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Conversation: 506-010

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Start Date: 28-May-1971 12:40 PM

End Date: 28-May-1971 1:17 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")Sanchez, Manolo

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:37:59

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:06:03

506a.mp3

506b.mp3

NARA Description:

On May 28, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and Manolo Sanchez met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:40 pm to 1:17 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 506-010 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 506-10

Date: May 28, 1971
Time: 12:40 pm - 1:17 pm                                            Conv. No. 506-8 (cont.)
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

     President's schedule
          -James D. ("Don") Hughes
                 -Military ceremonies
                 -Letter to Melvin R. Laird
                       -Thomas H. Moorer
                       -Military District of Washington, D.C.

     Unknown person
         -Karl E. Mundt
         -Bryce N. Harlow
         -Hyde Murray
         -[Unknown first name] Callum [?]
         -John N. Mitchell
         -John C. Whitaker
         -Harry S. Dent

     Mundt
         -Health
         -Senate seat

     President's schedule
          -California
                 -Frederick L. Hovde dinner
                      -Timing
          -Indianapolis
          -California
                 -Timing
          -Midway Island
                 -Timing
                 -Meeting with Nguyen Van Thieu
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                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                 Tape Subject Log
                                    (rev. 9/08)



     -California
           -Timing
           -Productivity Council meeting
     -Budget meetings
     -July 4th
     -Florida
     -Hovde dinner
     -California
     -American Medical Association [AMA] convention
           -Timing
           -New Jersey
     -Maine
           -Bangor
           -Rockport
           -Travel
     -New Hampshire
           -Portsmouth
     -Maine
           -Weather
           -Logistics
           -Lodgings
     -Tricia Nixon Cox's wedding
     -Willy Brandt dinner
     -Rochester
           -Timing
           -Senate
           -House
     -Maine
     -New Hampshire
     -AMA convention
           -New Jersey

Foreign Head of State visits
     -Blair House
           -Malik Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Saud [King Faisal]
           -Anastasio Somoza Debayle

President's schedule
     -Maine
     -Portsmouth
     -Rochester
     -Helicopter travel compared to airplane travel
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                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                Tape Subject Log
                                   (rev. 9/08)



     -Portsmouth
           -Local press
     -Rochester
           -National press
     -AMA convention
           -Health proposals
           -Daughters of the American Revolution [DAR]
           -Doctors                                        Conv. No. 506-10 (cont.)
           -Speech draft
     -West Point
           -Speech draft
                -Length
                -The President's editing

Jack [surname unknown]
      -Federal Council for the Humanities
      -Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]

President's schedule
     -AMA convention
     -Portsmouth
     -Maine
            -Bangor
                  -Edmund S. Muskie
     -Hovde dinner
     -Chicago
            -Milk producers
                  -Timing
     -Hovde dinner
     -Ohio
            -Automobile testing
            -Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
            -Senators
     -Hovde dinner
            -Purdue University
            -Crowd
            -Pictures
            -Press
     -California
     -Midway Island
            -Timing
     -Productivity Council meeting
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                           NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                       Tape Subject Log
                                          (rev. 9/08)




     Radio speeches
          -Raymond K. Price, Jr.
                -Flag Day
          -Peter G. Peterson
                -July 4th
          -Economy
          -Drugs                                                   Conv. No. 506-10 (cont.)
                -Television alternative
                      -Arthur G. Linkletter
                           -Draft
          -Future of US

     Patrick Cardinal O'Boyle
           -President's call

     Arts Council
          -Henry A. Kissinger
          -Leonard Garment
               -Constituencies
          -The President’s speeches
               -Anecdotes
               -Rhetoric
               -Compared to Lyndon B. Johnson
               -Price

     President's schedule
          -Post Office
                 -Winton M. (“Red”) Blount
                      -July 4th
          -July 4th
                 -Champlain, Illinois
                      -University of Illinois
          -Honor America Day
          -Evening at the White House
                 -Celebrities

An unknown person [Manolo Sanchez ?] entered at an unknown time after 12:40 pm.

     Delivery

The unknown person [Sanchez ?] left at an unknown time before 1:17 pm.
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                            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                       Tape Subject Log
                                          (rev. 9/08)




     Polls
             -People's Republic of China [PRC]
                  -United Nations [UN]
                  -Louis P. Harris
                  -George H. Gallup
                        -Percentages
                  -Harris                                            Conv. No. 506-10 (cont.)
             -PRC initiative
                  -Republicans
                        -Percentages
                  -Democrats
                        -Percentages
             -Gallup
                  -Republicans

     President's schedule
          -Call to William P. Rogers
                 -Polls

The President and Haldeman left at 1:17 pm.