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Conversation: 747-004

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Start Date: 19-Jul-1972 11:33 AM

End Date: 19-Jul-1972 11:40 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Mills, BranfordSedlar, Thomas S.Flanigan, Peter M.White House photographer

Recording Device: Oval Office

747-004.mp3

NARA Description:

On July 19, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Branford Mills, Thomas S. Sedlar, Peter M. Flanigan, and White House photographer met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:33 am to 11:40 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 747-004 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 747-4

Date: July 19, 1972
Time: 11:33 am - 11:40 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Bradford Mills, Thomas S. Sedlar, and Peter M. Flanigan. The White
House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

     Introductions
          -Mills
                -Soviet Union support of US private investments
                     -Vietnam
                     -Israel
          -Sedlar

     US trade policy
          -Overseas Private Investment Corporation [OPIC]
                -Report
                     -Photograph and letter
                -Informing the public
          -[Photograph session]
          -Assistance to US businesses overseas
                -Degree of competition
                -US governmental support
                -Soviet Union
                     -Armand Hammer
                -Peter G. Peterson
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                  -Japan
                  -France
                  -Soviet Union
                  -US policy in overseas investment
                       -Eastern Bloc countries
                           -Yugoslavia and Romania
                                  -Foreign Assistance Act
                                  -Josip Broz Tito
                           -Balance of trade problems
                           -Poland
                           -Hungary
                           -Soviet Union
                           -Peterson
                           -Possible talk with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
                           -Consultation with Henry A. Kissinger
                           -Yugoslavia
                                  -Jacob K. Javits
                           -Public relations
                           -Insurance
                           -Kissinger to prepare paper on OPIC trade issues
                           -Hammer

      White House gifts
          -Cufflinks, paperweights

      Mills’s previous meeting with the President
           -Bohemian Grove
                 -Hillbillies Camp
                 -Lowell Thomas

      Thomas

      US trade policy
           -OPIC
           -Kissinger's understanding of issues
                 -Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary

Mills et al. left at 11:40 am.
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                         NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. Mar-02)