Conversation: 493-007
Prev: 493-006 Next: 493-008Start Date: Thursday, May 6, 1971 2:28 PM
End Date: Thursday, May 6, 1971 2:58 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Hardin, Clifford M.; Borlaug, Norman E.; MacGregor, Clark; Gross, H. R.; Miller, Jack R.Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:03:51
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:34:35
NARA Description:
On May 6, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Clifford M. Hardin, Norman E. Borlaug, Clark MacGregor, H. R. Gross, and Jack R. Miller met in the Oval Office of the White House from 10:28 am to 10:58 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 493-007 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 493-7
Date: May 6, 1971
Time: 10:28 am - 10:58 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Clifford M. Hardin and Dr. Norman E. Borlaug
[Recording begins while the conversation is in progress]
Agricultural programs
-US programs abroad
-Purdue University, Michigan State University
-Program in the Philippines
-Work
Clark MacGregor, H[arold] R[oyce] Gross, and Jack R. Miller entered at 10:30 am
Greetings
Photo
Hogs
Des Moines Register
Gifts for President
-National Pork Producers’ Council
-Location
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-May 7, 1971 dinner
Foreign programs
Members of the press entered at an unknown time after 10:30 am
Hogs
[Camera noise]
Hogs
Members of the press left at an unknown time before 10:58 am
Hogs
-Farm Bureau
Agricultural programs
-US programs abroad
-Borlaug
-Nobel Prize acceptance speech
-US role
-Production
-India, Pakistan, Brazil, Spain
-US
-India
-Japan
-US exports
-India
-Japan
-Taiwan
-Foreign aid
-Food for peace
-Teaching efforts
-Results
-Foreign Students at land-grant colleges
-Length of stay
-Mexico
-State Department
-Teaching efforts
-Length of stay
-Conversations with Dr. John A. Hannah
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-Congress
Agricultural programs
-Foreign aid
-Private foundations
-John D. Rockefeller, Henry E. Ford, II
-Dr. [Forename unknown] Malone
-Work Conv. No. 493-7 (cont.)
-Rockefeller, Ford
-Work
-Workers
-A worker in Central America
-Michigan State University, Iowa State University, Purdue
University
-Ethiopia
-A college
-Workers
-Peace Corps
-Motivation
-Latin America
-Education
-Resettlement
-Missionaries
-Colombia
-Michigan State University program
-Hannah, George Ferrara
-Results
-Bogota program
-Results
-National University at Deeka
-University of Nebraska
-Local involvement
-Personnel needs
-Mexico
-Personnel needs
-Work
-Length of program
-National Agricultural Research Institute of Mexico
-Graduate education
-A Pakistani worker
-Beirut experience
-Food and Agriculture Organization [FAO]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
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-Middle East, Northern Africa, and Latin America
-Personnel needs
-Education and training
-FAO
-Mexico
-Training
-FAO
-Population control Conv. No. 493-7 (cont.)
-John F. Kennedy
-Developing nations
-Food supply
-Outlook
-Food supply
-Needs
-Mohammed Ayub Khan
-Position on food and population
-Health
-Position on food and population
-Election
-A smallpox epidemic
-Position on population control
-US aid
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Food supply
-Bengal, US
-Latin America
-Caracas, Venezuela
-Mexico
-New President’s position
-Growth rate
-President’s population message
-An unknown man’s experience
Gifts from President
-Cuff links
A Mexican driver
Gifts
-Cufflinks
Borlaug’s accomplishments
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Hogs
Des Moines Register
President’s May 7, 1971 dinner
Borlaug’s accomplishments Conv. No. 493-7 (cont.)
[General conversation]
Hardin, et al. left at 10:58 am