Conversation: 747-004
Prev: 747-003 Next: 747-005Start Date: Wednesday, July 19, 1972 3:33 PM
End Date: Wednesday, July 19, 1972 3:40 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Mills, Branford; Sedlar, Thomas S.; Flanigan, Peter M.; White House photographerRecording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On July 19, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Branford Mills, Thomas S. Sedlar, Peter M. Flanigan, and White House photographer met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:33 am to 11:40 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 747-004 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 747-4
Date: July 19, 1972
Time: 11:33 am - 11:40 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Bradford Mills, Thomas S. Sedlar, and Peter M. Flanigan. The White
House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.
Introductions
-Mills
-Soviet Union support of US private investments
-Vietnam
-Israel
-Sedlar
US trade policy
-Overseas Private Investment Corporation [OPIC]
-Report
-Photograph and letter
-Informing the public
-[Photograph session]
-Assistance to US businesses overseas
-Degree of competition
-US governmental support
-Soviet Union
-Armand Hammer
-Peter G. Peterson
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-Japan
-France
-Soviet Union
-US policy in overseas investment
-Eastern Bloc countries
-Yugoslavia and Romania
-Foreign Assistance Act
-Josip Broz Tito
-Balance of trade problems
-Poland
-Hungary
-Soviet Union
-Peterson
-Possible talk with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Consultation with Henry A. Kissinger
-Yugoslavia
-Jacob K. Javits
-Public relations
-Insurance
-Kissinger to prepare paper on OPIC trade issues
-Hammer
White House gifts
-Cufflinks, paperweights
Mills’s previous meeting with the President
-Bohemian Grove
-Hillbillies Camp
-Lowell Thomas
Thomas
US trade policy
-OPIC
-Kissinger's understanding of issues
-Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary
Mills et al. left at 11:40 am.
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