Conversation: 566-018
Prev: 566-017 Next: 566-019Start Date: Tuesday, August 17, 1971 7:26 PM
End Date: Tuesday, August 17, 1971 8:30 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); White House operator; Butterfield, Alexander P.Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 03:26:07
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 03:44:37
NARA Description:
On August 17, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, White House operator, and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 3:26 pm and 4:30 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 566-018 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 566-18
Date: August 17, 1971
Time: Unknown after 3:26 pm until 4:30 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
National economy
-Stock market
-Volume of trading
The President talked with the White House operator at 4:12 pm.
[Conversation No. 566-18A]
[See Conversation No. 8-26]
[End of telephone conversation]
National economy
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Conv. No. 566-18 (cont.)
-Stock market
-Volume of trading
President's speeches
-Importance
-Preparation
-Informal comments with statement
-Importance
-Public attention
-Knights of Columbus
-Preparation
The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 4:12 pm and
4:20 pm.
[Conversation No. 556-18B]
[See Conversation No. 8-27]
[End of telephone conversation]
Connally's schedule
-Meeting in Roosevelt Room
President's speeches
President's schedule
-Connally
-Barber
Haldeman left the room at an unknown time after 4:12 pm.
Haldeman entered the room at an unknown time before 4:20 pm.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 566-18 (cont.)
President's speeches
-Preparation
-Milk producers
-Audience
-Size
Alexander Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 4:12 pm.
Connally's schedule
-Cost of Living Council [COLC] meeting
Butterfield left at an unknown time before 4:20 pm.
President's schedule
-Possible call to Connally
-National economy
-President’s program
-Republicans
President's forthcoming speeches
-Distribution to press
-Statement
-Knights of Columbus
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-Unknown man's practices
-Repetition
-Preparation
-Quotes
-Repetition
-William L. Safire
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Television
-Compared to stories
-John R. Brown
-Television
National economy
-President's program
-Timing
-International monetary conditions
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 566-18 (cont.)
-Reaction
-Democrats
-News media
News media
-Charles W. Colson
-Herbert G. Klein
-White House correspondents
-President's press conference
-Administration’s attitude
-Colson
-President's forthcoming trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Hunger conference
-Food stamps
-Youth conference
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
-President's schedule
Youth
-Attitude toward the Administration
-Robert H. Finch
-Role
Finch
-Schedule
-California
-Role with administration
Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Role with administration
-George P. Shultz [?]
-Wage and price freeze
-Possible post
-Office Emergency Preparedness [OEP]
-Gen. George A. Lincoln
OEP
-Personnel
-Peter G. Peterson
-Current responsibilities
-Wage and price freeze
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
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Conv. No. 566-18 (cont.)
-Rumsfeld
-Arnold R. Weber
-Rumsfeld
-Experience
-Congress
-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
Butterfield entered at 4:20 pm.
President's schedule
-Illinois
-Grand Tetons
-Briefcase
-Possible phone calls
-Presidential notes
-Clark Reed
-Harry S. Dent
-J. P. McCarthy
-Jobs for veterans
-William S. White
-Reed
-Loretta Young
-J. Peter Grace
-Whitney N. Seymour, Jr.
-Norman Vincent Peale
-Revenue sharing
-Harley Ranch [?]
-Thomas J. Bannan
-Al Stratton, Jr.
-Otto N. Miller
-Chet Holifield
-Number
The President, Haldeman, and Butterfield left at 4:30 pm.
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