Conversation: 482-016
Prev:  482-015 Next: 482-017Start Date: 19-Apr-1971 2:32 PM
End Date: 19-Apr-1971 3:03 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Kissinger, Henry A.; Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:05:14
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:20:09
NARA Description:
On April 19, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 2:32 pm and 3:03 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 482-016 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 482-16 Date: April 19, 1971 Time: Unknown between 2:32 pm and 3:03 pm Location: Oval Office The President talked with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman. Schedule -Visit to Julie Nixon Eisenhower -Camp David -Thelma C. (Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon -Camp David -Gettysburg church -Timing -Choir -Cabinet Henry A. Kissinger entered at 2:50 pm. [End of telephone conversation] Kissinger's dinner with Stewart J.O. Alsop -Alsop's call to Alexander M. Haig, Jr. -National interest President's meeting with American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE], April 16, 1971 -J. Edgar Hoover Earth Day President's opponents -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew -Dump President movement -Numbers 30 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 9/08) Hoover -Resignation -Enemies -President's enemies President's appearance before Daughters of the American Revolution [DAR] -Significance DAR -Patriotism -Support for President -Cambodia -Laos -Civic mindedness -Appalachia -President's appearance President's supporters/opponents -William F. Buckley's views -Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] relations Harvard committee -Study of People's Republic of China [PRC] policy -Congratulatory letter to President Kissinger's relations with Alsop -Society people Republican conservatives -Middle America -Barry M. Goldwater -Ronald W. Reagan -President -Political orientation -Goldwater and Reagan -President's speech, October 7, 1971 Issues -Spanish Civil War -Chiang Kai-Shek -Fidel Castro -Quemoy & Matsu 31 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 9/08) -National Defense -Antiballisitic Missiles [ABM] -Liberals -Communists -Leftists -Communists -Clifford M. Case, Richard S. Schweiker, Charles McC. Mathias, Jr. -Interpretation of world Conv. No. 482-16 (cont.) National defense -US missile capacity -ABM sites -Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] -Soviet missile capacity -Liberals -Outlook -Cuban missile crisis -Liberals -Support for John F. Kennedy -Harvard University faculty -George B. Kistiakowsky's call to Kissinger -Harvard reaction -Laos -US withdrawal -Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr. -President's press conference, March 4, 1971 -US casualties -Vietnam -Firebase 6 -Liberals -South Vietnamese military operations -US air support -Success -North Vietnamese reaction Kissinger's lunch with Benjamin C. Bradlee George H.W. Bush's meeting with Newsweek editors, April 5, 1971 -President's speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971 -Bradlee -Opposition to US policy regarding Vietnam, Laos -Osborn Elliott 32 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 9/08) -Robert C. Christopher Kissinger's conversation with Bradlee -Press correspondents in Vietnam -Liaisons -Saigon -Money -Liaisons Conv. No. 482-16 (cont.) -Press briefings -Anecdote -Unknown correspondent's activities Press -Newsweek -President's speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971 -Christopher -Newsweek -Time -Newsweek -Democratic left Alsop's column, April 19, 1971 -President and the Democrats -President's prospects -PRC -Democrats' program -SALT -Defense -Vietnam -Alternatives President's 1972 reelection prospects -Democrats' reaction -1968 election -Lyndon B. Johnson -Possible effect on Democrats -Effect on entrenched bureaucracy -President’s trip State Department -William P. Rogers -Bureaucracy 33 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 9/08) -Ivy League Health Education and Welfare [HEW] -Entrenched Democrats Bureaucracy -Democrats -Dwight D. Eisenhower Conv. No. 482-16 (cont.) -Republicans -Democrats -Franklin D. Roosevelt -New Deal -1972 elections -President's possible victory -1976 elections -Purge -Democrats -Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy -Liberal Republicans -Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr. -Trip to Laos President's reelection prospects Kissinger left at 3:03 pm.