Conversation: 616-009
Prev: 616-008 Next: 616-010Start Date: 10-Nov-1971 4:20 PM
End Date: 10-Nov-1971 5:17 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Rogers, William P.; Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.;Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:34:02
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:30:03
NARA Description:
On November 10, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, William P. Rogers, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the Oval Office of the White House from 4:20 pm to 5:17 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 616-009 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 616-9
Date: November 10, 1971
Time: 4:20 pm - 5:17 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with William P. Rogers, H. R. Haldeman and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
[The recording begins at an unknown time while the meeting was is progress]
Japan
-US return of territory [Okinawa]
-Impact
-Kiichi Aichi
-Treaty
Pending legislation
-Foreign aid program
-Continuing resolution
-Samuel L. Devine
-H. Allen Smith
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Humanitarian
-Compared to military
-Charles H. Percy
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Percy
-Speech on the President's foreign policy, November 9, 1971
-Vietnam
-Foreign aid
-Mutual assistance
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Rogers
-Meeting with Republican caucus, November 9. 1971
-Percy
-Conversation with Robert J. Dole, November 9, 1971
-Conversation with Milton R. Young
Foreign aid program
-Number and location of employees
-Military assistance
-Korea and Vietnam
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Ivory Coast
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's schedule
-United Nations [UN] vote
-Taiwan, Republic of China
-[Felix Houphouet-Boigny]
-Wife
-Dam
-Possible dedication
Mrs. Nixon's schedule
-Liberia
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Inauguration
-Travel arrangements
-Travel arrangements
-David D. Newsom
-Unknown woman
-Airplanes
-Rogers's conversation with Mrs. Nixon
-The President’s trip
-Itinerary
-Ghana, Ivory Coast
The President's schedule
-Latin American trip
-Haldeman
-Forthcoming State of the Union address
-Domestic emphasis
-Economics
-Vietnam
-Panama
-Fidel Castro’s schedule
-Chile
-Organization of American States [OAS]
-Meeting
-Agenda
-Theme
-Surcharges
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-Possible itinerary
-Panama
-Darien Gap
-Possible name change
-Pan-America Highway
-Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, El
Salvador
-Meeting with the President
-Jamaica
-Haiti
-Barbados
-Guyana
-Brasilia
-Argentina
-Unknown place
-Dwight D. Eisenhower’s trip
-Panama
-Security
-Accommodations
-Jamaica
-John Rawlings
-Possible itinerary
-South America
-Central America
-Jamaica
-Trinidad and Tobago
-Eisenhower's visit to Panama
-Panama, South America
-Jamaica
-Purpose
-Number of nations
-Chile
-Timing
-Argentina
-Panama
-Purpose
-Surcharge exemptions
-Exports
-General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade [GATT]
-Fishing rights
-Peru, Ecuador, Chile
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-Generalized trade preferences legislation
-Forthcoming trips to People's Republic of China [PRC] and Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Rogers's schedule
-Latin America
-Western Europe
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Foreign travel
-PRC, USSR
-Europe
-Japan
-Latin American trip
-Political significance of trip
-Security
-John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
-Purposes
-Exemptions, fishing rights, Inter-American Development Bank [IDB]
replenishment, general preferences
-Explanation of US policy
-Timing
-January 1972
-Congress schedule
-Arrangements
-Consultation
-“Stag”
-Mrs. Nixon’s schedule
-Timing
-Congress schedule
-Clark MacGregor
-State of the Union address
-Preparation
-Preparation
-Compared to other visits
-Indira Gandhi
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-PRC trip
-Panama
-Other meetings
-John D. Lodge
-Arrangements
-“Stag”
-Number of meetings
-Other meetings
-USSR trip
-Rogers’s memorandum
-Haig
-Suggestion
-Trip to unknown place
International economic policy
-Rogers's meeting with business advisory group
-Uncertainty
-John B. Connally
-Japan
-Latin America
-Canada
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Most Favored Nation [MFN] treaties
-Commodity basis
-Price of gold
-UN
-William Proxmire and Henry S. Reuss
-France
-Trade with US
-Surcharges
-Rogers's schedule
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-George P. Shultz
-Peter G. Peterson
-Shultz
-Arthur F. Burns
-Price of gold
-Burns
-Shultz
-Connally
-Rogers’s meeting with business advisory group
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:20 pm.
The President's schedule
-Carl T. Curtis
Bull left at an unknown time before 5:00 pm.
International economic policy
-Domestic effect
Vietnam
-Troop withdrawal
Haldeman left at 5:00 pm.
-Melvin R. Laird
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Negotiations
-Troop withdrawal
-The President's conversation with Laird, November 10, 1971
-Announcement
-Timing
-Possible effect on negotiations
-Economic aid
-Military assistance
-Kissinger
-Timing
-Expectations
-Draftees
-Laird
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
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-Possible reaction
-Laird’s plan
-Residual force
-Possible size
-Announcement
-Timing
-Congress
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Vietnam as political issue
-Announcement
-Timing
-Residual force
-Possible size
-Announcement
-Timing
-Finality
-Residual force
-POWs
-Purpose
-Aid to South Vietnam
The President's schedule
-Curtis
Vietnam
-Possible military collapse by South Vietnam
-Timing
-Troop withdrawal
-Announcement
Rogers and Haig left at 5:17 pm.