Conversation: 504-008
Prev: 504-007 Next: 504-009Start Date: Thursday, May 27, 1971 4:10 PM
End Date: Thursday, May 27, 1971 5:00 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Kissinger, Henry A.; Bull, Stephen B.; Butterfield, Alexander P.Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:18:50
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 03:05:06
NARA Description:
On May 27, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Henry A. Kissinger, Stephen B. Bull, and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:10 pm to 1:00 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 504-008 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 504-8
Date: May 27, 1971
Time: 12:10 pm - 1:00 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
Malik Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Saud’s visit
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SAUDI ARABIA
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-Possible impact of recent meeting on US Jews
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Visits by Heads of State
-Blair House use
-Haldeman call Wiliam P. Rogers
-Anastasio Somoza Debayle
-Expense
-Food
-Refreshments
-Military responsibilities
-Gen. James S. (“Don”) Hughes
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Hughes
-Military District of Washington unit
-State visits
-President's appreciation
-Possible letter to Moorer
-Appreciation
-Washington, DC
-Public impression
-Crowd size
-King Faisal [?]
-Somoza's visit
-Value of meetings
-Political impact
-Time required
-Blair House
-Africans
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-Instructions to Haldeman
-President’s note to Hughes
Presidential press conference
-Scheduling
-Congress
-Bureaucracy
Peter G. Peterson Conv. No. 504-8 (cont.)
-Economic presentation to bipartisan leadership
-President's attendance
-Reception
-Schedule
-Date
-Location of presentation
-Number of attendees
-Attendees
President's schedule
-Rose Mary Woods
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-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield, Carl B. Albert
-Vietnam
-Robert S. Elegant
-Los Angeles Times
-President’s possible meeting
-Elegant’s location
-Chalmers Roberts
-Wiliam S. White
-Charles E. Wilson
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-Meeting with President
-Unions
-Anti-trust laws
-Meeting with Peter M. Flanigan
-President to meet with Spiro T. Agnew
-Trip to Korea
-Henry A. Kissinger
-John N. Mitchell Conv. No. 504-8 (cont.)
-Dr. [Edward] Zigler to meet with President
-Final report of White House Conference on Children
-Businessmen's dinner
-Maurice H. Stans dinner
-W. Clement Stone dinner
-National Association of Businessmen [NAB]
-Business council
-Peterson
-Briefing
-Dinner
-Timing
-Clark MacGregor's recommendation
-President to meet with Republican regulars
-House conservatives
-Samuel L. Devine
-Daniel H. Kuykendall
-Birchers
-House loyalists
-Kuykendall task force
-Devine
-Bill Archer
-Page Belcher
-William G. Bray
-J. Herbert Burke
-John N. (“Happy) Camp
-Don H. Clausen and Delwin Clawson
-George Collins
-Philip M. Crane
-Edward J. Derwinski
-John H. Duncan
-MacGregor
-Senate candidates
-Meeting with President
-William B. Saxbe
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-Kuykendall
-Invitation from Melvin R. Laird
-Somoza dinner
-Camp David
-Farewell call of Danish Ambassador
-Meeting with unknown woman
-Unknown man
Conv. No. 504-8 (cont.)
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-National merit scholars
-Agnew
-President's previous meeting, 1970
-High school students
-18 year old vote
-Location of Agnew’s forthcoming meeting
-Blair House
Mitchell
Youth vote
-Identification with youth
-Old folks
-National merit scholars
President's schedule
-President's possible appearance
-New Hampshire General Court
-Robert C. Hill
-Peterson
-President's possible visit to New Hampshire
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-Maine
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[Duration: 14s ] Conv. No. 504-8 (cont.)
PROTECTION OF THE PRESIDENT
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-President's visit to Maine
-President's visit to New Hampshire
-Legislature
-Cancer research center
-Federal grant
-Dartmouth University
-Commencement
-Summer session
-Medical school
-Manchester
-Primary
-Memos to Haldeman
-Jeffrey Bell
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Kevin P. Phillips
-Primary
-Primary states
-Oregon
-Wisconsin
-Nebraska
-New Hampshire
-President’s possible visit
-Dreyfuss Island
-Reception
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-Hill
-Summer resorts
-Maine
-Dreyfuss Island
-Chadd's Ford, Pennsylvania museum opening
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Wyeth family
-Pennsylvania Conv. No. 504-8 (cont.)
-American Medical Association [AMA]
-40,000 doctors in Atlantic City
-Cancer
-Political impact
-Edward L. Morgan
-Health speech
-June 21-22, 1971
-California
-California
-Mitchell
Kissinger entered at 12:40 pm.
Vietnam
-Nguyen Van Thieu
President's schedule
-California
-Thieu
-Meetings
-Goals meeting
-Thieu
-Fourth of July weekend
-Honor America
-Champaign, Illinois
-University
-Possible festivities
-Inspirational speech
-California
-Midway
-Congress
-AMA
-California
-AMA
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-Possible reception
Haldeman left at an unknown time before 1:00 pm.
US relations with Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-President's meeting with William P. Rogers
-Balance of force reductions
-Chinese representation Conv. No. 504-8 (cont.)
-Balance of force reductions
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-Forthcoming National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-Rogers
-Europeans
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Discussion with USSR
-September
-Kissinger Meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Letter
-Rogers
-Cut in forces
-Laird
Two Chinas issue
-US strategy
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] and Taiwan, Republic of China [ROC]
-Chinese nationalists
-Taiwan
-United Nations [UN] Security Council Seat
-Robert D. Murphy
-UN Security Council Seat
-British
-Rogers
-Forthcoming consultations
-Status of decision making
-Consensus
-Chinese
-Rogers
-Politics
-Eastern newspapers
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CHINA Conv. No. 504-8 (cont.)
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-Unknown person’s views
-US peace posture
-Senate
-Kissinger’s view
-Existing policy
-United Nations [UN]
-Rogers
-PRC
-Taiwan
-Possible consequences of US policy shift
-Joseph W. Alsop
-Asia
-Africa
-Middle East
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CHINA
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-Peking
-President’s possible visit
-Rogers
-Non-committal position
-UN Security Council Seat
-Credentials issue Conv. No. 504-8 (cont.)
-US veto
-Majority
-Issues
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CHINA
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-Representation
-PRC, Taiwan
-Security Council
-George H.W. Bush
-State Department
Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions [MBFR]
-Timing
-NSC meeting
-Laird
-Rogers
-Andrew J. Goodpaster
Two Chinas issue
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-Consultation with allies
-British
-Australians
-USSR
-Kissinger's memo to the President
-Dobrynin's comments to Kissinger
-Consequences for USSR
-PRC in UN Conv. No. 504-8 (cont.)
-USSR
-Chinese revolution
-Harold Lee
-Mao Tse Tung
-Ho Chi Minh
-Josef V. Stalin
-PRC compared to USSR
-Communist Country
-Communist Party
-Army
-Taiwan
-Changing US policy
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CHINA
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-Possible PRC reaction
-Seat in Security Council
-US present policy
-Taiwan
-Peking
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Stephen B. Bull enters at an unknown time after 12:40 pm.
President's schedule
-King Faisal
Agnew
-Rogers Conv. No. 504-8 (cont.)
President’s schedule
-King Faisal
Kissinger and Bull left and Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 1:00 pm.
Kissinger
The President and Butterfield left at 1:00 pm.