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Start Date: 10-Apr-1972 4:46 PM

End Date: 10-Apr-1972 5:01 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")Bull, Stephen B.Butterfield, Alexander P.

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 04:40:40

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 04:55:11

705a.mp3

705b.mp3

705c.mp3

NARA Description:

On April 10, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Stephen B. Bull, and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House from 4:46 pm to 5:01 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 705-018 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 705-18

Date: April 10, 1972
Time: 4:46 pm - 5:01 pm
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                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. 10/06)
                                                                     Conv. No. 705-17 (cont.)


Location: Oval Office

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

     Henry A. Kissinger

     Food prices

     Vietnam
          -US policies
               -Domestic politics
                     -Possible demonstrations
                     -Staff meeting
                           -The President’s instructions to Haldeman
                           -Kissinger
               -Article in New York Times by Robert B. Semple, Jr.
                     -White House contact
                           -Identity
               -1972 election
               -Peace efforts
                     -William J. Porter statement
                     -Negotiations
                           -Outcome
                                 -Press hostility
               -Press
                     -Hostility to the President
               -Reasons
                     -Foreign policy
               -Press
                     -John F. Osborne and Hugh S. Sidey
                           -Opposition
                                 -Cambodia, Laos and demonstrations
                                       -Criticism
                           -Support on People's Republic of China [PRC] matter

     The President's schedule
          -Meetings with Cabinet members
                -Herbert Stein
                -George P. Shultz
          -Free time
          -Mornings
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                      NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                 Tape Subject Log
                                   (rev. 10/06)
                                                                 Conv. No. 705-18 (cont.)


       -Afternoons

White House staff
     -Cambodia and Laos
     -Stakes in Vietnam

Vietnam
     -Press
          -Areas of support for policies
     -Stakes in war
          -US defeat
          -Aggression
          -US casualties
          -Memorandum

Domestic issues
    -National Alliance of Businessmen [NAB] reception
          -Value
    -NAB programs
          -Minority hiring
          -Costs
    -Concept of volunteerism
          -Haldeman’s view
                -National Center for Voluntary Action
                -Local and national levels
          -Great Society programs
                -Legal aid
                     -Lawyers
                     -Government interference
                           -Radicals
                           -Costs
                -Impact

Jews
       -Kissinger's parents
       -Number in world
            -Percentage in New York City
                  -Other minorities
       -Number
            -Political influence
                  -Compared with Indonesians, Indians, Americans, Soviets, Japanese and
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                               NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                         Tape Subject Log
                                           (rev. 10/06)
                                                                    Conv. No. 705-18 (cont.)


                               Germans

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:46 pm.

     The President's schedule
          -NAB reception

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:59 pm.

     Jews
            -Ultraliberalism
            -Adolph Hitler
                  -Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
                  -Franklin D. Roosevelt
            -Republicanism
                  -Influence before 1932
                  -Economic status
                  -Private enterprise
                  -Blacks
            -Democratic loyalties
            -Kissinger

     Foreign policy
          -Kissinger
          -State Department
                -Tactical issues
                -Crisis handling
                      -Jordan
                      -India
                      -Cambodia
                      -Laos
                -Vietnam
                      -Policy advice
                -PRC initiative
                      -Soviets

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 4:59 pm.

     The President's schedule

Butterfield left at 5:00 pm.
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                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                       Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. 10/06)
                                                                  Conv. No. 705-18 (cont.)



     Unknown persons [Jews?]
         -Actions

     The President’s schedule

The President and Haldeman left at 5:01 pm.