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Conversation: 497-001

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Start Date: 11-May-1971 11:04 AM

End Date: 11-May-1971 11:20 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")Ehrlichman, John D.Bull, Stephen B.

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:00:30

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:17:24

497a.mp3

497b.mp3

NARA Description:

On May 11, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:04 am to 11:20 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 497-001 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 497-1

Date: May 11, 1971
Time: 11:04 am - 11:20 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman at 11:04 am.
[The recording begins at an unknown time while the meeting is in progress.]
[Discontinuities appear in the original recording.]

     Wire services

     National parks
          -President's program
                -National Park Service
                -President's interview with Robert B. Semple, Jr.
                      -Parks in west
                      -New York City

     Research and development
          -Contributions by private industry
          -Prototypes
          -Subsidies by foreign governments
                -Japan, Great Britain, France, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
          -President's conversation with Kenneth R. Cole
                -Breeder reactor, moon shots
          -Desalinization of water
                -President's conversation with Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.
                -William L. Safire
                -Possible prototype plants
                      -Southern California, Texas
          -Federal budget
          -National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]
          -Department of the Interior
                -John W. O'Meara[?]
                -Bureau of Salinization
                -Head of Office of Saline Water in California, Chung-Ming Wong
          -Cancer program
          -Water
          -Breeder reactor
                -Prototype plant in California
          -Federal budget
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               NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                          Tape Subject Log
                             (rev. 9/08)



-Desalinization
     -Phraseology
     -Federal water projects
           -John B. Connally's comments
                 -Dam projects
     -Water tables in west
           -Phoenix and Texas
           -Connally's comment
           -Southern California, Pacific Northwest
           -Colorado River
                 -Relations with Mexico
     -Federal budget
           -Cost of water in Mideast[?]
           -Government subsidy
                 -Schools
                 -Roads
           -Bureau of Reclamation
                 -Bureau of Land Management
           -President's program
                 -David
                 -Pilot plants in California
                 -Size
           -Federal budget
           -Head of Office of Saline Water
                 -Wong
                 -Travels
                        -Israel, Arabia, Mideast
                        -Saudi Arabia
           -Wife
                 -Meetings with Haldeman at Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles
     -Connally
     -Atomic power
           -Ehrlichman's conversation with Glenn T. Seaborg
                 -Oak Ridge
           -Howard H. Baker, Jr.
           -Possible trip by President to Texas, California or Oak Ridge
           -Previous trip to Oak Ridge
                 -Tennessee Valley Authority [TVA]
           -Possible trip by President
                 -Brownsville, Texas
           -National growth policy
           -Pilot plant
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                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 9/08)



                     -Importance
                           -Drought, farmers
                     -[Forename unknown] Marsh[?]
                     -Space program
                           -Texas Congressmen
                           -Public opinion
                           -USSR
                     -Reorganization                                        Conv. 497-1 (cont.)
                           -NASA
                           -Office of Saline Water
                           -Cancer program
                           -Atomic energy
                           -State Department
                           -NASA
                           -Rogers C.B. Morton
                           -NASA
                     -A presentation
                           -An unknown man
                     -Size of program, requirements for director
                -Breeder reactor
                     -Public opinion
                     -Benefits
                     -Duration of program
                -Desalinization
                     -Bureaucratic organization
                           -David
                           -William M. Magruder
                                 -Supersonic Transport [SST] work
                                 -Job offer
                                 -Salary
                           -Size and location of program
                                 -California, Texas, Camp Pendleton, California, Orange
                                       County, California

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:04 am

     The President's schedule
          -William B. Saxbe
                -Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Henry A. Kissinger[?]

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:20 am
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                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 9/08)



     Research and development
          -Desalinization
               -David
               -A meeting
               -Program
               -Bureaucratic organization
                     -Department of Interior
                     -Cancer program                                    Conv. 497-1 (cont.)
                     -NASA
               -Location of pilot plants
                     -Texas, California

Haldeman and Ehrlichman left at 11:20 am