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Conversation: 620-010

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Start Date: 17-Nov-1971 10:47 AM

End Date: 17-Nov-1971 11:06 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")Ziegler, Ronald L.Bull, Stephen B.

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:55:48

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:15:46

620a.mp3

620b.mp3

620c.mp3

NARA Description:

On November 17, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Ronald L. Ziegler, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 10:47 am and 11:06 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 620-010 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 620-10
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                         NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                    Tape Subject Log
                                      (rev. 10/06)



Date: November 17, 1971
Time: 10:47 am - unknown before 11:06 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

     International economy
           -The President's conversations
                 -John B. Connally
                       -George P. Shultz
                 -Henry A. Kissinger
                 -Connally
                       -Arthur F. Burns
                       -Quadriad
           -Peter G. Peterson's role
                 -Connally
                 -Pierre-Paul Schweitzer
                 -Burns
                 -Shultz
                 -Memorandum
           -Connally's role
                 -Shultz and Paul W. McCracken
                 -Kissinger
           -Burns

     Kissinger's schedule
          -Conversation with Ronald W. Reagan

     Reagan
         -Robert H. Finch
         -Conversation with Kissinger, November 17. 1971
              -Conservatives
                    -Amchitka and Anti-ballistic missiles [ABM]

     White House staff
          -Amchitka
              -Environmentalists

     Conservatives
         -Congress
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                            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. 10/06)
                                                                     Conv. No. 620-10 (cont.)


     Reagan
         -Conversation with Kissinger
             -Peter M. Flanigan
                   -Brother
                   -California
                         -Patronage
                   -Finch
         -Conversation with John N. Mitchell, November 17, 1971
             -Meeting with the President and Reagan

     The President's possible speech to American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial
         Organizations [AFL-CIO]
          -Schedule
               -Charles W. Colson's contacts
               -The President
               -George Meany
          -Written text
               -Speechwriters
                      -Raymond K. Price, Jr.
               -Colson
               -Ronald L. Ziegler
               -Haldeman's conversation with Price

     White House staff
          -Leaks
               -News summary

     New York Times Magazine story
         -Kevin P. Phillips
               -Richard J. Whalen

Ziegler entered at 10:52 am.

     Reagan's schedule
         -Meeting with press
                -Meeting with the President
                -Elliot L. Richardson
                -Location
                -John D. Ehrlichman

Ziegler left at 10:53 am.
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                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 10/06)
                                                               Conv. No. 620-10 (cont.)



     The President's possible speech to AFL-CIO
          -Colson
               -Report regarding Executive Committee
                      -Phase II
          -Meany
               -Pay Board

     National economy
          -Pay Board
                -Retroactivity
                     -Vote
                           -Unknown person

     The President's possible speech to AFL-CIO
          -Timing
               -Meany
               -Announcement
               -Ziegler
                      -Press corps
               -Meany
                      -Possible conversation with Shultz
                           -Boland Amendment
                      -James D. Hodgson
          -Meany's possible action
               -Executive Committee
               -Colson's views

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:53 am.

     The President's schedule
          -Reagan

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:06 am.

     The President's possible speech to AFL-CIO
          -Meany's possible action
               -Colson's views
          -Ziegler
          -Speechwriters
               -Possible message
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                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. 10/06)
                                                               Conv. No. 620-10 (cont.)


                     -Length
          -Shultz
          -The President's schedule
               -Announcement
                     -Florida
                     -Television news
                           -Today show
                     -Ehrlichman's view
                     -Timing
                           -[Press]
                           -Possible call to Meany


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                -Helicopter
                     -Miami Beach

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 11:06 am.