Conversation: 501-014
Prev: 501-013 Next: 501-015Start Date: Wednesday, May 19, 1971 4:30 PM
End Date: Wednesday, May 19, 1971 5:03 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Kissinger, Henry A.; Sanchez, Manolo; Butterfield, Alexander P.Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:51:46
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:23:29
NARA Description:
On May 19, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Henry A. Kissinger, Manolo Sanchez, and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:30 pm to 1:03 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 501-014 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 501-14
Date: May 19, 1971
Time: 12:30 pm - 1:03 pm
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-William P. Rogers
-Meeting with Haldeman
-Role in negotiations Conv. No. 501-12 (cont.)
-Notification
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Meeting with President
-Rogers’ statement in London
-Role in negotiations
-Reaction
-Melvin R. Laird
-Henry A. Kissinger and President
-Assurances
-Timing of talks
-Rogers’ trip
-President's message from San Clemente
-Rogers’ knowledge
-Call to Haldeman
-Role
-Kissinger
-News magazines and background columns
-Effect
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] meeting
-Response
-Kissinger
-Forthcoming briefings
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Rogers
-Agreement
-President’s knowledge
-Rogers’ knowledge
-Gerard C. Smith
-Meetings with Kissinger and Rogers
-Background
-Rogers’ call to Haldeman
-Rogers’ testimony on Capitol Hill
-Kissinger's and President's roles
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
Middle East
-Rogers’ reports to the White House
-Rogers’ view
-Kissinger
-President
SALT agreement
-Background
-Haldeman's meeting with Rogers Conv. No. 501-14 (cont.)
-President's goals
-Success
-Rogers’ role
-Haldeman's knowledge
-Kissinger's meetings with Dobrynin
-Rogers’ questions
-Possible forthcoming meeting of President with Kissinger
-Rogers’ role
Foreign policy
-Paris peace negotiations
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Kissinger
-Rogers’ future and role
-Middle East negotiations
-Rogers
-Prospects for success
-Kissinger and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Jews
-Rogers’ role
-PRC
-Kissinger, Rogers
-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-SALT
-Rogers’ role
-Rogers' meeting with Haldeman
-President
[The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger at an unknown time after 12:30 pm]
[Conversation No. 501-14a]
Request to come to the meeting
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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[End of conversation]
Foreign policy
-SALT agreement
-Notification of Rogers
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:30 pm.
Conv. No. 501-14 (cont.)
Refreshments
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:43 pm.
Foreign policy
-Rogers’ role
-Relations with President, Kissinger
-State Department
Kissinger entered at 12:43 pm.
-SALT
-Rogers
-Notification of agreement
-State Department bureaucracy
-Smith
-Meeting with President
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Meeting with Rogers
-Rogers’ role
-Rogers
-SALT
-Administration position
Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:43 pm.
-Kissinger's backgrounders
-Smith, Rogers
-Rogers’ NATO meeting
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:03 pm.
-Rogers
-Promises to be informed
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Position
-Reception in Middle East
-Position
-Smith
-Laird
-Backgrounder strategy
-SALT
-President's initiative Conv. No. 501-14 (cont.)
-Rogers’ role
-Meetings with President
-Smith
-President's actions
-San Clemente
-Smith
-Meeting with Kissinger, May 19, 1971
-Relations with Rogers
-Roles of Laird, Rogers, and Smith
-Knowledge of agreement
-Kissinger's briefings
-John A. Scali
-Rogers’ meeting with Haldeman
-President's role
-Rogers’ role
-Smith’s role
-Arms Control and Disarmament Agency [ACDA]
-President's role
-Rogers’ call to Haldeman
-Need for unified statement
-Administration’s position
-State Department
-President's role
-Presidential initiative
-USSR
-History
-Rogers
-Compared with John F. Kennedy's initiatives on nuclear test ban
-Dean Rusk
-George Ball
-[Name Unintelligible]
-Public statements
-Rogers’ role
-Kissinger
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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-Haig
Congressional votes
-Gaylord Nelson Amendment
-Michael J. Mansfield Amendment
-Charles McC. Mathias Amendment
-Nelson Amendment
-Significance Conv. No. 501-14 (cont.)
-Clark MacGregor
SALT Agreement
-Rogers’ role
-Meetings with President
-Smith
-Antiballistic Missiles [ABM]
-President's role
-Private communication
-Kissinger's knowledge
-Chronology
-Rogers’ trip
-Dobrynin
-Soviet intentions
-President's report to Rogers
-Calls to Rogers
-Timing
-President's role
-Rogers’ role
-Language of announcement
-Rogers’ view
-Smith
-USSR
-Dobrynin
-[Unintelligible name]
-Meaning
-Rogers’ response
Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 12:58 pm.
-Rogers
-Testimony in Congress
-J. William Fulbright
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Butterfield left at 1:00 pm.
-Call to President
-Haldeman's forthcoming call
-President's return call
-Address to the annual convention of the American National Red
Cross
-Haldeman's forthcoming call Conv. No. 501-14 (cont.)
-President's location
-Laird
-Rogers’ role
-Public statements
-White House
-Fulbright
-State Department
-Fulbright and Senate Foreign Relations Committee
-President's press conference
-Haldeman's and President's forthcoming calls to Rogers
-President's schedule
-Meeting with Laird and Kissinger
-Call to Rogers
Haldeman and Kissinger left at 1:03 pm.