s role and capabilities
Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's schedule
-News summary
-Size of crowds
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 566-1 (cont.)
-Staff work
-Women
-Activities
-Handshaking
-Telephone calls
President's schedule
-Barber
The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 9:49 am and 10:05
am.
[Conversation No. 566-1A]
Request for Charles W. Colson’s presence
[End of telephone conversation]
White House staff
-Unknown person's conversation with Dan Rather
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Location
-Illinois
John Birch Society
-Relationship with President
-[Howard K.?] Smith
-California
-Views concerning the President's policy toward the People's Republic of China
[PRC]
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-John Foster Dulles
Colson and Stephen B. Bull entered at 10:05 am.
President's schedule
-Connally
Bull left at an unknown time before 10:25 am.
National economy
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
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Conv. No. 566-1 (cont.)
-President's program
-Television coverage, August 15, 1971
-George Meany
-Response
-Position on wage and price freeze
-Administration's possible attacks
-Shultz, Paul W. McCracken
-Partnership
-Democrats
-Marvin Mandel
-Shultz's suggestion
-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial
Organizations [AFL-CIO] meeting
-Possible news coverage
-Possible attacks on Democrats
-Hubert H. Humphrey and George S. McGovern
-Partisanship
-PRC initiative
-Vietnam
-Tone
-Buchanan
-Franklyn C. (“Lyn”) Nofziger
-Buchanan
-Agnew
-Media coverage
-Possible attacks on Democrats
-Forthcoming meeting
-Gerard R. Ford
-Bipartisanship
-Wilbur D. Mills
-President's policy toward PRC
-Forthcoming meeting
-Kenneth E. BeLieu's efforts
-Wallace F. Bennett
-Comments
-Frank McGlinn, Finance chairman, Pennsylvania Republican Party
-William Proxmire
-Mills
-Republicans
-PRC initiative
-Clark MacGregor
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 566-1 (cont.)
-Possible responses
-Public support
-Controversy
-Price
-Tone of Administration
-Possible administration attacks
-Democrats
-Republicans
-Meany
-Peter J. Brennan
-Press conference
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-Leonard Woodcock
-Impact
-News media
-Time, Newsweek, Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], American
Broadcasting Corporation [ABC], National Broadcasting
Corporation [NBC]
-President's opponents' reaction
-PRC initiative
-Media coverage of Connally
-Public reaction
-Housing figure
-Shultz
-Milton Friedman's views
-Effect
-News media
-PRC initiative
-Leadership
-Briefings by administration spokesmen
-McCracken
-Specifics
-Agnew
-Forthcoming television appearance
-Possible comments
-Office of Emergency Preparedness [OEP]
-Connally
-Today Show
-Arthur F. Burns
-Reaction
-Conversation with the President
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
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Conv. No. 566-1 (cont.)
-Backgrounder
-Columnists
-Column
-Sub-Cabinet
-State Department
-Conservatives
-Friedman
-Agnew
-Connally
-Possible administration attacks
-Possible strategy
-Mood of the American people
-PRC initiative
-Hubert H. Humphrey, Edmund S. Muskie, Edward M. Kennedy
-Washington Star article, August 16, 1971
-Public reaction
-National issues
-Vietnam
-PRC
-Economy
-Crime and drugs
-Pollution
-Blacks
Connally entered at 10:25 am.
-Connally's press conference, August 16, 1971
-Media reaction
-Connally's forthcoming "Today" show appearance
-Audience
-Households
-Labor unions' reaction
-Connally's possible response
-Letter to banks
-Interest rates
-Credit Control Act
-Statement
-Credit Control Act
-Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
-Connally's possible letter to American Bankers Association
-Leroy Hall
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 566-1 (cont.)
-Auto industry
-Possible statement
-President’s attempt to call Connally, August 16, 1971
-Connally’s location
-McCracken
-The President’s role
-Public reaction
-Voluntary cooperation
-Stock market
-Leadership
-President's forthcoming meeting with Congressmen, August 17, 1971
-Congressional action
-Economic action
-Timing
-Bipartisanship effort
-International monetary situation
-Negotiations on exchange rates
-Stabilization
-Connally's role
-Taxes
-John S. Nolan, Walker
-Mills
-Forthcoming hearings
-Relief
-Budget
-Business
-Beneficiaries
-Labor
-Government
-Workers
-Stockholders
-Average American
-Mills’s view
-Proxmire
-Hearings
-Referring legislation
The President and Connally left and Butterfield entered at 10:35 am.
President's speeches
-Safire
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
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Conv. No. 566-1 (cont.)
-George W. Romney
-Roosevelt
-The President’s and Connally’s view
-Ehrlichman
-John F. Osborne
-Agnew
Butterfield left at 10:38 am.
Haldeman, Colson and the President left at 10:39 am.
Conversation No 566-21
Date: August 17, 1971
Time: Unknown between 10:39 am and 12:55 pm
Location: Oval Office
Unknown people [Secret Service agents] met.
The President’s location
-Cabinet Room
The unknown people [Secret Service agents] left at an unknown time before 12:55 pm.
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