Conversation: 613-003
Prev: 613-002 Next: 613-004Start Date: 2-Nov-1971 3:15 PM
End Date: 2-Nov-1971 3:37 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Bull, Stephen B.;Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:09:04
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:26:42
NARA Description:
On November 2, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 3:15 pm to 3:37 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 613-003 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 613-3
Date: November 2, 1971
Time: 3:15 pm - 3:37 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
Weather
-Visit by Australians
Press
-New York Times Editorial Board
-Henry A. Kissinger
-The President’s conversation with William McMahon
-People's Republic of China [PRC] and Union of Soviet Socialist
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 613-3 (cont.)
Republics [USSR]
-Relations with the White House
Kissinger
-Allegations
-State Department
-Meeting with staff, John N. Mitchell
State Department
-William P. Rogers
-Smith Hempstone, Jr.
-George Sherman
-Kissinger
-Time magazine
-Article
Kissinger's schedule
-Possible appearances
-Timing
-PRC and USSR trips
The President's foreign policy
-Credit
-The President
-Kissinger and Rogers
-Foreign aid program
-Continuing resolution
-Vietnam
-Troop withdrawal announcement
-The President's forthcoming trip to the PRC
-Need for balance
-Staff
-Foreign aid program
-Rogers
-Testimony
-Senate vote
-Family Assistance Plan
-Press coverage
-Kissinger
Intellectual liberals
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 613-3 (cont.)
-Balance
The President's recent call to Rogers
-William McMahon
-Conversation with the President
-Vietnam
-US troop withdrawal
-Kissinger
-Press
-Ronald L. Ziegler
Pay Board
-George P. Shultz
The President's schedule, November 3, 1971
Corn shipment
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:15 pm.
The President's schedule
-Eliot L Richardson
Bull left at an unknown time before 3:37 pm.
The President's leadership
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-United Nations [UN] vote on Taiwan, Republic of China
-Foreign aid
-Kissinger
-PRC, USSR
-The President's opponents
-Insistence on consistency
-Conservatives
-Liberals
-Treatment of Edward M. Kennedy
United Nations [UN] vote on Taiwan
-Kissinger
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.'s activities
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 613-3 (cont.)
-Kissinger's schedule
The President and Haldeman left at 3:37 pm.