Secret White House Tapes

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471–4
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Henry A. Kissinger
  • Alexander P. Butterfield
  • H. R. Haldeman
March 24, 1971
Conversation No. 471-4

Date: March 24, 1971
Time: 9:32 am - 9:47 am
Location: Oval Office

The President with Henry A. Kissinger and Alexander P. Butterfield
[Recording begins while the conversation is in progress]

President’s schedule
-Meeting with Clifford P. Hansen
-Other meetings with Senators
-Louie B. Nunn
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Luncheon
-James J. Kilpatrick, Jr. [?]
-William P. Rogers

Harvard University faculty
-A petition

Items for the President
-Letters

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 9:38 am
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President’s television interview
-Ellsworth F. Bunker’s view
-Kissinger’s previous conversation with Bunker
-Reception in Vietnam

Harvard University faculty petition

Vietnam Conv. No. 471-4 (cont.)
-Current situation
-Moscow Radio
-Laotian operation (Lam Son)
-Bunker
-Forthcoming military action
-President’s forthcoming speech
-Timing
-Kissinger’s assessment
-An unknown man’s position
-Effect of media coverage
-President’s forthcoming speech
-Tone
-Liberals’ position

Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Ecology
-Soviet Union
-Environment
-George Meany
-A report by President
-Outcome

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 9:38 am

President’s interview, March 23, 1971
-Follow-up
-Public relations efforts
-Kissinger’s role
-Meeting with Max Frankel
-Melvin R. Laird and Rogers’ role
-Role of departments
-Public relations efforts
-A March 25, 1971 meeting
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-Senators’ role
-Speeches
-Robert J. Dole
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Laird and Rogers’ role
-Laird’s 3:00 event
-Monday’s speeches
-Dole’s speech Conv. No. 471-4 (cont.)
-Al Capp
-National Association of Broadcasters
-Mailings
-Columns
-Meany’s statement on Vietnam
-Support for the President
-Agnew
-Possible re-broadcast
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-Public Broadcasting Service [PBS]

President’s previous televised interview
-White House phone poll
-Ratings
-Viewership
-Response
-Format

Kissinger left at an unknown time before 9:47 am

-Job approval rating for President
-Compared with George H. Gallup poll
-Party alignment

President’s schedule
-Hansen

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 9:38 am

-Marlow W. Cook and John Sherman Cooper
-Nunn
-Whitney M. Young, Jr. memorial

Haldeman and the unknown man left at 9:47 am
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