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Start Date: 6-Oct-1971 9:30 AM

End Date: 6-Oct-1971 10:10 AM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:14:49

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:42:22

283a.mp3

283b.mp3

283c.mp3

NARA Description:

On October 6, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and Stephen B. Bull met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 9:30 am to 10:10 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 283-018 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 283-18

Date: October 6, 1971
Time: 9:30 am - 10:10 am
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and an unknown person [Stephen B. Bull?].

     Item for Peter M. Flanigan

     Names

The unknown person [Bull?] left at an unknown time before 10:10 am.

     News story
         -The People’s Republic of China [PRC]
               -State Department action
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                         NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                    Tape Subject Log
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                                                              Conv. No. 283-18 (cont.)


              -Two-China policy
              -William P. Rogers
                     -The President's PRC trip
                          -Henry A. Kissinger's preparation

    The President's schedule
         -North Carolina trip
              -David N. Henderson
                      -Invitation


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[Duration: 54s ]


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    Lloyd N. Cutler
         -Common Cause
         -Invitation to the White House
               -Flanigan
               -John N. Mitchell
         -American Airlines
               -Action
               -Flanigan

    The President's schedule
         -Robert J. Dole
              -Carl T. Curtis
              -Jack R. Miller
                     -Corn prices
                          -Paul W. McCracken
         -Robert P. Griffin
              -Michigan politics
         -Howard H. Baker, Jr.
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                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. 10/10)
                                                             Conv. No. 283-18 (cont.)


              -Busing in Tennessee

    Campaign contributions
        -Harry S. Dent
        -Funding of local and regional campaigns
             -Slush fund
                   -Past use
        -Baker
        -Mitchell

    Campaigns
        -The President's role, stance
        -Baker
        -Griffin
              -Michigan politics
        -Mitchell
        -Dole
              -Michigan
                    -Busing
                          -Constitutional amendment
                          -Griffin
                                 -Stephen J. Roth
                    -Racial problems

    Campaign issues
        -Busing
              -Issue
              -John D. Ehrlichman
        -Constitutional amendment
              -Mitchell
        -Ehrlichman


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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[Duration: 3m 46s ]


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                                    Tape Subject Log
                                      (rev. 10/10)
                                                                     Conv. No. 283-18 (cont.)



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    Photograph opportunities
         -Southern Democrats
              -Henderson
              -Texas
                    -O[vie] Clark Fisher
              -Incumbents
              -Dent

    The President's schedule
         -John D. Ehrlichman
               -Whittier, California
                       -Scheduling
                             -Unio of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] trip announcement
         -Unknown man in Chicago
               -Reception
         -Illinois state dinner
         -Ronald L. Ziegler
         -Aldo B. (“Elbow”) Beckman
         -Donald Oberdorfer, Jr.
               -Ziegler’s press conference
                       -West Virginia
                             -Martinsburg
         -John F. Osborne
               -Kalispell, Montana
               -The President's comment about trailer parks in Kalispell
                       -Camping
                      -Environmentalists
               -Mansfield

    Foreign policy
         -Kissinger and Rogers
              -Relationship

    Economy
        -Presentation
             -John B. Connally
             -McCracken, George P. Shultz, Herbert Stein, Arnold R. Weber
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                      NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                 Tape Subject Log
                                   (rev. 10/10)
                                                             Conv. No. 283-18 (cont.)



Scheduling of speeches
     -7:30 pm start time
     -The President's return from the PRC, Soviet Union
           -Prime time speech

The President's foreign policy initiatives
     -The PRC
           -Barry M. Goldwater
           -Charles W. Colson
                  -Ronald W. Reagan
                       -Comments on PRC initiative
                        -Robert H. Finch
     -The President's qualifications for summit
     -Play in news media
           -Victor Lasky
           -John A. Scali
     -Goldwater

Public relations
     -Best sellers
            -Promotion of pro-Nixon and conservative books
                 -Edith Efron
                 -Allen S. Drury
                 -Jeffrey Hart
                       -Hobart D. Lewis
                       -Possible campaign book
                       -Theme

Dole
       -PRC trip
       -Primary elections

The President's schedule
     -Forthcoming PRC trip
           -Bogota, Colombia
           -Israel
     -Trip to Latin America
     -Persons traveling with the President
           -Logistics Problems
                 -Soviet trip
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                             NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 10/10)
                                                                  Conv. No. 283-18 (cont.)


                     -George W. Romney
                           -Michigan
                           -Peter G. Peterson
          -PRC trip
              -Summit

     Unknown person
         -Writing

Haldeman left at 10:10 am.