Conversation: 560-004
Prev: 560-003 Next: 560-005Start Date: Tuesday, August 10, 1971 9:45 PM
End Date: Tuesday, August 10, 1971 10:00 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.; Flanigan, Peter M.; Butterfield, Alexander P.Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:28:25
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:44:15
NARA Description:
On August 10, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Stephen B. Bull, Peter M. Flanigan, and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House from 5:45 pm to 6:00 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 560-004 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 560-4
Date: August 10, 1971
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 560-3 (cont.)
Time: 5:45 pm - 6:00 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Stephen B. Bull and Peter M. Flanigan.
Alexander P. Butterfield
Bull left at 5:45 pm.
Ambassadorships
Butterfield entered and left at 5:45 pm.
-Appointees
Ambassadorships
-Appointees
-State Department recommendations
-William P. Rogers
Ambassadorships
-Appointees
-[Robert P.?] Griffin
-Wire to Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Brother
-Trustees
Petrochemicals
-Administration’s options
-Cabinet Task Force recommendations
-George P. Shultz
-Maurice H. Stans
-Oil Policy Council
-Oil producers' views
-Lockheed vote
-Administration's promise
-Oil producers’ view
-Supplies
-Plants
-Option One
-Views of Department of Defense [DOD], Department of Interior, Gen.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 560-4 (cont.)
George A. Lincoln, Clark MacGregor
-Option Two
-Views of Stans, John N. Mitchell, Department of State, Council of Economic
Advisers [CEA], Flanigan
-Impact on oil companies
-Compared to Option One
-Flanigan’s discussion with Congress
-Lockheed vote
-John B. Connally's role
-William V. Roth, Jr.
-President's call to [Thomas] Hale Boggs
-Flanigan's possible conversation with Connally
-Roth
-Industry views
-Robert P. Griffin's views
-Oil producers' views and motives
-Prices
-Inflation
Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:45 pm.
President's schedule
-Shultz
Bull left at an unknown time before 6:00 pm.
Petrochemicals
-Oil producers' views and motives
-Clifford P, Hansen [?]
-Oil prices
-Rigs
-Inflation
-Administration’s options
-Timing of decision
-Flanigan's possible call to Connally
-Oil producers
-Tariffs compared to quotas
-Mitchell's views
-Oil industry compared to Senators
-Balance of payments, exports
-President’s view
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 560-4 (cont.)
-Flanigan’s possible call to Connally
-Flanigan's possible call to Connally
-Option Two
-President’s view
-Treasury Department
-Connally's possible calls
-MacGregor's views
-Henry L. Bellmon, John G. Tower, Hansen
-Option One
-Politics
-Roth
-Balance of payments
-Conversation with Flanigan
International trade
-Textiles
-National security clause
-Comparison to Dwight D. Eisenhower and oil
-Possible impact
-Steel, electronics industries
-Rogers' conversation with Flanigan
-Peter G. Peterson
-Rogers' views
-Takeo Fukuda
-Forthcoming visit to US
-Timing
-Possible negotiations with Fukuda
-Eisaku Sato
-Possible agreement
-Parameters
-Ambassador [Nobuhiko Ushiba]
-Connally
-David Kennedy's views
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Duration
-Cotton Textile Agreement
-Textile industry
-National Security clause
-Political aspect
-Okinawa
-Tariff Commission Act
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 560-4 (cont.)
-Quotas
-Peterson
-Quotas
-Flanigan’s view
-Bill
-Mills
-Escape clause
-Rogers' possible negotiations with Fukuda
-Possible agreement
-Duration
-Possible quota bill
-Peterson
-National Security clause
-Views of Stans, Connally, Mitchell
-Views of Henry A. Kissinger, Rogers, Shultz
-Possible effect
-Rogers’ forthcoming talk with the President
-Decision
-Timing
-Quotas
-Mills
Ambassadorships
Flanigan left and Stephen B. Bull entered at 6:00 pm.