Secret White House Tapes

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499–4
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • H. R. Haldeman
  • White House operator
  • Thelma C. Ryan "Pat" Nixon
  • Alexander P. Butterfield
  • Stephen B. Bull
May 14, 1971
Conversation No. 499-4

Date: May 14, 1971
Time: 9:15 am - 9:50 am
Location: Oval Office
Conv. No. 499-2/498-1 (cont.)
The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

President's schedule
-Ronald L. Ziegler's forthcoming announcement
-Time
-Red Cross event
-Preparation on plane
-Radio
-Schedules of Elliot L. Richardson, William P. Rogers, Clark MacGregor
-Forthcoming television appearances
-Timing
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Timing
-Red Cross event

North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-An event
-Television network coverage
-Dean G. Acheson
-Comments regarding meeting with President
-Monty Woolley
-John A. Scali
-Troop levels
-Popular opinion
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Administration's goals
-Supersonic Transport [SST]
-President's leadership
-President's position

SST
-William M. Magruder's health
-Gerald R. Ford's efforts
-John A. Volpe's efforts
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)



-Television network coverage of William M. Allen's comments
-John D. Ehrlichman's conversation with Boeing staff

White House Correspondents' Dinner
-Press coverage
-Staff action
-Gridiron Club dinners
-Benefits

Press
-President's relations

Kissinger's schedule
-Brookings Institute directors meeting, May 13, 1971
-American Enterprise Institute [AEI]
-Allen S. Drury interview
-William S. White
-Victor Lasky
-Discussion with President and Haldeman

President's schedule


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Privacy]
[Duration: 5s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3

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-Rose Mary Woods
-Marjorie P. Acker
-Husband
-Woods
-Roger E. Johnson
-Forthcoming conversation with Haldeman
-Departure time
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)



-An unknown man
-Departure time

Thelma C. (Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon's schedule

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4 Conv. No. 499-4 (cont.)
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 13s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)




-Scheduling
-Coral F. Schmid
-Number and type of events
-Page Belcher


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Conv. No. 499-4 (cont.)

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 2m 46s ]


[THE PRESIDENT TALKED WITH THE WHITE HOUSE OPERATOR AT AN UNKNOWN
TIME BETWEEN 9:15 AM AND 9:37 AM]

[Conversation No. 499-4A]

[See Conversation No. 3-50]

[End of telephone conversation]

[THE PRESIDENT TALKED WITH MRS. NIXON BETWEEN 9:37 AM AND 9:38 AM]

[Conversation No. 499-4B]

[See Conversation No. 3-51
[One item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5

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-Importance
-Press conference in Oklahoma
-Texas, North Dakota representatives
-Meeting with governor's wife
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)



-Press conference
-Future events after Tricia Nixon Cox's wedding
-Duration of visits
-Oklahoma trips
-Plane, press coverage
-National press, local press
-Size of plane and other attendees
-Schmid Conv. No. 499-4 (cont.)
-Belcher
-Importance in South and Midwest
-Staff

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 9:38 am.

President's schedule
-Max M. Fisher
-Length of meeting
-McCracken
-Purpose of meeting

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 9:55 am.

-Rose Garden event
-Press coverage
-Charles H. Percy
-Press
-Illinois attendees
-Number of events, May 14, 1971
-Rose Garden event
-Percy
-Press coverage
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Prisoners of war [POW] event
-Jacob A. Preus
-Press coverage
-Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid
-Kissinger
-Kissinger's role
-Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid
-Labor
-Congress of Industrial Organizations [CIO]
-American Friends Service
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)



-Church World Service
-Congregational Christians
-Kissinger
-Jewish Organizations
-Hadassah
-Brookings Institute
-Fisher
-Purpose of meeting Conv. No. 499-4 (cont.)
-McCracken
-Jews, businessmen
-Preus
-Fisher
-Previous White House dinners
-Encounters with staff
-Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid
-Length of meeting with President
-Kissinger
-Tour, other meetings
-Pan American foreign club [?]
-Press coverage
-Ziegler
-President's trips
-Newsmen's wives
-Changes
-Johnson
-John N. Mitchell
-Rogers
-Mitchell

US forces in Europe
-President's conversation with Cyrus R. Vance, April 13, 1971
-Hubert H. Humphrey, Edmund S. Muskie positions
-Haldeman's possible conversation with Clark MacGregor
-Kissinger, Rogers

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:38 am.

President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:55 am.

-John McCowan
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)



-Identified
-Mrs. Nixon
-Mrs. Nixon's meeting

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[Personal Returnable] Conv. No. 499-4 (cont.)
[Duration: 1m 58s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6

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SST
-Connally
-Boeing's actions
-Business
-Lesson for youth and labor
-Termination costs

President's schedule
-Florida trip
-Price and his secretary
-Woods

Haldeman left at 9:50 am.
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