Conversation 007-020

TapeTape 7StartWednesday, July 28, 1971 at 5:43 PMEndWednesday, July 28, 1971 at 6:04 PMTape start time00:49:37Tape end time00:49:42ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  White House operatorRecording deviceWhite House Telephone

On July 28, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 5:43 pm and 6:04 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 007-020 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 7-20

Date: July 28, 1971
Time: Unknown between 5:43 pm and 6:04 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 550-3D]

     Requested a call to William P. Rogers

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                                                                        Conversation
                                                                             No. 7-161
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                                                                                       (cont.)
                                                                                         7-21

Date: July 28, 1971
Time: 6:04 pm - 6:19 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with William P. Rogers.
[See Conversation No. 550-3E]

     Press relations
           -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
                 -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
                 -Trips
                       -Effect
                       -Compared to the President's trips as Vice President
                       -Press coverage
                       -Golf games
                             -Amount
                             -Compared with Rogers and Japanese foreign minister
                       -Compared with the President
                             -Taj Mahal
                       -Length
                       -Press reaction
                 -Agnew's staff

Haldeman talked with Rogers at an unknown time between 6:04 pm and 6:19 pm.

     Agnew
         -Staff
               -Scheduling
               -Bryce N. Harlow
               -Secret Service
         -Golf
         -Press stories
         -Golf partners

                -Francis A. (“Frank”) Sinatra
                -King Hassan II
          -Frequency of golf games
                -Compared with Arnold Palmer
          -Press story void
                -Scheduling
                      -Rogers’ experience

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[Previous National Security (B) withdrawal reviewed under MDR guidelines case number
LPRN-T-MDR-2014-012. Segment partially declassified with 15s cleared for release and 1s
remains exempt as 007-021-w001 per Executive Order 13526, 3.3(b)(1) on 08/30/2017.
Archivist: DR]
[National Security]
[007-021-w001]
[Duration: 15s]

     Spiro T. Agnew
          -Press story void
                -Scheduling
                      -William P. Rogers’s experience
                            -Helicopter

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[007-021-w001]
[Duration: 1s]

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     Spiro T. Agnew
          -Press story void

               -Scheduling
                    -William P. Rogers’s experience
                         -Helicopter
                              -Holy sites
                              -News value
                              -Moulay Hassan, II

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     Spiro T. Agnew
          -Staff support
                -Henry A. Kissinger
                -Rogers

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[Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 08/08/2019.
Segment cleared for release.]
[Personal Returnable]
[007-021-w002]
[Duration: 20s]

     William P. Rogers’s health
          -Eye doctor
                -Surgery unnecessary

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The President talked with Rogers at an unknown time between 6:04 pm and 6:19 pm.

     Agnew's trip
         -Press coverage
         -Compared with Rogers’ trips
         -Compared with the President and Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's trips
                -Latin America
                -The United States Information Agency [USIA]
                -The University of Purdue Research Station
                -Leper colony in Panama
          -Press relations

               -Compared to the President as Vice President
         -Compared with Rogers’ Middle East trip
         -Compared with the President and Mrs. Nixon
               -Length
         -Length
         -Golf
         -Korea
               -Kissinger
         -Peking
         -Korea
               -Chung Hee Park
         -Compared with the President as Vice President
               -Arrivals
                     -Assistant Secretaries of State
                     -John Foster Dulles
                     -Christian A. Herter
                     -Latin American trip
                           -Dwight D. Eisenhower
                     -Around the World trip
                           -Walter S. Robertson
                     -Latin American trip
         -Agnew’s arrival
         -Press relations
         -Comments about Africans
         -The People's Republic of China [PRC]
         -Foreign relations
               -Press
                     -Middle East
                     -Berlin
         -The President's visit to the Senate
               -Agnew's arrival
         -Schedule
         -Press relations

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Secretary Rogers, please.