Conversation: 500-022
Prev:  500-021 Next: 500-023Start Date: 18-May-1971 2:30 PM
End Date: 18-May-1971 3:04 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Bull, Stephen B.; Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:43:48
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 03:12:07
NARA Description:
On May 18, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 2:30 pm to 3:04 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 500-022 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 500-22 Date: May 18, 1972 Time: 2:30 pm - 3:04 pm Location: Oval Office The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman. [Discontinuities appear in the original recording] Drugs -Statements by Dr. Bertram S. Brown of National Institute of Mental Health -President's previous statement at California press conference -Distribution -Officials' views Presidential appointments -Peter G. Peterson -Rogers C.B. Morton -Age -Health -Age -[Name unintelligible] -Age Drugs -Marijuana -Effects -Compared with alcohol -Types -Effect on nations -Alcohol -Japan, Great Britain, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR], People's Republic of China [PRC], Malaysia 32 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 9/08) [Unintelligible] -Arthur G. (“Art”) Linkletter [?] -Anti-narcotics campaign [?] A special item Business magazine editors meeting Conv. No. 500-22 (cont.) -Original list of attendants -Time, Newsweek, Fortune, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Forbes -[Name unintelligible], C. L. Sulzberger -Time, Newsweek, and New York Times business sections President's schedule -Donald H. Rumsfeld and Robert H. Finch -A call Mansfield Amendment -Senate -Possible vote Supersonic Transport [SST] -President's conversation with John D. Ehrlichman -Boeing contracts -Administration's efforts, Boeing's efforts -Republican senators -Southern Democrats -House of Representatives -Leadership -Senate -Leadership -Everett M. Dirksen -Hugh Scott President's schedule -Quadriad meeting, May 21, 1971 -John B. Connally Anna C. Chennault 33 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 9/08) ********************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 21s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3 Conv. No. 500-22 (cont.) ********************************************************************** -Current position -US Chamber of Commerce -Trip to Far East and Southeast Asia -Previous conversation with John N. Mitchell -Possible letters from President -Park Chung Hee -Chiang Kai-shek -Prime Minister and Air Marshall of Thailand -Letter to Haldeman -Henry A. Kissinger -Possible letters from President -Letters to Ambassadors -Vietnam -Mitchell’s view -Forthcoming election in South Vietnam -Kissinger’s view -Trip -Possible letters -President -Ambassadors -Kissinger -US ambassador -Taiwan, Korea Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:30 pm. President’s schedule Bull left at an unknown time before 3:04 pm. Chennault 34 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 9/08) Racial problems -Ehrlichman's assessment -Possible action -Demonstrators -Mayors, police chiefs -Ehrlichman -Law Enforcement Assistance Administration [LEAA] Conv. No. 500-22 (cont.) -Ehrlichman -Blacks, Chicanos -Police Clark MacGregor -Location -Possible meeting with President and Kissinger [Haldeman talked with an unknown person [Bull?] at an unknown time between 2:30 pm and 3:04 pm] [Conversation No. 500-22A] President's schedule -Kissinger and MacGregor [End of telephone conversation] ********************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 40s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5 ********************************************************************** Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:30 pm. MacGregor's location 35 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 9/08) Bull left at an unknown time before 3:04 pm. ********************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6 [Personal Returnable] Conv. No. 500-22 (cont.) [Duration: 1m 56s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6 ********************************************************************** John A. Volpe -Haldeman's conversation with Mitchell -Relations with President -Dinner at Clifford M. Hardin's residence -Telephone conversation with Ehrlichman -Meetings with President -Transportation issues -National Railroad Passenger Corporation [AMTRAK or RAILPAX] -SST -Volpe's -William M. Magruder -Volpe compared with Connally Rumsfeld -Possible position with Office of Emergency Preparedness [OEP] -Ehrlichman -Forthcoming meeting with Haldeman -Possible OEP position -Cabinet meetings -National Security Council [NSC] -Mission -Forthcoming meeting with President and Finch Hardin[?] Haldeman left at 3:04 pm. 36 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 9/08)