Conversation: 588-012
Prev: 588-011 Next: 588-013Start Date: Tuesday, October 12, 1971 4:58 PM
End Date: Tuesday, October 12, 1971 5:25 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Kissinger, Henry A.; [Unknown person(s)]; Shultz, George P.; White House operator; Meany, George; Ziegler, Ronald L.Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:58:23
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 03:42:35
NARA Description:
On October 12, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Henry A. Kissinger, unknown person(s), George P. Shultz, White House operator, George Meany, and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:58 pm to 1:25 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 588-012 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 588-12
Date: October 12, 1971
Time: 12:58 pm - 1:25 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Henry A. Kissinger.
Press
-The President's meeting
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-Negotiations
-Summit meeting with Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Ronald L. Ziegler, John A. Scali
-Kissinger’s view
US foreign relations
-USSR
-Announcement
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Press announcement
-Embassy statement
-White House
-The President's trip
-USSR
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 588-12 (cont.)
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Douglas Edwards
-Film
-Timing
-Dan Rather
-Vietnam
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-North Vietnam
-North Vietnam
-South Vietnam elections
-Reaction
-Thieu
-Kissinger's schedule
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Congress
-Notification of the President's announcement
-Carl B. Albert
-Allen J. Ellender
-[Thomas] Hale Boggs
-Commentary concerning film
-W. Averell Harriman
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 3m 7s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 588-12 (cont.)
Press
-The President's press conference
-Topics
-Supreme Court appointments
-Phase II
-Vietnam
-PRC
Public relations
-Comparison of 1968 with 1972
-Situation in 1968
-Vietnam
-Soviets
-Czechoslovakia
-Chinese
-PRC
-Soviet trip
-Importance
-Linkage
Kissinger's schedule
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Japan
-Andrei A. Gromyko
Public relations
-George P. Shultz
-John D. Ehrlichman
-White House staff
-Economy
-Foreign policy
-Scali
-Ziegler
-Herbert G. Klein
-PRC
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 588-12 (cont.)
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 1m 26s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
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US foreign policy
-Presidential travel
-Possible return visits
-Reciprocal visits
-The President's Soviet trip
-Middle East
-Kissinger's schedule
-Dobrynin
-Chinese
-Chou En-lai
-Kissinger’s discussions with Chou En-lai
-Soviets
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-Accidental War Agreement
-Berlin
-USSR
-Gromyko
-PRC invitation
-Advance notification
-Press conference
-The President’s preparation
-Vietnam
-Effect of press conference
-North Vietnamese
-Negotiations
-Thieu
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 588-12 (cont.)
-Soviets
-PRC
-The President's preparations
-Foreign policy
The President's schedule
-Shultz
-Labor
-Pay Board
Press coverage of the President
-John F. Kennedy
-Rose Mary Woods conversation with Kissinger
-Chicago Daily News
-Hypothesis
-Nixon
-Bay of Pigs
-Laos
-Berlin
An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 12:59 pm.
The President's schedule
-Shultz
-F. Edward Hebert
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 1:25 pm.
US foreign policy
-Soviets
-PRC
-US actions
-Negotiations
-Maurice H. Stans
-Dobrynin
-PRC
-Southeast Asia
-Soviets
Kissinger and Haldeman left at 1:25 pm.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 588-12 (cont.)
George P. Shultz entered at 1:25 pm.
Economics
-Labor
-Pay Board
-George Meany
-Shultz
-Judgment on labor's position
-Meany
-Message
-The President's suggestion
-Employment
-Tax proposals
-John B. Connally
-The President's possible telephone conversation
-Ehrlichman
-Connally
The President talked with White House operator at an unknown time between 1:25 pm and 1:32
pm.
[Conversation No. 588-12A]
[See Conversation No. 11-61]
[End of telephone conversation]
-Full employment
-Senate
-Tax proposals
The President talked with George Meany between 1:32 pm and 1:34 pm.
[Conversation No. 588-12B]
[See Conversation No. 11-62]
[End of telephone conversation]
The President's statement
-Full employment
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 588-12 (cont.)
-Senate
-Tax proposals
-Jobs
-Business calls
-Feedback
-Connally
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Indianapolis
-Flanigan
-Arthur F. Burns
-Shultz's previous conversation
-Views
-Shultz
-Labor
-Press
-Ziegler
An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 1:25 pm.
Request for meeting with Ziegler
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 1:40 pm.
US foreign relations
-PRC ,USSR
-Importance
-US
-Bolivia, Chad
-John F. Kennedy
-Summit meeting
Economy
-Labor
-Canada
Ziegler entered at 1:40 pm.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 588-12 (cont.)
Economy
-The President's statement
-Meany
-Shultz
-Meany
-Timing
-Wage and price restraint
-Labor
-Connally
-Texas
Ziegler left at 1:42 pm.
The President's schedule
-Ziegler
Shultz left at 1:42 pm.