Conversation: 507-004
Prev: 507-003 Next: 507-005Start Date: Saturday, May 29, 1971 12:13 PM
End Date: Saturday, May 29, 1971 2:32 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Kissinger, Henry A.; Sanchez, Manolo; White House operator; Rockefeller, Nelson A.Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:08:32
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:27:51
NARA Description:
On May 29, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Henry A. Kissinger, Manolo Sanchez, White House operator, and Nelson A. Rockefeller met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 8:13 am and 10:32 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 507-004 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 507-4
Date: May 29, 1971
Time: Unknown between 8:13 am and 10:32 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
Bodies in Yuba City
-Victims described
-Itinerant workers
-Machete
-Unnamed killer
News coverage
-Domestic
-International
Middle East
-Soviet Union
-Henry A. Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
-Anwar el-Sadat
-Arabs
-Possibility of war
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Jews
1972 Elections
-Jews
-Quakers
-Kissinger
-Memoranda
-Rogers
Kissinger entered at 9:08 am.
President's schedule
-John D. Ehrlichman
-George P. Shultz
-President's possible telephone call
-Ehrlichman
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
Haldeman left at an unknown time before 10:32 am.
Kissinger's meeting
Kissinger's travel
-Cable from [David] Kenneth Rush
-North Vietnamese
-W. Averell Harriman
-David K.E. Bruce
-Claude Sainteny
Berlin Agreement
-Cable from Rush
-Negotiations
-Time
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Soviets
-East Germany
-Soviets
-Berlin
-Access
-Rush
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 9:08 am.
The President left at an unknown time before 10:32 am.
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:32 am.
The President entered at an unknown time after 9:08 am.
Latin America
-Brazil
-Fisheries question
-Law of the Seas Conv. No. 507-4 (cont.)
-200 Mile Limit
-State Department
-Defense Department
-Negotiations
-Possible effect
-Navigation
-Fisheries
-Kissinger's recommendations
Vietnam negotiations
-President's statement
-Historical record
-US offer
-Wording of statement
-Negotiating stance
-Political and military issues
-Wording of statement
-Terminal date
-Infiltration
-Withdrawal
-Laos
-Cambodia
-Ceasefire
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Negotiating stance
-President's meeting with Nikita S. Khrushchev
-State Department suggestions
-Negotiating stance
-Wording
-President’s position
-North Vietnamese
-Kissinger’s conversation with Dobrynin [?]
-POWs
-Ceasefire
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-US troop withdrawal
-Election
-Bombing
-Deadline
-Timing
-POWs
-Ceasefire
-Ground forces Conv. No. 507-4 (cont.)
-Timing
-Air support
-Thailand
-North Vietnamese
-Ground forces
-POWs
-Infiltration
-Ceasefire
-POWs
-Bombing
-International supervision
-Cambodia
-Laos
-Prospects for 1972
-Southeast Asia
-Kissinger’s assessment
-Democrats
-Communists
-Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam
-US troop withdrawal
-Melvin R. Laird's testimony
-Rogers
-Kissinger's directives
-Vietnamization
News reports
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-News summary
-Human Events
-National Review
-New Republic
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-POW issue
-Communist
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
Soviet Union
-Vladimir S. Semenov
-Hot Line argument
-Berlin agreement
-Summit
-Berlin agreement
-Willy Brandt, Rush Conv. No. 507-4 (cont.)
-The President's and Kissinger's meeting with Brandt
-Dobrynin
-Cuba
-Presence of Soviet Nuclear submarine in Cienfuegos
-Press conference
-Possible questions
-The President’s response
People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Polls
-Admittance to United Nations [UN]
-Two-China Policy
-Admission
-Expulsion
-Taiwan, Republic of China
-PRC reaction
-Question of independent government
-Taiwan
-State Department
-Rogers
-Marshall Green
-George H.W. Bush
-Timing
Vietnam
-Nguyen Van Thieu meeting
-US peace proposal
-Deadline
-Presidential statement
-Ceasefire
-POWs
-US withdrawal
-Communists
-Negotiations
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Tape Subject Log
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-Soviet-Chinese relations
Soviet Union
-Antiballistic Missile [ABM]
-Communique
-Manipulation of the US press
-New Republic article
-SALT Conv. No. 507-4 (cont.)
-Possible US-Soviet Summit
-SALT
-Accidental War Agreement
Soviet Union
-SALT
-Vienna
-Moscow
-Summit
-1972 election
-Democrats
-Irresponsibility of candidates
-Radicals
-Eastern Establishment
-SALT
-ABM Agreement
-Offensive weapons
News media
-Communists
-Approach to administration
-Joseph W. and Stewart J.O. Alsop
-Kissinger's dinner
-Stewart Alsop
-Poll of Democrat candidates
-Vietnam
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Support for SALT
-Marquis Childs
-David Brinkley
-Clark MacGregor
-John Sherman Cooper
Berlin
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Negotiations
-Timing of settlement
President’s schedule
-Rush
-Work
-Foreign Service
-Possible future position Conv. No. 507-4 (cont.)
-Loyalty
-John B. Connally
-Warren E. Burger
-Trip to England
-Burger
-Edward R.G. Heath
-British industry
-Henry Ford II
-British automobiles
-Germany and France
US industry
-Ralph Nader
-McCarthyism
Nelson A. Rockefeller
[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:08 am and
10:00 am]
[Conversation No. 507-4A]
[See Conversation No. 3-190]
[End of telephone conversation]
John V. Lindsay
-Rockefeller
-Housing
-New York City
-Compared to Paris
-Compared to the Kennedys
American educational system
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Study of political science
-Development of leadership
-British public school system
-PRC
-Soviet Union
-Israelis
-Compared to American Jews
-Soviet system Conv. No. 507-4 (cont.)
-British system
-Winston S. Churchill
Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 9:08 am.
[The President talked with Rockefeller between 10:00 am and 10:06 am]
[Conversation No. 507-4B]
[See Conversation No. 3-191]
[End of telephone conversation]
Police brutality
-New York City
Lindsay
-Rockefeller
Education
-Character
Military history
-World War I
-Compared to Laos operation (Lam Son)
-March 21, 1918
-Marne Battle
-Casualties
-Erich F.W. Luddendorf
-Churchill
-Italy
-Battle of Caparetto
-British
-Field Marshall Sir William(?) Robertson
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Laos
-Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Douglas Macarthur
-Strategy
-World War II
-Korea
-Yalu
-PRC Conv. No. 507-4 (cont.)
-Effect on Asian history
-Vietnam
-Soviets
-Dean G. Acheson
-World War I
-British General, Hubert de la Poer Gough
-German mistakes
Laos
-American television
-Public opinion
-Strategic impact
-Casualties
-Intelligence
-Inaccuracy
-The President’s view
-Cambodia
-Abrams
-Compared to the Battle of the Bulge
-Compared to Verdun
-Military history
-Marshal Ferdinand Foch
-Gen. Magnin
-Gen. Gourand
Charles A.J.M. De Gaulle
-Anecdote regarding Jacqueline Kennedy
-John F. Kennedy
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Algeria
-Kennedy
US
-Economics
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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-Nixon presidency
-Effect on foreign policy
-Hubert H. Humphrey as President
-Other Republicans
-George W. Romney
-Eric Sevareid
-Rockefeller
-Policies Conv. No. 507-4 (cont.)
-Wife
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Rockefeller
-John W. Gardner
-Reagan
-Policy toward Europe
-Compared with other Republicans
-International leaders
-View of the President
-New conservatives
-Reagan
-President’s view
President’s foreign policy
-Berlin
-SALT
-PRC
-Summit
-Europe
-Vietnam
-Berlin
-Brandt
-Harriman's talk with Kissinger
-Vietnam
-Berlin
-Difficulty of presenting issues
-Berlin
-Brandt
-Possibility of Western Summit
Laird
-Kenneth E. BeLieu appointment
Kissinger
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Trip
-Schedule
Haldeman and Kissinger left at 10:32 am.
Conversation
Conv. No. 507-4
No.(cont.)
507-5
Date: May 29, 1971
Time: Unknown between 10:32 am and 10:48 am
Location: Oval Office
The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman [?].
Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Rent issue
-New York’s city budget
-John V. Lindsay
-Police
-Ehrlichman's call
-Direct assistance
-Police
-Revenue sharing