Conversation No. 505‑21/506‑1

Date:  May 28, 1971
Time:  11:43 am ‑ 12:08 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Torben Ronne and Henry A. Kissinger.

[An unknown portion of the conversation was not recorded while the tape was changed]

People's Republic of China [PRC]
‑US relations
‑Soviet Union relations
-Relations with world
‑PRC initiative
-US objectives
-World peace
‑Travel
‑Trade

Soviet Union
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
‑Conversation between Danish Foreign Minister and Soviet Ambassador Semyon K. Tsarapkin
‑North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
‑Tsarapkin
‑Travel
‑Norway
‑Denmark
‑Tsarapkin
‑Leonid I. Brezhnev speech
‑William P. Rogers
‑Brezhnev speech
-US position
-NATO
-Vietnam
‑Ronne's appreciation
-Troop levels

The Vietnam War
-US politics
-Compared to Great Britain
-US involvement
‑Denmark

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DENMARK

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US-Denmark relations

Presentation of gifts by the President
‑Cuff links

President=s greetings to the Danish Prime Minister

Invitation
July 4th

Ronne and Kissinger left at 12:08 pm.

Conversation No. 506‑2

Date:  May 28, 1971
Time:  12:09 pm ‑ 12:13 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with James Suffridge, James Housewright, William McGuire, and Charles W. Colson; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

Gold

Retail Clerks International Association
-Membership

Retail sales conference
‑Unknown person

Church
‑Prayer
‑Location

Presentation of gifts by the President
‑Cuff links
‑Golf balls
‑Donald McI. Kendall
‑Pepsi Cola
‑Wilson Sporting Goods

Invitation
-Date

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:09 pm.

Picture

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:13 pm.

Gifts
‑Preacher
‑Note by the President
‑Duke University
‑Ethnicity

Saudi Arabia
‑Gift
-Presidential library

Oval Office
‑Decor

Suffridge, et. al., left at 12:13 pm.

Conversation No. 506‑3

Date:  May 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:13 pm and 12:14 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
‑Harry S. Dent
‑Meeting with the President

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:14 pm.

Conversation No. 506‑4

Date:  May 28, 1971
Time:  12:14 pm ‑ 12:18 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with [Henry] J. (AJack@) Heinz and Harry S. Dent; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

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[Duration:  4m 35s  ]

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US foreign policy
- The Soviet Union
‑People=s Republic of China [PRC]

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[Duration:  29s  ]

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Presentation of gifts by the President
‑Cuff links
‑Golf balls
‑Heinz's family
‑Children
‑Gift
‑Pen
-Father

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[Duration:  34s  ]

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Heinz and Dent left at 12:18 pm.

Conversation No. 506‑5

Date:  May 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:18 pm and 12:20 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

President's schedule
‑Meeting with Henry A. Kissinger

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:20 pm.

Conversation No. 506‑6

Date:  May 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:18 pm and 12:20 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 3‑174]

Conversation No. 506‑7

Date:  May 28, 1971
Time:  12:20 pm - 12:21 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower.

[See Conversation No. 3‑175; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 506‑8

Date:  May 28, 1971
Time:  12:22 pm ‑ 12:33 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Torben Ronne
‑The President=s opinion
‑Relationship to the US
‑People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Handling

Foreign policy
‑The President=s handling
‑Compared to past Presidents
‑Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
‑Timing

PRC initiative
‑Polls
‑George H. Gallup
‑Louis P. Harris
‑State Department
-Reaction
‑William P. Rogers
‑Leaks

US military
‑Drug abuse
-Vietnam
‑Germany
-Vietnam
-Price
-Vietcong, North Vietnamese
-Chinese
-Black military personnel
-Kissinger=s opinion
-Statistics
-President=s opinion
-Loyalty to the President
‑Thomas H. Moorer
‑Memorandum
‑Bombing
-Schedule
-Melvin R. Laird
‑Kissinger's forthcoming talk

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Vietnam War
‑Timing
‑Saigon
-Collapse
-Timing
‑Article
‑George T. Bell [?]
‑Saigon
‑US policy
‑Helicopters

‑North Vietnam  
‑Bombing
‑South Vietnam
‑Mobility
‑Saigon
-Collapse
-Timing
‑PRC
‑The Soviet Union
‑Japan
-Asian perception

Kissinger's schedule
‑Peace Corps
‑Meeting
‑Press contacts
‑President=s opinion

Kissinger left at 12:33 pm.

Conversation No. 506‑9

Date:  May 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:33 pm and 12:40 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person [Manolo Sanchez?].

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[Duration:  17s  ]

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The unknown person [Sanchez?] left at an unknown time before 12:40 pm.

Conversation No. 506‑10

Date:  May 28, 1971
Time:  12:40 pm ‑ 1:17 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman.

President's schedule
‑James D. ("Don") Hughes
‑Military ceremonies
‑Letter to Melvin R. Laird
‑Thomas H. Moorer
‑Military District of Washington, D.C.

Unknown person
‑Karl E. Mundt
‑Bryce N. Harlow
‑Hyde Murray
‑[Unknown first name] Callum [?]
‑John N. Mitchell
‑John C. Whitaker
-Harry S. Dent

Mundt
-Health
-Senate seat

President's schedule
‑California
‑Frederick L. Hovde dinner
‑Timing
‑Indianapolis
‑California
‑Timing
‑Midway Island
‑Timing
‑Meeting with Nguyen Van Thieu
‑California
‑Timing
‑Productivity Council meeting
‑Budget meetings
‑July 4th

‑Florida
-Hovde dinner
-California
‑American Medical Association [AMA] convention
‑Timing
‑New Jersey
-Maine
-Bangor
-Rockport
-Travel
‑New Hampshire
‑Portsmouth
‑Maine
-Weather
-Logistics
-Lodgings
‑Tricia Nixon Cox's wedding
-Willy Brandt dinner
‑Rochester
-Timing
‑Senate
‑House
‑Maine
‑New Hampshire
‑AMA convention
‑New Jersey

Foreign Head of State visits
-Blair House
‑Malik Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Saud [King Faisal]
‑Anastasio Somoza Debayle

President's schedule
‑Maine
‑Portsmouth
‑Rochester
-Helicopter travel compared to airplane travel
‑Portsmouth
-Local press
‑Rochester
‑National press
‑AMA convention
‑Health proposals

‑Daughters of the American Revolution [DAR]
‑Doctors
‑Speech draft
‑West Point
‑Speech draft
‑Length
‑The President's editing

Jack [surname unknown]
‑Federal Council for the Humanities
‑Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]

President's schedule
‑AMA convention
-Portsmouth
‑Maine
‑Bangor
‑Edmund S. Muskie
-Hovde dinner
‑Chicago
‑Milk producers
‑Timing
-Hovde dinner
‑Ohio
‑Automobile testing
‑Wright‑Patterson Air Force Base
‑Senators
‑Hovde dinner
-Purdue University
‑Crowd
‑Pictures
‑Press
‑California
‑Midway Island
‑Timing
-Productivity Council meeting

Radio speeches
‑Raymond K. Price, Jr.
‑Flag Day
‑Peter G. Peterson
‑July 4th
‑Economy
‑Drugs
‑Television alternative
‑Arthur G. Linkletter
‑Draft
‑Future of US

Patrick Cardinal O'Boyle
‑President's call

Arts Council
‑Henry A. Kissinger
‑Leonard Garment
‑Constituencies
‑The President=s speeches
‑Anecdotes
‑Rhetoric
‑Compared to Lyndon B. Johnson
‑Price

President's schedule
‑Post Office
‑Winton M. (ARed@) Blount
‑July 4th
‑July 4th
‑Champlain, Illinois
-University of Illinois
‑Honor America Day
‑Evening at the White House
‑Celebrities

An unknown person [Manolo Sanchez ?] entered at an unknown time after 12:40 pm.

Delivery

The unknown person [Sanchez ?] left at an unknown time before 1:17 pm.

Polls
‑People's Republic of China [PRC]
‑United Nations [UN]
‑Louis P. Harris
‑George H. Gallup
‑Percentages
‑Harris
‑PRC initiative
‑Republicans
‑Percentages
‑Democrats
‑Percentages
‑Gallup
‑Republicans

President's schedule
‑Call to William P. Rogers
‑Polls

The President and Haldeman left at 1:17 pm.

Conversation No. 506‑11

Date:  May 28, 1971
Time:  5:04 pm ‑ 5:08 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman and Alexander P. Butterfield; the recording begins while the conversation is in progress when.

Peter G. Peterson

Henry A. Kissinger
-Meeting with the President
-Speech

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 5:07 pm.

Possible appointments
‑John W. Gardner [?]
‑Charles L. Schultze
‑Gardner
‑Democrat candidates
‑Schultze

The President left at an unknown time before 5:07 pm

Butterfield and Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:04 pm.

Copies of speech
‑The President
‑Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
‑Kissinger
‑Time
‑Kissinger
‑The President
‑Delivery of copies
‑Ehrlichman

Ehrlichman left at 5:07 pm.

The President entered at an unknown time after 5:07 pm.

Speech
‑Changes
‑Kissinger's recommendations

Butterfield and Bull left at 5:08 pm.

Conversation No. 506‑12

Date:  May 28, 1971
Time:  5:10 pm ‑ 5:12 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Location of items

Butterfield left at 5:12 pm.

Conversation No. 506‑13

Date:  May 28, 1971
Time:  5:27 pm ‑ 6:50 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Changes in draft of speech at West Point
‑Kissinger's recommendations
‑Vietnam War
‑Reading of speech
‑Middle East truce
‑People's Republic of China [PRC]
‑John K. Andrews, Jr.
‑Vietnam
‑Peter G. Peterson
‑John D. Ehrlichman
‑Peterson
‑Wording

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COUNTRY

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‑Wording

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 5:27 pm and left at an unknown time before 5:40 pm.

‑Vietnam
‑Importance of speech
‑Military
‑J. William Fulbright
‑Speeches
‑West Point
‑Colorado Springs
‑Annapolis
-Newport
‑Kennedys

The Soviet Union
-Cuba
‑Submarine tender
-Submarine
-Missiles
-US response
‑Press conference
-1962 understanding
‑Weapons

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[Duration:  3s  ]

SOVIET UNION

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-US response
‑Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-H.R. (ABob@) Haldeman
-Tone
-Summit
-Timing of announcement

Vietnam
‑Nguyen Van Thieu
-News coverage
‑Troop levels
‑Ellsworth F. Bunker
‑Melvin R. Laird
‑US Combat role
‑Appropriations

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[Duration:  3s  ]

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‑Peace offer

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 20
[Federal Statute]
[National Security]
[Duration:  1m 9s  ]

CHINA

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Changes in speech
‑Last paragraph
‑Wording

Rose Mary Woods entered at 5:40 pm.

Speech [?]
‑Typing

Woods left at an unknown time before 5:42 pm.

Speech
‑William P. Rogers
‑Testimony
‑Hearings
‑Andrews
‑Raymond K. Price, Jr.

Haldeman entered at 5:42 pm.

President's schedule
‑West Point
‑William C. Westmoreland
‑Commandant
‑Alumni
‑Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

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[Duration:  7s  ]

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‑Gen. James D. ("Don") Hughes
‑Haig
‑Gen. George A. Lincoln
‑Col. Richard W. Streiff

Schedule
-Kissinger

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[Duration:  3s  ]

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Kissinger left at 5:44 pm.

John N. Mitchell entered at 5:44 pm.

Domestic Council

Blackjack statement
‑Press conference
‑Missouri
‑George W. Romney

‑Speeches
‑Mitchell
‑Legal
‑Political
‑Attorney General
‑Law
‑Robert F. Kennedy
‑Public

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[Duration:  1m 13s  ]

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Walter J. Hickel
‑Ambassadorial appointment
‑Siberia
-Soviet Union
‑Trans‑Siberian Pipeline
‑Ted Stevens
‑Conversation with Mitchell

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[Duration:  1m 54s  ]

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[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:44 pm and 5:51 pm]

[Conversation No. 506‑13A]

[See Conversation No. 3‑183]

[End of telephone conversation]

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[Duration:  24s  ]

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[The President talked with Woods between 5:51 pm and 5:52 pm]

[Conversation No. 506‑13B]

[See Conversation No. 3‑184]

[End of telephone conversation]

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[Duration:  5m 6s  ]

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Japan
‑Free trade
‑David M. Kennedy
‑Peterson
‑Kennedy
-Forthcoming negotiations
‑Textile representatives
‑Negotiations
‑Harry S. Dent
‑Textile representatives
‑Kennedy's trip to Japan
‑Peterson
‑Free trade

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[Duration:  3m 51s  ]

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Richard J. Daley
‑Otto Kerner
‑Seventh Circuit Court
‑Wiretap problems
‑Chicago conspiracy trial
‑Commission report
‑Milton S. Eisenhower
‑Racial war
‑Sol M. Linowitz
‑Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
‑Illinois
‑Indictment

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 11
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[Duration:  38s  ]

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Dwight D. Eisenhower
‑William E. Jenner
‑Gen. George C. Marshall
‑Trip to Indiana
‑Jenner
‑Jenner
‑Compared to George C. Wallace
‑Wallace
‑Governors
‑Speech
‑Tom Bigby
‑Newspapers

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[Duration:  24m 37s  ]

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Immigration and Naturalization Service
‑Cubans

Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
‑James Stallman
-Audits
-IRS employee
‑John B. Connally

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 13
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[Duration:  2m 29s  ]

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Louie B. Nunn
‑Appointment
‑Department of Agriculture
‑Clifford M. Hardin

Cabinet and staff
‑Conservatives
‑Mitchell
‑Connally
‑Maurice H. Stans
‑George P. Shultz
‑Robert H. Finch
‑Donald H. Rumsfeld
‑George W. Romney
‑John A. Volpe
‑Elliot L. Richardson
‑James D. Hodgson
-Stans
‑William P. Rogers
‑Laird
‑Rogers C.B. Morton

‑Nunn
‑Hardin
-Purdue University
-Volpe

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[Duration:  16s  ]

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Cabinet changes
‑Department of Agriculture
‑Hardin
‑Nunn
‑Hardin
‑Nunn
‑Office of Emergency Preparedness [OEP]
‑National Security Council [NSC]

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 15
[Privacy]
[Duration:  27s  ]

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John Hay Whitney
‑Ambassadorship
‑Kentucky Derby
-Spanish Ambassador

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 17
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[Duration:  23s  ]

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James R. (AJimmy@) Hoffa
‑Jail
‑Pardon
‑Frank E. Fitzsimmons
‑Teamsters Union
‑Fitzsimmons
‑Teamsters
‑Jail

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 18
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[Duration:  3m 52s  ]

WOODS ENTERED AT 6:45 PM

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Woods left at an unknown time before 6:48 pm.

Television
‑Lawsuit
‑Timing
‑Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] case
-Viacom

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 6:45 pm.

‑Federal Communications Commission [FCC]
‑Vote
‑Dean Burch
‑Decision
‑CBS
‑Burch
‑Appeal
‑Burch

President's schedule
‑Meeting with policemen
‑Mitchell
‑J. Edgar Hoover
‑Conversation with the President
‑Mitchell
‑Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]

Haldeman and Mitchell left at 6:48 pm.

President's schedule
‑State dinner

The President and Butterfield left at 6:50 pm.

Conversation No. 506-14

Date:  May 28, 1971
Time:  Unknown time after 6:50 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men (Secret Service?) met.

President=s location
-Residence

This recording was cutoff at an unknown time.