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Start Date: 11-Aug-1971 3:52 PM

End Date: 11-Aug-1971 4:45 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")Price, Raymond K., Jr.Bull, Stephen B.

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:04:52

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:51:35

272a.mp3

272b.mp3

272c.mp3

NARA Description:

On August 11, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Raymond K. Price, Jr., and Stephen B. Bull met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 3:52 pm to 4:45 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 272-016 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 272-16

Date: August 11, 1971
Time: 3:52 pm - 4:45 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

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

     National economy
          -Textiles
                -Political problem
                      -South Carolina
                -Possible import quotas
                -John N. Mitchell, John B. Connally, Peter G. Peterson
                -Peter M. Flanigan
                      -Expertise
                -National security
                      -Steel industry
                -Quota
                -Congress
                -William P. Rogers’ negotiations
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                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 10/06)
                                                                      Conv. No. 272-16 (cont.)


                     -Takeo Fukuda

Raymond K. Price, Jr. entered at 3:55 pm.

                -Mitchell's call to Haldeman
                      -Peterson
                      -Flanigan
                      -Peterson
                      -David M. Kennedy
                      -Mitchell’s memorandum
                             -Legislation
                                   -Japan
                      -Kennedy
                             -Peterson
                             -Appointment with the President
                             -Return from Japan
                             -Harry S. Dent
                      -Flanigan
                      -Peterson
                      -Kennedy’s, Connally’s, Mitchell’s view
                      -Peterson’s view
                -Political issue
                -Flanigan's schedule
                -Instructions to Haldeman
                      -Pull factions together
                -Japan
                      -State Department
                      -Henry A. Kissinger
                -Maurice H. Stans
                      -Decision-making process
                             -Kennedy
                             -Mitchell
                             -Kissinger
                             -Kissinger's possible call to Connally
                                   -National Security Council [NSC]
                -Rogers
                      -Fukuda
                -Congress
                -Rogers
                -Summit
                      -Kissinger
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                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                 Tape Subject Log
                                   (rev. 10/06)
                                                                   Conv. No. 272-16 (cont.)


                -Kennedy
           -George P. Shultz
           -Administration's divisions
                -Need to pull together factions
           -National security
                -NSC
                      -Kennedy
                -Connally
                -Flanigan's role
                -Dent
                      -Role
                -Dent’s conversation with Mitchell
                      -Quotas
                            -Legislation
                            -Kennedy

President's forthcoming radio talks
     -Geoffrey C. Shepard
     -Content
            -Theme
                   -America’s critics
     -Audience
     -Wording
            -Institutions
            -Jobs
            -Irrationality
                   -Historical examples
                         -Gold rush, carpet baggers, Joseph McCarthy
     -Content
            -Themes
                   -America’s critics
                         -Public reaction
                               -Demand for patriotic, upbeat message
                               -Revision
     -Preparation
            -Price's role
                   -President’s assistance
                   -Style and tone
     -Content
            -News
            -Timeliness
                                 20

               NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                          Tape Subject Log
                            (rev. 10/06)
                                                         Conv. No. 272-16 (cont.)


-Length
-Forthcoming Labor Day speech
     -Dignity of work
     -President's conversation with Charles W. Colson
           -Labor
                 -Congress of Industrial Organizations [CIO]
                       -New York
     - Leader class
     -Dignity of work
     -Content
           -Carl Sandburg
                 -Literary themes
                       -Prairie, railroads
-Audience
     -Women
-Women
     -Girls Nation convention remarks, August 6, 1971
     -Women’s Liberation
     -Public roles
     -Yvonne (Vendroux) De Gaulle
           -Charles A.J.M. De Gaulle
           -Winston Churchill's book
                 -Emperor Franz Josef of Austria
                       -Emperor Maximilian of Mexico
                       -Crown Prince Rudolf
                       -Archduke Franz Ferdinand
                       -Empress Elizabeth
                       -Unknown Woman
     -Dignity of work
     -Madame Binh
     -Indira Gandhi
     -Golda Meir
     -Women's liberation
           -President’s conversation with unknown woman
-Length
-Tone
-Preparation
     -Use of previous speeches
     -Shepard
           -July 3, 1971 speech Lincoln, Nebraska speech
           -Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S.
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                            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 10/06)
                                                                 Conv. No. 272-16 (cont.)


                           Truman
                     -President's list of speeches
          -Content
               -Programs
                    -Environment
                    -Revenue-sharing
                          -President’s Iowa speech
                                -Response
               -Ideas
                    -Statement regarding nurses
                    -Wilson
          -Length
          -Content
               -Anecdotes

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:55 pm.

     President's schedule
          -Shultz

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:45 pm.

     President's forthcoming radio talks
          -Content
                 -Themes
                       -Economy
                       -Materialism
                       -Dorothy L. Sayers
                            -Unknown book
                       -John J. McLaughlin
                            -Unknown group
                                  -Patriotism
                       -Religion
                       -Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
                       -Cheer lines
                       -Religion
                       -Education
          -Preparation
                 -Timing
                 -Draft
                       -Viewing by President
                                             22

                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 10/06)
                                                               Conv. No. 272-16 (cont.)



     President's schedule
          -August 12, 1971
                 -Visit to Wolf Trap Farm
          -August 13, 1971
                 -NSC and Service Secretaries meeting
                 -Arthur F. Burns meeting
          -NSC meeting
          -Burns’ meeting
          -Drafts

     President’s forthcoming radio talks
          -Content
                -Themes
                      -Patriotism
                      -Public temper
                            -Changes since 1968
                      -American spirit
                      -Dignity of work
                            -William L. Safire
                            -Sayers
          -Preparation
                -President's schedule
                      -Drafts
          -Importance
          -Preparation

Haldeman and Price left at 4:45 pm.