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477–10
- President Richard M. Nixon
- H. R. Haldeman
- Peter G. Peterson
- Stephen B. Bull
- UNKNOWN
- George P. Shultz
April 12, 1971
Conversation No. 477-10
Date: April 12, 1971
Time: 2:30 pm - 3:37 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
Conv. No. 477-9 (cont.)
President’s schedule
-Meeting with Maurice H. Stans
-John N. Mitchell
-Stans
-Schedule
-Mitchell
-Schedule
-Stans
-Schedule
-Peter G. Peterson
-Relationship with Stans
Polls
-President’s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Viewers/non-viewers
-Difference in attitudes
President’s use of media
-Television
-Message
-Television
-Scheduling
-President’s interview with American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE], April
16, 1971
-Radio
-Reporters
-Possible schedule
-Press conference, April 29, 1971
-White House photographers dinner
-Scheduling
-Television appearances
-Frequency
-Oval Office press conference
-Frequency of press conferences
36
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Options
-Schedule
-Evenings prior to press conferences
-Correspondents’ dinner
-Photographers’ dinner
-Friday evenings
Demonstrations Conv. No. 477-10 (cont.)
-Plans of demonstrators
-Dates
-April 24, 1971
-Possible vandalism
-Disruptions
-Dates
-April 25 through May 5, 1971
-Plans
-Blocking bridges and traffic
-Sit-ins
-Interference with unknown employees
-Telephone systems
-Radio
-Hanoi
-Announcement of insurrection and martial law in Washington
-Cutting power sources in Washington
-Rock Creek Park
-Campsite
-Federal troops
-Campus support
-Groups
-National Coalition Against the War
-People’s Coalition for Peace and Justice
-Communists
President’s schedule
-Press conference, April 30, 1971
-Anniversary of Cambodia speech, April 30, 1970
-Florida
-Press conference
-Voluntary action meeting
-Cabinet meeting
-Rescheduling
37
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Preparation
-Oval Office press conference
-Press conference
-Television
-Reviewers
-Editors
-Frank van der Linden
-Allen S. Drury Conv. No. 477-10 (cont.)
-Victor Lasky
-Stories
-Press conference
-Scheduling
-Florida
-Scheduling
-Photographers
-Weekend
-Camp David
-Scheduling
-Sequoia
-Demonstrators
-White House
-Press conference
-Cabinet meeting
-Chamber of Commerce
-Cabinet meeting
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Youth
-Richard A. Moore
-High school juniors and seniors
-Potential support
38
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Pliability
-College juniors and seniors
-Objectivity
-Workers
-Letters to classes
-High school graduations
-Radio and television broadcast
-Voters Conv. No. 477-10 (cont.)
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:30 pm
Peterson’s arrival
-Meeting with President
Bull left at an unknown time before 2:50 pm
Paul W. McCracken
-Picture
-Inflation alert announcement
-Schedule
-Photo session
Peterson entered at 2:50 pm
-Book on Vice Presidency
-Interview with President
-President and Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Notes on Vice Presidency
Peterson’s schedule
-Time-Life interview
-Remarks
-Possible questions
-Vietnam
-President’s position
-Questions on negotiations
People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-US relations
-Visit of ping-pong team
Haldeman left at 3:00 pm
39
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Background
-Time-Life
-President’s initiatives
-State Department objections
-Relaxation of trade and travel restrictions
-Timing
-Henry A. Kissinger Conv. No. 477-10 (cont.)
-State Department
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Time-Life
-US position relative to PRC and USSR
-Bridge
-Japanese role
-Broker
-Eisaku Sato
-Trade
-Modus vivendi with US
-Compared with USSR
-Politics/philosophy
-US position
-President’s initiatives
-State Department
-Llewellyn E. (“Tommy”) Thompson, Jr.
-Charles E. (“Chip”) Bohlen
-Warsaw talks
-USSR
-Bureaucracy
-Kremlinologists
-Benefits
-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-Indira Gandhi
-Nicolae Ceausescu
-US-Soviet relations
-US policy
-Chinese/Soviet radio broadcasts
-Sino-Soviet relations
-Ping-pong team visit
-Significance
40
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Opening
-US strategy
-Timing
-PRC suspicion
-Isolation
-Consequences
-US-USSR
-Dangers Conv. No. 477-10 (cont.)
-Nuclear capacity
-Chou En-lai
-Leadership
-Knowledge of non-communist world
-USSR
-US
-Japan
-Isolation
-Dangers
-US policy
-Trade
-Political difficulties
-US alliance with Taiwan
-Korea
-Philippines
-Trade relaxation
-Forthcoming announcement
-Relaxation of trade restrictions
-President’s initiative
-State Department
-Time magazine article
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 3:00 pm
President’s schedule
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 3:11 pm
East-West trade
-Relationship to President’s PRC initiative
-USSR
-US policy
-Yugoslavia
-Romania
41
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Prospects
-Relation to events
-Timing
-Scope
-Difficulties
-Time-Life
-Peterson’s schedule
-Review Conv. No. 477-10 (cont.)
-USSR
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Berlin
-Middle East
-USSR
-Trade credits
-Negotiations
-PRC
-USSR
Productivity Council
-Importance
-US trade position
-Engineers
-Scientists
-Industrial research
-Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Need for US excellence
-Nuclear power
-Administration’s position
State Department
-William P. Rogers
-Peterson
-Reorganization
-Rogers
-George P. Shultz
-Economics
-Foreign Service
-Shultz
-Agnew
-Rogers
42
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
US world position
-Foreign policy
-Economics
-Nuclear parity
-Military parity
-Local wars
-Nikita S. Khrushchev
-President’s 1959 remarks Conv. No. 477-10 (cont.)
-Vietnam
-Economic competition
-US
-Western Europe
-Japan
-PRC
-USSR
-Latin America
-Africa
-Middle East
-Great Power competition
-Population
-PRC
-Investment
-Trade
-Aid package
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Domestic Council
-International economic area
-Difficulties
-US policy
-Strategy
-Historians
-Possible Time-Life cover
-Rogers
-John B. Connally
-Shultz
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Cabinet
-Winton M. (“Red”) Blount
-Defense Department
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 3:00 pm
43
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
President’s schedule
-Arrival of Shultz
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 3:11 pm
US economic position
-Peterson’s outline
Conv. No. 477-10 (cont.)
Shultz entered at 3:11 pm
-Timing
-Bipartisanship
-President’s experiences as congressman
-Marshall Plan
-Bipartisan support
-North Altantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Arthur H. Vandenberg
-Christian A. Herter
-Economic policy
-Foreign policy
-Bipartisanship
-Labor/business
-Isolationism
-Economic plan
-Shultz, Connally, and Peterson
-President’s philosophy
-Peterson’s Time-Life meeting
-Schedule
-President’s meetings with Peterson
-President’s initiatives
-Roy L. Ash Council
-Intra-administration coordination
-Progress
-Opportunity for change in dialogue
-Committees
-Citizens groups
-Composition
-Economists, businessmen, labor
-National leaders
-Committee
-David Rockefeller
-Andre Meyer
44
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Easterners versus Westerners
-Patrick E. Haggerty
-Howard C. Petersen
-International Harvester
-Chicago
-William Blackie
-Caterpillar
-Peoria Conv. No. 477-10 (cont.)
Textiles
-David M. Kennedy
-Schedule
-Stans
-Schedule
-Strategy meeting
-Japan
-Negotiations
-Meeting
-Approach
-President’s position
-Connally, Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-Kissinger
-Laird
-Stans
-Schedule
-Kissinger
-Taiwan
-Military aid
-Korea
-Military aid
-Economics
-President’s schedule
-ASNE meeting
-Schedule
-State Department
-Korea
-Taiwan
-Hong Kong
-Negotiations
-Japan
-Background
45
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-State Department views
-Negotiations
-State Department
-Peterson’s possible conversation with Kissinger
-PRC/Taiwan
-Rogers’ trip to Latin America
-U. Alexis Johnson
Conv. No. 477-10 (cont.)
Peterson left at 3:21 pm
Civil rights
-Black Caucus
-Policy review
-Timing
-Dr. Arthur A. Fletcher
-Ten-year program
-Civil Rights Commission
-Reverend Theodore S. Hesburgh
-Questionnaires to departments and agencies
-Domestic Council and Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Discussion with departments and agencies
-Responses
-Coordination effort
Housing
-Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD] policy
-Review
-Civil Rights Commission
-Policy review
-Forum
-Announcement by President
-General Services Administration [GSA]
-Defense Department policies
-Fair housing for personnel
-GSA site selection criteria
-Public access
-Open housing for employees
-Fair housing element
-Administration’s policy
-Issue
-Degree of sensitivity
46
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-GSA site selection
-Fair housing
-Zoning
-Blacks
-GSA leasing
-Congress
-Policy issue
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS] building in Fresno Conv. No. 477-10 (cont.)
-Possible GSA directive
-Issue
-GSA criteria
-Civil Rights Commission’s questions to GSA
-GSA statement on policy
-Criteria on available housing
-Fair housing
-Assumptions
Federal government employment
-”Philadelphia plan”
-Orders
-Textile cases
-Affirmative action plan
-Federal government requirements
-Minority employment
-OMB goals
-Civil Service Commission [CSC] policy towards agencies
-Timetables
-Remedial action
-Recruiting
-Merit system
-Administration’s policy
-Political considerations
-OMB
-Publicity
-Press releases
-Demagoguery
-Race
-Promotions
-Supergrades
-”Low key”
-CSC
-OMB’s approach
47
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Publicity
-Problems
-Race
-Demagoguery
-Congress
-OMB’s approach
Stans’ trip Conv. No. 477-10 (cont.)
-Europe
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
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[Duration: 53s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
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Shultz left at 3:37 pm
Date: April 12, 1971
Time: 2:30 pm - 3:37 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
Conv. No. 477-9 (cont.)
President’s schedule
-Meeting with Maurice H. Stans
-John N. Mitchell
-Stans
-Schedule
-Mitchell
-Schedule
-Stans
-Schedule
-Peter G. Peterson
-Relationship with Stans
Polls
-President’s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Viewers/non-viewers
-Difference in attitudes
President’s use of media
-Television
-Message
-Television
-Scheduling
-President’s interview with American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE], April
16, 1971
-Radio
-Reporters
-Possible schedule
-Press conference, April 29, 1971
-White House photographers dinner
-Scheduling
-Television appearances
-Frequency
-Oval Office press conference
-Frequency of press conferences
36
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Options
-Schedule
-Evenings prior to press conferences
-Correspondents’ dinner
-Photographers’ dinner
-Friday evenings
Demonstrations Conv. No. 477-10 (cont.)
-Plans of demonstrators
-Dates
-April 24, 1971
-Possible vandalism
-Disruptions
-Dates
-April 25 through May 5, 1971
-Plans
-Blocking bridges and traffic
-Sit-ins
-Interference with unknown employees
-Telephone systems
-Radio
-Hanoi
-Announcement of insurrection and martial law in Washington
-Cutting power sources in Washington
-Rock Creek Park
-Campsite
-Federal troops
-Campus support
-Groups
-National Coalition Against the War
-People’s Coalition for Peace and Justice
-Communists
President’s schedule
-Press conference, April 30, 1971
-Anniversary of Cambodia speech, April 30, 1970
-Florida
-Press conference
-Voluntary action meeting
-Cabinet meeting
-Rescheduling
37
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Preparation
-Oval Office press conference
-Press conference
-Television
-Reviewers
-Editors
-Frank van der Linden
-Allen S. Drury Conv. No. 477-10 (cont.)
-Victor Lasky
-Stories
-Press conference
-Scheduling
-Florida
-Scheduling
-Photographers
-Weekend
-Camp David
-Scheduling
-Sequoia
-Demonstrators
-White House
-Press conference
-Cabinet meeting
-Chamber of Commerce
-Cabinet meeting
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 26s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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Youth
-Richard A. Moore
-High school juniors and seniors
-Potential support
38
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Pliability
-College juniors and seniors
-Objectivity
-Workers
-Letters to classes
-High school graduations
-Radio and television broadcast
-Voters Conv. No. 477-10 (cont.)
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:30 pm
Peterson’s arrival
-Meeting with President
Bull left at an unknown time before 2:50 pm
Paul W. McCracken
-Picture
-Inflation alert announcement
-Schedule
-Photo session
Peterson entered at 2:50 pm
-Book on Vice Presidency
-Interview with President
-President and Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Notes on Vice Presidency
Peterson’s schedule
-Time-Life interview
-Remarks
-Possible questions
-Vietnam
-President’s position
-Questions on negotiations
People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-US relations
-Visit of ping-pong team
Haldeman left at 3:00 pm
39
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Background
-Time-Life
-President’s initiatives
-State Department objections
-Relaxation of trade and travel restrictions
-Timing
-Henry A. Kissinger Conv. No. 477-10 (cont.)
-State Department
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Time-Life
-US position relative to PRC and USSR
-Bridge
-Japanese role
-Broker
-Eisaku Sato
-Trade
-Modus vivendi with US
-Compared with USSR
-Politics/philosophy
-US position
-President’s initiatives
-State Department
-Llewellyn E. (“Tommy”) Thompson, Jr.
-Charles E. (“Chip”) Bohlen
-Warsaw talks
-USSR
-Bureaucracy
-Kremlinologists
-Benefits
-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-Indira Gandhi
-Nicolae Ceausescu
-US-Soviet relations
-US policy
-Chinese/Soviet radio broadcasts
-Sino-Soviet relations
-Ping-pong team visit
-Significance
40
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Opening
-US strategy
-Timing
-PRC suspicion
-Isolation
-Consequences
-US-USSR
-Dangers Conv. No. 477-10 (cont.)
-Nuclear capacity
-Chou En-lai
-Leadership
-Knowledge of non-communist world
-USSR
-US
-Japan
-Isolation
-Dangers
-US policy
-Trade
-Political difficulties
-US alliance with Taiwan
-Korea
-Philippines
-Trade relaxation
-Forthcoming announcement
-Relaxation of trade restrictions
-President’s initiative
-State Department
-Time magazine article
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 3:00 pm
President’s schedule
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 3:11 pm
East-West trade
-Relationship to President’s PRC initiative
-USSR
-US policy
-Yugoslavia
-Romania
41
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Prospects
-Relation to events
-Timing
-Scope
-Difficulties
-Time-Life
-Peterson’s schedule
-Review Conv. No. 477-10 (cont.)
-USSR
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Berlin
-Middle East
-USSR
-Trade credits
-Negotiations
-PRC
-USSR
Productivity Council
-Importance
-US trade position
-Engineers
-Scientists
-Industrial research
-Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Need for US excellence
-Nuclear power
-Administration’s position
State Department
-William P. Rogers
-Peterson
-Reorganization
-Rogers
-George P. Shultz
-Economics
-Foreign Service
-Shultz
-Agnew
-Rogers
42
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
US world position
-Foreign policy
-Economics
-Nuclear parity
-Military parity
-Local wars
-Nikita S. Khrushchev
-President’s 1959 remarks Conv. No. 477-10 (cont.)
-Vietnam
-Economic competition
-US
-Western Europe
-Japan
-PRC
-USSR
-Latin America
-Africa
-Middle East
-Great Power competition
-Population
-PRC
-Investment
-Trade
-Aid package
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Domestic Council
-International economic area
-Difficulties
-US policy
-Strategy
-Historians
-Possible Time-Life cover
-Rogers
-John B. Connally
-Shultz
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Cabinet
-Winton M. (“Red”) Blount
-Defense Department
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 3:00 pm
43
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
President’s schedule
-Arrival of Shultz
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 3:11 pm
US economic position
-Peterson’s outline
Conv. No. 477-10 (cont.)
Shultz entered at 3:11 pm
-Timing
-Bipartisanship
-President’s experiences as congressman
-Marshall Plan
-Bipartisan support
-North Altantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Arthur H. Vandenberg
-Christian A. Herter
-Economic policy
-Foreign policy
-Bipartisanship
-Labor/business
-Isolationism
-Economic plan
-Shultz, Connally, and Peterson
-President’s philosophy
-Peterson’s Time-Life meeting
-Schedule
-President’s meetings with Peterson
-President’s initiatives
-Roy L. Ash Council
-Intra-administration coordination
-Progress
-Opportunity for change in dialogue
-Committees
-Citizens groups
-Composition
-Economists, businessmen, labor
-National leaders
-Committee
-David Rockefeller
-Andre Meyer
44
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Easterners versus Westerners
-Patrick E. Haggerty
-Howard C. Petersen
-International Harvester
-Chicago
-William Blackie
-Caterpillar
-Peoria Conv. No. 477-10 (cont.)
Textiles
-David M. Kennedy
-Schedule
-Stans
-Schedule
-Strategy meeting
-Japan
-Negotiations
-Meeting
-Approach
-President’s position
-Connally, Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-Kissinger
-Laird
-Stans
-Schedule
-Kissinger
-Taiwan
-Military aid
-Korea
-Military aid
-Economics
-President’s schedule
-ASNE meeting
-Schedule
-State Department
-Korea
-Taiwan
-Hong Kong
-Negotiations
-Japan
-Background
45
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-State Department views
-Negotiations
-State Department
-Peterson’s possible conversation with Kissinger
-PRC/Taiwan
-Rogers’ trip to Latin America
-U. Alexis Johnson
Conv. No. 477-10 (cont.)
Peterson left at 3:21 pm
Civil rights
-Black Caucus
-Policy review
-Timing
-Dr. Arthur A. Fletcher
-Ten-year program
-Civil Rights Commission
-Reverend Theodore S. Hesburgh
-Questionnaires to departments and agencies
-Domestic Council and Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Discussion with departments and agencies
-Responses
-Coordination effort
Housing
-Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD] policy
-Review
-Civil Rights Commission
-Policy review
-Forum
-Announcement by President
-General Services Administration [GSA]
-Defense Department policies
-Fair housing for personnel
-GSA site selection criteria
-Public access
-Open housing for employees
-Fair housing element
-Administration’s policy
-Issue
-Degree of sensitivity
46
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-GSA site selection
-Fair housing
-Zoning
-Blacks
-GSA leasing
-Congress
-Policy issue
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS] building in Fresno Conv. No. 477-10 (cont.)
-Possible GSA directive
-Issue
-GSA criteria
-Civil Rights Commission’s questions to GSA
-GSA statement on policy
-Criteria on available housing
-Fair housing
-Assumptions
Federal government employment
-”Philadelphia plan”
-Orders
-Textile cases
-Affirmative action plan
-Federal government requirements
-Minority employment
-OMB goals
-Civil Service Commission [CSC] policy towards agencies
-Timetables
-Remedial action
-Recruiting
-Merit system
-Administration’s policy
-Political considerations
-OMB
-Publicity
-Press releases
-Demagoguery
-Race
-Promotions
-Supergrades
-”Low key”
-CSC
-OMB’s approach
47
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Publicity
-Problems
-Race
-Demagoguery
-Congress
-OMB’s approach
Stans’ trip Conv. No. 477-10 (cont.)
-Europe
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[Non-historical]
[Duration: 53s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
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Shultz left at 3:37 pm