Secret White House Tapes

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449–11
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Kenneth E. BeLieu
  • White House photographer
September 21, 1971
Conversation No. 449-11

Date: September 21, 1971
Time: 12:25 pm - 12:34 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Kenneth E. BeLieu, William E. Timmons, Clark MacGregor; the White
House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

Photograph

BeLieu
-Career
-Diplomats
-Washington Post story
-Army
-BeLieu's new position
-Undersecretary of the Army
-Army
-Problems
-Management
-Military
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Tape Subject Log
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-Congress
-Previous job
-Deputy assistant to the President for Congressional Relations
-Congress
-MacGregor, Timmons
-Federal agencies
-Congressional votes on defense
-Cooperative effort
-MacGregor
-Timmons
-Swearing-in ceremony
-Date
-Time
-The President's attendance
-Location
-Pentagon
-Melvin R. Laird's office
-Loyalty to the President
-Laird
-Timmons
-MacGregor
-Relations with the President
-BeLieu's new job
-Qualifications
-Margaret Chase Smith
-Speech
-Relations with the administration

Defense
-Army
-Importance to nation
-BeLieu's new job
-Support for military services
-BeLieu
-Support for the country
-New office
-Location in the Pentagon

BeLieu's career
-Active military service
-BeLieu's acquaintances in the services
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-Fred C. Weyand
-Korea
-Congressional relations for the Army
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-John F. Kennedy
-Joe Kelly, United States Air Force
-John S. McCain, Jr.
-Weyand
-Richard B. Russell
-Henry Cabot Lodge
-Paris
-Father
-Policeman
-Berkeley, California
-Successor to Gen. William C. Westmoreland
-Westmoreland
-Present tour of duty
-John C. Stennis
-Speech in Congress
-Edward W. Brooke
-Credibility
-Possible actions
-Reflection on Vietnam
-Possible successor
-BeLieu's responsibility
-Laird
-Robert F. Froehlke
-Candidates [Chiefs of Staff]
-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Senior branches
-Army
-Air Force
-Chiefs of Staff
-Gen. John D. Ryan
-Westmoreland
-Chief of Naval Operations
-Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr.
-Moorer
-Navy experience
-Robert S. McNamara
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 449-11 (cont.)


-William Raymond Peers
-Military career
-Vietnam
-Acquaintance with BeLieu
-1940
-Relations with MacGregor
-Commanding officer
-World War II
-Southern California
-University of California, Los Angeles [UCLA]
-Reserve Officers Training Corps [ROTC]
-Military service
-Korea
-BeLieu's responsibility
-Selection of Westmoreland's successor
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Qualifications

Presidential gifts
-Cost
-BeLieu's son
-Compact
-BeLieu's wife

Vote on military service draft extension
-MacGregor
-New York City
-Chicago
-President’s representative at Citizenship Day
-Timmons

BeLieu
-Work
-Senate
-Draft
-Volunteer Army
-Draft bill

BeLieu, Timmons, and MacGregor left at 12:34 pm.
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