Conversation: 501-007
Prev: 501-006 Next: 501-008Start Date: 19-May-1971 10:22 AM
End Date: 19-May-1971 11:04 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Bull, Stephen B.; Kissinger, Henry A.;Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:53:28
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:26:37
NARA Description:
On May 19, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Stephen B. Bull, and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House from 10:22 am to 11:04 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 501-007 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 501-7
Date: May 19, 1971
Time: 10:22 am - 11:04 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
[Unintelligible]
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:22 am.
President's schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger
Bull left at an unknown time before 10:24 am.
[Unintelligible]
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Vienna
Kissinger entered at 10:24 am.
-Kissinger’s meeting with Gerard C. Smith
-Smith’s response
-Arms Control and Disarmament Agency [ACDA]
-President's meeting with William P. Rogers
-Smith’s response
-Rogers’ response
-President’s view
-Smith's schedule
-Briefings and backgrounders
-Photo session with President and delegation
-Rogers and Melvin R. Laird
-Announcement
-Cabinet
-Possible leaks
-Kissinger's briefing for John B. Connally, Vice President Spiro T.
Agnew, and Elliot L. Richardson
-Congressional leaders
12
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Cabinet
-Coverage of meeting
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Congressional leaders
-Cabinet
-USSR
-Coverage of meeting
-Timing
-Cabinet
-Congressional leaders
-Location
-Cabinet
-Length of meeting
-Congressional leaders
-Kissinger's backgrounders for media
-J. William Fulbright
-Length
-Smith
-Democrats
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
-Kissinger's briefings
-President's note
-John A. Scali
-Anti-ballistic missiles [ABM]
-Critics
-Supporters
-Richard Wilson, William F. Buckley, William S. White
-Stewart J.O. and Joseph W. Alsop
Foreign policy
-Rogers’ trip to Middle East
-Coverage
-Haldeman's call to Rogers in London
-Berlin
-People's Republic of China [PRC] initiative
-Vietnam
-Middle East
-Rogers’ trip
-Israel
-Suez Canal
-State Department
-Golda Meir
13
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Rogers
-Kissinger's briefings
-Rogers
-SALT
-Kissinger's briefing
-President's role
-Smith's role
-Kissinger's role Conv. No. 501-7 (cont.)
-State Department role
-U. Alexis Johnson
-Attendance at SALT announcement, May 20
-Smith
-Possible meeting with Rogers
-State Department
-Rogers
-Agreement
-Smith
-Vladimir S. Semenov
-President's meeting with Rogers
-USSR reaction
-Brezhnev
-PRC initiative
-Rogers
-Knowledge
-State Department
-ACDA
-Smith
-Meeting with Rogers
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-Haldeman's call
-Meeting with President
-Dobrynin
-A phone call from Haldeman
-Forthcoming meeting
-Dobrynin
-Rogers
-Forthcoming meeting with Haldeman
-Response
-Kissinger's role
-Dobrynin
-Forthcoming meeting with Haldeman
14
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Middle East
-Rogers’ trip
-Reports
-Kissinger’s view
-Joseph J. Sisco
-Egypt
-Reports
-Kissinger's reports Conv. No. 501-7 (cont.)
-Rogers’ work
-Laos, Cambodia
-SALT
-Kissinger's briefings
-State and Defense Departments
-Recent developments
-Rogers’ trip
-Results
-USSR
-Announcement
-Rogers
-Efforts
-Vietnam
-SALT
-Laird
-Meetings with President and Kissinger
-Smith and delegation
-Meetings with Kissinger
-Reception
Kissinger left at 10:53 am.
-Congressional leaders
-Rogers
-Kissinger's and President's roles
-Rogers
-Forthcoming meeting with Haldeman
-Reports to President
-Middle East
-Kissinger
-Middle East
-Meeting with President
-Possible Summit
-SALT
15
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Kissinger's briefings
-Kissinger's role
-May 18, 1971 Sequoia Cruise
-Conversations with Haldeman
-Rogers’ role
-President's press conference
-Rogers’ trip and television appearances
-Kissinger's role Conv. No. 501-7 (cont.)
-Backgrounder
-SALT
-Kissinger's backgrounders
-Defense and State Departments
-White House
-USSR
-Rogers
-Role in SALT
-Forthcoming meeting with Haldeman
-Agreement
-President's role
-Message from San Clemente
-Rogers’ meeting with Haldeman
-Middle East
-Suez
-Rogers’ and Kissinger's roles
-USSR
-Method of negotiation
-John Foster Dulles, Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Rogers
-Forthcoming meeting with Haldeman
[Unintelligible]
The President and Haldeman left at 11:04 am.