Conversation: 602-010
Prev: 602-009 Next: 602-011Start Date: 26-Oct-1971 12:45 PM
End Date: 26-Oct-1971 1:39 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Sanchez, Manolo; Butterfield, Alexander P.; Colson, Charles W.;Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 03:06:45
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 03:55:15
NARA Description:
On October 26, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Manolo Sanchez, Alexander P. Butterfield, and Charles W. Colson met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:45 pm to 1:39 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 602-010 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 602-10
Date: October 26, 1971
Time: 12:45 pm - 1:39 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
The President's schedule
-Unknown man
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Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:45 pm.
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:02 pm.
-Arthur F. Burns
-John B. Connally
-Feelings about meetings on monetary affairs
-John D. Ehrlichman
-George P. Shultz
-Peter G. Peterson
-Henry A. Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
-Monetary affairs
-Connally
-Shultz
-Peterson
-Burns
-Paul A. Volcker
-Connally's staff
-Controls
-William L. Safire
-Rogers
-The President’s previous meeting with Vietnam veterans
-The President’s view
-New York Times correspondent
-Gloria Emerson [?]
-Press coverage
Vietnam demonstrations
-Washington, DC
-Route
-Press coverage
Press
-The President's comments to Ronald L. Ziegler
-Backgrounder
-Kissinger
-Rogers
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-Reference to Nixon
-Dick Whitaker
-Language
-[Arthur] Neville Chamberlain
Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 12:45 pm.
Charles W. Colson's schedule
Butterfield left at an unknown time before 1:02 pm.
Disney World
-Press coverage
-Mrs. Walt Disney
-Haldeman’s presentation of flag
-Main Street parade
-Meredith Willson
-E. Cardon Walker
-Vietnam veterans
-Roy O. Disney
-American youth
American youth
-The President’s view
-Robert H. Finch
-Ivy League schools
Disney World
-Prospects for success
-California
-Florida
-Description
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 14s ]
Colson entered at an unknown time after 12:45 pm.
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United Nation [UN] vote to expel Taiwan
-Ronald W. Reagan’s view
-George H.W. Bush
-Possible Presidential statement
-Financial support by US
-Rogers
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Possible conversation with Colson
-Vote shifts concerning Taiwan expulsion vote
-Position of domestic right
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Buchanan
-Supreme Court
Right wing support
-Humanities endowment
-Supreme Court nominees
UN vote concerning Taiwan
-Rogers
-Samuel L. Devine
-Possible actions
-Conservatives
-Possible Congressional action
-Budget
-Administration efforts
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-Administration's possible actions
-Otto E. Passman
-Colson's conversation
-Edward W. Brooke
-Robert J. Dole
-Agnew's conversation with the President
-Colson's conversation
-Franklyn C. (“Lyn”) Nofziger
-Bush
-Rogers
-Right wing position
-Liberal position
-Pauline Frederick
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Popular reaction to UN
-The President’s view
-Reagan
-Request of the President
-Television address
-The President’s response
-UN role in India-Pakistan situation
-Agnew
-Hugh Scott
-Gerald R. Ford
-Congressional funding for UN
-Brooke
-Reagan
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 13
[Privacy]
[Duration: 3s ]
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-Nations voting on Taiwan expulsion
-Popular sentiment toward UN
-Taiwan, PRC
-Compared with popular support toward Supreme Court
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-Colson’s role
-Statement on UN
-Attitude toward Taiwan
-Rogers's statement
-UN action
-US relations with Taiwan
-PRC
-Bush
-Rogers
-Funding for UN
-The President’s view
-UN membership
-Types of government
-Latin America
-Africa
-Asia
-US efforts
Public opinion
-Conservatives
-Attitude
-Stewart J.O. Alsop
-Newsweek magazine
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Military strength
-Silos
-Submarines
-Richard M. Helms
-Defense
-Alsop
-Anti-ballistic missile [ABM] treaty
-USSR
-Testing
-Conservatives
-Summit
-Agnew
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-Supreme Court appointments
-William H. Rehnquist
-Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
-James J. Kilpatrick
Schedule
US foreign relations
-UN's vote on Taiwan expulsion
-Rogers
-Dole
-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
-Nofziger
-Dole
-Television
-Reagan
-Telephone call to the President
-Pauline Frederick
-Statements
-Bush's
-Rogers
-Liberals and Conservatives
-The President's desire for symbolic action
-Press conference
-President’s trip to PRC
-Bush
-Rogers
-Passman
-Foreign aid
-John J. Rooney
-Passman
-International Labor Organization [ILO]
-George Meany
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 11
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 3m 17s ]
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Supreme Court confirmation vote
-Rehnquist
-Mathias
-Possible Republican opponents
-Possible Democratic opponents
-The President’s view
-Marlow W. Cook
-William B. Saxbe
-Robert C. Byrd
-Public opinion
-Buchanan
-Richard A. Moore
-Rehnquist
-Powell
UN
-Administration position
-Bush
Colson left at 1:36 pm.
The President's schedule
-Connally
-Kissinger
-Report
-Forthcoming telephone call to Reagan
-UN
Public relations
-Buchanan
-UN
-Taiwan
-Colson
-Impact for administration
-Mail
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The President and Haldeman left at 1:39 pm.