Secret White House Tapes

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618–23
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • George E. Allen
  • White House photographer
November 15, 1971
Conversation No. 618-23

Date: November 15, 1971
Time: 12:18 pm - 12:50 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with George E. Allen; the White House photographer was present at the
beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

Photograph session

Refreshments

Allen's schedule
-Palm Springs
-Herbert W. Kalmbach

The President's schedule
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 618-22 (cont.)


-Allen
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Allen's story regarding Dwight D. Eisenhower
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Kalmbach

Budget
-Continuing resolution
-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
-District of Columbia [DC] funds
-Defense Department
-Congress action
-Possible furloughs for federal employees
-Harry S. Truman
-Congress
-1948

John C. Stennis
-Allen’s schedule
-Conversation with the President
-Amendment regarding Cambodian aid
-Senate

[Forename unknown] Brennan [sp?]
-Georgetown

Allen
-Southern congressmen

Foreign aid
-House vote on continuing resolution
-Southern Democrats
-The President's conversation with John N. Mitchell and Clark MacGregor
-Forthcoming elections

Allen
-Political background
-Democratic National Committee [DNC]
-Truman
-DNC
-Ed Blake [?]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 618-23 (cont.)


-Frank Walker
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Conversation with Truman
-Voting

Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Feelings toward Truman

Truman
-Intelligence
-Allen’s view
-Eisenhower
-Dean G. Acheson

Acheson

National economy
-Foreign aid
-United Nations [UN]
-US standard of living
-Trade

UN

The President's performance in office
-Washington Post

Demonstrations

The press
-Relations with the President
-The President's previous press conference

Vietnam
-Previous troop withdrawal announcement
-Negotiations
-Prisoners of war [POWs]

National economy
-Stock market
-Phase II
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 618-23 (cont.)


-Status
-Contrasted with 1968
-War and inflation
-Unemployment
-Inflation
-The President's program
-Phase II
-Effect on the stock market

US relations with People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Taiwan, Republic of China
-US relations with Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] and Japan
-Louis's [Surname unknown] views

Henry A. Kissinger
-Lyndon B. Johnson and Truman

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

John B. Connally
-Edmund S. Muskie, Edward M. Kennedy and Hubert H. Humphrey

Kennedy
-Presidential prospects
-Youth, blacks, women

The Vice President

Henry A. Wallace
-Edwin W. Pauley
-Nomination of Roosevelt in 1944

Roosevelt
-Health in 1944
-Schedule
-Edwin M. (“Pa”) Watson
-Conversation regarding Wallace
-Walker
-Edward J. Flynn
-Edward J. Kelly
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 618-23 (cont.)


The Vice President


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Politics
-Money
-Vice Presidency
-Money
-Television
-Truman's 1948 campaign
-Louis A. Johnson
-David K.E. Bruce
-William P. Lane, Jr.
-Bernard M. Baruch

UN vote on Taiwan
-Delegates' reaction
-George H. W. Bush

Presidency
-The President's schedule
-Eisenhower
-Golf
-Truman
-Poker
-Perspective
-The President's handling
-Polls
-Truman
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 618-23 (cont.)


Politics
-Money and the Vice Presidency
-Importance

Youth
-Drug addiction
-Efforts of presidency
-Allen's employee's views
-University of California

Justin W. Dart

Asa V. Call
-Health
-[Forename unknown] Friedman's [sp?] report
-Allen's confirmation to Reconstruction Finance Corporation
-[Forename unknown] Bartlett
-William F. Knowland

National economy
-Money supply
-Arthur F. Burns
-William McChesney Martin
-The President's program
-Burns
-Forthcoming conversation with Allen
-1960 election
-Martin
-Robert B. Anderson
-Connally's views
-Unemployment

Harry L. Hopkins

National economy
-Employment
-Hopkins
-Work Projects Administration [WPA]
-Roosevelt
-Public Works Administration [PWA]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 618-23 (cont.)


Presentation of gifts by the President

Story
-Nikita S. Khrushchev
-Josef V. Stalin
-Letters

Allen left at 12:50 pm.
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