Conversation: 556-005
Prev:  556-004 Next: 556-006Start Date: 6-Aug-1971 11:39 AM
End Date: 6-Aug-1971 12:02 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Arends, Leslie C.; Ford, Gerald R.; Griffin, Robert P.; Scott, Hugh; Timmons, William E.; White House photographer; Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:14:32
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:47:30
NARA Description:
On August 6, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Leslie C. Arends, Gerald R. Ford, Robert P. Griffin, Hugh Scott, William E. Timmons, and White House photographer met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:39 am to 12:02 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 556-005 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 556-5 Date: August 6, 1971 Time: 11:39 am - 12:02 pm Location: Oval Office The President met with Leslie C. Arends, Gerald R. Ford, Robert P. Griffin, Hugh Scott, and William E. Timmons; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting. [Rudolph A. Peterson] -United Nations [UN] Press Congressional session -President’s appreciation John B. Connally -Recent press conference -Comments -President’s opening to People’s Republic of China [PRC] Instructions for griffin -Automobile industry -Prices -Taxes -Need for Congressional cooperation -Wilbur D. Mills -Discussion with the President and Connally -Foreign competition -Budget -Charles E. Chamberlain [Photograph session] -Unknown person’s trip to New Orleans Economy -Possible actions -Political effect -Republican National Committee [RNC] -Meeting with Senators 15 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 556-5 (cont.) -President’s press conference -Possible action -Effect -Business and labor -Enforcement -Analogy to Office of Price Administration [OPA] -Arthur F. Burns -Retail sales figures -Home sales -Unemployment rate -Full-time workers -Part-time workers -Michigan, California, Illinois, Ohio -Gordon L. Allott -Draft -Time limitation -Bill -Cloture -Timing Congressional action -Michael J. Mansfield -Appropriation bill -Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW] -Employment -House Resolution [H R] 1 -Family assistance -Campaign spending bill -Jurisdictional dispute -Interstate Commerce, House Administration, Ways and Means Committees -Carl B. Albert, Harley O. Staggers, Mills, Wayne L. Hays -Bill -Interstate US concerns -President's trip throughout country -Ohio and New York -Generation of peace theme -Public reception -Vietnam 16 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 556-5 (cont.) -Casualties -Current figure compared to previous one -President’s recent press conference -Unemployment -Relationship to Vietnam War -Economy -Foreign policy -Pentagon Papers -Effect on PRC trip -Henry A. Kissinger's role -Need to maintain secrecy -Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] -Great Britain -France -Japan -Okinawa -Negotiations -Confidentiality -Foreign visitors -Senate -Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] -Berlin -Vietnam -PRC -Press -PRC -Lawyer-client privilege Scott’s forthcoming trip to USSR -Possible meeting with Aleksei N. Kosygin -President’s recommendations -PRC -Confidentiality of channels -State Department -SALT -Berlin -Mutual and balanced force reductions -President’s possible visit to USSR -PRC Foreign policy 17 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 556-5 (cont.) -The President’s record compared to previous administrations -Franklin D. Roosevelt -Goals -Timing -Griffin’s campaign -Vietnam -Economy -Employment Economy -Employment -Survey -Public opinion -Foreign policy compared to domestic policy Foreign policy -Vietnam war policy -Public support -PRC -Public support -Recommendations for Congressional speeches -Vietnam -PRC -Taiwan -United Nations [UN] -US goal -Averting threat to peace -Long-term benefit Economy -Inflation -Unemmployment -Administration’s intention to act -President’s recent press conference -Connally -Contact with Congressmen -Automobile sales -Trade -Most Favored Nation [MFN] status -Romania and Bulgaria -Vietnam War -Romania 18 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 556-5 (cont.) -Nicolae Ceausescu -Bulgaria -East-West trade -Vietnam War Kama River truck plan contract with Mack Trucks, Inc. -Kissinger -President’s approval -Peters G. Peterson -USSR -Middle East -Kissinger's briefing -Griffin, Ford, and Arends Gift -Golf balls Arends and Timmons left at 11:59 am. HEW appropriation bill Busing -Administration's position -Blacks Lockheed vote -William V. Roth, Jr. and J. Caleb Boggs -Connally -President's call to Boggs -Clark MacGregor -Peter M. Flanigan -Dow chemical Ford, Griffin, and Scott left at 12:02 pm.