497–1

Conversation No. 497-1

Date: May 11, 1971
Time: 11:04 am - 11:20 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman at 11:04 am.
[The recording begins at an unknown time while the meeting is in progress.]
[Discontinuities appear in the original recording.]

Wire services

National parks
-President's program
-National Park Service
-President's interview with Robert B. Semple, Jr.
-Parks in west
-New York City

Research and development
-Contributions by private industry
-Prototypes
-Subsidies by foreign governments
-Japan, Great Britain, France, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-President's conversation with Kenneth R. Cole
-Breeder reactor, moon shots
-Desalinization of water
-President's conversation with Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.
-William L. Safire
-Possible prototype plants
-Southern California, Texas
-Federal budget
-National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]
-Department of the Interior
-John W. O'Meara[?]
-Bureau of Salinization
-Head of Office of Saline Water in California, Chung-Ming Wong
-Cancer program
-Water
-Breeder reactor
-Prototype plant in California
-Federal budget
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-Desalinization
-Phraseology
-Federal water projects
-John B. Connally's comments
-Dam projects
-Water tables in west
-Phoenix and Texas
-Connally's comment
-Southern California, Pacific Northwest
-Colorado River
-Relations with Mexico
-Federal budget
-Cost of water in Mideast[?]
-Government subsidy
-Schools
-Roads
-Bureau of Reclamation
-Bureau of Land Management
-President's program
-David
-Pilot plants in California
-Size
-Federal budget
-Head of Office of Saline Water
-Wong
-Travels
-Israel, Arabia, Mideast
-Saudi Arabia
-Wife
-Meetings with Haldeman at Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles
-Connally
-Atomic power
-Ehrlichman's conversation with Glenn T. Seaborg
-Oak Ridge
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Possible trip by President to Texas, California or Oak Ridge
-Previous trip to Oak Ridge
-Tennessee Valley Authority [TVA]
-Possible trip by President
-Brownsville, Texas
-National growth policy
-Pilot plant
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-Importance
-Drought, farmers
-[Forename unknown] Marsh[?]
-Space program
-Texas Congressmen
-Public opinion
-USSR
-Reorganization Conv. 497-1 (cont.)
-NASA
-Office of Saline Water
-Cancer program
-Atomic energy
-State Department
-NASA
-Rogers C.B. Morton
-NASA
-A presentation
-An unknown man
-Size of program, requirements for director
-Breeder reactor
-Public opinion
-Benefits
-Duration of program
-Desalinization
-Bureaucratic organization
-David
-William M. Magruder
-Supersonic Transport [SST] work
-Job offer
-Salary
-Size and location of program
-California, Texas, Camp Pendleton, California, Orange
County, California

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:04 am

The President's schedule
-William B. Saxbe
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Henry A. Kissinger[?]

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:20 am
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

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(rev. 9/08)



Research and development
-Desalinization
-David
-A meeting
-Program
-Bureaucratic organization
-Department of Interior
-Cancer program Conv. 497-1 (cont.)
-NASA
-Location of pilot plants
-Texas, California

Haldeman and Ehrlichman left at 11:20 am