Conversation: 471-004
Prev: 471-003 Next: 471-005Start Date: Wednesday, March 24, 1971 2:32 PM
End Date: Wednesday, March 24, 1971 2:47 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.; Butterfield, Alexander P.; Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); [Unknown person(s)]Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:26:26
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:40:46
NARA Description:
On March 24, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, Alexander P. Butterfield, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:32 am to 9:47 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 471-004 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 471-4
Date: March 24, 1971
Time: 9:32 am - 9:47 am
Location: Oval Office
The President with Henry A. Kissinger and Alexander P. Butterfield
[Recording begins while the conversation is in progress]
President’s schedule
-Meeting with Clifford P. Hansen
-Other meetings with Senators
-Louie B. Nunn
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Luncheon
-James J. Kilpatrick, Jr. [?]
-William P. Rogers
Harvard University faculty
-A petition
Items for the President
-Letters
Butterfield left at an unknown time before 9:38 am
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President’s television interview
-Ellsworth F. Bunker’s view
-Kissinger’s previous conversation with Bunker
-Reception in Vietnam
Harvard University faculty petition
Vietnam Conv. No. 471-4 (cont.)
-Current situation
-Moscow Radio
-Laotian operation (Lam Son)
-Bunker
-Forthcoming military action
-President’s forthcoming speech
-Timing
-Kissinger’s assessment
-An unknown man’s position
-Effect of media coverage
-President’s forthcoming speech
-Tone
-Liberals’ position
Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Ecology
-Soviet Union
-Environment
-George Meany
-A report by President
-Outcome
H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 9:38 am
President’s interview, March 23, 1971
-Follow-up
-Public relations efforts
-Kissinger’s role
-Meeting with Max Frankel
-Melvin R. Laird and Rogers’ role
-Role of departments
-Public relations efforts
-A March 25, 1971 meeting
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-Senators’ role
-Speeches
-Robert J. Dole
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Laird and Rogers’ role
-Laird’s 3:00 event
-Monday’s speeches
-Dole’s speech Conv. No. 471-4 (cont.)
-Al Capp
-National Association of Broadcasters
-Mailings
-Columns
-Meany’s statement on Vietnam
-Support for the President
-Agnew
-Possible re-broadcast
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-Public Broadcasting Service [PBS]
President’s previous televised interview
-White House phone poll
-Ratings
-Viewership
-Response
-Format
Kissinger left at an unknown time before 9:47 am
-Job approval rating for President
-Compared with George H. Gallup poll
-Party alignment
President’s schedule
-Hansen
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 9:38 am
-Marlow W. Cook and John Sherman Cooper
-Nunn
-Whitney M. Young, Jr. memorial
Haldeman and the unknown man left at 9:47 am
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Tape Subject Log
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