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Start Date: 27-Jul-1971 9:05 AM

End Date: 27-Jul-1971 10:35 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")Hughes, James D. ("Don")Bull, Stephen B.

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:15:04

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:16:43

547a.mp3

547b.mp3

NARA Description:

On July 27, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, James D. ("Don") Hughes, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 9:05 am and 10:35 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 547-003 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 547-3

Date: July 27, 1971
Time: Unknown between 9:05 am and 10:35 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
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                                 Tape Subject Log
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The President's schedule
     -John B. Connally meeting
     -John N. Mitchell
     -July 28, 1971
           -Spiro T. Agnew
                 -Arrival at Andrews Air Force Base
                      -William P. Rogers
                             -White House                          Conv. No. 547-3 (cont.)
                 -Previous trips
                 -Compared to Vice President Nixon's Latin American trip during
                      Eisenhower administration
                      -John Foster Dulles
                 -Perceptions
                 -Compared to Henry A. Kissinger's arrival in San Clemente from People’s
                      Republic of China [PRC] trip
                 -Timing of arrival
                 -Purpose of Africa trip

Agnew
    -Funeral of William V.S. Tubman
    -Meeting with the President
    -Use of helicopters
          -Rogers, Melvin R. Laird
    -Trip
          -Press reaction
          -Schedule
                -Activities, conduct
                     -Golf
          -African leader’s reaction
          -Comment about Blacks
    -Relations with the Secret Service
          -Vice President's Secret Service detail
                -Relations with the President's detail
          -Secret Service

Robert S. McNamara
    -Job with World Bank
           -Candidacy
                -Connally
                -Kissinger's attitude, Rogers’ view
                -Connally’s opinion
                     -Bi-lateral relationship
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                               -Comparison with multilateral organization
               -Handling
                    -Release of Pentagon Papers
                    -Reaction
                          -Barry M. Goldwater
               -Perception

    Agnew                                                          Conv. No. 547-3 (cont.)
        -Trip abroad
        -Comparison with the President
        -Types of events, sites visited during trip
        -Arrival ceremony
              -Handling
                   -Patrick J. Buchanan
                         -Compared to Harry S. Truman's attendance at funeral of Thomas J.
                               Pendergast
        -Presidential succession
              -Agnew
                   -Franklin D. Roosevelt, Truman


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    Presidential radio speech series
         -Raymond K. Price, Jr., William L. Safire
         -Themes
               -Possible name for series
         -Frequency of speech broadcasts
         -1976 Bicentennial era
         -Safire
               -Issues covered
                     -Steel settlement, Kansas City speech
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     -Labor Day
          -Dignity of work
Pentagon Papers
     -Douglas L. Hallet
          -Duties
          -Analysis of papers
          -Future tasks
                -Charles W. Colson                          Conv. No. 547-3 (cont.)
          -Youth effort

Agnew
    -Arrival ceremony, July 28, 1971
         -President's role
    -Congressional event, July 28, 1971
    -Recommendations
         -Buchanan, John D. Ehrlichman

Polls
        -Albert E. Sindlinger
             -Analysis
                   -Ehrlichman
        -Colson's contacts
             -Louis P. Harris
             -Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
                   -Effectiveness

Economic group
    -Ehrlichman
    -Paul W. McCracken's comments in meeting
    -Connally, George P. Shultz, Peter G. Peterson, Peter M. Flanigan
    -McCracken
          -Departure from job
          -Other job possibilities
                -Federal Reserve Board
                      -Arthur F. Burns’ possible actions
          -Herbert Stein
    -Shultz's attitude towards economic situation
          -Haldeman's conversation about Edwin L. Harper's memorandum
          -Activism
                -Public perceptions
                -Presentation
    -Harper analysis
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              -Wage and price control option
                    -Public reaction
         -Establishment of group
              -Connally, Peterson, Shultz
                    -Flanigan, Colson, McCracken

    Public relations
         -Safire's efforts                                       Conv. No. 547-3 (cont.)
         -Shultz
                -Economic issues
         -Burns
                -Press coverage
         -Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Peterson, Flanigan, Connally
                -Focus of efforts
                -Pentagon Papers
                -PRC initiative
                -Presidential leadership
                -Establishment of goals
                      -White House staff
                           -Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Colson
                                  -Kissinger

    Robert H. Finch
        -Possible job
        -Office of Emergency Preparedness [OEP]
               -Reaction


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         -Business offers
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Donald H. Rumsfeld
    -Mitchell
          -Contact
          -Possible meeting with the President

Press conferences
      -Preparation of briefing book
           -Buchanan                                           Conv. No. 547-3 (cont.)
      -Scheduling
           -The President's trip to New York City
                 -Tricia Nixon Cox
      -Ronald L. Ziegler
           -Kissinger
           -Budget
           -Administration’s posture

Foreign relations
     -Effect of the US initiative towards the PRC
           -Press coverage
                 -Vietnam war
                 -New York Times article about Cambodia
                      -South Vietnam
     -PRC
     -Kevin P. Phillips
           -Analysis
           -Orientation

Radio speech preparation

Declassification effort
     -Ehrlichman
           -General Services Administration [GSA]
     -World War II era documents
           -Korean war
     -Collection of documents for the President
           -Bay of Pigs
           -Cuban missile crisis
           -Berlin
           -John F. Kennedy-Lyndon B. Johnson administration
           -Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.'s assignment
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     Agnew
         -Arrival ceremony
              -Mitchell
              -Compared to Rogers
              -Attendance by Cabinet members
                    -Rogers C. B. Morton, Rogers

     Budget                                                      Conv. No. 547-3 (cont.)
         -Approach
               -Shultz's views
               -Perception of Great Society Programs
               -Effect of cuts
                    -Congress, special interest groups
                    -Timing
                           -Forthcoming election year
                           -1973
         -Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
               -Family Assistance Program
               -Unemployment
               -Special revenue sharing
               -Symbolism
         -Job Corps
               -Shultz’s attitude

     Press coverage of President's visit to the Bohemian Grove
           -Press pool
                -Goldwater appearance precedent
                -Coverage
                -Grove members
                       -Robert B. Semple, Jr.
                -Press pool
                       -Networks, wire services
                -Press assignments
                -Ziegler

Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes entered at 10:25 am.

     Air Force One Presidential airplane
          -Name change to "Spirit of '76"
                -Lettering options
                -Handling of change
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     Wives of prisoners of war [POWs]
         -Meeting with Kissinger
         -Vigil
         -Attitude

Hughes left at 10:28 am.

     Bohemian Grove                                                Conv. No. 547-3 (cont.)
         -Presidential visit
               -Press coverage
                    -President's situation compared to Goldwater
                    -Baseball game analogy
                    -Difference from White House events
                    -Goldwater's visit
                           -Boat trip on river
                    -Ziegler
         -Presidential advance work
               -Arrangements, assignment
         -Level of handling

     McCracken
         -Contributions
         -Shultz's comments on efforts
         -Comparison with Stein
              -Effectiveness as spokesman

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:28 am.

     Alfred P. Chamie's arrival for meeting

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:35 am.

     McCracken
         -Perception of departure
               -Washington, D.C.
         -Stein
               -Burns, Connally
         -Briefings, Congressional testimony
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                                      Tape Subject Log
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     Personnel
          -President’s request for Haldeman to meet with Mitchell
                -Finch
                -Rumsfeld

     Radio speech series

Haldeman left at 10:35 am.                                          Conv. No. 547-3 (cont.)