Conversation: 626-014
Prev: 626-013 Next: 626-015Start Date: 30-Nov-1971 5:21 PM
End Date: 30-Nov-1971 6:09 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.; Kissinger, Henry A.; Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Sanchez, Manolo;Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 04:35:58
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 05:24:24
NARA Description:
On November 30, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Charles W. Colson, Henry A. Kissinger, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and Manolo Sanchez met in the Oval Office of the White House from 5:21 pm to 6:09 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 626-014 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 626-14
Date: November 30, 1971
Time: 5:21 pm - 6:09 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Charles W. Colson.
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Earl L. Butz
Public relations
-President’s previous speech to American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial
Organizations [AFL-CIO] convention
-Photograph
-Music
-George Meany
-Photograph
-Teamster photographer
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons's conversation with Colson
-Effect
-Possible use
-Time magazine
-Wire service
-Meany
-Illness
-Mail to White House
-Editorials
Environmental Protection Agency [EPA]
-Ronald H. Nessen
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-Possible role
-Daniel L. Schorr
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-Possible role
-John C. Whitaker and Frederic V. Malek
-Neighborhood cleanup program
-Russell E. Train and William D. Ruckelshaus
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Conv. No. 626-14 (cont.)
-Public education
-Effect
-Compared to Claude W. Gifford
-Efforts at Agriculture Department
-Mailings
-Television
-Radio
Butz
-Confirmation
Supreme Court
-Confirmations
Romana Acosta Banuelos
-Confirmation
-Delay
-Effects
-Senate Finance Committee
National economy
-Stock market
-Prospects
-Volume
-Possible veto of Tax Bill
Pending legislation
-Tax Bill
-Henry C. Cashen, II’s report
-Activities of business organizations
-Russell B. Long
-John B. Anderson
-Network time in political campaigns
-John O. Pastore
-Networks' views
-"315"
-Previous vote on repeal
-Presidential office
-White House position
-1972 campaign
-Possible debates
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Conv. No. 626-14 (cont.)
-1960 election
-White House position
-1968 campaign
-George C. Wallace
-"315"
-Wallace
James Perry of National Observer
-The President's conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Relationship with Colson
-Attacks on administration
-Audience
-News summary
-National Observer and New Republic
-Story concerning Edmund S. Muskie
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National economy
-Paul W. McCracken's report
-Conference Board survey
-Forthcoming Commerce Department report
-Colson's conversation with Harold C. Passer and James T. Lynn
-Plant and equipment survey
-Milton Friedman's views
-McCracken's views
-Unemployment
-James D. Hodgson's views
-McCracken's views
-John B. Connally's views
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Conv. No. 626-14 (cont.)
-Statistical formulation
-Passer's views
-Revisions of leading economic indicators
-Previous conversation with Colson
-Stock market
-Wire service reports
Henry A. Kissinger
National economy
-Stock market
-Wire services
Henry A. Kissinger entered and Colson left at 5:40 pm.
Forthcoming meeting
The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman at an unknown time between 5:40 pm and
5:45 pm.
[Conversation No. 626-14A]
The President's forthcoming speech at White House Conference on Aging
-John D. Ehrlichman
-The President's conversation with Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Ehrlichman's conversation with Price
-Unknown man's possible conversation with Ehrlichman
[End of telephone conversation]
Kissinger's previous press briefing
-India-Pakistan
-State Department action
-US policy
-John A. Scali's views
-Conversation with Haldeman
-The President's schedule
-Press questions on foreign visits
-People's Republic of China [PRC] and Soviet Union
Haldeman talked with the President between 5:45 pm and 5:46 pm.
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Conv. No. 626-14 (cont.)
[Conversation No. 626-14B]
[See Conversation No. 15-177]
[End of telephone conversation]
Kissinger's previous press briefing
-The President's international policies
-Scali's conversation with Haldeman
-The President's schedule
-Foreign visits
-John B. Connally
-Role in international monetary policy
-PRC
-Taiwan
-US policy
-Thelma C. (“Pat’) Nixon's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Schedule
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Press contingent
-Size
-PRC
-Television
-Ground station
-Hangchow
-Forthcoming meeting with Mao Tse-tung
-Peking
-Press reception
The President's schedule
-Foreign visits and visitors
-Press conference
-News coverage
-Tax Bill
-Butz and Meany
India-Pakistan
-Kissinger's schedule
-US policy
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Conv. No. 626-14 (cont.)
-State Department
-Export licenses
-Aircraft
-Ammunition
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[National Security]
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PRC
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The President's schedule
-National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction [MBFR]
-European Security Conference
-MBFR
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Options
-State Department
-European Security Conference
-Soviet strategy
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-US strategy
-Timing
-Berlin Agreement
-Soviet strategy
-Finland
-Ambassador to Finland, Val Paterson
European Security Conference
-NATO meeting
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Conv. No. 626-14 (cont.)
-US policy
-State Department
-European nations' policy
-MBFR
-Germany
-The President's schedule
-Heads of State
-Charles A.J.M. De Gaulle
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Germany
-Willy Brandt's views
-William P. Rogers's views
Vietnam
-Military plans
-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-Senate recess
-Bombing
-Negotiations
Henry Brandon
-Forthcoming book on the President's foreign policy
-Conversation with Kissinger
-Meetings with the President
-Timing
-Ziegler
-Conversation with Kissinger
-Role of State Department in foreign affairs
-PRC
-Cambodia
-State Department
-Documentation
-Rogers
PRC
-Messages from US
Rogers
-Kissinger’s view
-Schedule
-Senators
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Conv. No. 626-14 (cont.)
-Speech
-Activities
-Compared with Clark M. Clifford
-Relations with press
-Conversation with Henry Truitt
State Department
-Kissinger's previous relationship with Elliot L. Richardson
-Rogers
-The President’s view
Kissinger's schedule
-Business Council
-Peter M. Flanigan
-The President’s view
The President's schedule
-National 4-H Congress speech in Chicago
-NSC meeting
-Speech at White House Conference on Aging
-Visit to PRC
-Press reaction
-Rogers's previous comment to Truitt
-India-Pakistan
-Kissinger's relations with PRC
-Kissinger's conversation with Brandon
-Possible results
-Soviet Union
-Rogers
-Soviet Union
-Indian Foreign Minister
-Indira Gandhi
-Rumania
-Rogers's comment
-Truitt's conversation with Scali
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Conv. No. 626-14 (cont.)
State Department
-Scali's views
-Rogers
-Relations with White House
-Press
-Rogers
India-Pakistan
-US policy
-Rogers’s comment to press
-PRC
-Kissinger’s view
-Soviet Union
-PRC
Rogers
-Views regarding Israel
-John N. Mitchell's opinion regarding motive
-Kissinger’s view
-Soviet Union
Middle East
-US policy
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 5:46 pm.
Coat
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:09 pm.
Middle East
Kissinger's previous press briefing
-State Department
-Rogers
-Forthcoming speech
-Ziegler
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Conv. No. 626-14 (cont.)
-Kissinger’s potential statement
-Taiwan
-PRC
The President and Kissinger left at 6:09 pm.