Conversation: 499-004
Prev: 499-003 Next: 499-005Start Date: Friday, May 14, 1971 1:15 PM
End Date: Friday, May 14, 1971 1:50 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); White House operator; Nixon, Thelma C. ("Pat") (Ryan); Butterfield, Alexander P.; Bull, Stephen B.Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:15:27
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:43:05
NARA Description:
On May 14, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, White House operator, Thelma C. ("Pat") (Ryan) Nixon, Alexander P. Butterfield, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:15 am to 9:50 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 499-004 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 499-4
Date: May 14, 1971
Time: 9:15 am - 9:50 am
Location: Oval Office
Conv. No. 499-2/498-1 (cont.)
The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
President's schedule
-Ronald L. Ziegler's forthcoming announcement
-Time
-Red Cross event
-Preparation on plane
-Radio
-Schedules of Elliot L. Richardson, William P. Rogers, Clark MacGregor
-Forthcoming television appearances
-Timing
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Timing
-Red Cross event
North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-An event
-Television network coverage
-Dean G. Acheson
-Comments regarding meeting with President
-Monty Woolley
-John A. Scali
-Troop levels
-Popular opinion
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Administration's goals
-Supersonic Transport [SST]
-President's leadership
-President's position
SST
-William M. Magruder's health
-Gerald R. Ford's efforts
-John A. Volpe's efforts
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Television network coverage of William M. Allen's comments
-John D. Ehrlichman's conversation with Boeing staff
White House Correspondents' Dinner
-Press coverage
-Staff action
-Gridiron Club dinners
-Benefits
Press
-President's relations
Kissinger's schedule
-Brookings Institute directors meeting, May 13, 1971
-American Enterprise Institute [AEI]
-Allen S. Drury interview
-William S. White
-Victor Lasky
-Discussion with President and Haldeman
President's schedule
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Privacy]
[Duration: 5s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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-Rose Mary Woods
-Marjorie P. Acker
-Husband
-Woods
-Roger E. Johnson
-Forthcoming conversation with Haldeman
-Departure time
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-An unknown man
-Departure time
Thelma C. (Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon's schedule
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4 Conv. No. 499-4 (cont.)
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 13s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Scheduling
-Coral F. Schmid
-Number and type of events
-Page Belcher
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Conv. No. 499-4 (cont.)
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 2m 46s ]
[THE PRESIDENT TALKED WITH THE WHITE HOUSE OPERATOR AT AN UNKNOWN
TIME BETWEEN 9:15 AM AND 9:37 AM]
[Conversation No. 499-4A]
[See Conversation No. 3-50]
[End of telephone conversation]
[THE PRESIDENT TALKED WITH MRS. NIXON BETWEEN 9:37 AM AND 9:38 AM]
[Conversation No. 499-4B]
[See Conversation No. 3-51
[One item has been withdrawn from the conversation]
[End of telephone conversation]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
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-Importance
-Press conference in Oklahoma
-Texas, North Dakota representatives
-Meeting with governor's wife
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Press conference
-Future events after Tricia Nixon Cox's wedding
-Duration of visits
-Oklahoma trips
-Plane, press coverage
-National press, local press
-Size of plane and other attendees
-Schmid Conv. No. 499-4 (cont.)
-Belcher
-Importance in South and Midwest
-Staff
Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 9:38 am.
President's schedule
-Max M. Fisher
-Length of meeting
-McCracken
-Purpose of meeting
Butterfield left at an unknown time before 9:55 am.
-Rose Garden event
-Press coverage
-Charles H. Percy
-Press
-Illinois attendees
-Number of events, May 14, 1971
-Rose Garden event
-Percy
-Press coverage
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Prisoners of war [POW] event
-Jacob A. Preus
-Press coverage
-Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid
-Kissinger
-Kissinger's role
-Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid
-Labor
-Congress of Industrial Organizations [CIO]
-American Friends Service
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Church World Service
-Congregational Christians
-Kissinger
-Jewish Organizations
-Hadassah
-Brookings Institute
-Fisher
-Purpose of meeting Conv. No. 499-4 (cont.)
-McCracken
-Jews, businessmen
-Preus
-Fisher
-Previous White House dinners
-Encounters with staff
-Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid
-Length of meeting with President
-Kissinger
-Tour, other meetings
-Pan American foreign club [?]
-Press coverage
-Ziegler
-President's trips
-Newsmen's wives
-Changes
-Johnson
-John N. Mitchell
-Rogers
-Mitchell
US forces in Europe
-President's conversation with Cyrus R. Vance, April 13, 1971
-Hubert H. Humphrey, Edmund S. Muskie positions
-Haldeman's possible conversation with Clark MacGregor
-Kissinger, Rogers
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:38 am.
President's schedule
Bull left at an unknown time before 9:55 am.
-John McCowan
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Identified
-Mrs. Nixon
-Mrs. Nixon's meeting
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[Personal Returnable] Conv. No. 499-4 (cont.)
[Duration: 1m 58s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
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SST
-Connally
-Boeing's actions
-Business
-Lesson for youth and labor
-Termination costs
President's schedule
-Florida trip
-Price and his secretary
-Woods
Haldeman left at 9:50 am.