Conversation: 617-018
Prev: 617-017 Next: 617-019Start Date: 12-Nov-1971 4:41 PM
End Date: 12-Nov-1971 5:55 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Richardson, Elliot L.; Ehrlichman, John D.; Bull, Stephen B.; Haig, Alexander M., Jr.; [Unknown person(s)]; Atkins, Oliver F. ("Ollie");Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:27:12
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 03:41:36
NARA Description:
On November 12, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Elliot L. Richardson, John D. Ehrlichman, Stephen B. Bull, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., unknown person(s), and Oliver F. ("Ollie") Atkins met in the Oval Office of the White House from 4:41 pm to 5:55 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 617-018 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 617-18
Date: November 15, 1971
Time: 4:41 pm - 5:55 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Elliot L. Richardson, John D. Ehrlichman and Stephen B. Bull.
The President's schedule
-Sultan Mohammad Khan
-Maurice H. Stans
-William P. Rogers and Henry A. Kissinger
Bull left at an unknown time before 5:20 pm.
Constitutional amendment
-Desegregation
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Richardson's memorandum
-Busing
-Popular opinion
-Emotions
-Blacks
-The President's possible position
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Campaign issue
-“60 Minutes” segment on Washingtonians' children in private schools
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Mike Wallace
-Edmund S. Muskie
-George S. McGovern
-St. Alban's
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-Catholic private schools
-Richardson
-Children and Ehrlichman's daughter
-Interviews
-Nicholas von Hoffman
-Rev. Walter E. Fauntroy
-The President's daughters
-Horace Mann School
-Sidwell Friends
-Fauntroy
-Unknown women from Pontiac, Michigan
-The President's decision
-Conversation with John N. Mitchell
-California Constitution
-Conversation with Mitchell
-House of Representatives
-Possible vote
-Timing
-Busing
-Use of Constitution
-Emergency School Aid Act
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr. Amendments to legislation
-Compared with House amendment
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW] and Justice
Department
-Title VI
-Civil Rights Act of 1964
Education
-Pending legislation
-Senate
-Richardson's conversation with Claiborne H. Pell
-Amendments
Welfare
-Reagan
-Mitchell
-[Work Relief Demonstration Project]
-Possible resolution
-The President's schedule
-Status
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Conv. No. 617-18(cont.)
-The President's role
-Nelson A. Rockefeller and Richard B. Ogilvie
-Schedule
-Mitchell
-The Vice President [Spiro T. Agnew]
-Memorandum
-Richardson's conversation with Reagan, November 12, 1971
-Possible conversation with Richardson
-Resolution
-Negotiation
-Cabinet level
-Views regarding Robert H. Finch
-John G. Veneman
-Richardson’s role as negotiator
-Conversations with the President
-[Work Relief Demonstration Project]
-House Resolution [HR] 1
-Possible resolution
-Rockefeller
-Negotiations with Richardson
-Case load
-Employees
Child development legislation
-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
-Legislative status
-Day care services
-Fee scale
-Congress
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-The President’s message
-HR 1
-Provisions
-Intent
-Development
-Health defects screening
-Education
-Head Start Program
-Welfare reform
-Funding
-Head Start
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-Day care
-Social Security Act
-Title IV
-States
-HR 1
-Eligibility for financial assistance
-Level of free care
-Cost
-Cost
-Possible veto
-Richardson's testimony
-Cost
-HR 1
-Notch problem
-Harrison A. Williams, Jr.
-Disincentive to work
-Medicaid
-Senate Finance Committee
-1970 hearings
-Family health insurance
-Graduated scale of payments
-Graduated scale of payments
-Work for welfare mothers
-Cost
-Possible veto
-Implementation
-Congressional interests
-Conservatives
-John Brademas-Ronald V. Dellums faction
-Decision
-Timing
-Status
-Congressional committees
-Labor and public welfare
-Education and labor
-OEO legislation
-Problems
-Jacob K. Javits's efforts
-OEO legislation
-Javits
-Conversations with Richardson
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-Possible veto
Value Added Tax [VAT]
-Property tax reform
-Ehrlichman's possible conversations
-Richardson
-John B. Connally
Education
-Aid to private schools
-Possible opposition
-Catholics
-Property tax relief
-National Education Association
-Richardson's meetings with [Forename unknown] Msgr. Hopewald [sp?]
-National Defense Education Act of 1958
-Richardson's contacts with Catholics
-Terence Cardinal Cooke
-Washington Post article regarding Reuben O. Askew
-Issues
-Taxes
-Race
Askew
-Compared to James E. (“Jimmy”) Carter
-Constituency
Education
-The President's position
-Desegregation
Stans, Rogers and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. entered at 5:20 pm.
Stans's forthcoming trip to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
Secretary of Agriculture
Richardson and Ehrlichman left at 5:21 pm.
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HEW
-Richardson's handling
-Finch's health
Richardson
-Harvard University
-Boxing
Stans's forthcoming trip to USSR
-Originality
-Public interest
-The President’s forthcoming trip to USSR
USSR foreign trade
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-Link
-Political accommodation
-US share
-Stans's forthcoming trip to USSR
-Arms control
-US exports
-Value to USSR
-Compared to US
-Hungary
-Romania
-US negotiations with USSR
-Conference on European Security
-Mutual and Balance Force Reduction [MBFR]
-Berlin
-US business interest
-Donald McI. Kendall
-Effect on negotiations
-Stans's forthcoming trip to USSR
-Export-import credits
-Most favored nation [MFN] status
-Joint ventures with foreign companies
-Compared with US joint ventures with foreign companies
-Romania, Yugoslavia
-Natural resources
-Oil, gas, copper
-Product sharing
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-Natural gas
-Compared to Algerian venture
An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 5:21 pm.
Photographer
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:50 pm.
Stans's forthcoming trip to USSR
-US relations with the USSR
-Conference on European Security
Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins entered at an unknown time after 5:21 pm.
-The President's forthcoming trip
Atkins left at an unknown time before 5:50 pm.
USSR foreign trade
-Assets
-Gold
-Reserves
-Petroleum
-Chrome
-Stans's forthcoming trip
-Credit
-MFN status
-Linkage
-Political accommodation
-MFN
-Export-Import Bank
-Vietnam
-Joint venture
-Manufactured goods
-Machine tools
-USSR economy
-Technology
-Ford Motor Company and General Motors [GM]
-Stans’s comments to business
-License fees
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Stans's forthcoming trip to USSR
-Stans’s possible strategy
-Soviets
-Japan
-Itinerary
-Leningrad
-Georgia
-Baku
-Tbilisi
-Samarkand
-Tashkent
-Samarkand
-Genghis Khan
-Tamerlane
-Asiatic citizens
-Unknown place
-Valley of Apples
-Siberia
-Sverdlovsk
-Lake Baikel
-Moscow
-Kremlin
-Subway
People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Civil defense preparations
-Rogers's conversation with Pakistan diplomat
-Peking
-Underground tunnels
-Kissinger
-Analogy to US civil defense
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
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-The president's conversation with a foreigner
-Korean War
-Chinese intervention
-James D. (“Don”) Hughes’s experience
-Yalu River
-Population
USSR
-Population
-William C. Bullitt
Stans's forthcoming trip
-Sweden
-Warsaw
-John A. Volpe's previous trip
-Sweden
-Relations with US
-Warsaw
-Relations with US
-MFN status
-Credit
-Romania
-Possible comments
-Stans’s experience
-Politics
-MFN
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Conv. No. 617-18(cont.)
-Credits
-Need for new policies
-The President’s forthcoming trip to USSR
-1972 election
-Vietnam
-Stans’s experience
-USSR
-Nikita S. Khrushchev's book
-1960 election
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-The President's character
-The President's conversation with Josip Broz Tito
-Leonid I. Brezhnev and Aleksei N. Kosygin
The President's previous meeting with Congressmen
-Budget
-Continuing resolution
-Mitchell's opinion
-Allen J. Ellender
-Public services
-Vietnam
-Anti-Deficiency Act
-Provisions
-Previous occurrences
-Authorizations
-Foreign aid
-Michael J. Mansfield
John C. Stennis
-Call from Rogers
-Richard B. Russell's death
-Conversation with the President
-National defense
-Senate
The President's previous conversation with George E. Allen
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Stennis
-Supreme Court
-William J. Brennan, Jr.
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Stans's forthcoming trip
-Negotiating strategy
-US business
-Stans’s possible comments
-The President's schedule
-Stans’s schedule
North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] Ambassadorship
-Peter M. Flanigan's efforts
-Mansfield D. Sprague
-Walter J. Stoessel, Jr.
-Charles D. (“Tex”) Thornton
-Sprague
-Flanigan
Stans. et al., left at 5:55 pm.