Conversation: 611-002
Prev: 611-001 Next: 611-003Start Date: 2-Nov-1971 8:43 AM
End Date: 2-Nov-1971 9:32 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob");Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:07:53
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:04:10
NARA Description:
On November 2, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Oval Office of the White House from 8:43 am to 9:32 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 611-002 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 611-2
Date: November 2, 1971
Time: 8:43 am - 9:32 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
Foreign aid program
-Forthcoming conversation with George P. Shultz
An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 8:43 am.
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:19 am.
Foreign aid
-Popularity
-Young people
William P. Rogers
Melvin R. Laird
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 611-2 (cont.)
Ronald L. Ziegler
-Press briefings
The President's schedule
-Florida trip
-Development of Phase II economic program
-Labor interests
-Foreign aid
Bernard J. "Bunny" Lasker
National economy
-Stock market
-Status
-Volumes
-Level
-Effect
-Elliot Janeway's views
-Dow Jones index
-Unknown person’s view
-Press coverage
-November 1, 1971
-Situation since August 1971
-Public confidence
-Arthur F. Burns
-John B. Connally
-Investment Tax Credit Bill
-Burns's views
-Status of legislation
-Automobile excise tax
-Tax bill
-George P. Shultz's views
-Wage and price controls
-Labor reaction
Policy planning
-Shultz
-Thesis
-Henry A. Kissinger’s acceptance
-The President’s initiatives
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 611-2 (cont.)
-Impact
-Economic and domestic policy
-Foreign policy
-Vietnam
-Staff structure
-John D. Ehrlichman and Kissinger
-Ehrlichman's views
-Value Added Tax [VAT]
-Ehrlichman's staff
-Liberalism
-Edwin L. Harper's views on parochial schools
-Environment
-Revenue-sharing
-Views regarding popular expectations of the President
-Media treatment of the President
Supreme Court appointments
-Leonard Garment's views
-Howard H. Baker, Jr. and Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
-Weinberger
-Garment
-Conservatives
Policy planning
-Staff responsibilities
-Shultz's views
-Connally's role on National Security Council [NSC]
National economy
-Pending tax legislation
-The President's program
-Phase I Boards
-Activities
-Phase II
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Labor interests
-Wage retroactivity
-1971 compared to 1972
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 611-2 (cont.)
The President's schedule
-Cabinet reorganization
-Ehrlichman
-Forthcoming testimony
-George W. Romney, John A. Volpe, Rogers C. B. Morton, Elliot L.
Richardson, Maurice H. Stans, James D. Hodgson and J. Philip Campbell
-Romney and Shultz
-Press
-Meeting
-Timing and duration
-William P. Rogers
-Necessity
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 2m 54s ]
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Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Meeting with Haldeman, September 1971
-Schedule
-Events
-Number
-Location
-Villanova University
Tricia Nixon Cox
Julie Eisenhower
-Schedule
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Schedule
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 611-2 (cont.)
-Florida
Tricia Cox and Julie Eisenhower
-Schedules
-Compared to other young people
-Thelma C. (“Pat’) Nixon
-Invitations
-Procedure
Kissinger
-Conversation with Haldeman, November 1, 1971
-Rogers
-Compared with Rogers
-Conversation with Robert Kleiman of New York Times
-Article regarding State Department's role in the President's foreign policy
-People's Republic of China [PRC] and Warsaw talks
-Rogers
-Views James B. (“Scotty”) Reston's interview with Chou En-lai
-Conversation with John A. Scali
-Rogers
-PRC
-Possible contacts with press
-New York Times
The PRC initiative
-State Department
-Role
-Popular opinion
-Historical record
-Columnists
-Kissinger
-Papers
-Rogers's role
-Kissinger
-Papers
Kissinger
-Views regarding Senate vote on foreign aid, October 29, 1971
-Negotiations with North Vietnam
-Conversation with Haldeman, November 1, 1971
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 611-2 (cont.)
-United Nations [UN] vote on Taiwan
-Timing
-State Department
-Kissinger’s return from PRC
-Botswana and Guyana
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.'s role
-State Department
-Haldeman’s action
-Possible contacts with press
-New York Times
-Reston
-Washington Star
-Rogers's possible reaction
-Use by Administration
-Timing
-PRC
-Rogers
The President's foreign policy
-Linkage
-Rogers
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 8:43 am.
The President's schedule
-Barber
-Gerald R. Ford
-Cabinet
Bull left at an unknown time before 9:19 am.
Kissinger
-Conversation with Shultz
-Middle East
-Prediction
-Diplomacy
-Views regarding India-Pakistan relations
-PRC
The President's State of the Union address
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 611-2 (cont.)
-Ehrlichman
-Kissinger
-Haldeman's conversations
-Ehrlichman
-Tax program
-Robert H. Finch, Rumsfeld, Shultz, Kissinger
-Congress
-Ehrlichman
Kissinger
-Conversation with Ehrlichman
-India-Pakistan relations
-PRC announcements and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
Latin America
-Rogers
Mrs. Nixon's forthcoming trip
-Ziegler's announcement
The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 8:43 am and
9:19 am.
[Conversation No. 611-2A]
[See Conversation No. 13-63]
[End of telephone conversation]
Latin America
-Rogers
-Summit
-Finch
The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler between 9:19 am and 9:20 am.
[Conversation No. 611-2B]
[See Conversation No. 13-64]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 611-2 (cont.)
[End of telephone conversation]
Kissinger
-Shultz
-UN vote on Taiwan
-Rogers
-George H. W. Bush
-[Forename unknown] Henderson
-Possible State Department actions
-Motivations
-Kissinger's recent trip to the PRC
-Haig
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the PRC
-Responsibility
-Importance
-Historical record
-Relationship with Rogers
State Department
-Rogers
Networks
-Television shows
-“Laugh In”
-Haldeman’s view
-Peter M. Flanigan's plan
-Cable television
-Possible independent network
-Spiro T. Agnew
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Possible White House involvement
-News organization
-The Left-Leaning Antenna
-Network bias
-Flanigan's plan
Ambassadorial positions
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] and Japan
-Flanigan
-Mansfield D. Sprague
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 611-2 (cont.)
-Charles D. (“Tex”) Thornton
Networks
-Cable television
National economy
-The President's schedule
-Shultz
-Charles W. Colson
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-Pay Board
-Arnold R. Weber
-Shultz
-Rumsfeld
-Labor
-Wage increases
-Retroactivity
-Hodgson
-George H. Boldt
-Weber's views
-Weber
-Possible attack on George Meany
-Shultz
-Paul A. Volcker
Haldeman left at 9:32 am.