722–5

Conversation No. 722-5

Date: May 9, 1972
Time: Unknown after 10:48 am until 10:57 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

A letter to Wilt Chamberlain
-Congratulations on National Basketball Association [NBA] championship
-Los Angeles Lakers
-Playing skills
-Life pictures of home
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
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Vietnam
-Blockade
-President's previous speech
-Public response
-Telephone calls
-Support for President
-Lloyd Rain [sp?]
-Paul Cabot
-Bernard J. (“Bunny”) Lasker
-Fred Schluter
-Dr. William M. Lukash
-News commentators

Manolo Sanchez
-Knee surgery
-Recovery time

Letter to Chamberlain
-Signature

Robert C. Hill recommendation for ambassador to Spain
-Adm. Horacio Rivero
-Visit with Gen. Francisco Franco
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Hill
-Memorandum

George Landau
-President's previous trip
-Hill's recommendation for ambassador to Ceylon
-Identified
-President’s recommendation


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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 722-5 (cont.)




Vietnam
-Blockade
-President's speech
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer's call
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman's report
-Woods's report

President's schedule
-Duke Law School dinner
-Remarks by President
-A reference book
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Charles S. Rhyne
-Wife’s health
-Previous Administration job offers
-Scholarship announcement
-Time
-Richard Kiefer

Vietnam
-Blockade
-President's previous speech
-Strain of compiling
-Delivery
-Woods’s view
-Emotional strain
-Democrats
-President's support for John F. Kennedy during Cuban missile crisis
-George S. McGovern
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-George Meany
-George C. Wallace
-Statement
-Compared with McGovern's statement
-Public support for President
-McGovern presidency
-Woods’s view

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Tape Subject Log
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-Lasker's comments
-Liberals
-The President’s view
-New York, California

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Telephone calls
-Robert H. Abplanalp
-Perle Mesta
-Paul Bradley

Haldeman entered at 10:54 am.

-Earl L. Butz
-Report on support for President's speech

Vietnam
-Blockade
-Public reaction
-Talking points
-Support for President
-President's personal qualities
-Lasker's call
-Publicity from White House
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02) Conv. No. 722-5 (cont.)

-The President’s view
-Lukash
-President's decision
-Risks to election
-Prisoner of war [POW] release
-Publicity
-Public response
-Publicity

Woods and Haldeman left at 10:57 am.