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On May 18, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, Stephen B. Bull, and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Oval Office of the White House from 3:06 pm to 3:40 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 500-025 of the White House Tapes. Topics include: The President met with Henry A. Kissinger. Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] negotiations - President's meeting with Gerard C. Smith - Postponements - Railroad strike - Possible announcement - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] position and actions - Possible problems - Wording - Anatoliy F. Dobrynin - An unnamed advisor [National Security Council staff member?] - Actions during the Lyndon B. Johnson Administration - Wording - Possible reasons for delay - Pierre E. Trudeau's visit to USSR - Leonid I. Brezhnev's schedule - Trudeau's visit - Vladimir S. Semenov, Smith - Truck parts agreement [Kama River] - Thomas W. ("Teddy") Gleason - Grain export negotiations - Berlin - People's Republic of China [PRC] Vietnam - Casualty figures - Cambodian operation - Week's numbers - Decline SALT - Congress - Clark MacGregor - Kissinger's memorandum - Melvin R. Laird - Senate ratification - USSR reply - Dobrynin - Wording - William P. Rogers, Smith - Antiballistic Missile's [ABM's] - Ronald L. Ziegler, John A. Scali - USSR reply - Timing - Possible announcements - Rogers, Laird Senate - End- The- War amendments - Hubert H. Humphrey's amendment - Draftees - Effect - Previous presidents - Richard B. Russell and colleagues Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:06 pm. President's schedule - Possible meeting with Robert H. Finch and Donald H. Rumsfeld - Time - Meeting with Ambassadors - Possible meeting with Finch and Rumsfeld Bull left at an unknown time before 3:40 pm. - Report on trip abroad - Senators - President's staff - Position on issues - Michael J. ("Mike") Mansfield - Charles H. Percy - President's and Kissinger's meeting - A proposal - Charles McC. Mathias Amendment - Position on issues - Lack of support for the President Foreign policy objectives and prospects - Salt treaty - Berlin agreement - Middle East - PRC - USSR summit - Vietnam Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:06 pm. President's schedule - Meeting with Finch and Rumsfeld - Time Bull left at an unknown time before 3:40 pm. Reports to President on trips - Finch and Rumsfeld - John A. Volpe - Maurice H. Stans - George W. Romney - Finch and Rumsfeld Volpe - Possible trip - Graham A. Martin - Talk with Kissinger - Diplomatic assignments [Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 06/11/2019. Segment cleared for release.] [Personal Returnable] [500-025- W007] [Duration: 2m 10s] John A. Volpe - The President's opinion - Vice Presidency in 1968 - Spiro T. Agnew, John V. Lindsay John V. Lindsay - Henry A. Kissinger's opinion George W. Romney - Henry A. Kissinger's opinion - The President's comments regarding intelligence - Nelson A. Rockefeller's support Nelson A. Rockefeller - Relations with advisors - Work with Henry A. Kissinger's on foreign policy - Political issues separate from foreign policy -1968 election - Situation in 1967 - George W. Romney Spiro T. Agnew - The President's opinion Vice President Spiro T. Agnew - Work as vice president - Relations with the press Press - Treatment of President - President's accomplishments - Compared with treatment of Lyndon B. Johnson President's accomplishments - Vietnam - Troop withdrawals - European alliance - USSR - Cuba - Jordan - Cambodian and Laotian Invasions - SALT treaty announcement - USSR - Reply - Reply - Location - Vienna - Berlin agreement - Four Powers meeting - D[avid] Kenneth Rush - Possible US action - SALT agreement - USSR - Semenov - Wording - US and USSR bureaucracies - ABM - Smith's proposals - Trade agreements with USSR - Restriction of Cabinet officers' travel - Bryce N. Harlow - President's previous meeting with foreign policy establishment - Effect - Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Dwight D. Eisenhower - Rogers and the State Department - MacGregor - An unknown event - Effect - Mansfield Amendment - Senate characterized - Possible alternatives - Administration position - Possible re- Wording - Mathias Amendment - North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] - Mutual Balanced Reduction of forces - President's role in negotiations - Mutual reduction of forces - May 18, 1971 meeting with Congressional leaders - Problems SALT - Possible announcement - Timing - Press Conference - Compared with Lyndon B. Johnson - Timing Sir Keith J. Holyoake - Meeting with the President, April 8, 1971 - Nature of meeting - Emil ("Bus") Mosbacher, Jr. - Kissinger's attendance - Topics of discussion - President's speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971 - Agriculture MacGregor Harlow - Senate - Russell, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Everett M. Dirksen - Leaders - Democrats - Presidential candidates - Morning meeting with Republican Congressional leadership, May 18, 1971 - Mansfield Amendment - Mathias Amendment Senate - Mathias - Mathias, Percy, Richard S. Schweiker - Jacob K. Javits - Republicans - Javits - Talk with Kissinger regarding Mathias Amendment - Percy, Mathias - Percy [The President talked with an unknown person [H.R. ("Bob") Haldeman ?] at an unknown time between 3:06 pm and 3:40 pm] [Conversation No. 500-25A] Charles W. Colson's location [End of telephone conversation] Colson Senate - President's relations Kissinger left at 3:40 pm. Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.; Bull, Stephen B.; Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob").