Conversation: 605-005
Prev: 605-004 Next: 605-006Start Date: Thursday, October 28, 1971 12:45 PM
End Date: Thursday, October 28, 1971 2:43 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.; Woods, Rose Mary; Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Kissinger, Henry A.Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:25:26
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:04:41
NARA Description:
On October 28, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Stephen B. Bull, Rose Mary Woods, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 8:45 am and 10:43 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 605-005 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 605-5
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Date: October 28, 1971
Time: Unknown between 8:45 am and 10:43 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Stephen B. Bull.
The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Henry A. Kissinger
Rose Mary Woods entered at 10:10 am.
White House visitors
-Cigarette lighters and matches
Bull left at 10:10 am.
Assignment
-Quadriad
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The President's schedule
-Florida
The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman at an unknown time between 10:10 am and
10:15 am.
[Conversation No. 605-5A]
The President's schedule
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 605-5 (cont.)
-Florida
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-John N. Mitchell
-John B. Connally
-Forthcoming meeting with Josip Broz Tito
-Winton M. Blount
-Tax bill
-Blount
[End of telephone conversation]
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Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Papers for the President
-The President's briefcase
-Copies of document
-Kissinger
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 605-5 (cont.)
Invitations for forthcoming Tito dinner
-State Department
-National Security Council [NSC] staff
-Helmut (“Hal”) Sonnenfeld
-John H. Holdridge
-Kissinger
-State Department
-Staff
-Secretary of State
-Chief of Protocol
-Assistant Secretary for European Affairs
-Message for Haldeman
-The President’s instructions
-Woods's request
-Mark I. Goode
-Kate Smith
-Unnamed Singer [Gail Robinson]
-Fred M. Waring
-Smith
-Lee W. Huebner
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.'s Office
-Yugoslav Americans
-Helen D. Bentley
-Unintelligible names
-Marvin L. Esch
-Wife
-Frank J. Lausche
-Wife
-Health
Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:10 am.
The President's schedule
-Tito
-Arrival ceremony
Bull left at an unknown time before 10:15 am.
Assignment for Woods
Woods left and Kissinger entered at 10:15 am.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 605-5 (cont.)
Forthcoming meeting with Tito
-Participants
-Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
-Peter G. Peterson
-India-Pakistan
-Kissinger's information from Yugoslav Embassy
-Rogers
-Peterson
-The President’s previous meeting with Tito in Yugoslavia
-One on one meeting
-Participants
-Yugoslav ambassador
-Rogers
-Peterson
-Kissinger
-Yugoslav politburo member, Foreign Minister and Ambassador
Schedule for Tito's visit
-Haldeman
-Old Executive Office Building [EOB]
Tito's travels
-India
-Egypt
-Cairo
-Political stance
Kissinger's schedule
-Foreign aid bill
-Senators
-Kissinger’s view
-Jacob K. Javits
-Charles H. Percy
-John Sherman Cooper-Frank F. Church amendment
-Vietnam War
-Impact on negotiations
Timing for Vietnam announcement
-The President's news summary
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 605-5 (cont.)
-North Vietnam proposal
-Le Duc Tho
-Forthcoming meeting in Paris
-Timing
-The President’s forthcoming announcement
-William McMahon
-The President’s view
-House of Representatives
-Amendment
-US proposal
-Melvin R. Laird's office
-Vietnamese military situation
-US troop levels
-Cooper
-Previous statement
-Percy
-Timing for withdrawal announcement
-The President’s view
Military draft
-Vietnamese military situation
Vietnam
-US strategy
-Negotiations
-Timing for announcement
-Le Duc Tho
-Forthcoming meeting in Paris
-Senators
-Vietnam as public issue
-Senators
-Kissinger's reception
-Clark MacGregor
-J. William Fulbright
-North Vietnam
-Paris negotiations
-Timing of announcement
-North Vietnam
-Nixon compared with Lyndon B. Johnson
-Timing of announcement
-Casualties
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 605-5 (cont.)
The President's forthcoming meeting with Tito
-Egypt
-European Security Conference
-Berlin Agreement
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Peking
-Vietnam War
Vietnam War
-Leonid I Brezhnev's previous statement
-PRC
-US negotiating stance
-PRC
United Nations [UN] vote to expel Taiwan
-Kissinger’s previous conversation with Ronald W. Reagan
-Compared with Agnew
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-UN
-Possible statement
-Television
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-The President’s statement
-Albanians
-Africans
-Charles W. Colson
-Hugh Scott
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 605-5 (cont.)
-State Department strategy
-Ecuador
-Fishing rights
-Timing
UN
-Reagan
-Ronald L. Ziegler
Protocol
-The President's schedule
-Emil (“Bus”) Mosbacher, Jr.
Kissinger left at 10:43 am.