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Start Date: 5-May-1971 9:35 AM

End Date: 5-May-1971 10:15 AM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:30:27

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 03:09:18

491a.mp3

491b.mp3

491c.mp3

NARA Description:

On May 5, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:35 am to 10:15 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 491-014 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 491-14

Date: May 5, 1971
Time: 9:35 am - 10:15 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

     President's schedule
          -Meeting with John B. Connally
                 -Ronald L. Ziegler
                 -West Coast stories
                      -Los Angeles Times
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                 -Hearst
           -Paul W. McCracken
                 -Ezra Solomon
     -Peter G. Peterson
           -Japan
                 -US trade strategy
                      -Consultation with President
                                                            Conv. No. 491-12 (cont.)
Sugar quota
     -Connally
     -Bryce N. Harlow
     -Political impact
     -Foreign policy
     -Connally
     -Options
     -Connally
     -Harlow
     -Staff
     -Domestic Council
     -State Department
     -Agriculture
     -Politics
     -Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
     -Lobby
           -Influence
     -Connally and Harlow

Trade
     -Japan
          -Peter M. Flanigan
          -George P. Shultz

President's schedule
     -Shultz
     -Solomon

Sugar quota
     -Peterson
           -Options

Schedule
     -Peterson
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           -Business Council
                -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, Connally, Maurice H. Stans, Shultz, and
                      Peterson
                -Meetings
                -Effectiveness
                -Connally
                -Support for administration
                -Flanigan                                           Conv. No. 491-14 (cont.)
                -President’s involvement

     President's previous meeting with voluntary action group
          -Reception
          -President's schedule
                 -Meetings
                 -Cabinet

     President's meeting with Quadriad, May 4, 1971
          -Federal Republic of Germany [FRG]
                 -Monetary problems

     President's schedule
          -Quadriad meeting
                 -Timing

[A transcript of the following portion of this conversation may be found in RG460, Box 57, pp.1-
26 and was prepared under court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for Special
Access 8, Ronald V. Dellums, et al. v. James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271. The National
Archives and Records Administration produced this transcript. The National Archives does not
guarantee its accuracy.]

[End of transcript]


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[End of transcribed portion]

Haldeman left at 10:15 am.

                                                                  Conv. No. 491-14 (cont.)