Conversation: 500-010
Prev: 500-009 Next: 500-011Start Date: 18-May-1971 9:41 AM
End Date: 18-May-1971 10:00 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.; Bull, Stephen B.;Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:16:59
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:38:16
NARA Description:
On May 18, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:41 am to 10:00 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 500-010 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 500-10
Date: May 18, 1971
Time: 9:41 am - 10:00 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Kissinger’s meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-Status
-Wording
-Other negotiations
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Berlin
-Dobrynin
-Possible announcement
-Gerard C. Smith
-President's schedule
-Notification of William P. Rogers
-Notification of Smith
-Congressional action
-Phillip J. Farley
-Vladimir S. Semenov
Republican congressional leadership meeting
-Robert P. Griffin
Charles McC. Mathias Amendment
-Senators' position
-Hubert H. Humphrey's position
-Provisions
-Force levels
-Effects
-Mansfield Amendment
-Executive Branch
-Europe
6
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
SALT
-Possible agreement
-Wording
-Soviet Union
-Peter G. Peterson
-Negotiations for a truck plant
-Smith
-Rogers Conv. No. 500-10 (cont.)
-Possible announcement
Mathias Amendment
-Republican leadership meeting
-President's statement to Griffin
Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield Amendment
-Position of "The Establishment"
Senators
-Vietnam
SALT
-Importance
-May 18, 1971 Republican leadership meeting
-President's statements
-Goals of treaty
-Congressmen
-White House congressional strategy
-Republican congressional leadership
President
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Vietnam, Anti-ballistic Missile treaty [ABM]
-Humphrey
-Efforts
-Abraham Lincoln
-Support
-Effect of television
Republican leadership meeting
-Peter H. Dominick
-Railroad strike
-President’s views
7
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
SALT
-Forthcoming developments
-Farley, Rogers
-Smith's schedule
-Vienna, Austria
-Announcement
-Smith's, Rogers', President's roles Conv. No. 500-10 (cont.)
-John A. Scali
-US position
-ABM
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] position
-Dobrynin
-Gromyko, Brezhnev
Senate
-Hugh Scott
-Griffin
-Norris Cotton
-Gordon L. Allott
-Margaret Chase Smith
-Dominick
-Health
-Compared with Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
**********************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 15s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
**********************************************************************
Foreign policy
-Scali
-Conversations with Kissinger and Peter Lisagor
-President's place in history
8
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-SALT
-Effect
-Congress
-Wording
-Dobrynin, Gromyko
-USSR
-Joseph C. Kraft
-Berlin Conv. No. 500-10 (cont.)
-Salt
-Dobrynin
-Kissinger’s negotiating ability
-Wording of announcement
-Semenov
-Soviet view
-Prospects
Senate
-Possible foreign policy action
-Griffin
-President's statement in May 18, 1971 Republican leadership meeting
-Rogers' May 18, 1971 meeting
-Mathias Amendment
-Mathias Amendment
-Compared with Mansfield Amendment
-Humphrey's possible action
Congress
-President's meetings with leaders
-Cabinet meeting
-Gerald R. Ford
-Melvin R. Laird's role
-Laird's views
-US forces in Europe
-Robert La Follette
President's background
-Quakers
-Peace
Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:41 am.
President's schedule
9
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
Bull left at an unknown time before 10:00 am.
SALT
-Possible announcement
-Timing
-Soviet response
-Dobrynin Conv. No. 500-10 (cont.)
The President and Kissinger left at 10:00 am.