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Conversation: 480-006

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Start Date: 15-Apr-1971 12:15 PM

End Date: 15-Apr-1971 12:40 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Finch, Robert H.Rumsfeld, Donald H.

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:03:48

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:28:23

480-006.mp3

NARA Description:

On April 15, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Robert H. Finch, and Donald H. Rumsfeld met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:15 pm to 12:40 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 480-006 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 480-6

Date: April 15, 1971
Time: 12:15 pm - 12:40 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Robert H. Finch and Donald H. Rumsfeld

     Appointment of John A. McCone
         -Congress
               -Anti-ballistic Missiles [ABM]
         -Breeder reactor
         -Clinton P. Anderson
         -Disarmament
         -Congress
         -Resignation from Common Cause
               -Possible delay
               -Release
         -Common Cause
         -ABM
         -Rumsfeld’s forthcoming conversation with Henry A. Kissinger
         -Disarmament committee
               -William F. Knowland
         -Qualifications
               -Experience
               -Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
               -Atomic Energy Commission [AEC]
         -Breeder reactor

     Finch and Rumsfeld’s upcoming visit to World Health Organization [WHO] meeting
          -Kissinger
          -Possible invitation to People’s Republic of China [PRC]
          -President’s visit in 1951
                -Herbert H. Lehman
                -Geneva
                -Dwight D. Eisenhower
                      -Paris
          -Possible invitation to PRC
                -Votes
          -United Nations [UN] representation
          -Kissinger
                -US position
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     -Taiwan
     -PRC
     -Possible visit of PRC doctors
     -Finch’s forthcoming conversation with Kissinger
     -US policy regarding PRC
          -Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]

USSR                                                      Conv. No. 480-6 (cont.)
    -US policy
    -PRC
    -Possible reaction
    -Composition
    -Health ministers
    -Subjects
         -Health
         -Drugs
         -Education

Racial discrimination in armed forces
     -Congress
           -Mail
           -Black Caucus
     -Work assignments
     -Blacks
     -Benefits of military service

Finch and Rumsfeld’s visit to WHO meeting
     -Countries in itinerary
          -England
          -Morocco
          -Spain
          -Italy
          -Romania
          -Yugoslavia
          -Austria
          -Germany
          -Switzerland
          -France
     -Specific subjects
          -Drugs
          -Medical education
          -Prisoner relief
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France
     -Jacques M. P. Chaban-Delmas
     -Georges J. R. Pompidou
     -President’s relations with Chaban-Delmas

Morocco
    -Visit of King [Moulay] Hassan II
          -Scheduling                                       Conv. No. 480-6 (cont.)
          -Arab summit meeting

Great Britain
     -[James] Harold Wilson
     -Edward R. G. Heath
     -Sir Alexander F. (“Alex”) Douglas-Home
     -Tories
     -Labor
           -Wilson
     -Heath
     -Douglas-Home
     -Roy Thomson Herbert
           -Times of London
     -[Maurice] Harold MacMillian
     -R. Anthony Eden
Germany
     -Willy Brandt
     -Opposition
     -Berlin
           -West/East
           -Mayor
     -Evenhandedness

Italy
        -Henry Cabot Lodge
        -Pope Paul VI [Giovanni Battista Motini]
             -Social gospel
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[National Security]
[Duration: 59s ]


    THE VATICAN, ITALY                                        Conv. No. 480-6 (cont.)


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

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    Spain
         -General Francisco Franco
               -Age
         -Robert C. Hill
         -Foreign Minister
         -Political conditions
               -Franco

    Yugoslavia
        -William Leonart
        -Josip Broz Tito
        -PRC
              -Romania
                   -Nicolae Ceausescu
        -Role
        -Tito

    Belgium

    Paris

    Austria
         -Vienna
         -Salzburg
         -US relations
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    Germany
        -East Berlin

    European press
         -Kissinger
         -Editors
         -Intellectuals
         -Editors                                             Conv. No. 480-6 (cont.)
               -Paris
               -England
               -Germany
               -Italy
         -Compared with US press

    International drug control
          -Justice Department
          -UN
                -Possible US initiatives
                      -Amendments
          -North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
          -Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan and Russell E. Train
          -Health
          -[Charles B. Rangel]
                -Harlem


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[National Security]
[Duration: 2m 29s ]


    DRUG CONTROL

    THE VATICAN


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3

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     Overseas political contributors
          -France
               -Paris
               -Rogers C. B. Morton
          -Herbert W. Kalmbach
          -England
               -Duration of Finch and Rumsfeld’s trip          Conv. No. 480-6 (cont.)
               -Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
               -J[ean] Paul Getty
                      -Property
                      -Possible contribution
                           -Amount
                      -1970 campaign
                           -Contribution
                      -Kalmbach
                      -Property
                      -Living habits
                      -Possible contribution

     Finch and Rumsfeld’s trip
          -Paris

     The President’s schedule
          -Call from Thelma C. (Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon


     Finch and Rumsfeld’s trip

Finch and Rumsfeld left at 12:40 pm