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501–29
- President Richard M. Nixon
- H. R. Haldeman
- Stephen B. Bull
- Henry A. Kissinger
- John A. Scali
- Ronald L. Ziegler
- Donald H. Rumsfeld
- Robert H. Finch
May 19, 1971
Conversation No. 501-29
Date: May 19, 1971
Time: 4:38 pm - 6:10 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman. Conv. No. 501-26 (cont.)
Charles McC. Mathias Amendment
-Vote
-John G. Tower
-Democrats' strategy
-Possible support administration
-Michael J. Mansfield Amendment
-$50 million
-Potomac River announcement
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:38 pm.
President's schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger, Ronald L. Ziegler
-Kissinger's phone call regarding Mathias Amendment
Bull left at an unknown time before 4:44 pm.
-Donald H. Rumsfeld and Robert H. Finch
William P. Rogers and Kissinger
-Nature of relationship
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] agreement
-USSR
-John A. Scali and Ziegler
-Haldeman's conversation with Rogers, May 19
Kissinger entered at an unknown time after 4:38 pm.
SALT agreement announcement
Mathias Amendment
-Vote
-Kissinger's attempted call to John Sherman Cooper
56
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
SALT agreement
-Announcement
-Wording
-Kissinger’s recommendation
Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:38 pm
Call from Cooper
Bull and Kissinger left at an unknown time before 4:44 pm.
SALT agreement
-Meeting with Legislative leaders
-Meeting with the Cabinet
Ziegler and Scali entered at 4:44 pm.
-Kissinger's briefings for media
-Number attending
-Washington Star
-Attendees
-Wire services, television
-Limits
-Television coverage
-Delivery of announcement
-Kissinger's briefing for media
-Delivery
-Selection of attendees
-Content
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Development of agreement
-President's role
Kissinger entered at an unknown time after 4:44 pm.
Kissinger's call to Cooper
-Cooper's May 19, 1971 votes
-Mathias Amendment vote
SALT
-Kissinger's briefing
57
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Points
-Meeting with Congressional leaders
-Announcement
-Wording
-Kissinger's briefing
-Nature of breakthrough
-Previous stalemate
-Announcement Conv. No. 501-29 (cont.)
-Release to press
-President's presentation
-Kissinger's briefing
-Stalemate
-USSR
-Defensive weapons
-US position
-Comprehensive agreement
-President's previous press conferences
-President's role, USSR role
-Offensive and defensive weapons
-Negotiations
-Procedural questions
-SALT delegation
-Possible questions
-Timetable for agreement
-President’s foreign policy report
-President’s previous press conferences
-Development of agreement
-Kissinger’s previous briefings
-Scali
-Possible questions
-Congressional Leaders
-President’s role
-Aleksei N. Kosygin role
-Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions [MBFR]
-Kissinger's briefings
-Linkage to MBFR
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Role in negotiations
-Forthcoming NATO meeting
-Rogers
-Development of agreement
-Study of the issue
58
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-National Security Council [NSC]
-President's role
-USSR reaction
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-USSR role
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Conv. No. 501-29 (cont.)
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[National Security]
[Duration: 55s ]
PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA [PRC]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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-PRC
-President's speech to American Red Cross, May 19, 1971
-Kissinger's briefings
-White House activity
-Senate votes
-Mathias Amendment
-NATO, troop reductions
-Vietnam
-Cooper
-Development of agreement
-President's role
-Dobrynin
-Leader's meeting
-Kissinger's briefings
-Hubert H. Humphrey's speech, President's role
-Senate
-Mansfield Amendment
-J. William Fulbright
-President's role
-Development of agreement
59
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Gerard C. Smith
-Safeguard
-Vladimir S. Semenov
-Schedule
-Smith's role
-Attendees
-Chalmers Roberts
-Conservative columnists Conv. No. 501-29 (cont.)
-James J. Kilpatrick
-William F. Buckley
-Richard (“Dick”) Wilson
-William S. White
-Kilpatrick, Buckley, Wilson
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer's and Smith's response
-Future
-Development of agreement
-Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-NSC
-Rogers
-Bureaucracy
-Knowledge
-Possible responses
-Rogers
-Smith
-Kissinger's briefing
Robert H. Finch and Donald H. Rumsfeld entered at 5:13 pm.
Kissinger's schedule
-Kissinger's previous trip to Palm Springs
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 17
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 1m 46s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 17
60
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
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Haldeman, Kissinger, Scali, and Ziegler left at 5:16 pm.
Finch's and Rumsfeld's trip
-Report
-President’s approval
-Josip Broz Tito Conv. No. 501-29 (cont.)
-An unknown group
-Possible exchange program
-Tito's future visit
-Possible appearance by unknown group
-Carol (Crothers) Finch and Joyce (Pierson) Rumsfeld
-Talks with embassy wives
-Ambassador's wife
-State Department
-Rigidity of tradition
-Talks with embassy staff
-Interest in US
-Domestic programs
-Welfare
-Information from news magazines
-Response to President
Lyndon B. Johnson
-Travel
-Foreign policy
-Europe
Finch's and Rumsfeld's trip
-Response to US
-US economic policy
-Variety of perspectives articulated
-John B. Connally, George P. Shultz
US economic policy
-Variety of perspectives articulated
-Arthur F. Burns
-Treasury Department
-Paul W. McCracken and Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Shultz
-Maurice H. Stans
61
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-US inflation
-Effect abroad
World economy
-Milton Friedman's article \"The Mark Crisis\"
-Willy Brandt
-Economic policies
-Impact Conv. No. 501-29 (cont.)
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[National Security]
[Duration: 56s ]
EUROPE
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
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Finch's and Rumsfeld's trip
-Spain
-Future
-Yugoslavia
-Tito
-Unifying effect
-History
-Balkans, USSR
-Croats, Serbs
-Rumania
-Economy
-Compared to Yugoslavia
-Compared to West and East Berlin
-People
-President's previous trip
-Computer development needs
-Mrs. Finch's and Mrs. Rumsfeld's response
62
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Paris, Rome, Vienna, London
-Meeting with Pope Paul Vi
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 19
[National Security] Conv. No. 501-29 (cont.)
[Duration: 18s ]
VATICAN
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 19
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-Mrs. Finch and Mrs. Rumsfeld
-Black dress
-Gifts
-Photograph
-Vietnam
-Gregorio Lopez Bravo de Castro
-US troop levels
-South Vietnam
-Needs
-PRC initiative
-Middle East
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 15
[National Security]
[Duration: 36s ]
EUROPE
63
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 15
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-East
-West trade
-John P. Humes Conv. No. 501-29 (cont.)
-Congressional views
-Vietnam's effects
-Laws
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 16
[National Security]
[Duration: 52s ]
EUROPE
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 16
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-D. Kenneth Rush
-Berlin negotiations
-Efforts
-Professional history
-Previous law experience
-Union carbide
-Walter H. Annenberg's residence
-Juan Cortez[?], bullfighter
-Photograph with Nixon tieclasp
-Robert F. Kennedy
-Popularity
-Attendance by Finch and Rumsfeld at bullfight
-Gift to the President
-PRC and USSR
-Communications by Finch and Rumsfeld
64
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-President's reading
-Kissinger
Drugs
-Military
-Possible congressional investigation
-Draft extension, Volunteer Army
-Usage Conv. No. 501-29 (cont.)
-Statement regarding importance
-Solutions
-Discipline
-Gen. Andrew J. Goodpaster
[Unintelligible]
Finch's and Rumsfeld’s’ trip
-United Nations [UN] Amendment on drugs
-President's position
-Importance of US foreign policy
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 20
[National Security]
[Duration: 2m 3s ]
VATICAN
MOROCCO
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 20
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-Spain
-Luis Carrero-Blanco
-Future
-President’s view
65
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-U.S. ambassadors
-Rush
-William Leonart
-Robert C. Hill
-Future
-New Hampshire politics
-A letter
Conv. No. 501-29 (cont.)
**********************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 39s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
**********************************************************************
-Leonard C. Meeker
-Humes
-Graham A. Martin
-Impression
-Dinner with Finch and Rumsfeld
-Meeting with staff
-Report to Rogers
-Kissinger
-Idar Rimestad
-Possible future congressional candidacy
-Wayne N. Aspinall
-Finances
-John D.J. Moore in Ireland
-Ann H(emmingway) Watson (Mrs. Arthur Watson)
-Children
-Meeting with President
-Ambassador's residence
-Need
-Lunch, food
-Chef
-Charles A.J.M. de Gaulle's funeral
66
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
-Stuart W. Rockwell
-Stay in England
-Annenberg
-Britannia
-Meeting with staff
-US embassies
-Annenberg Conv. No. 501-29 (cont.)
-Staff
-Annenberg’s views
-Staff in Paris
-Two unnamed Princeton classmates of Rumsfeld's
-Arthur Watson's work
-R. Sargeant Shriver's work
-Holmes[?], Steigman[?], and Culley[?] [Forenames unknown]
-Holmes’ father, Julius C. Holmes
-Service under Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Policy statements
-Holmes’ work
-Career Foreign Service officers
-State Department knowledge of politics
-Edward M. Korry
-Compared with Finch
-John F. Kennedy
-Political knowledge
-Al [Surname unintelligible]
-Congressional race
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 18
[Privacy]
[Duration: 18s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 18
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-Staff in London
67
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-A Conservative Democrat [name unintelligible]
-[Name unintelligible]
-British Parliament
-Ireland
-Parliament
-Population
-History
-Potato Famine Conv. No. 501-29 (cont.)
-Future trips
-Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America
-Use in speeches
-A letter
-Hill
-Francisco Franco to Johnson
-Views on Vietnam War
[Unintelligible]
**********************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 12
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 59s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 12
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Campaign practices
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Hill's information from Maine attorney general, James S. Erwin
**********************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 13
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 5m 37s ]
68
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 13
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Politics
-Incumbency Conv. No. 501-29 (cont.)
-William Howard Taft
-[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson
-Herbert C. Hoover
-Johnson
-Vietnam War, economy
-Possible 1968 race
-Johnson
-Compared to Humphrey
-Critics
-Travel
-Reaction
-Television coverage
-Compared with coverage of the President
-President's schedule
-May 21, 1971 dedication of the Johnson Library
Finch's and Rumsfeld's trip
-Forthcoming press conference
-Kissinger
-Backgrounders
-Meetings with Rogers
Middle East
-Rogers’ work in Middle East
-Emphasis in Finch and Rumsfeld’s upcoming press conference
-Comment in May 20, 1971 Cabinet meeting
-State Department meeting
-Anwar el-Sadat
-Unknown staffer’s view
-Rogers’ statements in previous Cabinet meeting
US foreign policy
-Finch and Rumsfeld’s upcoming statements
-Vietnam
69
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-USSR
-PRC
-Europe
-President's travels, Johnson's travels
-Norse Capitals
-NATO
-Cooperation
-Western Europe Conv. No. 501-29 (cont.)
-World wars
-Deaths
-Peace
-Bipartisan nature of establishment
-Future
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 14
[National Security]
[Duration: 1m 36s ]
EUROPE
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 14
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Drugs
-Problem in military
-Finch's and Rumsfeld's efforts
-President's meeting with Arthur G. (“Art”) Linkletter
-Linkletter's speeches at schools
-Possible tour of military bases in Europe
-Linkletter's daughter
-Compared with alcohol
-Causes
-Diversion for military troops
-Need for community among troops
-Volunteer Army
70
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
A memo from Rumsfeld regarding Special Trade Representative
-Peter M. Flanigan
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Future meeting with President
Finch and Rumsfeld left at 6:10 pm.
Conv. No. 501-29 (cont.)
Date: May 19, 1971
Time: 4:38 pm - 6:10 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman. Conv. No. 501-26 (cont.)
Charles McC. Mathias Amendment
-Vote
-John G. Tower
-Democrats' strategy
-Possible support administration
-Michael J. Mansfield Amendment
-$50 million
-Potomac River announcement
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:38 pm.
President's schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger, Ronald L. Ziegler
-Kissinger's phone call regarding Mathias Amendment
Bull left at an unknown time before 4:44 pm.
-Donald H. Rumsfeld and Robert H. Finch
William P. Rogers and Kissinger
-Nature of relationship
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] agreement
-USSR
-John A. Scali and Ziegler
-Haldeman's conversation with Rogers, May 19
Kissinger entered at an unknown time after 4:38 pm.
SALT agreement announcement
Mathias Amendment
-Vote
-Kissinger's attempted call to John Sherman Cooper
56
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
SALT agreement
-Announcement
-Wording
-Kissinger’s recommendation
Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:38 pm
Call from Cooper
Bull and Kissinger left at an unknown time before 4:44 pm.
SALT agreement
-Meeting with Legislative leaders
-Meeting with the Cabinet
Ziegler and Scali entered at 4:44 pm.
-Kissinger's briefings for media
-Number attending
-Washington Star
-Attendees
-Wire services, television
-Limits
-Television coverage
-Delivery of announcement
-Kissinger's briefing for media
-Delivery
-Selection of attendees
-Content
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Development of agreement
-President's role
Kissinger entered at an unknown time after 4:44 pm.
Kissinger's call to Cooper
-Cooper's May 19, 1971 votes
-Mathias Amendment vote
SALT
-Kissinger's briefing
57
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Points
-Meeting with Congressional leaders
-Announcement
-Wording
-Kissinger's briefing
-Nature of breakthrough
-Previous stalemate
-Announcement Conv. No. 501-29 (cont.)
-Release to press
-President's presentation
-Kissinger's briefing
-Stalemate
-USSR
-Defensive weapons
-US position
-Comprehensive agreement
-President's previous press conferences
-President's role, USSR role
-Offensive and defensive weapons
-Negotiations
-Procedural questions
-SALT delegation
-Possible questions
-Timetable for agreement
-President’s foreign policy report
-President’s previous press conferences
-Development of agreement
-Kissinger’s previous briefings
-Scali
-Possible questions
-Congressional Leaders
-President’s role
-Aleksei N. Kosygin role
-Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions [MBFR]
-Kissinger's briefings
-Linkage to MBFR
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Role in negotiations
-Forthcoming NATO meeting
-Rogers
-Development of agreement
-Study of the issue
58
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-National Security Council [NSC]
-President's role
-USSR reaction
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-USSR role
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Conv. No. 501-29 (cont.)
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[National Security]
[Duration: 55s ]
PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA [PRC]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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-PRC
-President's speech to American Red Cross, May 19, 1971
-Kissinger's briefings
-White House activity
-Senate votes
-Mathias Amendment
-NATO, troop reductions
-Vietnam
-Cooper
-Development of agreement
-President's role
-Dobrynin
-Leader's meeting
-Kissinger's briefings
-Hubert H. Humphrey's speech, President's role
-Senate
-Mansfield Amendment
-J. William Fulbright
-President's role
-Development of agreement
59
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Gerard C. Smith
-Safeguard
-Vladimir S. Semenov
-Schedule
-Smith's role
-Attendees
-Chalmers Roberts
-Conservative columnists Conv. No. 501-29 (cont.)
-James J. Kilpatrick
-William F. Buckley
-Richard (“Dick”) Wilson
-William S. White
-Kilpatrick, Buckley, Wilson
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer's and Smith's response
-Future
-Development of agreement
-Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-NSC
-Rogers
-Bureaucracy
-Knowledge
-Possible responses
-Rogers
-Smith
-Kissinger's briefing
Robert H. Finch and Donald H. Rumsfeld entered at 5:13 pm.
Kissinger's schedule
-Kissinger's previous trip to Palm Springs
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 17
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 1m 46s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 17
60
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
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Haldeman, Kissinger, Scali, and Ziegler left at 5:16 pm.
Finch's and Rumsfeld's trip
-Report
-President’s approval
-Josip Broz Tito Conv. No. 501-29 (cont.)
-An unknown group
-Possible exchange program
-Tito's future visit
-Possible appearance by unknown group
-Carol (Crothers) Finch and Joyce (Pierson) Rumsfeld
-Talks with embassy wives
-Ambassador's wife
-State Department
-Rigidity of tradition
-Talks with embassy staff
-Interest in US
-Domestic programs
-Welfare
-Information from news magazines
-Response to President
Lyndon B. Johnson
-Travel
-Foreign policy
-Europe
Finch's and Rumsfeld's trip
-Response to US
-US economic policy
-Variety of perspectives articulated
-John B. Connally, George P. Shultz
US economic policy
-Variety of perspectives articulated
-Arthur F. Burns
-Treasury Department
-Paul W. McCracken and Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Shultz
-Maurice H. Stans
61
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-US inflation
-Effect abroad
World economy
-Milton Friedman's article \"The Mark Crisis\"
-Willy Brandt
-Economic policies
-Impact Conv. No. 501-29 (cont.)
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[National Security]
[Duration: 56s ]
EUROPE
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
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Finch's and Rumsfeld's trip
-Spain
-Future
-Yugoslavia
-Tito
-Unifying effect
-History
-Balkans, USSR
-Croats, Serbs
-Rumania
-Economy
-Compared to Yugoslavia
-Compared to West and East Berlin
-People
-President's previous trip
-Computer development needs
-Mrs. Finch's and Mrs. Rumsfeld's response
62
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Paris, Rome, Vienna, London
-Meeting with Pope Paul Vi
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 19
[National Security] Conv. No. 501-29 (cont.)
[Duration: 18s ]
VATICAN
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 19
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-Mrs. Finch and Mrs. Rumsfeld
-Black dress
-Gifts
-Photograph
-Vietnam
-Gregorio Lopez Bravo de Castro
-US troop levels
-South Vietnam
-Needs
-PRC initiative
-Middle East
******************************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 15
[National Security]
[Duration: 36s ]
EUROPE
63
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 15
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-East
-West trade
-John P. Humes Conv. No. 501-29 (cont.)
-Congressional views
-Vietnam's effects
-Laws
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 16
[National Security]
[Duration: 52s ]
EUROPE
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 16
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-D. Kenneth Rush
-Berlin negotiations
-Efforts
-Professional history
-Previous law experience
-Union carbide
-Walter H. Annenberg's residence
-Juan Cortez[?], bullfighter
-Photograph with Nixon tieclasp
-Robert F. Kennedy
-Popularity
-Attendance by Finch and Rumsfeld at bullfight
-Gift to the President
-PRC and USSR
-Communications by Finch and Rumsfeld
64
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-President's reading
-Kissinger
Drugs
-Military
-Possible congressional investigation
-Draft extension, Volunteer Army
-Usage Conv. No. 501-29 (cont.)
-Statement regarding importance
-Solutions
-Discipline
-Gen. Andrew J. Goodpaster
[Unintelligible]
Finch's and Rumsfeld’s’ trip
-United Nations [UN] Amendment on drugs
-President's position
-Importance of US foreign policy
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 20
[National Security]
[Duration: 2m 3s ]
VATICAN
MOROCCO
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 20
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-Spain
-Luis Carrero-Blanco
-Future
-President’s view
65
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-U.S. ambassadors
-Rush
-William Leonart
-Robert C. Hill
-Future
-New Hampshire politics
-A letter
Conv. No. 501-29 (cont.)
**********************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 39s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
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-Leonard C. Meeker
-Humes
-Graham A. Martin
-Impression
-Dinner with Finch and Rumsfeld
-Meeting with staff
-Report to Rogers
-Kissinger
-Idar Rimestad
-Possible future congressional candidacy
-Wayne N. Aspinall
-Finances
-John D.J. Moore in Ireland
-Ann H(emmingway) Watson (Mrs. Arthur Watson)
-Children
-Meeting with President
-Ambassador's residence
-Need
-Lunch, food
-Chef
-Charles A.J.M. de Gaulle's funeral
66
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
-Stuart W. Rockwell
-Stay in England
-Annenberg
-Britannia
-Meeting with staff
-US embassies
-Annenberg Conv. No. 501-29 (cont.)
-Staff
-Annenberg’s views
-Staff in Paris
-Two unnamed Princeton classmates of Rumsfeld's
-Arthur Watson's work
-R. Sargeant Shriver's work
-Holmes[?], Steigman[?], and Culley[?] [Forenames unknown]
-Holmes’ father, Julius C. Holmes
-Service under Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Policy statements
-Holmes’ work
-Career Foreign Service officers
-State Department knowledge of politics
-Edward M. Korry
-Compared with Finch
-John F. Kennedy
-Political knowledge
-Al [Surname unintelligible]
-Congressional race
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 18
[Privacy]
[Duration: 18s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 18
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-Staff in London
67
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-A Conservative Democrat [name unintelligible]
-[Name unintelligible]
-British Parliament
-Ireland
-Parliament
-Population
-History
-Potato Famine Conv. No. 501-29 (cont.)
-Future trips
-Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America
-Use in speeches
-A letter
-Hill
-Francisco Franco to Johnson
-Views on Vietnam War
[Unintelligible]
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 12
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 59s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 12
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Campaign practices
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Hill's information from Maine attorney general, James S. Erwin
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Politics
-Incumbency Conv. No. 501-29 (cont.)
-William Howard Taft
-[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson
-Herbert C. Hoover
-Johnson
-Vietnam War, economy
-Possible 1968 race
-Johnson
-Compared to Humphrey
-Critics
-Travel
-Reaction
-Television coverage
-Compared with coverage of the President
-President's schedule
-May 21, 1971 dedication of the Johnson Library
Finch's and Rumsfeld's trip
-Forthcoming press conference
-Kissinger
-Backgrounders
-Meetings with Rogers
Middle East
-Rogers’ work in Middle East
-Emphasis in Finch and Rumsfeld’s upcoming press conference
-Comment in May 20, 1971 Cabinet meeting
-State Department meeting
-Anwar el-Sadat
-Unknown staffer’s view
-Rogers’ statements in previous Cabinet meeting
US foreign policy
-Finch and Rumsfeld’s upcoming statements
-Vietnam
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-USSR
-PRC
-Europe
-President's travels, Johnson's travels
-Norse Capitals
-NATO
-Cooperation
-Western Europe Conv. No. 501-29 (cont.)
-World wars
-Deaths
-Peace
-Bipartisan nature of establishment
-Future
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EUROPE
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Drugs
-Problem in military
-Finch's and Rumsfeld's efforts
-President's meeting with Arthur G. (“Art”) Linkletter
-Linkletter's speeches at schools
-Possible tour of military bases in Europe
-Linkletter's daughter
-Compared with alcohol
-Causes
-Diversion for military troops
-Need for community among troops
-Volunteer Army
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A memo from Rumsfeld regarding Special Trade Representative
-Peter M. Flanigan
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Future meeting with President
Finch and Rumsfeld left at 6:10 pm.
Conv. No. 501-29 (cont.)
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