{"conversationCode":"594-009","tapeNumber":594,"conversationNumber":9,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-594-009","startDateTime":"1971-10-18T16:44:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-10-18T16:46:00.000Z","startDate":"18-Oct-1971","startTime":"12:44 PM","endDate":"18-Oct-1971","endTime":"12:46 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Sanchez, Manolo;","description":"On October 18, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:44 pm and 12:46 pm. 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Haig, Jr.\n\n     Salutations\n\n     US foreign relations\n          -India-Pakistan\n                -India\n                      -Henry A. Kissinger\n                            -Anatolity F. Dobrynin\n                            - Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan\n          -George H. W. Bush\n                -Speech at the United Nations [UN]\n                      -People’s Republic of China [PRC]\n                            -UN\n                      -William P. Rogers\n          -Possible meeting of Haig, Rogers, Bush and the President\n                -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman\n                -Executive Office Building [EOB]\n                -Rogers\n                -Strategy for UN vote on Taiwan\n                      -Panama\n                      -Greece\n                      -Turkey\n                      -Use of US ambassadors\n                      -Venezuela\n                            -Oil\n                      -Greece and Turkey\n                            -Congress\n                                 -Foreign aid\n                      -African countries\n                      -Adam Malik\n                            -White House\n                                 -Rogers-Bush position\n                      -Ronald L. Ziegler\n                            -Planting of question\n\n                                                         Conv. No. 594-10/595-1 (cont.)\n\n                           -The president's position\n                                 -Secretary of State\n                                 -PRC\n                                 -Taiwan\n                -Chou En-lai\n                -Ziegler\n                -Bush\n                      -Speech\n                -Ziegler\n                      -Rogers\n                      -Bush\n                      -Press conference\n                           -The President\n                      -Administration position\n                      -Rogers\n     -Soviet Naval task force\n          -Cuba\n                -Kissinger\n                      -Dobrynin\n                      -Aleksei N. Kosygin’s visit to Cuba\n     -Kissinger\n          -Press\n                -Gerard C. Smith\n                      -Washington Post\n                      -The President’s trip to Moscow\n                           -Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]\n                      -[Forename unknown] Getler\n                      -Defense Department\n                      -Haldeman\n                           -State\n                           -Defense\n\nUS foreign policy\n     -Relationship with media\n          -Memorandum from Haig and the President\n          -Smith\n                -Rogers\n                -Ziegler\n                -Nobel peace prize\n     -Senior Review Group [SRG]\n          -Cambodia\n\n                                                       Conv. No. 594-10/595-1 (cont.)\n\n           -US involvement\n                 -Press stories\n           -Melvin R. Laird\n                 -Hill liaison\n                 -Senate foreign relations committee\n-Administration policy\n     -Relationship with media\n           -Smith\n           -Rogers\n           -News summaries\n           -Paul H. Nitze\n                 -Smith\n                       -Defense Department\n           -Rogers\n-Bush\n     -Timing regarding UN votes\n     -Richard A. Moore\n           -Ireland\n                 -John D. Moore\n                 -English\n                 -Airline issue\n                 -John M. Lynch's note\n-UN vote\n     -Effect in US\n     -US membership in UN\n     -Administration position\n-Kissinger\n     -Soviets\n-North Vietnam\n     -Rice crop\n     -Pol\n           -Soviets\n                 -Deliveries\n     -Peking\n\n                                                       Conv. No. 594-10/595-1 (cont.)\n\n**************************************************************************\n\nBEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1\n[National Security]\n[Duration: 3s ]\n\n    NORTH VIETNAM\n\nEND WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1\n\n**************************************************************************\n\n         -Kissinger\n               -Moscow\n                    -Paris\n                    -Hanoi\n         -Letter\n               -Dobrynin\n                    -Moscow\n\n    Letter\n          -Band people\n               -Laird\n\n    John B. Connally trip\n              -Announcement\n                    -Indonesians\n                    -Japanese\n                          -Ambassador\n                          -Okinawa\n                          -Eisaku Sato\n\n                                                                Conv. No. 594-10/595-1 (cont.)\n\n**************************************************************************\n\nBEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2\n[National Security]\n[Duration: 18s ]\n\n     JAPAN\n\nEND WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2\n\n**************************************************************************\n\n                            -Purpose of Connally’s visit\n                      -Indonesians\n                      -Timing\n                      -Sato\n                -Congress\n                      -Conflict with administration\n                -Public relations\n                -Timing of announcement\n                      -Robert H. Finch’s trip\n                -Bangkok\n                -Indonesia\n                -Saigon\n                -Philippines\n                -Japan\n                      -Tokyo\n                -Hong Kong\n\nThis conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 1:15 pm; it is continued on Oval 595.","filename":["594a.mp3","594b.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:26:05","tapeEnd":"02:27:02","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. 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