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Start Date: 17-Aug-1971 2:55 PM

End Date: 17-Aug-1971 3:23 PM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:54:50

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 03:18:34

566a.mp3

566b.mp3

566b_i.mp3

NARA Description:

On August 17, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House from 2:55 pm to 3:23 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 566-014 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 566-14

Date: August 17, 1971
Time: 2:55 pm - 3:23 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

     President's schedule
          -Grand Tetons
                 -Speech
                                         25

                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                 Tape Subject Log
                                   (rev. 10/06)
                                                             Conv. No. 566-12 (cont.)


          -Itinerary
                -Sightseeing
          -Rogers C.B. Morton
          Accommodations
                -Cabin
                       -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
     -Forthcoming speech at Veterans of War [VFW] meeting
          -Draft
                -John K. Andrews, Jr.
     -Idaho Falls
     -Montana, Oregon, Washington
     -[Emperor of Japan] Hirohito
          -Alaska
     -Michigan
     -Previous trips to states
          -The South
          -Idaho
          -James Byrnes
                -South Carolina
          -Number
                -Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi
                -Massachusetts, Rhode Island
                -Trip files
                -Oregon, Washington, Montana, Alaska, Michigan
                -Idaho, Wyoming
                -Arkansas, Texas, New Mexico, South Dakota, North Dakota
          -Karl E. Mundt
                -General Beadle College
          -Green Bay, Wisconsin

National economy
     -President's program
           -John B. Connally's role
                 -Momentum
           -Public reaction
                 -Polls
                 -Possible speeches
                       -Inflation, employment
                 -Charles W. Colson
           -Effect
                 -Congress
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                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. 10/06)
                                                                   Conv. No. 566-14 (cont.)


                -Reaction
                     -Stock market
                          -Volume
                          -Traders
                          -News media
                               -Possible Administration response

     President's speeches
          -President’s schedule

     President’s schedule
          -Women’s meeting

     President’s speeches
          -Milk producers
          -Preparation
                -Thomas R. Shepard, Jr. of Look magazine
                      -Speechwriter

Henry A. Kissinger entered and Haldeman left at 3:07 pm.

     Stock market

     US-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] relations
         -Kissinger's conversation With Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
               -Accidental War Treaty
                     -Signing
                           -Timing
                                 -William Rogers
               -President's forthcoming Summit meeting
                     -Announcement
                           -Timing
                     -Trip
                           -Timing
         -Berlin
               -[David] Kenneth Rush
                     -Message
               -Dobrynin
         -The President’s second term
         -Kissinger's conversation with Dobrynin
               -President's economic program
                                          27

                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                Tape Subject Log
                                  (rev. 10/06)
                                                          Conv. No. 566-14 (cont.)



National economy
     -President's program
           -Kissinger's conversations
                 -Nelson A. Rockefeller
                      -1930’s
                 -Jacob K. Javits
                      -Statement
           -1972 election
           -Administration
                 -Wage and price freeze
           -Public psychology
                 -Vietnam
                 -USSR

News media
    -Attack on presidential policy
         -Lyndon B. Johnson
         -Youth
         -Vietnam
               -July 15, 1971
               -Madame Binh
               -Negotiating points
         -National economy
               -Issue

US-USSR relations
    -President's forthcoming Summit meeting
          -Announcement
                -Timing
    -Kissinger’s conversation with Dobrynin
          -People's Republic of China [PRC]
          -India
          -Kissinger's conversations in PRC
                -India

Kissinger's schedule
     -Children
     -Vietnam negotiations
           -Possible trip
           -Elections
                                        28

                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                Tape Subject Log
                                  (rev. 10/06)
                                                                Conv. No. 566-14 (cont.)


          -Eight Points
          -Le Duc Tho
          -Eight Points
          -Possible North Vietnamese attacks
          -PRC
               -Kissinger’s and the President’s trips

Vietnam
     -Negotiations
         -Announcement of President's forthcoming trip to Moscow
         -President's forthcoming trip to PRC
                -Connally's conversation with Kissinger
         -Pace
                -PRC
         -Possible effect of USSR and PRC invitations to the President

Kissinger's forthcoming trip to PRC
     -Announcement
           -Timing
                 -Compared to USSR summit announcement

President's schedule
     -Andrei A. Gromyko
            -Kissinger’s conversation with Dobrynin

National economy
     -President's program
           -Reaction
                 -Hubert H. Humphrey
                 -Edmund S. Muskie, Edward M. Kennedy

Kennedy
    -Trip to India
          -Pakistan
                -Claim
                     -Possible effect
    -Biafra
    -Constituency
                                              29

                             NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 10/06)
                                                                  Conv. No. 566-14 (cont.)


     Vietnam
          -President's policy
          -Johnson's policy
          -Possible military activities
                -President's forthcoming trips
                      -Possible reaction by Americans
          -Negotiations
                -Prospects
                -US troop withdrawals
                      -Prisoners of War [POWs]
                      -Cease-fire
                      -Schedule

     Kissinger's schedule

     Javits
           -Relationship with the Administration
           -Schedule
                -San Clemente
                      -Kissinger
                      -The President

     Kissinger’s schedule
          -The announcement
                -PRC

Kissinger left at 3:23 pm.