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Start Date: 11-Sep-1972 11:23 AM

End Date: 11-Sep-1972 11:34 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Train, Russell E.Butterfield, Alexander P.Bull, Stephen B.White House photographer

Recording Device: Oval Office

774-010.mp3

NARA Description:

On September 11, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Russell E. Train, Alexander P. Butterfield, Stephen B. Bull, and White House photographer met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:23 am to 11:34 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 774-010 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 774-10

Date: September 11, 1972
Time: 11:23 am - 11:34 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Russell E. Train and Alexander P. Butterfield.

         Train's forthcoming trip to Soviet Union
            -Alaska

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:23 am.
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                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. Oct-06)

         Press coverage of meeting

Members of the press and the White House photographer entered at an unknown time after 11:23
am.

         Soviet Union

         Environmental issues

Bull, members of the press and the White House photographer left at an unknown time before
11:34 am.

         Environment
            -Department Of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
            -Soviet Union
                -Train's forthcoming meeting with Soviet officials
                     -The President's interest in environmental issues
                     -US - Soviet Union relations
                     -The President's meetings with Leonid I. Brezhnev, Nikolai V. Podgorny,
                     and Alexsei N. Kosygin
                     -The President's trip to the Soviet Union
                          -Signing of environmental agreement
                -Pipeline
                     -Permafrost
                -Los Angeles
                     -Air quality
                          -Automobile emissions
                -Forests
                     -White birch trees
                -Train's delegation on trip
                     -Shirley Temple Black
                     -National Wildlife Federation director
                     -Sierra Club
                          -[Michael McCloskey]
                              -The President's previous trip to San Francisco
                     -Suggested actions during trip
                -Television productions
                     -Black
                     -The President's trip to the Soviet Union
                -Itinerary
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                       NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                          Tape Subject Log
                                            (rev. Oct-06)

                      -Moscow, Leningrad
                      -Lake Baikal
                      -Siberia
                           -Novosibirsk
                               -Swan Lake
                      -Leningrad, Moscow
                      -Caucausus Mountains
                      -Mrs. Train
                  -Soviets
                      -Nikita S. Khrushchev
                  -People's Republic Of China [PRC]
                  -Soviet performance at Olympics

          1972 Olympics
             -The President's call to Chris Schenkel
                  -American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC]
             -US Olympic Committee
                  -Disqualified runners [Wayne Collett, Vince Matthews]
             -Patriotism
             -Future of Olympics

          Train's forthcoming trip to Soviet Union
             -Food
                   -Caviar
                       -Article by unnamed psychiatrist

Train and Butterfield left at 11:34 am.