On March 18, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Tricia Nixon Cox met in the Oval Office of the White House from 6:24 pm to 6:25 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 469-012 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 469-12
Date: March 18, 1971
Time: 6:24 pm - 6:25 pm
Location: Oval Office
Tricia Nixon talked with the President
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Tricia Nixon Cox’s schedule
-Helene (Colesie) Drown
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[End of telephone conversation]
Conversation No. 469-13
Date: March 18, 1971
Time: Unknown between 6:25 pm and 7:32 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Rose Mary Woods
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[Duration: 5m 14s]
The President’s previous conversation with Tricia Nixon Cox
-Dinner
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-March 17, 1971 dinner with Jack Drown and Helene (Colesie) Drown
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon’s birthday
-March 16, 1971 event
H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 6:26 pm
The President’s schedule
-Possible trip to Camp David
-March 19, 1971 New York trip
-Departure time
-Camp David, Andrews Air Force Base
Thelma C. (Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon’s schedule
-New York
-Departure and arrival times
Jack Drown
-Schedule
-John V. (“Jack”) Brennan
-Compared with Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo and Robert H. Abplanalp
-Compared with Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Secretary of Treasury
-Jack Drown and Helene (Colesie) Drown
-Time spent with the President
-Effect on the President
-Compared with Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
Jack Drown and Helene (Colesie) Drown
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s opinion
[Pause]
Henry A. Kissinger entered at 6:30 pm
Thelma C. (Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon’s schedule
-Helene (Colesie) Drown
-New York
Kissinger’s previous meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Berlin
-A draft agreement
Woods left at 6:31 pm
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Kissinger’s previous meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Berlin
-A draft agreement
-Kissinger’s concurrence
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Draft agreement
-US response
-Another item
-Response
Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Vote in Congress
-Congress
-President’s meeting with John B. Connally
-Environmentalists
-Vote in Congress
-Tally
-President’s view
-Environmentalists
-President’s view
-Kissinger’s view
-France and the US
-Administration action
-Senate
-Clark MacGregor
-President’s supporters
-Effect
-Commercials
-Soviet Union
-Legislation
-Prototypes
-Compared with flights to Moon
-Effect of Lyndon B. Johnson’s last two years in office
-Connally
-President’s November 3, 1969 speech
-President’s accomplishments
Economy
-Arthur F. Burns
-Dow-Jones average
-November 1972
-Current reading
-Effect of SST vote
SST
Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 6:40 pm
An unknown item
Butterfield left at 6:41 pm
President’s press conference, March 19, 1971
-SST
-Foreign policy
A press conference in California
President’s televised interview, March 20, 1971
-Time
-Kissinger’s meeting with Dobrynin
John D. Ehrlichman’s report to Haldeman
-George W. Romney meetings
SST
-Administration opponents
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[Duration: 9s]
Donald F. Nixon
-Call to the President
-Time
-March 18, 1971
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Vietnam
-Military situation
-A memo
-Laos operation figures
-Success
-Sihanoukville [Kompong Som]
-Effect on North Vietnamese Army
-Possible enemy action
-Cambodia, Laos
-North Vietnamese troop levels
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 6:31 pm
Connally
Bull left at an unknown time before 6:45 pm
Vietnam
-Effect of Laotian operation (Lam Son)
-Enemy supplies
-Decreases
-President’s forthcoming interview with Howard K. Smith
-Information
-President’s April 7, 1971 speech
-Laos operation
-President’s position
Ehrlichman entered at 6:45 pm
-International establishment
-Walt W. Rostow
-Previous meeting with Kissinger
-Position
-Support for the President
-President, Johnson Cabinet
-Dean Rusk
-Robert S. McNamara
-Negotiations
-Chou En-lai’s visit to North Vietnam
-Soviet Union
-Negotiations
-Soviet Union
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-North Vietnamese government
-Effects of War
-Casualties
-Population decreases
-Military situation
-North Vietnamese troops
-Cambodia
-Laos
-US air strikes
-Richard M. Helms
-Weather
-Cambodia
-North Vietnamese troops
-Supplies
-Route 4
-Sihanoukville [Kompong Som]
-Phnom Penh
-Press coverage
-Negotiations
-North Vietnam
-General Nguyen Van Thieu’s government
-Forthcoming US Presidential election
-Effect of 1972 Election
-Kissinger’s view
-Effect on negotiations
-Effect of 1968 Election
-Johnson
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-US domestic situation
-Timing
-Thieu
-Negotiations
-US proposals
-Cambodia and Laos
-Cease fire
-US troop withdrawal
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-US troop withdrawal
-Timing
-Effect
-Forthcoming US military action
-Troops
-Air strikes
-Kissinger’s report for President
-Helicopter pilots
Kissinger’s schedule
-Henry Brandon
-Book party
-Wiretaps
-Haldeman
Kissinger left at 6:50 pm
Economy
-Ehrlichman’s report
-Meetings of Maurice H. Stans and three unnamed others
-Reason
-Wage and price controls
-Importance
-Paul W. McCracken and Burns
-Domestic Council
-Ehrlichman
-George P. Shultz
-Cabinet Committee on Economic Policy
-Stans
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Compared with Congressmen and Senators
-Domestic Council
-Ehrlichman’s attendance at March 20, 1971 meeting
-Possible Domestic Council meeting
-A presentation
-President
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Shultz
-Income strategy
-Shultz
-Burns
-McCracken
-Burns
-Administration jurisdictions
-Problems
-Kissinger’s comment
-Domestic Council
-Cabinet meeting
-James D. Hodgson
-Construction costs
-Shultz
-Hodgson
Cabinet
-Future
-Possible trips
-Romney, John A. Volpe, Hardin, Stans, Winton M. (“Red”) Blount
-Blount’s plans for post office construction
-Army Corps of Engineers
-General Services Administration [GSA]
-Effect on personnel
-Army Corps of Engineers
-Effects at GSA
-Congress
-Romney
-Possible call from Ehrlichman
-Domestic Council meeting
-Hodgson
-Postponement of March 20, 1971 meeting
-Domestic Council meeting
-President’s possible attendance
-Revenue sharing
-Romney and Volpe
-Jurisdiction
-Domestic Council
-Possible meeting with construction costs group
-McCracken
-Edwin L. Harper
-Shultz
-Forthcoming meeting with President
-Timing
-Connally
-Jurisdictions
-Forthcoming meeting with President
Connally
-Meeting with Burns
-Jurisdictions
-Investment tax credits
-Social Security
Economy
-Jurisdictions
-Shultz
-Romney
-Agnew’s role
-President’s role
-Jurisdictions
-Stans, Hardin, Romney, Volpe, Burns
-Shultz
Volpe
-Automobile insurance
-Possible future
-Italian support for President
-Rocco C. Siciliano
-Support for President
-Interdepartmental committee on oil spills
-Chairmanship
-Oil spills conference at The Hague
-President’s knowledge
-William D. Ruckelshaus
Economy
-Shultz
-Domestic Council
Blount
-Cabinet meeting
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Alabama senatorial candidacy
-James D. Martin
-White House action
-The President’s preference
-Winton M. (“Red”) Blount
-Prospects
-The President's role
-James D. Martin
-Patricia Huddleston Martin performance at service
-1969 [?]
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon
-White House action
-Winton M. (“Red”) Blount's actions
-Alabama
-Re-organization in Oregon
-James D. Martin
-Prospects
-Ability to campaign
-Chances of winning
-The President’s opinion
-White House action
-James D. Martin
-Relationship with the President
-Winton M. (“Red”) Blount
-Possible meeting with the President
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Economy
-Jurisdictions
-Shultz
-Shultz’s position
-President’s role
-Burns
President’s schedule
-Thomas E. Dewey funeral
-Departure time
-Meeting with Burns
-Time
-President’s departure
Economists and professors
-Compared with women, children
Cabinet meetings
-William P. Rogers’ suggestion
-Frequency
-Previous meeting
-Ehrlichman’s view
-President’s view
-Nicaragua
-Kenya
-Volpe’s automobile proposal
-Romney
-Format
Domestic Council meeting
-Frequency
-President’s role
-Format
Cabinet meetings
-President’s attendance
-Rogers
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