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July 10, 1971

Introduction

This almanac page for Saturday, July 10, 1971, pulls together various records created by the federal government and links to additional resources which can provide context about the events of the day.

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    President's Office Files

    The President's Office Files consists of materials drawn together by the Special Files Unit from several administrative subdivisions within the White House Office. It is the handwriting and sensitive papers sent to the Staff Secretary that now comprise much of the President's Office Files. Visit the finding aid to learn more.

  • The H. R. Haldeman Diaries consists of seven handwritten diaries, 36 dictated diaries recorded as sound recordings, and two handwritten audio cassette tape subject logs. The diaries and logs reflect H. R. Haldeman’s candid personal record and reflections on events, issues, and people encountered during his service in the Nixon White House. As administrative assistant to the President and Chief of Staff, Haldeman attended and participated in public events and private meetings covering the entire scope of issues in which the Nixon White House engaged in during the years 1969-1973. Visit the finding aid to learn more.

    • Transcript of diary entry (PDF)

      Saturday, July 10th. Another day starting out early in the morning and ending around midday, as we have all this week. It's worked out great, because the President's pulled out somewhere around 1:00 each day, and as soon as he does, I take off to go back to Balboa.

      He had Haig in first thing this morning. We discussed the problems of handling the Kissinger situation in his office when we get back to Washington. The President made the point that they've got to be ruthless in their staff housecleaning, and if there's any doubt, they've got to let them go, and he has to give polygraphs to his people. He also made the point that when Henry gets back, he'll be the mystery man of the age, and he'll kill the whole thing if he has one word of backgrounder to any press people. So there are to be no backgrounders whatsoever. He has to quit seeing anyone from the Times or Post on any basis, including the columnists, except for Joe Alsop. One factor, of course, is that Rogers is easier to handle if Kissinger doesn't background. The President made the point that the key to this whole story, however, is to canc--, create doubt and mystery. Never deny the stomachache thing in Pakistan. Say it was true, but then the other things also happened. The President then went back and sort of reminisced on the conversation that he had with Henry when the message came in...

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      DECLASSIFIED - E.O. 13526, Sect. 3.4: by MS, NARA, June 12, 2013
      Audio Cassette 10, Side B, Withdrawn Item Number 9 [AC-10(B) Sel 8-1]
      Duration: 4 seconds

      ...delivered by the Pak ambassador that...
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      ...set up this trip to begin with. Henry, he said Henry was literally trembling when he brought the message up to the President in the Lincoln room, and the President had ordered out a glass of brandy for each of them and had a toast, after they read the document. The President made the point that this is the first time, as a result of this thing...

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      DECLASSIFIED - E.O. 13526, Sect. 3.4: by MS, NARA, June 12, 2013
      Audio Cassette 10, Side B, Withdrawn Item Number 9 [AC-10(B) Sel 8-2]
      Duration: 12 seconds

      ...the Russians are going to have to react to us instead of to them, and that it would be an enormous blow to them, and therefore very effective.
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      He told Laird to be, Haig to be sure that Kissinger knows he is not to tell anybody, Laird, Mitchell, Connally, or anybody else about this. We've got to keep it locked up tight. A call from Henry on the result will probably come around 4:00 or 5:00 tomorrow morning, and the President told AI to notify him as soon as Henry called; and they discussed some code words to set up, so that Henry would just simply say that it's on or off or postponed, and no more information from there, because he doesn't want to risk any leak. He said to use "Eureka" if there's a success and to find out what the Greek word is for failure is, to use for the opposite. Also said that when Henry lands here on Tuesday morning, he's to go direct to the President, regardless of the time.

      The President then got into a discussion of the Mideast position and laid it out quite clearly to Haig as to what he feels we've got to do.

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      DECLASSIFIED - E.O. 13526, Sect. 3.4: by MS, NARA, June 12, 2013
      Audio Cassette 10, Side B, Withdrawn Item Number 11 [AC-10(B) Sel 10]
      Duration: 33 seconds

      And that we do have to put the screws on the Israelis. He told Al we will take no Jewish money for the campaign, because we cannot be in the position of being bought off by the Israelis. He wants to get Henry out of the play completely; Haig handling anything that had to be done at NSC. He says we've got to let Rabin know that they have to have a good faith bargaining position. And he makes the point that no Jew can handle the Israeli thing. He told Haig to tell Rogers to go to the brink on this, but not to go over.
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      And he made the point again, that we have to forget about the Jews as far as the domestic thing is concerned, that they're against the President in any event. He told Haig to go ahead on talking to Laird about Packard as a possibility for Ambassador to Japan, which he's quite intrigued with, and thinks Packard might take it, because it helps to solve his problem with his kids regarding the war. He now wants to consider Pete Flanigan for the OEP, but Rogers is pushing for getting him in State, and I think that probably makes more sense. He expressed concern that we don't have a single man in charge of the Pentagon Papers, and makes the point that what they did to Herbert Hoover on the economy is the same opportunity that we have to do to the Kennedy establishment on the war. We can just demolish Harriman and McNamara, etcetera, and destroy the myth, but we have to get Cuba, and the Bay of Pigs, Diem and Laos out, and make the point that the Kennedy people misled LBJ, that these weren't Johnson people. Bill White should get the dope to Johnson that this is what we're doing.

      And in the morning, he had Ehrlichman and me join him and Bebe Rebozo to go look at a possible site for the Nixon Foundation, using the excess land in Camp Pendleton, up at the extreme north end and inland. It's an ideal spot, and we trudged all over it. The President was really quite excited about it, and I think it really is the solution to our Foundation site location problem. Apparently Len Firestone had looked at it yesterday and was also interested in it.

      End of July 10th.
    • Original audio recording (MP3)

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    Vol. XVII, China, 1969-1972

    China,January-September 1971

    • 140. Memorandum of Conversation, Beijing, July 10, 1971, 12:10-6 p.m.

      Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, Box 1032, Files for the President—China Material, Polo I, Record, July 1971 HAK visit to PRC. Top Secret; Sensitive; Exclusively Eyes Only. The meeting was held in the Great Hall of the People.

    Vol. XVII, China, 1969-1972

    China,January-September 1971

    • 141. Memorandum of Conversation, Beijing, July 10, 1971, 11:20-11:50 p.m.

      Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, Box 1032, Files for the President—China Material, Polo I, Record, July 1971 HAK trip to PRC. Top Secret; Sensitive; Exclusively Eyes Only. The meeting was held in the Chinese Government Guest House.

    Vol. XIX, Part 1, Korea, 1969-1972

    Republic of Korea Troops in Vietnam and Force Modernization, April 1971-December 1972

    • 99. Memorandum From President Nixon to Secretary of Defense Laird, Washington, July 10, 1971

      Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, NSC Institutional Files (H-Files), Box H–224, National Security Decision Memoranda, NSDM 113. Top Secret; Sensitive. Attached to a July 6 memorandum from Kissinger to Nixon in which Kissinger analyzed Laird’s views and concluded that “while the Secretary’s reasoning is troublesome,” his specific recommendations were generally consistent with NSDM 113. Kissinger recommended that Nixon send the memorandum to Laird. NSDM 113 is Document 96.

    Vol. E-5, Part 2, Documents on North Africa, 1969-1972

    Morocco

    Vol. E-7, Documents on South Asia, 1969-1972

    India and Pakistan: Crisis and War, March-December 1971

    • 140. Study Prepared in Response to National Security Study Memorandum 133, Washington, July 10, 1971

      In response to NSSM 133, the study assessed U.S. policy options in South Asia in light of the crisis in East Pakistan.

      Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, NSC Institutional Files (H-Files), Box H–058, SRG Meeting, South Asia, 7/23/71. Secret; Exdis. Drafted by Quainton. A cover sheet bears the date July 9, but drafting information indicates that it was drafted on July 10. The study was drafted for the Senior Review Group and approved by a State/Defense/CIA ad hoc committee. The cover sheet and a table of contents are not published.

  • The Kissinger telephone conversation transcripts consist of approximately 20,000 pages of transcripts of Kissinger’s telephone conversations during his tenure as Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (1969-1974) and Secretary of State (1973-1974) during the administration of President Richard Nixon. Visit the finding aid for more information.

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Audiovisual Holdings

  • The White House Photo Office collection consists of photographic coverage of President Richard Nixon meeting with prominent social, political, and cultural personalities; speaking engagements and news conferences of the President and various high-ranking members of the White House staff and Cabinet; Presidential domestic and foreign travel, including Presidential vacations; social events and entertainment involving the First Family, including entertainers present; official portraits of the President, First Family, and high-ranking members of the Nixon administration; the 1969 and 1973 Inaugurals; the President’s 1972 Presidential election campaign appearances (including speeches) and other official activities of the White House staff and the President’s Cabinet from January 20, 1969 until August 9, 1974 at the White House and the Old Executive Office Building; other locations in Washington, DC, such as The Mall; and the Presidential retreats in Camp David, Maryland, Key Biscayne, Florida, and San Clemente, California. Visit the finding aid to learn more.

    Roll WHPO-6806 Photographer: Schumacher, Karl | Color or B&W: B&W

    • Frame(s): WHPO-6806-, Vice President Agnew during a trip to Africa at various locations in Ethiopia. Meeting with Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia. 7/10/1971, Ethiopia unidentified indoor locations. Spiro Agnew, Haile Selassie, unidentified officials, aides crowd.

    Roll WHPO-6807 Photographer: Schumacher, Karl | Color or B&W: B&W

    • Frame(s): WHPO-6807-03-09, Vice President Agnew arriving at the airport during his trip to Africa during a round the world diplomatic mission. 7/10/1971, Ethiopia airport, unidentified indoor locations, Addis Ababa. Spiro Agnew, Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia, Premier Akilu Habtewold and Foreign Minister Ketma, aides, crowd.
    • Frame(s): WHPO-6807-10-30, Vice President Agnew with Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia at various locations, including at a luncheon. 7/10/1971, Ethiopia airport, unidentified indoor locations, Addis Ababa. Spiro Agnew, Haile Selassie, unidentified officials, aides, crowd.

    Roll WHPO-6808 Photographer: Schumacher, Karl | Color or B&W: Color

    • Frame(s): WHPO-6808-03A, Vice President Agnew speaking at a podium. 7/10/1971, unknown unknown. Spiro Agnew, aide.
    • Frame(s): WHPO-6808-04A-09A, Vice President Agnew arriving at the Ethiopian airport on his trip to Africa during a round the world diplomatic mission. 7/10/1971, Ethiopia airport, unidentified indoor locations, Addis Ababa. Spiro Agnew, Haile Selassie, Premier Akilu Habtewold and Foreign Minister Ketma, aides, crowd.
    • Frame(s): WHPO-6808-10A-19A, Vice President Agnew on his trip to Africa during a round the world diplomatic mission, meeting with Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia. 7/10/1971, Ethiopia airport, unidentified indoor locations, Addis Ababa. Spiro Agnew, Haile Selassie, unidentified officials, aides, crowd.

  • The White House Communications Agency Sound Recordings Collection contains public statements that took place between 1969 and 1974. Visit the finding aid to learn more.

    B - Vice-Presidential (Agnew and Ford)

    • WHCA-SR-B-183
      Remarks upon departure from Saudi Arabia-Airport Salon, Jidda, Saudi Arabia. (7/10/1971)

      Runtime: 2:30

      Original Format: 1/4-inch reel-to-reel audiotape. Original source type: Original.

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    • WHCA-4524
      Weekly News Summary, Tape I.
      ALL NETWORKS
      Runtime: 01:30:00

      10. McGee/Kaplow: Pentagon urges President Nixon to ship nuclear weapons to Formosa; response to Congressman McCloskey's announcement on campaign for 1972 Election [audio and visual issues with McCloskey film segment]. Time Code Start: 17:23. Keywords: United States Department of Defense headquarters, Armed Forces, Taiwan, weapons, nuclear bombs, atomic, explosions, nuclear warheads, exports, Presidential elections, campaigns, campaigning, candidates. Network: NBC.

      11. McGee/Lewis: Vietnam War conflict, North Vietnamese shelling trends drop; heroin abuse in Bangkok, Thailand by U.S. military units. Time Code Start: 19:59. Keywords: Vietnam War, bombings, Armed Forces, mililtary, troops, pharmaceuticals, medicines, drugs, drug abuse, narcotics, heroin, marijuana, alcohol, alcoholism, addicts, addiction. Network: NBC.

      12. Mudd/Kalb: White House reaction to coup in Morocco; Vice President Agnew arrives in Ethiopia. Time Code Start: 23:47. Keywords: North Africa, Moroccan, coup d’etat, putsch, military takeovers, Vice Presidents, travel, trips. Network: CBS.

      13. Mudd/Pierpoint: Negotiations in Paris between the U.S. and North Vietnam; Henry Kissinger in Pakistan. Time Code Start: 25:30. Keywords: Paris Peace Talks, Vietnam War, Indochina War, treaty, treaties, negotiations, cabinet, advisors, Asian, Pakistani. Network: CBS.

      14. Mudd/Duvall: South Vietnamese move in near Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) as American G.I. units pull out [visual issues]. Time Code Start: 27:17. Keywords: Vietnam War, military, troops, withdrawals. Network: CBS.

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