Conversation: 595-007
Prev: 595-006 Next: 595-008Start Date: 18-Oct-1971 3:11 PM
End Date: 18-Oct-1971 3:45 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ellsworth, Robert F.; Haig, Alexander M., Jr.; [Unknown person(s)]; Bull, Stephen B.; Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ellsworth, Robert F.; Haig, Alexander M., Jr.; [Unknown person(s)]; Bull, Stephen B.;Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:41:53
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:16:03
NARA Description:
On October 18, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Robert F. Ellsworth, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., unknown person(s), and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 3:11 pm to 3:45 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 595-007 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 595-7
Date: October 18, 1971
Time: 3:11 pm - 3:45 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Robert F. Ellsworth and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 595-7 (cont.)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] ambassadorship
-Appointment of ambassador
-Manlio Brosio
-Criteria
-Ellsworth’s view
-The President's confidence
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Haig
-Understanding of Washington bureaucracy
An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 3:11 pm.
Refreshments delivered
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 3:45 pm.
NATO
-Appointment of Ambassador
-Concerns
-Balanced force reductions
-European Security Conference
-British entry
-Soviet Union
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Great power condominium
-Career personnel
-The President’s view
-David M. Kennedy
-Textile treaty
-Treasury Department
-State Department
-The President’s view
-Treasury Department
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Defense Department
-Troops
-Funding
-Congressmen or Senators
-F. Bradford Morris
-The President’s view
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 595-7 (cont.)
-Military
-Politics
-David M. Kennedy
-Melvin R. Laird
-Present acting ambassador to NATO, George Best
-Background
-Supreme Allied Commander, Europe [SACEUR]
-Gen. Lauris Norstad
-Dirk U. Stikker
-Common Market
-John R. Schaetzel
-Experience
-Ellsworth’s view
-Haig, Kissinger
-Europeans
-Walter J. Stoessel, Jr.
-Requirements
-Concerns
-Détente
-Soviet Union
-European Security Conference
-Common market
-Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions [MBFR]
-Strategy
Europeans
-Soviet Union
-US European policy
-Southeast Asia
-PRC
Ellsworth's travels
-Eastern Europe
-Moscow
-Jacob D. Beam
-Western Europe
NATO
-Concerns
-Greece and Turkey
-Southeastern Europe
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 595-7 (cont.)
-Yugoslavia
-Josip Broz Tito
Ellsworth's possible government service
-Possible role
-Ambassador
-Textile negotiations
-Arms control
-Arms Control Advisory Group
-John J. McCloy committee
-Washington
-George A. Smathers
-Earle G. (“Bus”) Wheeler
-Europeans
-Anti-ballistic Missile [ABM] Treaty
-Members of McCloy committee
-New York Times
-NATO experience
-United Nations [UN]
-The President’s view
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Envoy to inaugurations, funerals
-John B. Connally
-Vietnam
-Flanigan
-Kissinger
-Supreme Court
-Thurgood Marshall
-William J. Brennan
-John N. Mitchell
Ellsworth's past service as ambassador
-Kissinger
-Haig
-Brosio
Appointments
-Japan
-Armin H. Meyer
-New York businessmen
-George Champion
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 595-7 (cont.)
-Requirement for job
Us foreign relations
-US and PRC
-US and Soviet Union
-Ellsworth’s view
-MBFR
-European security conference
Personnel
-US ambassador to Italy
-Graham A. Martin
-Brosio
-The President's visit
-Bangkok
-Taiwan
-US ambassador to Germany
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-US ambassador to Italy
US foreign affairs
-Greece
-British
-George Papadopoulos
-Ellsworth’s view
-US
-Soviet Union
-Political fortunes
Economy
-Price Commission
-William W. Scranton
-Ellsworth
-Arms Control Commission
Ellsworth
-Previous service
The President's schedule
-New York
New York
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 595-7 (cont.)
-Greenwich, Connecticut
-West Side compared with East Side
Gift presentation
An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 3:11 pm.
-Money Clip
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 3:45 pm.
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:11 pm.
Bull left at an unknown time before 3:45 pm.
The President, Ellsworth and Haig left at 3:45 pm.