Conversation: 589-002
Prev: 589-001 Next: 589-003Start Date: Tuesday, October 12, 1971 9:28 PM
End Date: Tuesday, October 12, 1971 9:53 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ehrlichman, John D.; Bull, Stephen B.; [Unknown person(s)]; Kissinger, Henry A.; White House operator; Richardson, Elliot L.Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:17:43
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:41:40
NARA Description:
On October 12, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, John D. Ehrlichman, Stephen B. Bull, unknown person(s), Henry A. Kissinger, White House operator, and Elliot L. Richardson met in the Oval Office of the White House from 5:28 pm to 5:53 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 589-002 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 589-2
Date: October 12, 1971
Time: 5:28 pm - 5:53 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.
Supreme Court appointments
-Mildred L. Lillie
-Husband
-Herschel H. Friday
-Warren E. Burger
-University of Minnesota
-John N. Mitchell
-Arkansas
-Harry A. Blackmun
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:28 pm.
The President's schedule
-Unknown person
-Henry A. Kissinger
Bull left at an unknown time before 5:40 pm.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 589-2(cont.)
Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] documents
-Richard M. Helms
-State Department
-Missing files
-Kennedy family
-Kennedy Library
-Cambridge, Massachusetts
-Helms
-Declassification
-Immunity question
-President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board [PFIAB]
-Life magazine
-Ngo Dinh Diem assassination
-Vietnam
-W. Averell Harriman
-Mcgeorge Bundy
-Roger Hilsman
-Dean Rusk
-State Department
-Strategy
-Helms
-Missing CIA documents
An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 5:28 pm.
Refreshments
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:40 pm.
Budget
-Kissinger
-Schedule
-Meeting of President with George P. Shultz, Kissinger, Ehrlichman
-Shultz
-The President's schedule
-Kissinger
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Negotiations
-William P. Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 589-2(cont.)
-Tax plan
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Shultz
-John B. Connally
-Kissinger's schedule
-Domestic questions
Unknown person entered at an unknown time after 5:28 pm.
Refreshments
Unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:40 pm.
Phase II Wage and Price controls
-Press conference
The President's schedule
-Supreme Court appointments
-Mitchell
-Public relations
-South
-West
Supreme Court appointments
-Woman
-Necessity
-The President’s view
-Mitchell's view
-Ability
-Negroes
-Ehrlichman's experiences
Phase II Wage and Price controls
-Charls E. Walker
-Maurice H. Stans
-Shultz
-Labor
-Labor walkout
Kissinger entered at 5:40 pm.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 589-2(cont.)
-The President's comments
Ehrlichman left at 5:41 pm
The President's schedule
US-USSR agreement
-Stewart J.O. Alsop
-Kissinger's conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-The President's attitude
-Kissinger's position
-Soviets
-French
-Germans
-French
-Kissinger
-Georges J. R. Pompidou
-Arthur K. Watson
-Edward R. G. Heath
-Willy Brandt
-Press conference
-PRC
-Dobrynin
-Reactions
-Alsop
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Kissinger
-Vietnam negotiations
-Washington Star
-Jerrold L. Schecter
-Time magazine
-W. Averell Harriman
-George H. Mahon
-F. Edward Hebert
-Attitude toward the President
-The President's commentary to Conressmen
-Soviets
-PRC trip
-Press conference
-Individual sent to Vietnam for Nguyen Van Thieu's inauguration
-Laird
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 589-2(cont.)
-State Deprtment
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Mitchell
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Laird
-Relationship with Thieu
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Connally
-Laird's views
-Richardson
The President talked with White House operator at an unknown time between 5:40 pm and 5:53
pm.
[Conversation No. 589-2A]
[See Conversation No. 11-65]
[End of telephone conversation]
The President's schedule
Rogers
Kissinger talked with Richardson at an unknown time between 5:40 pm and 5:53 pm.
[Conversation No. 589-2B]
[See Conversation No. 11-66]
[End of telephone conversation]
Thieu's inauguration
-Richardson's response
-Implications of Richardson's going
The President's schedule
The President and Kissinger left at 5:53 pm.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 589-2(cont.)