Secret White House Tapes

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493–9
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • H. R. Haldeman
  • Mohammed Ayub Khan
  • Ronald L. Ziegler
May 6, 1971
Conversation No. 493-9

Date: May 6, 1971
Time: Unknown between 11:00 am and 11:26 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

H[arold] R[oyce] Gross
-Position on President’s war policies
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Vietnam
-Demonstrators
-North Vietnam
-Carrying of Viet Cong flag
-Possible counterattack
-Possible speech
-Robert J. Dole
-Democrats

Agriculture
-”Salute to Agriculture”
-Publicity
-Dr. Norman E. Borlaug’s work
-US efforts worldwide
-Demonstrators
-Food
-Peace Corps
-Costs
-Workers
-President’s future action
-Compared with Walter J. Hickel’s dismissal

Camp David
-Use by staff and Cabinet
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Laurel cabin
-John B. Connally
-Work

Borlaug [?]

Demonstrators
-Viet Cong flag
-Network publicity
-Public opinion
-North Vietnam, Communists
-White House publicity

President’s schedule
-George Meany
-Meeting, May 7, 1971
-Health
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-Schedule
-Golf, convention
-James D. Hodgson

Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Upcoming House vote
-Effect on Senate
-California senators Conv. No. 493-9 (cont.)
-Lockheed
-Other senators
-Possible changes
-Jobs

[The President talked with Mohammed Ayub Khan between 11:06 am and 11:07 am]

[Conversation No. 493-9A]

[See Conversation No. 2-106]

[End of telephone conversation]
Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 11:09 am

Connally’s press briefing
-Wholesale Price Index
-Lockheed
-Wholesale Price Index
-Consumer Price Index comparison
-Publicity
-Farm prices
-George P. Shultz
-Consumers, retailers, wholesalers
-Meeting with President

Ziegler’s briefing
-Time

[A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from
December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access [SA] 8, Ronald V. Dellums, et al. v.
James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271. The National Archives and Records Administration
produced this transcript. The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]

[End of transcript]
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Ziegler left at 11:20 am

Press
-Ziegler’s briefings
-President’s conferences
-Ziegler’s briefings
-Ziegler’s work Conv. No. 493-9 (cont.)
-Staff

Vietnam or Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] Negotiations [?]
-Timing
-Henry A. Kissinger
-A paper
-Timing
-Importance
-Kissinger
-Draft
-Possible trip
-Draft
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 11:26 am
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