Conversation: 564-003
Prev: 564-002 Next: 564-004Start Date: 16-Aug-1971 8:55 AM
End Date: 16-Aug-1971 10:10 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); White House operator; Haig, Alexander M., Jr.;Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:35:39
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:49:06
NARA Description:
On August 16, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, White House operator, and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the Oval Office of the White House from 8:55 am to 10:10 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 564-003 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 564-3
Date: August 16, 1971
Time: 8:55 am - 10:10 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
National economy
-President's program
-Reaction
-News summary
-George S. McGovern
-John Kenneth Galbraith
-Wilbur D. Mills
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 564-3 (cont.)
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Milton Friedman
-Budget cut
-Wage and price freeze
-White House staff
-George P. Shultz's "Today" show appearance
-Reaction
-White House staff
-Meeting at Camp David
-Possible story
-Photographs
-Text
-Distribution of story
-Life
-US News and World Report
-President's efforts
-Speech
-Photographs
-Unknown photographer [Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins]
-Arthur Burns and Shultz
-Distribution
-Paul W. McCracken
-Distribution
-Reaction
-Long-term issues
-Economic issue
-1972 election
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Peter G. Peterson's views
-Follow-up to August 15, 1971 speech
-President's possible speech
-Business Council
-Competition
-Comparison to PRC announcement
-Wage and price freeze
-PRC
-Post-Vietnam War
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 564-3 (cont.)
President's schedule
-Radio speeches
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Speechwriters
-Deadline
National economy
-President's program
-President’s efforts
-John B. Connally's role
-Possible press conference questions
-Reaction
-Congress
-Mills
-McCracken
The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 8:55 am and
9:05 am.
[Conversation No. 564-3A]
[See Conversation No. 7-153]
Request for a call to Mills
[End of telephone conversation]
National economy
-President's program
-McCracken's views
Presidency
-Showmanship
The President talked with an unknown person [Alexander M. Haig, Jr.?] at an unknown time
between 8:55 am and 9:05 am.
[Conversation No. 564-3B]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 564-3 (cont.)
Vietnam
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-News report
-Moscow
-Sweden
-Veracity
[End of telephone conversation]
National economy
-President's program
-Telephone calls
-Haig
-The President
-Burns
-Burns
-Call to White House, August 16, 1971
-Japanese foreign exchange market
-Exchange rate
-Effect on the market
-Canadian markets
-Attitude
-Publicity
-Shultz and Connally
-Reaction to gold decision
-President’s action
-August 15 speech
-Compared to press conference
-Decision-making process
-PRC
An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 8:55 am.
Delivery of memorandum
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:05 am.
President’s schedule
-California
-Henry A. Kissinger's memo to President
-Haig
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 564-3 (cont.)
-Mansfield, Jacob K. Javits, Robert C. Byrd, William Proxmire, Mills,
McGovern, Vance Hartke, American Federation of Labor-
Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO], Bank of
America
-Foreign reactions
-Great Britain
-Switzerland
-Japan
-Foreign ministry statement
-Significance of actions
-Showmanship
-Pessimism
-President’s staff
American people
-Attitude
-Friedman
-Political expectations
-Leadership and charisma
-Appearance of action
-Administration's response
-Lyndon B. Johnson
White House staff
-Quality
-Action
-Claiming credit
-Domestic Council
-Responsibility
National economy
-President's program
-Compared to PRC policy
-Compared to Johnson's Vietnam policy
The White House operator talked with the President at 9:05 am.
[Conversation No. 564-3C]
[See Conversation No. 7-154]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 564-3 (cont.)
[End of telephone conversation]
National economy
-President's program
-President's policy toward PRC
-Haldeman’s comments at Camp David
-Leadership
Presidency
-Administration public relations points
-Leadership
-Boldness, courage
-“World leader for peace”
-“Personal family man”
-Character, decency
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-First family
-Prosperity without war and inflation
-Crime and drugs
-Environment
-Youth
-Parks
-Administration action
-Voluntary action
-Right to read program
-President’s possible involvement
-Educational television
-Clinics
-Tutoring
-Opposition by media
-Possible Administration response
Democrats
-Possible Republican attacks
-President's conversation with Charles W. Colson, August 15, 1971
-Robert J. Dole
-Barry M. Goldwater
-House of Representatives
-Dole
-News summary
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 564-3 (cont.)
-Television
-Attacks on President's economic program
-Press coverage
-Proxmire's comments on "Face the Nation", August 15, 1971
-Possible attacks on President's economic program
-Welfare reform
-Postponement
-Effect on poor
-Congress
-Daniel P. Moynihan
-Revenue-sharing
-Postponement
National economy
-President's program
-Federal employees
-Postponement of pay raises and personnel cut
-Possible national reaction
-Foreign aid
-Cut
-Budget
-Housing and Urban Development [HUD], Health, Education and Welfare
[HEW], Transportation
-Treasury
-Justice
-Anti-trust division
-State
-Defense
-Domestic Council
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Office of Science and Technology
-Environmental Protection Agency [EPA]
-Environment Council
Environment
-News story concerning White House pressure on William D. Ruckelshaus
National economy
-President's program
-Anti-trust laws
-Peterson
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 564-3 (cont.)
-John N. Mitchell
President's schedule
-Cabinet
-Agenda
-President’s possible participation
-Connally
-Forthcoming press conference
-Length
-George W. Romney
-Call to James D. Hodgson
National economy
-President's program
-President's conversation with Pierre Rinfret, August 15, 1971
-Investment tax credit
-Reaction by businessmen
-Colson
-Confusion with job development credit
-Possible action
-Machine tools
-Peterson's views
-Productivity
Appointments
-Peterson
-Shultz's conversation with John D. Ehrlichman
-Balance of payments problem
-Office of Emergency Preparedness [OEP]
-Bell and Howell
-Arnold R. Weber
-Weber's wife
-Chicago
President's economic program
-Staff reaction
-PRC
-Economy
-Publicity
-Staff responsibility
-Haldeman
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 564-3 (cont.)
-Camp David meeting
-Non-press events
-Business-Consumer Council
-Girls Nation
-Business-Consumer Council
-Peterson
-Herbert G. Klein, Richard A. Moore and Colson
-Colson's staff
-DeVan L. Shumway
-Power of presidency
-Television
-Television
-Effect on staff thinking
-Ripple effect
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-News media
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Use by Democrats
-Birch E. Bayh, Jr.
-Image of the President
-Reaction
-McGovern
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-Income tax exemptions
-Effect on budget
-Timing of announcement
-Democrats
Administration public relations
-Forthcoming announcement of President’s trip to Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics [USSR]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 564-3 (cont.)
-Kissinger’s trip to PRC
-President’s forthcoming trips to PRC and USSR
-Timing
-Possible crisis in 1972
Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Recent telephone call
-Ehrlichman
-President’s recent speech
-President’s schedule
-New York
-Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Revenue sharing
-President’s schedule
-Ehrlichman
-Reagan
-Mitchell
-Possible breakfast
-Possible call by President
-President's schedule
-New York
-Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
National economy
-President's speech, August 15, 1971
-Reaction
-Public understanding
-President's conversation with [Dwight] David, II and Julie
Eisenhower
-Vietnam
-Haldeman's conversation with his wife
-Preparation
-William L. Safire
-Delivery
-Preparation
-Writing
-Reaction
-Calls to White House
-Adjectives
-Program compared to speech
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 564-3 (cont.)
-Arthur M. Wood of Sears
-Taft Schreiber
-Robert Baldwin of Morgan, Stanley
-Eugene Black
-Japan
-Europe
-John Clark [?] of Los Angeles
-Emotional aspect
President's speeches
-Delivery
-Teleprompter
-August 15, 1971 speech
-Quality of television coverage
-William H. Carruthers's comments
-Clothing
-Communication
-Form of address
-Delivery
-Ad libs
-New York Times
Rhetoric
-Form of address
-Carruthers
-Conclusion
-August 15, 1971
-Theme
-America’s past compared to future
President's schedule
-Rockefeller
The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:05 am and
10:01 am.
[Conversation No. 564-3D]
[See Conversation No. 7-155]
[End of telephone conversation]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 564-3 (cont.)
President's schedule
-Oakland A's
-Bob Elston
-Vida Blue
-Charles O. Finley
-Elston
-Blue
-Washington Senators
-Chicago White Sox
-Elston
-Kansas City
-Blue
-Rockefeller
-Mitchell
National economy
-President's speech, August 15, 1971
-Preparation
-Treasury Department draft
-Safire
-Delivery
-Safire
President's schedule
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The President left the room at an unknown time after 9:05 am.
The White House operator talked with Haldeman at an unknown time between 9:05 am and
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 564-3 (cont.)
10:01 am.
[Conversation No. 564-3E]
[See Conversation No. 7-156]
[End of telephone conversation]
The President entered the room at an unknown time before 10:01 am.
The President talked with Rockefeller between 10:01 am and 10:10 am.
[Conversation No. 564-3F]
[See Conversation No. 7-157; two items have been withdrawn from the conversation]
The President conferred with Haldeman at an unknown time during the telephone conversation.
[End of telephone conversation]
President's schedule
-Cabinet meeting
-Introduction
The President and Haldeman left at 10:10 am.