Secret White House Tapes

497–5

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497–5
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • H. R. Haldeman
May 11, 1971
Conversation No. 497-5

Date: May 11, 1971
Time: 12:08 pm - 12:22 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

The President's schedule
-Possible press conference
-Schedule

Haldeman's schedule
-John A. Scali, Richard A. Moore
-John D. Ehrlichman, George P. Shultz

The President's programs
-Water
-Parks
-Breeder reactor
-Revenue sharing
-Law Enforcement Assistance Administration [LEAA]
-Public relations needs
-Drugs
-Marijuana
-Turkey

-Police
-John N. Mitchell's speech regarding the President's role in Washington, D.C.
demonstrations
-Other speeches
-Polls
-Coverage of Mitchell's speech

Demonstrators
-A poll
-Effects
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-Poll by the Washington Post
-White House efforts

National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]
-Possible water projects
-Reallocation of funds
-Moon shots, spacelab to Mars
-Public support
-Texas and elsewhere
-Compared with Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Programs
-Frank Borman[?]
-Apollo
-Effects, future
-Skylab, Space shuttle
-Jobs

Ohio
-Wright-Patterson Air Force Base [AFB] staff move to Florida
-President's conversation with William B. Saxbe
-Transportation training center move to Florida
-John A. Volpe
-James B. Rhodes
-Clark MacGregor's and William E. Timmons’ views
-Rhodes's offer
-Detroit, Florida
-Volpe's actions
-Florida
-Timmons
-Oklahoma, Texas
-Ohio importance
-Robert A. Taft, Jr. and Saxbe
-Cooperation with administration
-Ohio's importance

Florida
-Economy

Federal facilities
-Saxbe's meeting with the President
-Wright-Patterson AFB
-Defense Department
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)



-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger's role
-Congressmen
-Weinberger's role
-Arnold Weber's role

The President's schedule
-General counsels
-Frederic V. Malek Conv. No. 497-5 (cont.)
-William M. Colmer's lunch
-Colmer

SST
-Possible vote

The President's schedule
-Luncheon
-Possible meeting on Capitol Hill

The President's programs
-Public relations needs
-Shultz

Haldeman left at 12:22 pm
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