Conversation: 681-005
Prev: 681-004 Next: 681-006Start Date: 9-Mar-1972 4:41 PM
End Date: 9-Mar-1972 5:35 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Bull, Stephen B.; Kissinger, Henry A.;Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 03:51:33
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 04:46:12
NARA Description:
On March 9, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Stephen B. Bull, and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House from 4:41 pm to 5:35 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 681-005 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 681-5
Date: March 9, 1972
Time: 4:41 pm - 5:35 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
The President’s schedule
-Telephone call from John B. Connally
-Possible meeting
-Economic policy
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:41 pm.
The President’s schedule
Bull left at an unknown time before 5:15 pm.
The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming breakfast
-George Meany
-Henry A. Kissinger
Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:41 pm.
-Meany
-George P. Shultz
Bull left at an unknown time before 5:15 pm.
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-National wreath laying ceremony
-Congressional resolution
-Participants
-Carol Hanson
-Evelyn Grubb
-Janice Ray
-William E. Brock, III
-Robert J. Dole
-John H. Rousselot
-Harrison A. Williams
-Jack Edwards [?]
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Press
-John D. Ehrlichman, Elliot L. Richardson, Arthur S. Flemming, Shultz
-Meeting
-Social Security
-Prescription drugs
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
-Richardson
-Domestic issues
-Ehrlichman
-Water bill
-Forthcoming meeting with Connally
-Shultz
-The President’s view
-Busing meeting
-Shultz
-Forthcoming meeting
-Ehrlichman
-Connally
-Shultz
-Timing
Approval polls
-White House
-November 1971, January 1972, and March 1972 polls
-Comparison of percentages
-Men and women
-Elderly and youth
-Vietnam War
-The People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Blacks
-John F. Becker poll
-State polls
-Vietnam War
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-Vietnam War
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
-Economics
-The President
-Characteristics
-Percentages
-George H. Gallup
Kissinger
-Kalb interview
Television special
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-“World Ambassador”
-United States Information Agency [USIA]
-Documentary
-Local stations
-Networks
-“The Nixon Years”
-Tribute to Mrs. Nixon
-Democratic Convention
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Unknown man
-Madison Square Garden
Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:41 pm.
The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting
-Ehrlichman and Shultz
Bull left at an unknown time before 5:15 pm.
Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1970 [?]
-Signing
-Ehrlichman
-Robert H. Finch
-Leonard Garment
-Charles W. Colson [?]
-Connally
-18 year olds
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:41 pm.
The President’s schedule
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
Bull left at an unknown time before 5:15 pm.
Connally
The President’s schedule
-Social Security meeting
-Busing meeting
-Bill signing
Transportation use
-The President’s use of helicopters
-Compared to Dwight D. Eisenhower
International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Jack N. Anderson
-Marlow W. Cook
-Roman L. Hruska
-Cook
-James O. Eastland
-Unknown man
-Interview
-Testimony
-Dita D. Beard
-John N. Mitchell
-Call from the President
Kissinger entered at 5:15 pm.
The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Kissinger’s meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Announcement of agreements
-Agreements
-Grain and trade
-Maritime
-Incidents at sea
-Health
-Science
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
-Space
-Environment
-Earl Butz
-Grain deal
-Soviet Commerce Minister
-Peter G. Peterson
-David W. Kendall’s view
-Public relations
-Robert J. McCloskey
-State Department
-William P. Rogers
-Dobrynin
-White House staff
-Soviet secret police
-Communication with Secret Service
-Dobrynin
-Public relations
-Rogers
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Dobrynin
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Ziegler
-Dobrynin
-McCloskey
-The President’s view
-Rogers
-NATO
-The President’s previous trip around the world
-Dobrynin
-Advance arrangements
-Press
-Ziegler
-Secret Service
-McCloskey
ITT case
-Haldeman’s forthcoming telephone call to Mitchell
-Peter M. Flanigan [?]
-Haldeman’s view
-Anti-trust activity
-Ehrlichman
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Busing
-Announcement
PRC
-Instructions for cadres
-Imperialists
-Use of word
-US-PRC relations
-Trade
-Technical personnel
-Kissinger’s view
-Dobrynin
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Chinese sources
-Kissinger’s October trip to the PRC
-Soviet forces in Asia
-Missiles
-Kissinger’s response
-PRC relations with the US, Soviet Union, Japan,and India
-Kissinger’s view
-Kissinger’s view
-September upheaval in PRC
-The President’s meeting with Mao Tse-tung
-PRC opponents
-Soviet Union
-Mongolia
The President’s forthcoming Soviet trip
-State Department
-McCloskey
-Rogers
-Compared to the PRC trip
-Agreements between the US and Soviet Union
-Rogers
-Memorandum
-Taiwan, Republic of China and PRC
-Names of each country
Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:15 pm.
The President’s schedule
-Ehrlichman
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
-Location
-Busing meeting
Bull left at an unknown time before 5:18 pm.
The President’s forthcoming Soviet trip
-Kissinger’s meeting with Dobrynin
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Submarines
-Conversion of missiles
-Gerard C. Smith
Haldeman left at 5:18 pm.
-Grain deal
-Preliminary negotiations
-Butz
-Clarence D. Palmby
-Butz
-Dobrynin
-The President’s schedule
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Warsaw
-NATO
-Iran
-Japan
-Leningrad
-Moscow
-Tiblisi, Georgia
-Iran
-Tiblisi
-Frank J. Shakespeare
-SALT
-Middle East
The President and Kissinger left at 5:35 pm.