Conversation: 500-013
Prev: 500-012 Next: 500-014Start Date: 18-May-1971 11:06 AM
End Date: 18-May-1971 11:28 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.;Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:03:16
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:21:27
NARA Description:
On May 18, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:06 am to 11:28 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 500-013 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 500-13
Date: May 18, 1971
Time: 11:06 am - 11:28 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.
Hubert H. Humphrey's Amendment
-Vietnam draftees
-Melvin R. Laird
-President’s position
-Kissinger's possible role
-Effectiveness
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Senate debate
-Possible effects
-State Department
-Publication of Andrei A. Gromyko - Jacob D. Beam conversations
-Purpose, effects
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] actions
-Trade policy
-Efforts to purchase US truck components
-Kissinger's conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Peter G. Peterson meeting with USSR commission
-Connection to SALT public announcement
-USSR actions
-Vladimir S. Semenov
-Possible announcement
-Wording
-Possible causes
-Ronald L. Ziegler, John A. Scali
-Senate
-Ziegler and Scali
-Senate
-[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson and Treaty of Versailles
-Henry Cabot Lodge
Republican leaders
-Gerald R. Ford
Democratic leaders
-Southerners
-John C. Stennis
-Richard B. Russell
-New southerners
-David H. Gambrell
-Lawton M. Chiles, Jr.
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield Amendment
-Gambrell and Chiles
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
-Chappaquiddick
-Law school exam
-Positions on demonstrators
-Compared with John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy
-James O. Eastland Conv. No. 500-13 (cont.)
Foreign policy
-Congressional votes
-SALT
-USSR
-Possible advisors on US policy
-Mansfield Amendment
-Negotiations
-Laos, Antiwar demonstrations
-D[avid] Kenneth Rush
-Kissinger's actions
-Ultimatum
-Previous week's actions
-Congress
-Mansfield Amendment
-Rogers
-Possible compromise with Mansfield
-Administration action
-Robert P. Griffin
-Prospects in House of Representatives
-Charles McC. Mathias Amendment
-SALT
-Humphrey Amendment
-Combat
-Public opinion
-Effects on US foreign policy
-Congress
-"New Establishment"
-Bureaucracy
-Gen. Robert E. Pursley
-Military assistant to Melvin R. Laird
-Friendship with Clark M. Clifford
-State Department
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Possible 1972 leaks
-Future
-Vietnam
-USSR
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Middle East
-USSR
-Egypt Conv. No. 500-13 (cont.)
-Anwar El Sadat
-USSR
-Israel
-President's policies
-USSR
-Egypt
-SALT
-Possible summit
-Berlin agreement
-PRC
-Robert Murphy
-Possible meeting with the President
-SALT
-Possible agreement and announcement
-Rogers
-Ziegler
-Possible leaks
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Peterson
-USSR actions
-Possible changes
-Dobrynin[?]
-Semenov, Smith
-Laird
Kissinger left at 11:28 am.