Conversation: 711-004
Prev: 711-003 Next: 711-005Start Date: 18-Apr-1972 10:02 AM
End Date: 18-Apr-1972 10:58 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Bull, Stephen B.; Kissinger, Henry A.;Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:42:24
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:41:35
NARA Description:
On April 18, 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 10:02 am to 10:58 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 711-004 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 711-4
Date: April 18, 1972
Time: 10:02 am - 10:58 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
News summary
Vietnam
-Captiol Hill
-News coverage
-George D. Aiken
-Charge against North Vietnam
-Support for administration’s policies
-Unknown people
National economy
-Canada [?]
-Marina von N. Whitman
-Interview in U.S. News and World Report
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
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-Inflation
-Food prices
-Spiro T. Agnew’s statement
-Government action against supermarkets
-Supermarket Institute
-Prices
-John B. Connally's statement
Busing
-Time's criticism of the President's policies
Revenue-sharing
-Vote in Ways and Means Committee
-Passage in Congress
-George P. Shultz
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 49s ]
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News summary
Vietnam
-Student strikes
-Protest of bombing
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[National security]
[Duration: 1m 48s ]
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CANADA
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Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:02 am.
The President’s schedule
-Meeting with his barber
Bull left at an uknown time before 10:58 am.
Demonstrators
-Canada
-Anti-US group
-Positioning
-Control
-US Secret Service
-Royal Canadian Mounted Police
-Leader
-Counteraction
-Release of story
-Kissinger
-Knowledge of story
-Method
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Pierre E. Trudeau
-Release of story
-Method
-Aldo B. (“Elbow”) Beckman
-Jack N. Anderson
-Confidentiality
-Uses for Anderson
-Anti-US group
-Retaliation
-Method
-Buchanan release
-Anderson
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-Credibility
-Herbert G. Klein
International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Executive privilege
-Klein
-Peter M. Flanigan testimony
-Guidelines
-Limitations
-Advice to the President
-William E. Timmons
-Testimony
-Republican convention
-Klein
-White House aides
-Timmons
-Jack Gleason
-Testimony
-Timmons as witness
Senate Judicial Committee
-Memorial service for Hugo L. Black
-Attendance
-Schedule
-Harry D. Steward testimony
-Flanigan letter
ITT case
-Witnesses
-Gleason
-Scheduling
-Problems of scheduling
-Roman L. Hruska
-John N. Mitchell
-Timmons
-Testimony on convention
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-The President's involvement
-Republican convention
-Robert H. Finch testimony
-Discussion with the President
-Site selection
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-San Diego
-Chicago
-Mitchell
-The President's role
-Robert J. Dole statement
-Midwest sites
-ITT contribution
-Significance
-Chicago site
-White House staff
-Testimony
-Gleason
-Hearings
-Vote
-Flanigan
People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Table tennis event
-Pandas
-Scheduling of event
-Day
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Publicity
-Exploitation
-Names
-Age
-Mating successes
-Process and difficulties
-Housing
-Crowds
-Zoo director
-News conference
-Ceremonies
-Mrs. Nixon
-Names
-Eating habits
-Publicity
-Public interest
Vietnam
-William P. Rogers's testimony
-Kissinger's opinion
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-Tone
-Rogers's assessment
Rogers
-Table tennis match
-Tricia Nixon Cox's attendance
Vietnam
-Melvin R. Laird
-Agnew
-Attack on Edmund S. Muskie
-Vietnam statement
-Location
-Fundraiser
-American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE] speech
-Timing
-Connally
-Statement
-Agnew
-Speech to ASNE
-Buchanan
-Agnew’s speechwriter
-Attack on Muskie
-Vietnam developments
-Line of attack
-Proposed administration response
-Democrats
-Challenge
-Criticism of North Vietnam
-Charge of anti-Americanism
-Muskie
-Attacks
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Attacks by others
The President's schedule
-Meeting with Earl L. Butz
-Report on Soviet trip
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Relationship with the President
-Kissinger
-Meeting with Butz
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-Jacob D. Beam’s presence
-The President’s “Kitchen Debate” with Nikita S. Khruschev
-Value of meeting
-Brezhnev
-Administration officials
-Trips abroad
-Reports to the President
-Opinions of Brezhnev
-Reports to Kissinger
-Donald H. Rumsfeld’s trip to Latin America
-Procedures
-Problems
-President’s view
-Written reports
-Trips abroad
-Reports to the President
-Allen J. Ellender
-Written reports
-Kissinger
-Senators
-Hugh Scott and Michael J. Mansfield
-Butz
-Meeting with the President
-Subjects of discussion
-Meeting with Brezhnev
-Beam
-Kissinger’s report
-Kissinger’s view
-Trips abroad
-Robert H. Finch and Rumsfeld
-George P. Shultz and John D. Ehrlichman
-Importance
-Agnew
-Importance
-Experience
-Value to the President
-The President’s reports to John Foster Dulles
-Reports to the President
-The President’s experience
-Donald McI. Kendall
-Trips to Japan
-John A. Volpe
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-Meetings with the President
-Kissinger’s role
-Butz
-Meeting with the President
-Kissinger's presence
-Trip to Camp David
-Timing
-ASNE reception
-The President's remarks
-Arrangements
-Rose Mary Woods and Alexander P. Butterfield
-The President's position in room
-Receiving line
-Use of upstairs
-Lincoln Room, Queen’s Room [?]
-Number of people
-Upstairs tour
-The President's trip to Camp David
-Value of party
-Upstairs tour
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[Duration: 1m 47s ]
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Canada
-Trudeau
-Canadian nationalism question
-Demonstrations against the President
-Organizer
-The President’s trip
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-Canadian Press Secretary
-Cooperation
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[National security]
[Duration: 1m 53s ]
CANADA
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
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-Parliament rooms
-The President’s trip
The President's schedule
-A toast
Press
-Richard A. Moore and John A. Scali
-Ronald L. Ziegler's treatment
-The President's schedule
-Hard line
-Press pool
-Stories about White House
-Blind girl in Chicago
-Love of cookies
-Future dealings by White House staff
-Enemies
-Hugh S. Sidey
-John F. Osborne
-Jerrold L. Schecter
-Kissinger
-Upcoming conversation with the President and Haldeman
-Sidey
-Ziegler and unknown person
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-Conversations
-William L. Safire
-Leaking
-Boycott
-Schecter
The President's schedule
-Meeting with Butz
-Kissinger
-Wednesday
-Tuesday afternoon
-Photograph session with Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Meeting with Butz
-Drug abuse officials
-Meeting with regional directors
-Value of meeting with the President
-Meeting with Ehrlichman
-Busing issue
-ITT case
ITT case
-Ehrlichman
-Clark MacGregor, John W. Dean, III and Wallace H. Johnson
-Maneuvering
White House staff
-Division of issues
-Charles W. Colson
-War
-Ehrlichman
-Busing
-Responsibilities
Crime
-Ehrlichman's work
-Washington, DC
-Decline
-Publicity
-Washington Star
-Washington Post
-Wire services
-Ehrlichman
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-Washington establishment summit, 1969
-Katharine L. Graham, Joseph A. Califano, Jr., John H.
Kauffmann and Edward Bennett Williams
-Ehrlichman's criticism
-Lack of publicity
-Washington Post and Washington Star
-Graham
-Lack of support
-Suppression of favorable news
-Washington Post
-Wire services
-Washington Star
-Publicity for decline
-The President's activities
-Value
-Meetings with DC officials
-Ehrlichman
-Showcase value
-Example for country
Busing
-Press support
-Time
-Impact on public
-Public hostility
The President's schedule
-Meeting with PRC table tennis team
-Scali
-The President's remarks
-White House tour
-Receiving line
-Chou En-lai
-Meeting with US table tennis team
PRC
-Table tennis team
-Demonstrators
Vietnam
-Agnew
-Appearance before Congress
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
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-Timing
-Laird
-Testimony to Congress
-Timing
-Debate in Congress
-Hard-liners
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Colson's work
-Kissinger
-Attacks on administration's critics
-Support for enemy
-Press reports
-Rogers's testimony
-News reports
-George D. Aiken, Gerald R. Ford and Peter A. Peyser
-James L Buckley
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Human Events
-Goldwater
-Statement
-Robert P. Griffin
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Statement
-Hard line
-Kissinger
-William J. Casey
-Statement of support
-The President's policies
-Advantages
The President talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 10:02 and 10:58 am.
[Conversation No. 711-4A]
Kissinger's meeting with the President
-The President's meeting with PRC table tennis team
[End of telephone conversation]
Kissinger
-Trips abroad
-Conditions
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Vietnam
-US bombing
-Soviet reaction
-Kissinger’s trip to Moscow
Haldeman left at 10:58 am.