Secret White House Tapes

498–8

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498–8
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • H. R. Haldeman
  • Manolo Sanchez
May 13, 1971
Conversation No. 498-8

Date: May 13, 1971
Time: 1:00 pm - 1:25 pm
Location: Oval Office
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The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Mr. and Mrs. John McCowan
-Visit to the White House
-Thelma (Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon's schedule
-The President's schedule
-Mrs. Nixon's conversation with Stephen B. Bull

The President's schedule
-Mr. and Mrs. McCowan
-Mrs. Nixon
-Senator Edward W. Brooke
-Tree planting ceremony

Supersonic transport [SST]
-Boeing
-William M. Magruder
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Boeing
-Concerns
-Cost of possible cancellation
-Jobs
-Governor Daniel J. Evans, Senators Warren G. (“Maggie”) Magnuson,
Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Concerns

Chicago police
-A poll

President’s Schedule
-Citizens' Committee for Government Reorganization meeting
-Betty Furness
-Joeseph A. Califano, Jr.
-Max M. Fisher
-Businessmen
-Paul W. McCracken's schedule
-The President's schedule
-Voluntary action event
-Meetings with the President
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Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Schedule
-Colleges
-Security

The President's schedule
-Bohemian Grove
-Walter Trohan's letter to Rose Mary Woods Conv. No. 498-8 (cont.)
-Possible demonstrations
-Security concerns
-Press
-Barry M. Goldwater's visit in 1964
-Herbert H. Hoover
-Effect on club

Washington, D.C.

Demonstrations
-Opinion Research Corporation [ORC] poll
-The President's previous conversation with Richard J. Daley
-Chief Jerry V. Wilson
-Daley's views

Chicago police
-Daley's possible statement at Police Appreciation Night
-The President's support
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Adlai E. Stevenson III
-David Frost

Liberals
-The President's policies
-Family assistance
-Ehrlichman
-Environment
-Health

A call by President

Mrs. Nixon
-Schedule
-Staff
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-Oklahoma trip
-Staff
-The President's forthcoming trip to Oklahoma
-Tulsa trip
-Effect
-Possible trip to Texas

Demonstration against North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]Conv. No. 498-8 (cont.)
-Indianapolis event
-Motives
-The President's schedule
-Announcement
-Agnew's schedule

Demonstrations
-J. Edgar Hoover, Ehrlichman, Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Role of communists
-Issues
-Rennie Davis
-Vietnam
-May Day
-Future

\"All In The Family\" show
-Archie Bunker
-Setting, characters
-Success, ratings
-Change in storyline
-Carroll O'Connor

Movies
-Sex as box office attraction

The President's schedule
-Agnew's schedule

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 1:00 pm

The President's lunch

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:25 pm
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Public relations
-Agnew
-John Connally
-Agnew
-Rural Electrification Administration [REA] youth
-The President's schedule as Vice President
-Gridiron Club dinner
-Speeches Conv. No. 498-8 (cont.)
-Compared with President as Vice President, Connally

Haldeman left at 1:25 pm.
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