On June 7, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, Peter G. Peterson, and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House from 3:23 pm to 4:10 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 513-004 of the White House Tapes. Topics include: The President met with Rose Mary Woods President's schedule - Dinner - Robert H. and Carol (Crothers) Finch - Woods - Raymond K. Price, Jr. - Location - Menu Woods left and Peter G. Peterson and Henry A. Kissinger entered at 3:26 pm Peterson memo - Taiwan - David M. Kennedy's view - Kissinger's view Okinawa reversion [Previous National Security (B) withdrawal reviewed under MDR guidelines case number LPRN- T- MDR-2014-27. Segment declassified on 05/01/2019. Archivist: MM] [National Security] [513-004- W001] [Duration: 4s] Foreign relations - Relations with Japan and People's Republic of China [PRC] Foreign relations - Senkaku Islands - U. Alexis Johnson - Sovereignty question - Formal Okinawa reversion timing - Japanese drawbacks - William P. Rogers and [Forename unknown] Oichi - Effect on Taiwan relations - Textile negotiations - Taiwan requests - Defense aid - Melvin R. Laird trip - United States' goals - Effect on People's Republic of China [PRC] relations - Effect on Japanese relations - Textile people concern - Roger Milliken's view - Wilbur D. Mills' view - Criticism of Administration - Island issue - Taiwan - Military aid - Textile negotiations - Military program - Perception by other parties - Congressional reaction - Announcement [Previous National Security (B) withdrawal reviewed under MDR guidelines case number LPRN- T- MDR-2014-027. Segment declassified on 07/12/2023. Archivist : MAS] [National Security] [513-004- W005] [Duration: 21s] Foreign relations - Island issue - Military program - Informing of People's Republic of China [PRC] - Telephone - Peter G. Peterson's previous conversation - Air Force One "scrambler" - Henry A. Kissinger's finding Foreign relations - Impact of textile question - Specific proposals - Announcement - Use of Laird trip - Military equipment trade - Offensive, defensive question - Congress - Milliken - Postponement of action - Reaction of Japanese - Automobile question - Okinawa - Okinawa versus trade - Automobile question - US action - Senkaku Island question - Germination - Charles [?] visit to President - History of islands - Post- World War II era - Japanese concern - History of Chinese involvement - Timing of raising issue - Perception by Japanese - Perception in United States - Automobiles - Textile question - Future action - Nationalist Chinese desires - Laird - Military representative trip to Taiwan - Timing - Textiles Kissinger's schedule - Upcoming meeting with Cambodian Kissinger left at 3:48 pm Textile issue - Timing - Negotiations - Congress - Status - Industry role - Milliken - Hong Kong -[South] Korea - Quotas - Quota bill - Bryce N. Harlow - Mills' thinking - Textile industry's view - Agricultural quotas - Prospects for passage - Labor view - Support - Opposition - Industry - Farmers - North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] - International - Growing sentiment - Effect on consumer - Effect on Europe - Peterson's study - Agriculture - European reaction Peterson's bipartisan Congressional briefing, June 8 - Purpose - Long- Range concerns - Administration strategy - Congressional support - Points - President's role in trade - John B. Connally role - Energy program - Benefits - Employment - Exports - Environment - Water control - Research and Development - National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA] role - NASA budget - Cutbacks - Results Goals versus action - Previous dinner meeting - John D. Ehrlichman - George P. Shultz - Long range planning Planning proposals - Shultz, Ehrlichman - Roy L. Ash - Ben W. Heineman [?] - Domestic Council - Committee formats Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board Meeting - Dr. Edwin H. Land's argument - Intelligence - Detente - Future relations with Soviet Union and PRC - European role - Arms control - Verification - Land's viewpoint - Kelly Johnson Technological innovations - Dr. Edward E. David, Jr. - US technology role - History of technology - Peterson, Ehrlichman, Shultz directives - Content - Attitude toward science - Industry view - Robert H. Abplanalp - Conservatism - Colgate- Palmolive - Need for technological innovation - Government encouragement - David - National Science Foundation [NSF] - Land's view - Presidential support - William P. Lear - John C. Whitaker - Department of Transportation [DOT] - National Science Board - David - Peterson/Land meeting - Need - Peterson, Land meeting - Ehrlichman - Quantity versus quality on technology - History of scientific contact with government - Land - U-2 development - K. Johnson - Edward M. Purcell - Need for first rate minds - Lyndon B. Johnson Administration - Problem of war - Scientists - President's opening of the world - PRC - Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] - Use of technology for peaceful purposes - Scientists - David - Lear - Land - Bureaucratic impediments - Soviet Union - Peterson/Ehrlichman/Shultz/David effort - Use of money in US - Educational programs - Energy program - Popular fears of nuclear reactors - Political problems of nuclear power - Coal, oil, natural gas concern - Breeder reactor - Fusion work - Glenn T. Seaborg effort - Atomic Energy Commission [AEC] -"Atoms for peace" - Land's success - Reasons - Eastman Kodak - Medicine - Intelligence - Problems -"Greatness" as technological innovation - Land's idea - Ehrlichman - Lack of great minds in Washington - Discovery of "new worlds" -"Great minds" and innovation - K. Johnson - Background - John F. Kennedy - Dwight D. Eisenhower - Mutual understanding - Post- Vietnam world - Need for US ascendance - PRC strength - Agriculture - Nobel Prize winner [Name unknown] - Use of available resources - Agricultural field - Cooperative Extension Service - Land grant colleges - Sources of Invention - Content - Chester F. Carlson efforts - Xerox - Land's efforts - Peterson, Ehrlichman, Shultz roles Bipartisan Congressional briefing - Location - Blair House Peterson left at 4:10 pm. Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose Mary; Peterson, Peter G.; Kissinger, Henry A.
- Part of White House Tapes: Sound Recordings of Meetings and Telephone Conversations of the Nixon Administration, Oval Office Sound Recordings