Conversation: 644-017
Prev: 644-016 Next: 644-018Start Date: 10-Jan-1972 10:50 AM
End Date: 10-Jan-1972 11:52 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Bull, Stephen B.; Ehrlichman, John D.; Fletcher, Arthur A.; Brown, Robert J.; Cole, Kenneth R., Jr.; Drake, Carthur L. M.; Scott, Stanley S.; White House photographer;Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:41:05
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:38:39
NARA Description:
On January 10, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Stephen B. Bull, John D. Ehrlichman, Arthur A. Fletcher, Robert J. Brown, Kenneth R. Cole, Jr., Carthur L. M. Drake, Stanley S. Scott, and White House photographer met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 10:50 am and 11:52 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 644-017 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 644-17
Date: January 10, 1972
Time: Unknown between 10:50 am and 11:52 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
Thelma C. (“Pat’) Nixon’s return from Africa
-Airport arrival
-Invitations
-Alexander P. Butterfield’s check
-William P. Rogers, Maurice, H. Stans, John B. Connally
-Butterfield’s responsibility
-Follow-up
State of the Union speech
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.’s draft
-Length
-Readiness
The President's schedule
-Camp David
-John E. Sheehan
-Swearing-in ceremony
-Robert O. Anderson appointment
-Arthur S. Flemming swearing-in
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 644-17 (cont.)
-Time
-Camp David
-Vietnam statement preparation
-Anderson
-Meeting with Neil H. McElroy
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Timing
-State of the Union speech
-School finance meeting
School financing
-Ehrlichman
-John B. Connally
-McElroy
-Advisory Council on Intergovernmental Relations [ACIR]
John N. Mitchell's meeting
-Timing
-Political meetings
Connally
Mitchell
State of the Union speech
[David] Kenneth Rush
-Meeting with the President
-Scheduling
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:50 am.
Rush meeting
-Rescheduling
Bull left at an unknown time before 11:30 am.
Vietnam troop withdrawal announcement
-Timing
-Anderson
-Swearing-in
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 644-17 (cont.)
-Scheduling
Sheehan appointment
-Public relations
-Press
-Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
-Photograph session
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
Flemming meeting
-Press
-Scheduling
Cabinet meeting
Meeting with Congressional leaders
-Clark MacGregor's and Ehrlichman's suggestions
-Briefing
-Bipartisanship
-Format
-Message
-Scheduling
-Vietnam announcement
-Committee chairman
-Timing
-Vietnam peace proposal
-Henry A. Kissinger’s briefing
-Foreign policy leaders
White House social affairs
-February 10, 1972
-National Center for Voluntary Action
-Press conference
-Florida
-February 1, 1972
-National prayer breakfast
-William R. Tolbert, Jr. of Liberia
-Tolbert
-Black-tie dinner
-Day meeting
-Blair House
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 644-17 (cont.)
-Republican governors dinner, January 31, 1972
-Mitchell
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Cabinet
-Senior White House staff
-Briefings
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-DeWitt Wallace dinner
-Republican governors dinner
-Timing
-Tolbert
-Mitchell's, Agnew’s, and Ehrlichman’s recommendation
-Scheduling
-Timing
-1972 election
Briefings
-Ehrlichman
-Presidential involvement
-Dinner
Vermont congressmen
-Robert T. Stafford, [Richard W. Mallary]
-Meeting with the President
-Atkins's possible photograph session
Kissinger
School financing
-McElroy
Connally
-Invitation to [Mrs. Nixon’s airport reception]
-Personal secretary
-Others
-Schedule
School financing
-McElroy
Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:50 am.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 644-17 (cont.)
Arrival of Rush at National Airport
-Meeting with the President
-Scheduling
-Kissinger
-Hilton Hotel
Bull left at an unknown time before 11:30 am.
McElroy
-January 13, 1972
-State of the Union speech
-Anderson
Anderson
-Industrial conference board
-Time of meeting
Meeting with Netherlands Prime Minister Barend W. Biesheuvel
-Scheduling
-Kissinger, State Department
-State of the Union
-Timing
-Ehrlichman, John C. Whitaker
-Dutch ambassador's [Baron Rijnhard Van Lyden’s] call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Press conference
Meeting with cabinet and congressional leaders
-Scheduling
-Prayer breakfast
The President's schedule
-Netherlands Prime Minister
-Meeting duration
Dr. Rainer Barzel
-Meeting proposal
-Kissinger
-Previous meeting
-Willy Brandt
-Wallace dinner
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 644-17 (cont.)
-Biesheuvel
The President's schedule
-Kissinger
-The President’s forthcoming PRC trip
-Nihat Erim of Turkey
-France
-Alexander P. Haig, Jr.
-Possible future visit
-Luis Echeverria Alvarez of Mexico
-The President’s forthcoming trips to the PRC and Soviet Union
-Erim
-Haig
State visits
-Arrangements
-Duration
-Camp David, Blair House
-Office visit, dinner
The President's schedule
-[Emperor of Japan] Hirohito
-Morocco, Peru and Nigeria
-Ivory Coast
-Mrs. Nixon’s trip
-Courtesies
-Kissinger
State visits
-Arrangements
-Itinerary
-Camp David
Donald McI. Kendall
-Soviet Union report
-Scheduling of meeting with the President
-The President’s forthcoming trips to the PRC and Soviet Union
Meetings with the President
-Allen J. Ellender
-Scheduling
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 644-17 (cont.)
-Kissinger
-Ivory Coast
-Eheverria
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Foreign visits
-Rate
-Foreign policy issue
The President schedule
-Camp David
-Super Bowl VI
Atkins's photograph sessions of forthcoming meetings
-Health Services Industry Committee
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Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Kissinger
-Possible message for Anna C. Chennault
-Five power alliance
-Haig
Ehrlichman entered at 11:30 am.
McElroy
Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
-Agnew’s recommendation
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 644-17 (cont.)
-Composition
-Edmund S. Muskie, Dale Bumpers, Warren E. Hearnes, Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.,
Howard (“Bo”) Calloway, Edward C. Banfield, Ronald W. Reagan,
Richard B. Ogilvie, Robert H. Finch, George W. Romney, George P.
Shultz, Al Ullman, Florence P. Dwyer
-Local leaders
-Russell Arrington, Robert Knowles
-Muskie
-Dilemma
-Agnew, Connally, Elliot L. Richardson
-Possible presentation to ACIR
-Value-added tax [VAT]
-State sales taxes
-Federalism
-McElroy Commission
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Focus on real estate taxes
-The President's proposals for ACIR
-State of the Union speech
-Connally's reactions
-Talk with Ehrlichman
-The President’s possible posture
-State of the Union speech
-Agnew
State of the Union speech
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.’s draft
-Length
-Supplemental notes
-Need for editing
-The President’s role
-Ehrlichman’s role
-Contents of message
-Farmers, elderly
-Omissions
-Farmers, Latin America
-Amount of time on subjects
VAT
-ACIR proposal
-Connally
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 644-17 (cont.)
-Possible statement
-Connally
-Talk with Ehrlichman
-Agnew
-Talk with Ehrlichman
Meeting of committee
-McElroy
-Agnew, Richardson, Connally
-Clarence Walton
-ACIR
-Presentation
-Scheduling
-Agnew, Connally, Richardson
-Press
-State of the Union speech
-Vietnam speech
-Agnew
-Finch, Romney, Shultz
-Richard G. Lugar
-Presentation to Congress of proposals
-Publicity
-Press coverage
-Connally
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 9s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
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Haldeman left at 11:32 am.
Story on Howard Hughes
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 644-17 (cont.)
-Television coverage
Whitaker
-Film on environmental policy
-Delivery to networks
-Timing
-Special message on environment
-Introduction or cameo appearance by the President
-Memorandum
-Environmental events
-Rate
Environment
-Possible trip by the President
-Timing
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the PRC
-Publicity
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Big Cypress Swamp tour
-Publicity
-Interest in environment
-Legacy of parks
-Timing
-Russell E. Train
-William D. Ruckelshaus
-Speeches by the President
-Effectiveness
-Chicago, Minneapolis
-Environmental congress
-Publicity on TV
-Grand Teton trip
-Eisenhower
-Press coverage of trip to swamp
Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:32 am.
Dr. Arthur A. Fletcher
-Presidential gift
-Bookmark
Bull left at an unknown time before 11:48 am.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 644-17 (cont.)
Environment
-Eisenhower
Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:32 am.
Schedule
Bull left at an unknown time before 11:48 am.
Environment
-Tricia Nixon Cox, Thelma C. (“Pat’) Nixon
-Program for publicity
-Youth
-Trip to Yellowstone National Park
-Centennial
-Air, water-related issues
Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:32 am.
The President's meeting with Fletcher
-Carthur L. M. Drake
Bull left at an unknown time before 11:48 am.
Mrs. Nixon's trip to Africa
-Value
-Comparison to Agnew's trips
Fletcher, Robert J. Brown, Kenneth R. Cole, Jr., Drake, and Stanley S. Scott entered at 11:48 am;
the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting; Ehrlichman left at
11:50 am.
Introductions
Mrs. Nixon's trip to Liberia
-Grambling University band
-US Information Agency [USIA] funding limits
-Grambling band's reception in Liberia
-Gen. Walter R. Tkach
-Television coverage
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 644-17 (cont.)
Presentation of check
[Photograph session]
Fletcher, et al. left at 11:52 am.