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Start Date: 17-Sep-1971 12:01 PM

End Date: 17-Sep-1971 12:05 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Ziegler, Ronald L.Bull, Stephen B.

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 03:08:36

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 03:15:07

574a.mp3

574b.mp3

NARA Description:

On September 17, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Ronald L. Ziegler, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:01 pm to 12:05 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 574-010 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 574-10

Date: September 17, 1971
Time: 12:01 pm - 12:05 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

     Announcement
         -Additional event
              -Bowling

     Press relations
           -Edmund S. Muskie's statement on a Black Vice President
                                       47

                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                               Tape Subject Log
                                 (rev. 10/06)
                                                             Conv. No. 574-10 (cont.)


          -Possible questions directed at Ziegler
          -Black Vice President
               -Potential candidacy
               -Propriety of White House response on issue
               -Preferences of electorate
          -Black President
          -Voting prerogatives
          -Creed or color
          -US people
               -Voting for Presidents
     -Trade
          -Canada
               -Ziegler’s possible responses
               -Jim Deakin of St. Louis Post-Dispatch
                     -Japan
                           -US position
                           -Overseas
                                 -Customer
                           -As US customer
                     -Canada
                           -Japan compared to Canada
                           -Overseas relations
                     -Japan
                           -Overseas customer
                                 -Percentage
                           -Exports
                                 -US

The President’s news conferences of September 16, 1971
     -Press reaction
          -Peter A. Lisagor
          -Ziegler’s comments
                -Story
          -Stories
     -Vietnam
          -Ngo Dinh Diem
          -Nguyen Van Thieu

The President's schedule
     -Upcoming meeting with bowlers
          -Pictures
                                             48

                            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                       Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. 10/06)
                                                                     Conv. No. 574-10 (cont.)


                      -Bowling alley

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:01 pm..

     The President's schedule
          -Group
                -Size
          -Picture
                -White House photographer [Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins]
          -Bowling alley
          -Press
                -Location
          -Photographs
                -Slides
          -Executive secretary
                -Introduction

Ziegler and Bull left at 12:05 pm.