Secret White House Tapes

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472–7
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Leslie C. Arends
March 23, 1971
Conversation No. 472-7

Date: March 23, 1971
Time: 10:20 am - 10:24 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Leslie C. Arends

Supersonic Transport [SST]
-President’s morning meeting with Republican leaders
-House vote
-US role in world
-President’s view
-Soviet Union
-Japan
-Great Britain
-Defense spending compared with domestic spending

Congress

Federal Communications Commission [FCC]
-A letter to Arends
-Dean Burch
-Augie Meyer
-A letter to Arends
-William L. Springer
-Robert C. (“Bob”) Wilson
-Contents
-Burch
-Burch’s actions
-Networks
-[Forename unknown] Rench [?]
-Actions

President’s nominees [?]
-Congressional scrutiny
-William J. Casey
-John B. Connally [?]
-Casey

Congress
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-Arends’ work
-Laos operation (Lam Son)
-A planned briefing
-Clark MacGregor
-A meeting, March 23, 1971
-[Thomas] Hale Boggs
-Democrat and Republican attendees

President’s previous interview with Howard K. Smith
-Questions

Congress
-A meeting, March 23, 1971
-Democrat attendees

Arends left at 10:24 am
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