Secret White House Tapes

501–12

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501–12
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Rose Mary Woods
  • Henry A. Kissinger
  • H. R. Haldeman
May 19, 1971
Conversation No. 501-12

Date: May 19, 1971
Time: 12:07 pm - 12:28 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

Greetings
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Weather

White House entertainment and social affairs
-Entertainers at White House dinners
-Stephen B. Bull
-Unknown entertainer
-Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope
-Richard (“Red”) Skeleton
-Pearl M. Bailey
-John Wayne
-Unknown entertainer
-Support for the President
-Visits to the White House


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 3m 3s ]


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Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Trip to Greece, Corfu, Majorca
-Accommodations


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[Duration: 36s ]


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An unknown man
-Health
-A letter from President

Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Cabinet wives' luncheon Conv. No. 501-12 (cont.)

Woods
-An honorary degree from Pfeiffer College
-A luncheon
-Woods’ speech
-Commencement speaker
-A rabbi from Springfield, Massachusetts
-Speech
-Work as Indiana prison chaplain
-Letter from Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Milton and Emily Rose
-Woods’ speech
-Service with the President
-Woods’ television speech
-Woods’ television interview
-Terence Cardinal Cooke
-Demonstrators
-Washington, DC demonstrators
-President's position
-Interviewer's response
-Charlotte, North Carolina
-President's previous trip to Pfeiffer College in 1965
-Milton Rose
-President’s previous visit to [Forename unknown] Babcock’s home
-A trustee's recollection
-Woods’ Charlotte, North Carolina television interview
-Distribution
-Trip
-Commencement events
-Weather
-Comments to Woods regarding support for President

Joe [Surname unknown]
-Speech at policeman's event in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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-Support for President


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[Duration: 1m 19s ] Conv. No. 501-12 (cont.)


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William P. Rogers

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 12:24 pm.

Woods
-Honorary degree form Pfeiffer College

J. William Fulbright
-Visit to Soviet Embassy

Woods left at 12:24 pm.

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Agreement
-Language of text
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Changes
-Process of amendment

[H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman talked with the President between 12:24 pm and 12:25 pm]

[Conversation No. 501-12A]

[See Conversation No. 3-65]

[End of telephone conversation]
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SALT talks
-US relations with Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Dobrynin
-Wheat and grain
-A British computer
-U. Alexis Johnson
-Meeting with Dobrynin
-Soviet Jews Conv. No. 501-12 (cont.)
-Timing
-Kissinger’s schedule

Melvin R. Laird
-Memo on Vietnamese defense mechanization
-Special Research Group [SRG]
-Possible effect
-Possible leak
-Meeting with Kissinger

Kissinger left at 12:28 pm.
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