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605–5
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Stephen B. Bull
  • Rose Mary Woods
  • H. R. Haldeman
  • Henry A. Kissinger
October 28, 1971
Conversation No. 605-5
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)




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
(rev. 10/06)
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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[Duration: 3m ]

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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
(rev. 10/06)
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.
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