Conversation: 266-001
Prev: 265-004 Next: 266-002Start Date: 22-Jul-1971 1:06 PM
End Date: 22-Jul-1971 1:44 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); [Unknown person(s)];Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:00:35
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:37:26
NARA Description:
On July 22, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:06 pm and 1:44 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 266-001 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 266-1
Date: July 22, 1971
Time: Unknown between 1:06 pm and 1:44 pm
Location: Old Executive Office Building
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman; this recording begins at an unknown time
while the meeting is in progress.
[Unintelligible]
Poll
-Capability of handling foreign relations with People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-The President
-J. William Fulbright
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
-Edmund S. Muskie
-William P. Rogers
-Ratings analyzed
-Two China policy
-PRC
-Taiwan, Republic of China [ROC]
-United Nations membership
-Effect on the Vietnam war
-The President
-Political leanings
-Rating on handling of job
-The Nixon-Cox wedding and the Pentagon Papers case, June 1971
-Comparison to President Lyndon B. Johnson
-US-Union Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] summit at Glassboro, New
Jersey
-Timing of poll
-Factors affecting approval
-PRC initiative
-Vietnam
[Unintelligible - tape malfunction]
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Effect of economic factors on approval rating
-Johnson
2
Nixon Presidential Materials Staff
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 6/98)
-PRC initiative
-White House staff
-World peace
-Awareness
-Lt. William L. Calley, Jr. court martial
[Pause]
-Appeal to youth
-Rumsfeld, Robert H. Finch
-Pentagon Papers case
-Gallup Poll
-Compared to the President’s poll
Haldeman talked to an unknown person at an unknown time after 1:06 pm.
[Conversation No. 266-1]
Request for Gallup Poll results
[End of telephone conversation]
-Factors affecting ratings
-Louis Harris polling theory
-The economy
-Vietnam War
-The economy
-Awareness
-The economy
-PRC initiative
-John Kenneth Galbraith’s and others statements
-Kennedy
Finch
-The Vice Presidency
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Spiro T. Agnew
-The Republican Party
-The Cabinet
-Forthcoming conversation with John N. Mitchell
-Offer of Office of Emergency Preparedness [OEP]
-Departure from Washington, DC area
-Eldest son
-Mexico [Ambassadorship]
3
Nixon Presidential Materials Staff
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 6/98)
-Appearances on television
-Future
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3 Conv. No. 266-1 (cont.)
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 1m 11s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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[Unintelligible - tape malfunction]
Poll
-PRC initiative
-Harris poll
Personnel
-Finch
-OEP
-Mexico, campaign
-Retention in the Cabinet
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Rumsfeld
-Reaction to the PRC initiative and the President's July 6, 1971 Kansas City
speech
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-State Department
-John N. Irwin, II
-Special Trade Representative
-Rogers
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Privacy]
[Duration: 23s ]
4
Nixon Presidential Materials Staff
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 6/98)
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
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-NSC staff
-Latin American Conv. No. 266-1 (cont.)
-White House staff
-OEP
-Finch
-California politics
-Intergovernmental relations
-Manager
-NATO
-[Surname unknown]
-Speeches
-Rogers
Poll
-Leadership
-Rogers
-Fulbright, Humphrey, Mansfield, Kissinger, Kennedy, Muskie
Schedule
-Rogers, Kissinger, Melvin R. Laird
Issues
-Effect of the PRC initiative
Haldeman left at 1:44 pm.