Conversation: 499-016
Prev: 499-015 Next: 499-017Start Date: 14-May-1971 11:30 AM
End Date: 14-May-1971 11:50 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Hughes, James D. ("Don"); Preus, Jacob A.; Bull, Stephen B.; [Unknown person(s)];Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:01:46
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:21:18
NARA Description:
On May 14, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, James D. ("Don") Hughes, Jacob A. Preus, Stephen B. Bull, and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:30 am to 11:50 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 499-016 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 499-16
Date: May 14, 1971
Time: 11:30 am - 11:50 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes and Jacob A. Preus.
Vietnam
-Preus' trip
-North Vietnamese
-Preus
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:30 am.
Arrangements for photograph
Members of the press entered at an unknown time after 11:30 am.
[Unintelligible]
Bull and the press left at an unknown time before 11:50 am.
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Tape Subject Log
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Refreshments
Preus’ assistants
Vietnam
-POWs
-Preus’ meeting with Swedish diplomats
-[Forename unknown] Nystrom
-A call
-India
-Kenneth B. Keating
-A meeting
-Triloki Nath Kaul
Vietnam
-POWs
-Sweden
-Preus' work
-Exchange
-President's comments to wives
-[Forename unknown] Powell
-Negotiations
-David K.E. Bruce
-Negotiations
-Bruce's role
-Preus' conversations
-US strategy
-Unknown North Vietnamese man in Vientiane
-Visits to POW Camps
-Considerations
-Preus’ conversations
-Preus’ travels and efforts
-Swedish foreign ministry
-Italian foreign office
-India
-The Vatican
Pope Paul VI
-Vatican Bureaucracy
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[National Security]
[Duration: 49s ]
THE VATICAN Conv. No. 499-16 (cont.)
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
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Vietnam
-Preus’ letters to Lutheran leaders
-Views of Germans
-Possible international group
-Canadians
-Indians
-Negotiations
-US troop withdrawals
-POWs
-US troop withdrawals
-South Vietnamese
-Views of unknown man in Stockholm
-Views of unknown man in Vientiane
-Preus' conversations
-Languages used
-Unknown missionary in Laos
-Father [Forename unknown] Maynard
-Comments Regarding Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.
-Preus' conversation with South Vietnamese Foreign Minister
-South Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Timing, proposals
-Preus's travels in South Vietnam
-Saigon, Hook-wook Island [sp], Ca Mi Sanh [sp]
-Gen. Frederick C. Weyand, Ellsworth F. Bunker
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Countryside
-Laotion refugees
-Pacification program
-Press coverage
Voluntary foreign aid
-Church aid
Conv. No. 499-16 (cont.)
Vietnam
-Voluntary Action Programs by military
-War
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 11:30 am.
President's schedule
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 11:50 am.
Presentation of gifts by President
-Cufflinks
-Gifts for others
POWs
Hughes and Preus left at 11:50 am.