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Start Date: 22-Oct-1971 11:43 AM

End Date: 22-Oct-1971 12:06 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Marcos, ImedlaHaig, Alexander M., Jr.Sanchez, ManoloBull, Stephen B.

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:25:04

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:50:10

599a.mp3

599b.mp3

NARA Description:

On October 22, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Imedla Marcos, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Manolo Sanchez, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:43 am to 12:06 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 599-011 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 599-11

Date: October 22, 1971
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                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 10/06)



Time: 11:43 am - 12:06 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Imelda Marcos and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
[The White House photographer was present at the beginning of this meeting.]

     Greetings

     Photographs

     Mrs. Marcos
          -Schedule
               -Visit to Iran
                     -Spiro T. Agnew
                     -Mrs. Marcos’s view
                     -Haile Selassie
                     -Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 11:43 am.

     Beverage order

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:06 pm.

     Mrs. Marcos
          -Schedule
               -Visit to Iran
                     -Mrs. Marcos’s observations
                     -The president's reactions
                            -Shah
                                 -The President’s view
               -Cultural association for Asia
                     -Purpose

     Philippine islands
           -Developments
                -Constitutional convention
                      -Political parties
                -The President’s visit to the People’s Republic of China [PRC
                      -Effect on Philippines
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                      NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                  Tape Subject Log
                                    (rev. 10/06)
                                                                  Conv. No. 599-11 (cont.)


Asia
       -The President’s trip to PRC
             -The President’s view
       -Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Taiwan, Korea, Japan
             -Democracy
             -US policy
       -Iran
       -India
             -Indira Gandhi
                   -Schedule
                   -Soviet Union
                   -PRC
             -Philippines
             -Mrs. Marcos's schedule
                   -Mrs. Gandhi
             -India and Pakistan
                   -The President’s view

Philippine Islands
      -Domestic developments
           -Insurgency
                 -Bombing
                 -Effect
           -Democracy
                 -Mrs. Marcos’s comments about the US embassy
           -Ferdinand Marcos
                 -Letter to the President
           -Communists
           -Manila
                 -Press, compared with Washington press
           -Philippines support for US
                 -Polls
                       -Countryside
           -Marcos
                 -US support
      -Trade
           -Sugar quotas
      -Domestic situation
           -Latin America
      -Armed forces
           -Military equipment
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                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                       Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. 10/06)
                                                                     Conv. No. 599-11 (cont.)


                     -US assistance
                     -Effect on domestic situation
                     -Helicopters
          -Marcos
               -The President’s view
          -US assistance
               -Military equipment

     The President's schedule
          -Forthcoming meeting with congressional group

     Philippine Islands
           -Haig
           -Marcos’s position
                -US relations with Great Britain
                      -Mrs. Marcos’s previous visit with Edward R.G. Heath
           -The President's Moscow trip
           -The President's pledge to Marcos
           -US policy
           -Marcos
                -Democrats
                -Future

     Mrs. Marcos's schedule
          -Wage and Price Commission
               -Philippines

     Marcos
         -Concern
              -Letter for the President
              -Future

     Book signing

     Gift presentation

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:43 am.

     Adjournment of Cabinet Room meeting for lunch

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:06 pm.
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                            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                          Tape Subject Log
                                            (rev. 10/06)
                                                                      Conv. No. 599-11 (cont.)



The President, et al. left at 12:06 pm.