Conversation: 562-002
Prev: 562-001 Next: 562-003Start Date: Thursday, August 12, 1971 12:58 PM
End Date: Thursday, August 12, 1971 4:15 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Kissinger, Henry A.; Ziegler, Ronald L.; Bull, Stephen B.; Sanchez, Manolo; Ehrlichman, John D.; White House operator; Connally, John B.Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:05:18
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 03:07:29
NARA Description:
On August 12, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Henry A. Kissinger, Ronald L. Ziegler, Stephen B. Bull, Manolo Sanchez, John D. Ehrlichman, White House operator, and John B. Connally met in the Oval Office of the White House from 8:58 am to 12:15 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 562-002 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 562-2
Date: August 12, 1971
Time: 8:58 am - 12:15 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
National economy
-Textiles
-Forthcoming meeting
-Haldeman's conversation with Peter M. Flanigan
-Flanigan’s location
-Maine
-Flanigan's conversation with John N. Mitchell and Peter G. Peterson
-Peterson
-Haldeman
-Henry A. Kissinger and William P. Rogers
-Views
-Mitchell
-Maurice H. Stans
-John B. Connally
-Vote
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 562-2 (cont.)
-National security clause
-Flanigan
-Mitchell
-Need for decision
-Textile industry meeting
-Peterson
-Flanigan's views
-National security clause
-Mitchell
-Harry S. Dent
-Political interest
-President’s possible role
-Peterson
-Rogers
-Takeo Fukuda
-Peterson
-Import tax and export rebate
-Automobiles
-Views
Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's schedule
-Rose Mary Woods's conversation with the President
-Forthcoming trip
-Advance work by staff
-Women
-Ronald H. Walker
-Responsibilities
-Men and women
-Mrs. Nixon
-Police, Secret Service
White House staff
-Operations
-Presentation of views
-Peterson
-Kissinger
-Options
-Peterson
National economy
-Textiles
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 562-2 (cont.)
-Mitchell's views
-Flanigan's views
-Dent
White House staff
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President’s schedule
-Reception
-White House mess
-President’s possible visit
-Dent
Mrs. Nixon
-Conversation with the President
-Gladys O’Donnell
-Staff coordination
-President’s schedule
-Haldeman
-O’Donnell
-Republican women
-Reception
-Banquet
-Schedule
-Philadelphia
-Republican women
-Reception
-President’s possible involvement
-O’Donnell
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 562-2 (cont.)
-Banquet
-President’s possible involvement
-Tricia Nixon Cox and Julie Nixon Eisenhower
Mrs. Nixon's schedule
-Constance M. Stuart
-Staff coordination
President's schedule
-Wolf Trap
-Mrs. Catherine Filene Shouse
-Haldeman
-Mrs. Nixon
-Entertainers
-White House visit
-Program
-Compared to 1970 program at Los Angeles Music Center
-Otis Chandler dinner
-Musical comedy
-Johnny Green
-Franz Lehar
-Merry Widow
-Hair
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Wolf Trap
-Mrs. Shouse
-Efforts
-Age
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 562-2 (cont.)
-Filene Center
Kissinger entered at 9:13 am.
Kissinger's schedule
-Forthcoming textile meeting
-Meeting with John D. Ehrlichman and the President
National security
-Declassification
-Ehrlichman
-Forthcoming press briefing
Kissinger's schedule
-Textile meeting
-Meeting with Ehrlichman and the President
-Peterson
-Rogers, Mitchell, Stans
National economy
-Textiles
-National security clause
-Mitchell
-Rogers
-Peterson
-Discussion with Kissinger
-Sequoia
-Comparison to Dent's views on busing
-Peterson's meeting
-David M. Kennedy
-Mitchell
-Peterson
-Stans
-President's schedule
-Political problems
-Compared to foreign policy problem
-National security clause
-Use
-Other commodities
-Steel
-Oil
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 562-2 (cont.)
-Flanigan
-Kissinger
-Meeting
National security
-Ehrlichman's forthcoming press briefing
-Classification authority
-President's papers
-Copying, debriefing
-Leaks
-News summary
-Rogers's conversation with Pakistani ambassador
-Aid to Pakistan
-Declassification
-Sources
-Current negotiations
-World War II
-Foreigners' concerns
-Domestic decisions
Kissinger’s schedule
-Ehrlichman
US-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] relations
-Forthcoming Accidental War agreement
-Gerard C. Smith
-Signing ceremony
-President’s schedule
-Intelsat
-Rogers
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-Timing
-Significance
-Signing ceremony
-Television
-President’s leadership
-Accidental War agreement
-Signing ceremony
-Rogers and Gromyko
-Television
-President
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 562-2 (cont.)
-Comparison to nuclear test
-Bon Treaty
-Nikita S. Khrushchev
-W[illiam] Averell Harriman
President's forthcoming trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Timing
President's forthcoming trip to USSR
-Timing
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with PRC officials
-Kissinger's forthcoming conversation with Dobrynin
President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Timing
-Florida primary
-New Hampshire
-Superstition
-Number 13
-Apollo 13
President's forthcoming trip to USSR
-Timing
-Dobrynin
-Urgency for date
-Conversations with Kissinger
-Pressure
-US trip to PRC
-Summit
-Kissinger’s conversation with Dobrynin
-Unknown USSR diplomat
Liberals
-Unconventional diplomacy
-USSR
-Laos
-Cambodia
-PRC
-Pentagon Papers
Pentagon Papers
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 562-2 (cont.)
-Effect on US foreign policy
-PRC
-President’s conversation with Ehrlichman
-Negotiations
-Security of communications
Presidents forthcoming trip to USSR
-Timing of announcement
Vietnam
-Press coverage
-PRC
Kissinger left at 9:29 am.
[Pause]
Mrs. Nixon's schedule
-Staff organization
-President’s possible conversation with Mrs. Nixon
-1972 election
-Helen Smith
-Press
-Lucy A. Winchester
-Social affairs
-Stuart
-Winchester
-Scheduling
-Winchester
-Traveling
-1972
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 562-2 (cont.)
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President's schedule
-Stewart J.O. Alsop
-Press conference
-George P. Shultz
-Harold C. Passer
-Department of Commerce
-Thomas E. (“Doc”) Morgan
-Rogers
-Health
-Rogers
-Liberals on Congressional Committee
-Veterans Benefit Bill
-Signing ceremony
-Gillespie V. ("Sonny") Montgomery
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-White House interns
-Arnold R. Weber
-Peterson
-Ehrlichman
-Busing
-Shultz
-White House interns
-Farewell
-Timing
-National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-Weber
Appointments
-United Nations [UN] General Assembly delegation
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 562-2 (cont.)
-President's conversation with Woods
-Gordon Scherer
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan, Alan B. Shepard, Jr., Dr. Arthur A. Fletcher
-O'Donnell
-Romana Acosta Banuelos
-Connally
-UN
-Moynihan, Shepard and Fletcher
-Scherer
-Flanigan
-Ohio
-Support for the President
-Milton R. Young
-Shepard
President's schedule
-Dinner for Japanese economic minister
-Number of guests
-Timing
-Vietnam announcement
-Kennedy Center opening
-Kennedy Center opening
-Press coverage
-Possible invitation to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
-Dinner for Japanese economic minister
-Timing
-Democrats
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Action on national economy
US foreign policy
-Kissinger
-Accomplishments
-Pride
-Vietnam
-Lt. William L. Calley, Jr.
-Press coverage
Pentagon Papers
-President's meeting with Charles W. Colson, August 11, 1971
-Democrats
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 562-2 (cont.)
-Investigations
-Appropriations
-Possible Congressional hearings
-Timing
-Vietnam elections
President's forthcoming trips to PRC and USSR
-Effect
-American public
Letter to Haldeman from unknown translator in Belgrade
-President's previous visit to Yugoslavia
-Photograph of Haldeman in Life
-Film
-Significance
-President’s contact with culture and people
-Serbo-Croatian language
-Crowds
President's foreign visits
-Effect
-Vice Presidency
-Press coverage
-Madrid, Spain
-India
-Pakistan
-Indonesia
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew's foreign visits
-Agnew's attitude
-Contact
-Leaders compared to common people
President's foreign visits
-Compared to Lyndon B. Johnson's style
-Interest in culture and people
-Effect
-PRC and USSR
-Purpose
President's Forthcoming visit to PRC
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 562-2 (cont.)
-Itinerary
-Possible contact with people
-Kissinger
-Peking
-Shanghai
-Chou En-lai
-Mao Tse-Tung
-James Reston's interview with Chou En-lai
-Mao Tse-Tung
Reston
-Kissinger's schedule
-PRC trip
-Interview with Chou En-lai
-Kissinger's interpretation
-President’s coverage
-Vietnam
-Compared to Gen. Charles A.J.M de Gaulle
-Algeria
-Troop withdrawal
-Criticism of President
-Pentagon Papers
-New York Times publication
-Vietnam
-New York Times
-Patrick J. Buchanan's note
-President's schedule
-New York Times
President's previous call to Harmon Killebrew
-White House staff
John V. Lindsay
-Change of party affiliation
-Press coverage
-Samuel W. Yorty
-George Meany
-Comment
-Unknown American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations
[AFL-CIO] in New York
-Comment
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 562-2 (cont.)
-Meany
-Comment
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9
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-Herbert L. (“Herblock”) Block's cartoon, August 12, 1971
-New York City
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National economy
-Unemployment
-Policies of Administration’s Democratic predecessors
-Vietnam
-Casualties
-John F. Kennedy
-Rate
-Johnson
-Rate
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 562-2 (cont.)
-Vietnam
-Criticism
-Herbert Stein, Paul W. McCracken
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Shultz
-Reluctance
[Pause]
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Pessimism
-White House staff
-Human nature
-Conservatives
President's schedule
-Local Republicans
-Issues
-Politics
-Rural development funds
-Busing
-Relevance to the President
Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 10:10 am.
Ziegler's forthcoming press briefing
-Ehrlichman's forthcoming press briefing
-Declassification
-Timing
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 562-2 (cont.)
-Ehrlichman
-Forthcoming press briefing
-Discussion with the President
-Busing
-Ziegler's statement
-News summary
-Philadelphia Inquirer
-J. Stanley Pottinger, Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
-Written directive
-Irish airline negotiations
-State Department
-Calls to White House
-Forthcoming announcement
-Flanigan
-Discussion with the President
-Landing rights
-New York
-Dublin
-Flanigan
-John A. (“Jack”) Mulcahy
-Forthcoming call from Ziegler
-Mulcahy
-Cambodia
-Sisowath Sirik Matak
-Statement concerning Cambodian offensive
-US air support
Ehrlichman's schedule
-Textiles meeting
President’s schedule
-Kissinger
-Ziegler
-Ehrlichman
Ziegler left at 10:15 am.
Ziegler
-Compared to Herbert G. Klein
-Press corps
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 562-2 (cont.)
Reston
-Buchanan
-Access to administration officials
-Kissinger
-New York Times
-Interview with Chou En-lai
-Kissinger
White House staff
-Optimism
-Colson
-Clark MacGregor
-Rumsfeld
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National economy
-Textiles
-Connally's views
-Politics
-National security clause
-Stans, Mitchell
-Shultz
-Flanigan
-Effect on the President
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:15 am.
Peterson's meeting
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 562-2 (cont.)
Bull left at tn unknown time before 11:25 am.
President's schedule
-Ehrlichman
-Peterson’s meeting
-Bull
-Kissinger
Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:15 am.
-Kissinger, Ehrlichman
-Peterson’s meeting
Bull left at an unknown time before 11:25 am.
Kissinger
-Meetings
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Playboy poll
-Youth's issues
-Vietnam
-Environment
Environmentalism
-As issue
-Anti-system
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Conv. No. 562-2 (cont.)
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Robert H. Finch and Rumsfeld
-Roles with administration
-Maintaining status quo
-Finch
-Mitchell’s view
-Office of Emergency Preparedness [OEP]
-Harry [Surname unknown]
OEP
-Gen. George A. Lincoln
-Flanigan
-Peterson
Peterson
-Staff
-Role with administration
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Commerce Department
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Stans
-Stans
-Mitchell
-International economic policy
Clifford M. Hardin
-Tenure in office
Locations of government offices
-Ehrlichman’s view
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 562-2 (cont.)
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-Department of Agriculture
-Kansas City
-Commerce Department
-Morton
-Denver
-Tour
-The West
Secretary of Agriculture
-Louie B. Nunn
-Requirements
-Politician
-Dirt farmer
J. Edgar Hoover
-Tenure in office
-Possible meeting with President
-Views
-Mitchell
-Ehrlichman
Hardin
Speeches
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Scenario
-Preparation
-[Richard K.?] Cook
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-Price
-Editing
-William L. Safire
-Buchanan
-Price
-Editing
-Staff
-Cook
-Rev. John J. McLaughlin
-Thomas R. Shepard, Jr.
-Speech
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 562-2 (cont.)
-Strawmen
-Possible reaction
-Radio speeches
-Reaction
-Press compared to public
-Fireside chats
-Theme
-American bicentennial
-Possible titles
Administration's programs
-Names
-Compared to previous Administrations’ programs
-Peace Corps, Job Corps, Upward Bound, Head Start
-Health program
-1972 theme
-Ehrlichman
-New American Revolution
[Break in conversation]
Education
-Peter Drucker’s article
-Birth rate
-Drop
-Teachers
-Demographics
-Age
-Baby boomers
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 10:15 am.
The President’s schedule
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:25 am.
-Education
-Teachers
-Demographics
-Age
-College graduates
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 562-2 (cont.)
-Job formation
-Capital formation
-Unemployment
-Productivity
-Shultz
-Measurement
-Blue collar compared to white collar
-Services
-Peterson's view
-Outlet for productivity
-Vietnam
-Space program
-Appliances
-Foreign trade
-Distribution
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Peterson
-Shultz
-Domestic Council
-Teachers
-Numbers
-Age
-Haldeman's children
-Saint Albans school
-Unknown person
-Quality of education
-Diagraming sentences
-Methodology
-Organization
-Creativity
-Art
-Music
-Mrs. Laura Dreyfus-Barney
-Paintings
-Technical skills
-Color
-Structure
-Methodology
-Fundamentals
President's schedule
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 562-2 (cont.)
-John F. Kennedy Center
-Leonard Bernstein's "Mass"
-Theatres
-Concert hall
-Compared to Concertebow in Amsterdam
-Design
-Compared to concert hall in Boston
-Presidential box
-Location
-Daughters of the American Revolution [DAR]
-Compared to Los Angeles theater
-Eisenhower Theater
-Unknown play
Meeting
-Length
-Peterson’s meeting
-Compared to busing meeting
-Shultz
-Mitchell
-Structure
-Peterson’s meeting
-Length
Peter H. Dominick
-Vietnam
-Views concerning PRC
President's foreign policy
-Taiwan
-Response
-The Right
-Dallas
1972 election
-President's conversation with Shultz
National economy
-Textiles
-Mitchell
-National security clause
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 562-2 (cont.)
-Steel and automobiles
-Administration bill
-Democrats
White House staff
-Dent
-Involvement
-Ehrlichman
-Dent
-Involvement
-The South
-Political discussions
-Murray M. Chotiner
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Presidential leadership
-Decision-making
-Influences
-"Palace Guard"
-Emperor Franz Josef
-President
-Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-W. Alton (“Pete”) Jones
-Kissinger’s view
-Academic training
-PRC
-USSR
-Cambodia
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 562-2 (cont.)
-Laos
-Influences
-Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-Kissinger's role
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Staff
-Big decisions compared to small ones
-Petrochemicals
-Flanigan's memo
-Details
-Staff
-Process
Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:15 am.
President's schedule
-Meeting
-Kissinger and Ehrlichman
Bull left at an unknown time before 11:25 am.
President's schedule
-Bill-signing
-Passer, Weber, Shultz
-Bill-signing
-Montgomery, Baker
-Pens
Kissinger
-Treaty signing
The President left at an unknown time after 10:15 am.
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Conv. No. 562-2 (cont.)
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The President returned at an unknown time before 11:25 am.
President’s schedule
-[Kissinger]
-Accidental War agreement
-Signing
-Intelsat
-Rogers
-Ceremonies
-Press coverage
White House facilities
-Treasury Department
-Connally
-Oval Office
-Treasury Department
-Compared to Executive Office Building [EOB]
-State Department
-Rogers’ office
-Unknown room
-Press
-Health unnit
-Story
-Athletic facilities
Unknown man
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Conv. No. 562-2 (cont.)
-Alleged criminal action
-Location
-Rehoboth
-Pentagon
Congressman William J. Scherle
-Loyalty to the President
-1966 campaign
Moynihan
-Possible party switch
-Role with administration
-Secretary of Defense
-Secretary of State
-Ambassadorship
-PRC
State Department
-Possible appointments
-Secretary of State
-Qualification
-Ambassadorships
-Kissinger
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Conv. No. 562-2 (cont.)
Agnew
-Retirement benefits
-Secret Service
-Possible employment
-Haldeman's possible conversation with Mitchell
-Future
-Politics
-Possible post
-Press
-Management
-Haldeman's possible conversation with Mitchell and Bryce N. Harlow
-Tenure in office
-Possible resignation
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-Washington Star editorial, August 11, 1971
-Newsweek
-Ambassador’s letter
-Kenya
-Gift
-Wildlife incident
Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:15 am.
President's schedule
-Kissinger
-Ehrlichman
Bull left at an unknown time before 11:25 am.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 562-2 (cont.)
Agnew
-Newsweek story
-Meeting
Kissinger and Ehrlichman entered at 11:25 am.
Ehrlichman's forthcoming press briefing
-Busing
-South Carolina case
-Shultz
-Dr. Thomas E. (“Doc”) Morgan
-Meeting
-Mitchell, Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
-Shultz
-Mitchell
Pentagon Papers
-White House response
-Political strategy
-Daniel Ellsberg
-South Vietnamese election
-Democrats' reaction
-House and Senate investigating committees
-Appropriations
-Lawrence F. O’Brien, Jr.
-Possible Congressional hearings
-South Vietnamese election
-House and Senate Armed Services Committees
-W[illiam] Averell Harriman
Ehrlichman’s forthcoming press briefing
-Declassification
-Exemptions
-Sources
-International relations
-Foreign leaders
-Britain
-Germany
-New procedure
-Press responsibility
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 562-2 (cont.)
-Possible future leaks
-Court decision
-Classification authority
-Limitation
-President’s communications
Vietnam
-Press coverage
-Effect on North Vietnam
-Ehrlichman's forthcoming press briefing
-Pentagon Papers
Ehrlichman’s forthcoming press briefing
-President's classification system
-Disclosure
-Information security
-PRC initiative
-Debriefing
-Copying
-Chou En-lai
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s view
-Disclosure of classified documents to press
-Kissinger's press backgrounders
-Leaks
-Reston
-Bureaucracy
-Ongoing negotiations
-PRC
-Possible question
-Leak
-Pentagon Papers
-State Department
-President's role in Pentagon Papers case
-Injunctions
Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 11:26 am.
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 562-2 (cont.)
-Justice Department
-Copying of classified documents
-Techniques
-President's classification system
-President’s conversation with Chiefs of State
-Need to know
-Debriefing
-State Department
-Sisowath Sirik Matak
-Need to know
-NSC
-Debriefing
India-Pakistan
-Recent meeting
-Rogers's call to Pakistani ambassador
-US policy
Declassification system
-Changes
-Ongoing negotiations
-PRC
-USSR
-Openness
-Historical information
-Foreign leaders
-British, French
-President's classification system
-Purpose
-Protecting information
-PRC
-Press
-Supreme Court decision on Pentagon Papers
Pentagon Papers
-Administration's reaction
-Press
-Democrats
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Conv. No. 562-2 (cont.)
National security
-Ehrlichman's forthcoming press briefing
Pentagon Papers
-Administration's reaction
-President’s possible involvement
-Press conference
Declassification
-Ehrlichman's forthcoming press briefing
-Progress report
-January 1971 study
-John W. Dean, III
-Historical information
-World War II
-1964-1954
-Pentagon Papers
-Prosecution for leaks
-Negotiations
-Justice Department
-President's classification system
-Past negotiations
-PRC
-Pentagon Papers
-Ongoing negotiations
-Pentagon Papers
-Press responsibility
-Compared to Administration responsibility
-Risk creation
-Intent
-Foreign leaders
-Political security
-Democrats
Ziegler left at 11:50 am.
Busing
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Conv. No. 562-2 (cont.)
National economy
-Textiles
-Memorandum for President
-Politics
-Mitchell
-National security
-Wilbur D. Mills's possible action
-Quota legislation
-US textile industry
-National security clause
-Possible administration action
-Legislation
-Mills
-National security clause
-Possible consequences
Ehrlichman left at 11:53 am.
President's schedule
-Signing of accidental war treaty
-Kissinger's conversation with Rogers
-Intelsat
-Seabed Arms Control Treaty
-Dobrynin
-Announcement
-Timing
Kissinger left at 11:54 am.
Connally
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Schedule
-Possible meeting with the President
-Telephone call
-Sidney W. Souers
-International monetary situation
-Paul A. Volcker
-President's forthcoming economic program
-Timing
-Closing gold window
-Domestic front
-Schedule
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 562-2 (cont.)
-San Antonio
-Possible meeting with the President
-Possible telephone call
-Memorandum on reserve assets
-President's forthcoming economic program
-Import tax
-Filing
-Views of Connally and the President
-Congress's schedule
Connally's schedule
-President
The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 11:54 am and
12:01 pm.
[Conversation No. 562-2A]
[See Conversation No. 7-111]
Request for a call to Connally
[End of telephone conversation]
National economy
-President's forthcoming program
-Shultz
-President's schedule, August 13, 1971
-NSC
-White House summer interns
-Parade magazine
-Photograph session
-Service secretaries
-Burns
-Kissinger's schedule
Shultz
-Duties
-Busing
-Budget
-President’s economic program
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 562-2 (cont.)
The President talked with Connally between 12:01 pm and 12:12 pm.
[Conversation No. 562-12B]
[See Conversation No. 7-112]
Connally's schedule
President's schedule
-Meeting with Connally
-Volcker
National economy
-President's forthcoming program
-Timing of announcement
-Domestic front
-International front
-Negotiating position
-Wage and price freeze
-Investment tax credit
-President's conversation with Shultz
-Congressional approval
-[Import tax]
-Legal opinion
-Wage and price freeze
-Import tax
-David M. Kennedy round of General Agreement on Tariffs
and Trade [GATT]
-Legal opinion
-Timing of announcement
-Wage and price freeze and import tax
-Congress
-Budget
-Investment tax credit
-International monetary meeting
-Possible effect
-Public psychology
-Closing gold window and floating dollar
-Timing of announcement
-Wage and price freeze and import tax
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
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Conv. No. 562-2 (cont.)
-Handling of announcement
-Connally
-Closing gold window
-The President
-Congress
-Taxes
-Timing of announcement
-Possible effect
-Shultz
-Conversation with the President
-Domestic front
-Public psychology
-Connally's schedule
-Burns
-Possible meeting with international bankers
-Import tax
[End of telephone conversation]
National economy
-Status
-Volcker's call
Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:12 pm.
President's schedule
-Passer
Bull left at an unknown time before 12:15 pm.
Volcker
National economy
-Haldeman's forthcoming conversation with Shultz
-Connally and Volcker
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Conv. No. 562-2 (cont.)
President's schedule
-Shultz
-Connally
-Wolf Trap
-Mrs. Nixon
Haldeman left at 12:15 pm.