Secret White House Tapes

602–10

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602–10
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • H. R. Haldeman
  • Manolo Sanchez
  • Alexander P. Butterfield
  • Charles W. Colson
October 26, 1971
Conversation No. 602-10

Date: October 26, 1971
Time: 12:45 pm - 1:39 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

The President's schedule
-Unknown man
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 602-10 (cont.)



Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:45 pm.

-Executive Office Building [EOB]

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:02 pm.

-Arthur F. Burns
-John B. Connally
-Feelings about meetings on monetary affairs
-John D. Ehrlichman
-George P. Shultz
-Peter G. Peterson
-Henry A. Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
-Monetary affairs
-Connally
-Shultz
-Peterson
-Burns
-Paul A. Volcker
-Connally's staff
-Controls
-William L. Safire
-Rogers
-The President’s previous meeting with Vietnam veterans
-The President’s view
-New York Times correspondent
-Gloria Emerson [?]
-Press coverage

Vietnam demonstrations
-Washington, DC
-Route
-Press coverage

Press
-The President's comments to Ronald L. Ziegler
-Backgrounder
-Kissinger
-Rogers
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 602-10 (cont.)


-Reference to Nixon
-Dick Whitaker
-Language
-[Arthur] Neville Chamberlain

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 12:45 pm.

Charles W. Colson's schedule

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 1:02 pm.

Disney World
-Press coverage
-Mrs. Walt Disney
-Haldeman’s presentation of flag
-Main Street parade
-Meredith Willson
-E. Cardon Walker
-Vietnam veterans
-Roy O. Disney
-American youth

American youth
-The President’s view
-Robert H. Finch
-Ivy League schools

Disney World
-Prospects for success
-California
-Florida
-Description
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 602-10 (cont.)


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 14s ]


Colson entered at an unknown time after 12:45 pm.


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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United Nation [UN] vote to expel Taiwan
-Ronald W. Reagan’s view
-George H.W. Bush
-Possible Presidential statement
-Financial support by US
-Rogers
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Possible conversation with Colson
-Vote shifts concerning Taiwan expulsion vote
-Position of domestic right
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Buchanan
-Supreme Court

Right wing support
-Humanities endowment
-Supreme Court nominees

UN vote concerning Taiwan
-Rogers
-Samuel L. Devine
-Possible actions
-Conservatives
-Possible Congressional action
-Budget
-Administration efforts
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 602-10 (cont.)


-Administration's possible actions
-Otto E. Passman
-Colson's conversation
-Edward W. Brooke
-Robert J. Dole
-Agnew's conversation with the President
-Colson's conversation
-Franklyn C. (“Lyn”) Nofziger
-Bush
-Rogers
-Right wing position
-Liberal position
-Pauline Frederick
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Popular reaction to UN
-The President’s view
-Reagan
-Request of the President
-Television address
-The President’s response
-UN role in India-Pakistan situation
-Agnew
-Hugh Scott
-Gerald R. Ford
-Congressional funding for UN
-Brooke
-Reagan


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 13
[Privacy]
[Duration: 3s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 13

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 602-10 (cont.)


-Nations voting on Taiwan expulsion
-Popular sentiment toward UN
-Taiwan, PRC
-Compared with popular support toward Supreme Court
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-Colson’s role
-Statement on UN
-Attitude toward Taiwan
-Rogers's statement
-UN action
-US relations with Taiwan
-PRC
-Bush
-Rogers
-Funding for UN
-The President’s view
-UN membership
-Types of government
-Latin America
-Africa
-Asia
-US efforts

Public opinion
-Conservatives
-Attitude
-Stewart J.O. Alsop
-Newsweek magazine
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Military strength
-Silos
-Submarines
-Richard M. Helms
-Defense
-Alsop
-Anti-ballistic missile [ABM] treaty
-USSR
-Testing
-Conservatives
-Summit
-Agnew
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 602-10 (cont.)


-Supreme Court appointments
-William H. Rehnquist
-Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
-James J. Kilpatrick

Schedule

US foreign relations
-UN's vote on Taiwan expulsion
-Rogers
-Dole
-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
-Nofziger
-Dole
-Television
-Reagan
-Telephone call to the President
-Pauline Frederick
-Statements
-Bush's
-Rogers
-Liberals and Conservatives
-The President's desire for symbolic action
-Press conference
-President’s trip to PRC
-Bush
-Rogers
-Passman
-Foreign aid
-John J. Rooney
-Passman
-International Labor Organization [ILO]
-George Meany


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 11
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 3m 17s ]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 602-10 (cont.)



END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 11

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Supreme Court confirmation vote
-Rehnquist
-Mathias
-Possible Republican opponents
-Possible Democratic opponents
-The President’s view
-Marlow W. Cook
-William B. Saxbe
-Robert C. Byrd
-Public opinion
-Buchanan
-Richard A. Moore
-Rehnquist
-Powell

UN
-Administration position
-Bush

Colson left at 1:36 pm.

The President's schedule
-Connally
-Kissinger
-Report
-Forthcoming telephone call to Reagan
-UN

Public relations
-Buchanan
-UN
-Taiwan
-Colson
-Impact for administration
-Mail
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 602-10 (cont.)



The President and Haldeman left at 1:39 pm.
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