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Start Date: 26-Oct-1971 9:01 AM

End Date: 26-Oct-1971 11:09 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")[Unknown person(s)]Haig, Alexander M., Jr.Butterfield, Alexander P.Agnew, Spiro T. (Vice President)Sanchez, ManoloWhite House operatorFlanigan, Peter M.Bull, Stephen B.

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:00:31

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:41:23

602a.mp3

602b.mp3

NARA Description:

On October 26, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, unknown person(s), Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Alexander P. Butterfield, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, Manolo Sanchez, White House operator, Peter M. Flanigan, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 9:01 am and 11:09 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 602-001 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 601-36/602-1

Date: October 26, 1971
Time: Unknown between 9:01 am and 11:09 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
[This recording begins in progress at an unknown time after 9:01 am]

     The President's forthcoming trip to the People's Republic of China [PRC]
          -Staff size
          -Television coverage
                -John A. Scali

     The President's schedule
          -Josip Broz Tito
          -Florida
          -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
          -Indira Gandhi

     Media
         -Backgrounders
              -White House staff
                   -Ronald L. Ziegler
                   -Scali
                   -John D. Ehrlichman
                   -Henry A. Kissinger
                   -Supreme Court appointments
              -The President’s view
              -Bureau chiefs
              -Kissinger

     The President's schedule
          -Florida
          -Prime Minister William McMahon

     Public relations
          -Photograph of the President with Nikita S. Khrushchev in kitchen debate
                 -Leonid I. Brezhnev
                      -[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
                      -Haig
                      -Ziegler, Scali
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               -Brezhnev
               -Possible release to press

     The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
          -Advance Party
                -Dwight L. Chapin
          -Kissinger
          -William P. Rogers
                -Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
                -European Security Conference
                -Proposed European trip
                -North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
                -Kissinger

     Interpersonal staff relations
           -Kissinger
                -Rogers
                      -Unnamed member of Kissinger's staff
                      -Trip to Moscow
                      -Role

     Presidential press conference
          -Timing
          -Discussion of troop announcement
          -Taiwan
          -Troop withdrawal announcement
                -White House staff
                -Clark MacGregor

     Spiro T. Agnew
          -Travel
                -Possible future travel
                     -The President’s view
                -Greece
                     -Length of trip

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 9:01 am.

     Delivery of item

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:00 am.
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     Agnew
         -Possible future travel

     The President's schedule
          -Previous meeting with governors
               -USSR

     US foreign policy
          -Public relations
               -Presidential visits to foreign countries
               -India-Pakistan
               -George H. Gallup
               -Louis P. Harris
          -United Nations [UN] vote on Taiwan expulsion
               -Patrick J. Buchanan
               -Rogers
               -Haig
               -Ronald W. Reagan
                      -Telephone call to the President
                      -Possible meeting with the President
                      -Foreign trips on behalf of the President
                      -UN vote
               -Kissinger
               -US efforts regarding UN vote
               -Presidential telephone calls
                      -Argentina
                      -Morocco
                      -Mexico
                      -Italy
                      -Mexico
                      -Africa

The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 9:01 am and 10:00
am.

[Conversation No. 601-36/602-1C]

[End of telephone conversation]

     Public relations
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          -Administration efforts
          -Economy

     Economy
         -John B. Connally
         -Donald H. Rumsfeld
         -George P. Shultz
              -Paul W. McCracken
         -George H. Boldt
         -Buchanan

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 9:01 am.

     Kissinger's schedule

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:00 am.

     The President's schedule
          -Kissinger, forthcoming meeting
               -Haig

     Economy
         -Arthur F. Burns
         -Shultz
         -Wage and price freeze
         -John F. Kennedy administration
         -Charles W. Colson

     Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's schedule
          -Forthcoming trip to Africa
               -Announcement
                    -Constance M. Stuart
                    -Timing
                    -Itinerary
                          -Liberia
               -Rogers, Kissinger

The President talked with Haig between 9:44 am and 9:46 am.

[Conversation No. 601-36/602-1D]
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                                Tape Subject Log
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The President's schedule
     -Conference with Haldeman
     -African leader
           -Ghana
     -UN vote on Taiwan

The President's schedule
     -Reschedule meeting
     -Kofi A. Busia

Supreme Court nominees
     -Buchanan

The President's forthcoming trip to People’s Republic of China [PRC]
     -Buchanan
           -White House position
           -Possible attendance
           -Kissinger
     -Private meeting with Chinese leaders
           -Rogers
           -Kissinger
     -The President’s meeting with Mao Tse-Tung
           -Kissinger
     -Chou En-Lai
     -Kissinger
           -Media coverage
                 -News summary

Media
    -Columnists
         -Smith Hempstone, Jr.
               -[Forename unknown] Lyle
               -Dick Wilson
         -[Forename unknown] Gould
         -John F. Osborne
         -Peter Lisagor
         -New York Times
               -James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
                    -The President’s instructions
    -Relationship with administration
         -Kissinger
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          -Knoxville Journal
          -Chicago Tribune
          -Frank Van der Linden
          -Rogers

US foreign policy
     -UN
          -Domestic concerns
          -Rogers
          -George H. W. Bush
          -The President’s view
                -Timing of vote
                      -1972 Presidential election
     -The President's forthcoming trips to Moscow and Peking
          -1972 election
          -Mao Tse-Tung
          -Taiwan
          -Brezhnev
          -Aleksei N. Kosygin
          -Public reaction
     -Domestic concerns
          -Youth
          -Cold War
          -MacGregor
                -House
                -Senate
                -Congressional leadership

Secretary of Commerce
     -Maurice H. Stans
     -Peter M. Flanigan
     -Peter G. Peterson
     -Connally

Secretary of Agriculture
     -Bryce N. Harlow
     -Clarence D. Palmby
     -Clifford M. Hardin
     -Earl L. Butz
           -Ezra Taft Benson
     -Harlow
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           -Albert H. Quie
           -Buchanan

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 9:57 am.

     The President's schedule
          -Agnew
          -Connally
               -Forthcoming meeting

Butterfield left at 9:59 am.

           -Kissinger
           -Connally
           -Executive Office Building [EOB]
           -Reagan
                -Forthcoming telephone call

Spiro T. Agnew entered and Haldeman left at 10:00 am.

     Greetings

     Photographs

     Agnew's visit to Greece

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 10:00 am.

     Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:15 am.

     Agnew's schedule
         -Visit to Greece
               -Press coverage
                     -Agnew’s visit to ancestral hometown
                          -Associated Press [AP] and United Press International [UPI]
               -Crete
               -Rhodes
               -George Papadopoulos
               -Greek newspapers
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                       -Reaction
                  -Walter Trohan

Butterfield entered at 10:03 am.

      Press

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 10:06 am.

Butterfield and members of the press entered at an unknown time after 10:03 am.

      Photographs

Butterfield, et al. left at 10:06 am.

      Agnew's visit to Greece
          -Recounting of conversations

      US foreign relations
           -Greece
                -Cypress
                -Agnew’s memorandum to the President
                       -King Constantine II
                              -Thomas A. Pappas
                              -Agnew’s view
                              -Dwight D. Eisenhower administration
                              -Possible return to Greece
                       -Papadopoulos
                -State Department
                       -News summary
                       -Rogers
                       -The President’s view
                       -Tito
                              -Yugoslavian press
                       -NATO
                -The President's schedule
                       -King Constantine
                              -King Paul
                              -The President’s previous meeting in 1963
                -King Constantine
                       -Italy
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                      -George Papandreou
                      -Andreas Papandreou
                -Papadopoulos
                -Henry J. Tasca
                -State Department
                -State visit
                      -Agnew's trip to Greece
                -Tasca
                      -Agnew’s view

     Agnew's schedule
         -Singapore
               -US ambassador
               -Rogers
         -Kuwait
               -US ambassador

Haig. talked with the President between 10:15 am and 10:16 am.

[Conversation No. 601-36/602-1E]

[See Conversation No. 13-3]

[End of telephone conversation]

     Agnew's schedule
         -Charles T. Cross
               -Rogers
               -Haig
               -Kissinger

The President talked with White House operator at an unknown time between 10:16 am and
10:17 am.

[Conversation No. 601-36/602-1f]

[See Conversation No. 13-4]

[End of telephone conversation]

     Us foreign policy
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                                     Tape Subject Log
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          -UN vote on Taiwan expulsion
              -The President’s efforts
              -Argentina
              -Mexico
              -Italy
              -Morocco
                     -King Hassan II
              -Rogers, Bush
              -Ireland
                     -Great Britain
                     -Airline issue
              -African nations
                     -The President’s view

The President talked with Peter M. Flanigan between 10:17 am and 10:18 am.

[Conversation no. 601-36/602-1g]

[See Conversation No. 13-5; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

     UN vote on Taiwan expulsion
         -Singapore
               -Lee Kuan Yew
         -Malaysia
         -Laos
         -Taiwan
               -US policy
         -UN
               -Congressional appropriations
                    -The President’s view
               -Rogers
               -Connally
         -Multilateral Assistance Program
               -Changes
                    -Rogers

Haig talked with the President at an unknown time between 10:18 am and 11:09 am.

[Conversation No. 601-36/602-1H]
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[See Conversation No. 13-6]

[End of telephone conversation]

     US foreign relations
          -African nations
                -Latin American nations
                -US aid
                -PRC
                -Soviets
          -UN vote on Taiwan expulsion
                -Taiwan
                      -Administration’s position
                      -Peking
                -Portugal
                -South Africa
                -Greece
                -Mexico
                      -The President's telephone conversation with Luis Alvarez Echeverria
                -US efforts
                -PRC
                      -Italians
                      -British
                      -French
                      -Canadians
                -NATO countries
          -Council of World Government
          -Human rights
                -Greece
                -Chinese
                -Greece
                -Yugoslavia
                -Romania
                -Spain
                -Brazil
                      -Emilio Garrastuzu Medici
                      -Uruguay
                      -Chile
          -UN vote on Taiwan expulsion
                -Shah of Iran
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                -Douglas MacArthur, II
          -The President’s view
     -Congress
          -Charles McC. Mathias
                -UN budget
          -Taiwan
     -PRC
          -Agnew's conversation with Haile Selassie
                -Conversation with Mao Tse-Tung, Chou En-Lai
          -Mao Tse-Tung
     -Middle East
          -Anwar el-Sadat
                -Shah
          -Sinai
          -Golda Meir
                -State Department
          -Israel
                -US aid

Agnew's travels
    -Kuwait
    -Saudi Arabia

Middle East
    -Arab leaders
          -Sadat
               -Relations with USSR
    -Shah’s proposal
          -Sinai
               -UN
               -Israel

India-Pakistan situation
      -Indira Gandhi
            -Visit to US
      -India
      -Pakistan
      -The President’s view
            -US aid to India
      -Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan
            -Sheik Mujibar Rahman
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                -Possible release

US foreign relations
     -UN
          -Rogers
          -Domestic concerns
                 -PRC
                 -Taiwan
          -Agnew's comment at National Security Council [NSC] meeting
          -PRC, USSR
          -NATO countries
                 -Netherlands
                 -Belgium
                 -Norway
                 -Denmark
                 -France
                      -Vietnam
     -The president's schedule
          -Connally
                 -Surcharge

US foreign relations
     -Japan
     -Germany

Supreme Court appointments
     -Nominees
         -William H. Rehnquist
               -Civil rights record
               -Confirmation by Senate
                     -Thurgood Marshall
                     -William J. Brennan
         -Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
         -Confirmation hypothetical situations
               -William Kunstler
               -W. Ramsey Clark
               -Dean of Harvard Law School
               -Edward H. Levi
         -Administration position

Vietnam
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     -House of Representatives vote
           -Possible press questions
           -Administration time-table
     -US casualties
     -Administration's opponents
     -Administration's program
           -Hugh Scott
           -South Vietnam
           -Prisoners of war [POWs]
     -Negotiations
           -Soviets, PRC
                 -Relations with North Vietnamese
           -POWs
     -Congress
     -Cambodia, Laos
     -State Department
           -Leaks
     -Agnew's statement
           -Rogers

US foreign relations
     -Greece
           -US aid
           -Agnew's conversation with relative
           -Human rights
                 -Congress
                 -World Council
                 -NATO countries
     -Papadopoulos
           -Agnew’s view
           -Possible visit to US
     -Domestic political implications
           -Edmund S. Muskie
           -Edward M. Kennedy
                 -Statement on Ireland
                 -Statement on POWs
     -Vietnam
           -POWs
           -Democrats
     -India-Pakistan
           -Edward M. Kennedy's comments
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    Supreme Court appointments
         -Democratic response
         -Richard H. Poff
         -John N. Mitchell
              -American Bar Association [ABA]
         -Powell, Rehnquist
              -Robert H. Jackson
                   -Nuremberg trials

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    George Meany

    J. Edgar Hoover

    Democratic agenda
        -Issues
              -Democrats
              -Economy
              -Vietnam
              -Hoover
              -Blacks
              -Campus unrest

    US foreign policy
         -Vietnam
              -Casualties
         -Peking, Moscow trips
              -Possible effect
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Détente possibilities
     -Mao Tse-Tung
     -Chou En-Lai
     -Tito

US foreign relations
     -PRC
          -UN
                 -Taiwan
     -Taiwan
          -US mutual defense treaty
                 -Congress
          -Chiang Kai-Shek
                 -Longevity
          -Political impact of China question
     -US-USSR relations
          -John F. Kennedy
                 -Nuclear weapons
                 -Cuba
          -Future relations
          -Robert S. McNamara
     -Vietnam War
          -Lyndon B. Johnson
                 -Nguyen Van Thieu
                 -Ngo Dinh Diem
                      -John F. Kennedy
                 -Conduct of war
                      -The President’s view
                            -Bombing
     -Harry S. Truman

Press
        -Edith Efron's book
        -View of Administration
        -Supreme Court
             -Mitchell
                   -ABA
             -Time, Newsweek, New York Times, Washington Post
        -Vietnam
        -Press conferences and speeches
             -Effect
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          -PRC and USSR trips
              -Effect
              -Communists
              -Cold War

     The President's previous discussion with Agnew on "foundation" speech
          -Haldeman
          -Barry M. Goldwater
               -Pentagon Papers

     Senate
          -Colson
          -UN aid by US
          -Richard S. Schweiker
          -Robert J. Dole
          -Rogers
          -Otto E. Passman

     UN
          -The President’s view

     The President's schedule
          -Senators' statement
               -Mathias
               -Birch E. Bayh, Jr.
               -Edward W. Brooke

     Congress
         -Wallace F. Bennett
         -Carl T. Curtis

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:18 am.

     Unknown man's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:09 am.
      Congress
             -Samuel L. Devine
             -Dole
             -Mathias
                  -1974 election
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     "Foundation" speech
          -Goldwater

Agnew left at 11:09 am.