Secret White House Tapes

535–22

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535–22
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Alexander P. Butterfield
July 2, 1971
Conversation No. 535-22
Date: July 2, 1971
Time: Unknown between 12:20 pm and 12:25pm
Location: Oval Office


The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

President’s schedule
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-National Archives, July 3, 1971

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:25 pm.




Conversation
Conv. No. 535-23
No. 535-23
(cont.)

Date: July 2, 1971
Time: 12:25 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

The President's schedule for morning on July 2, 1971
-Meeting with recent presidential appointees
-Chief Eleuterio Mendoza
-Departing member of the National Security Council [NSC] staff
-Congressmen
-Problem of deciding on appointments
-Deserving requestors denied an appointment
-Mr. and Mrs. Ramon Nolan
-Contribution
-Optimum time of day for brief appointments
-Flowers for Thelma C. (Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon
-Future visit to the White House


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 24s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

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[Pause]
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Wolf Trap concert, July 1, 1971
-Van Cliburn's performance
-Size of audience
-Weather
-Mrs. Nixon
-Buffet dinner
-Layout of stage
Conv. No. 535-23 (cont.)
Schedule
-Problem with setting up appointments
-Mr. and Mrs. Nolan
-Marjorie P. Acker's relatives
-Mr. and Mrs. Herbert A. Peterson

Arrangements for photograph
-Photograph of Abraham Lincoln
-New photograph

H.R.(“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 12:35 pm

Photographs
-Status of new photograph
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Photograph for autographs
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins

Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 12:35 pm

Photograph

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:48 pm

Photographs
-Atkins
-News photographer
-Photographs of Tricia Nixon Cox's wedding
-Comparison of candid and portrait photography
-Haldeman portrait
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-Unnamed photographer
-Atkins
-Nixon-Cox wedding photographs


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3 Conv. No. 535-23 (cont.)
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 25s ]


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-Mrs. Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Choreographic effect of wedding ceremony
-David Marx's letter and call
-Marx's relation to Mrs. Daniel Ellsberg

Surveillance
-NSC
-William A.K. (“Tony”) Lake
-Documents
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Morton Halperin
-Secret documents
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Lake

Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 12:35 pm.

Photograph

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:48 pm

-Kissinger's reaction
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
[Privacy]
[Duration: 17s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7 Conv. No. 535-23 (cont.)

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-Larry Lynn, Halperin, Ellsberg
-Adolf Hitler, Judas Iscariot
-Intelligence, morality

Photographs
-Handling of requests
-Bryce N. Harlow request
-San Clemente
-Handling of requests
-Woods' duties
-Alleviation of the President's workload
-The President's visit to Sam W. Rayburn's office as Congressman in the 1940's
-Secretary's handling of autographed photo request
-Contrast with Nixon's handling of mail during Congressional tenure
-Staff
-Bill [Unintelligible surname]
-Don [Unintelligible surname]
-Charles Jones
-Les Hoffman
-William Blanford (?), Don Garth
-Handling of autograph requests
-Personal signature by the President

Woods left at 12:48 pm

The President's schedule
-Woods
-Contributor from the Phillippines
-Handling of future appointments
-Recent presidential appointees
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-The President's morning meeting with Frederic V. Malek's group
-Length of time for meetings
-Procedure
-Effectiveness
-Donald McI. Kendall
-Significance of photographs
-Display in the offices of appointees
-Executive branch offices Conv. No. 535-23 (cont.)
-Embassies

Foreign relations
-State Department
-William P. Rogers’ possible conversation with the President during
forthcoming lunch
-Kissinger's departure on trip
-Mideast
-Joseph J. Sisco's possible mission
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.'s views


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[National Security]
[Duration: 37s ]


MIDDLE EAST


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-NSC
-The President's possible meeting with Rogers
-Sisco, Kissinger
-Handling by Haig
-The President's forthcoming trip to San Clemente
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The economy
-William J. Keating’s comments
-New unemployment statistics
-Vietnam war

Vietnam war settlement
-Paris peace talks
-Proposals Conv. No. 535-23 (cont.)
-Kissinger
-Rogers' knowledge of secret negotiations
-Developments in US relations with the People’s Republic of China
[PRC]

The economy
-Unemployment figures
-Effect as news story
-Handling
-Congress
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield, Carl B. Albert

Foreign policy negotiations
-News reports about secret negotiations
-Reaction of Kissinger's staff
-Channels of communication
-Opponents
-Kissinger’s attitude
-Ellsberg, Lake, Halperin

Bicentennial era July 3, 1971 speech by the President
-Draft
-John Brown anecdote
-Raymond K. Price, Jr's editorial work
-Kissinger's reaction
-William L. Safire, Patrick J. Buchanan
-Use of previously used phrases
-John K. Andrew’s, Jr.
-Speech presentation in the National Archives
-John Brown anecdote
-The President's previous Jaycees speech
-Graduation speech by high school student
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-Eighteen-year vote tie-in
-New Hampshire background
-John Brown anecdote

Haldeman left at 1:06 pm


Conv. No. 535-23 (cont.)
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