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- President Richard M. Nixon
- H. R. Haldeman
- John B. Connally
- John N. Mitchell
- Clark MacGregor
- John D. Ehrlichman
October 17, 1972
Conversation No. 801-24/802-1
Date: October 17, 1972
Time: Unknown after 3:03 pm - 6:24 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John B. Connally. This recording began at
an unknown time while the meeting was in progress.
[An unknown portion of this conversation was not recorded while this tape was changed.]
Issues
-George S. McGovern
-Charges against John D. Ehrlichman
-Response
-Ehrlichman’s performance on television [TV]
John N. Mitchell, Clark MacGregor and Ehrlichman entered at 4:07 pm.
Greetings
-Connally’s recent press conference
Connally’s recent press conference
George Embry
-The President’s view
-The Left
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 3m 33s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
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1972 campaign television [TV] broadcasts
2
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Connally's broadcast
-Significance and impact
-The President’s view
-Foreign policy and national defense issues
-McGovern support
-George Christian's speech text
-Production
-William Drummond
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Defense
-Presidency
-Vietnam
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Timing
-World Series
-Oakland
-Delay
-Weather
-TV
-Cincinnati
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 3m 20s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
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Issues
-McGovern
-Vietnam, amnesty
-Taxes on wealth
-Tax reform plan
-Timing
-The elderly
-The President’s radio address on Federal spending, October 7, 1972
3
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-McGovern's use of issue
-McGovern’s forthcoming TV address
-The President’s schedule
-Radio
-The President's schedule
-Radio
-New York
[Thomas] Hale Boggs
-Airplane crash
-Air travel in Alaska
-Anchorage
-The President’s previous experience
-Search efforts
-The President’s telephone call to Corrine (Claiborne) (“Lindy”) Boggs
-Memorial service
-Status on ballot in forthcoming election
- [Nicolas J. Begich]
-Congressional action
-The President's call to Lindy Boggs
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Lindy Boggs
-Anecdotes
-Dinner
-Peter H. Dominick
-McGovern analogy
-Gridiron Club
-Parren J. Mitchell
The President's schedule
-Radio talks
-Education
-Equal Educational Opportunities Act
-Senate
-House of Representatives
-McGovern
-Absence of vote
-Parochial school aid issue
-Busing
-Blacks
-The President's meeting with Gale E. Sayers
-Black colleges
4
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-James Brown, Sammy Davis, Jr.
-Support for the President
-Reaction
-Records, concerts
-Jim Brown
-Text release
-Use by surrogates
-Crime
-The President's voice
-The President’s meeting with prisoners of war [POWs] families, October
16, 1972
-Jo Anne (Horton) Haldeman’s view
-Roosevelt's fireside chats
-Radio compared to television
-Schedule
-Veterans
-Veterans Day
-Paternalism compared to free society address, October 21, 1972
-Education
-Address to the nation; “Look to the Future”, November 2, 1972
-Peace, economy
-Paternalism address
-Presentation of administration record
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW] and Domestic
Council drafts
-Unlimited ceiling of opportunity
-Sayers
-Jobs, business, education
-Length
-Impact
-Crime and drug abuse address, October 15, 1972
-Audience
-The President's delivery
-Timing and frequency
-Revenue sharing signing ceremony
-Independence Hall
-Hale Boggs
-Service
-John A. Love
-Richard B. Ogilvie
-Illinois
-Milton J. Shapp
5
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Frank L. Rizzo
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Rizzo
-R. Sargent Shriver
-Unknown woman
-Radio
-New York regional meeting
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Rally
-Nassau
-Partisan perception
-Advertisements
-Republican Party
-Democrats for Nixon
-Committee to Re-Elect the President [CRP]
-Republican National Committee
-Georgia
-Labor
-Atlanta
-Instruction for R. Burdell Bixby
Connally
-Schedule
-Idanell (Brill) (“Nellie”) Connally
-Receipt of Distinguished Alumni Award from University of Texas
-Oveta Culp Hobby, Claudia A. (Taylor) (\"Lady Bird\") Johnson
Football
-University of Texas vs. University of Oklahoma
-Commentator Charles B. (“Bud”) Wilkinson
-Washington Redskins
-University of Michigan
-Fielding H. Yost
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 50s ]
6
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
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The President's schedule
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) II announcement, October 19, 1972
-US-Soviet Union agreement on trade
-Treasury Department
-Lend-lease
-Henry A. Kissinger, Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Radio talks
-Vetoes
Congressional relations
-Forthcoming water bill veto
-Financial cost
-Tax increase
-1972 election
-Environmentalists
-Pork barrel
-Gerald R. Ford
-Ford’s recent telephone call to Ehrlichman
-Retroactive provision of bill
-1956-1962
-Grand Rapids, Michigan
-Mandatory spending
-Effect on credibility of the President’s tax increase position
-Environmental issue
-Congress
-Veto override
-Quorum
-Ford
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 10m 5s ]
7
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
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Jesse A. Helms
-Stand on issues compared to the President
-William L. Scott of Virginia
-Patriotism
-Scott
-North Carolina poll
-James E. Holshouser, Jr.
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 25m 58s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9
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Vietnam negotiations
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Paris to Saigon
-Announcement
-Return to [Washington, DC]
-Kissinger’s efforts
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 10
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 8m 4s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 10
8
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
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Congress
-Possible help from the President's campaigning
-Support for the President
-Charles H. Percy of Illinois
-1966
-Voting record
-William B. Saxbe
-Loyalty to the President
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 11
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 2m 14s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 11
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Media relations
-SALT II announcement, revenue sharing, European security
-Effectiveness as activities
-Treaty Room signing
-Television coverage
-The President's meeting with POW families, October 16, 1972
-Television coverage
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 13
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 3m 10s ]
9
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 13
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Issues
-Vietnam
-Time required for coverage
-The President’s meeting with POW families, October 16, 1972
-Written statements
-Aid to parochial schools, busing
-Grand Rapids
-Water bill veto
-Ford
-Local tie-in
-Press releases
-Crime statement
-Preparation
-Deadline
-Speechwriters
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Research team
-Taxes and spending
-Veto
-Tax Reform Act of 1969
-Public awareness
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 14
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 14m 34s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 14
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The President's accomplishments
-Vietnam War
10
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Peace efforts
-Withdrawal of US forces
-Trips to the People's Republic of China [PRC] and Soviet Union
-Crime, narcotics interdiction and law enforcement
-Economic gains for American people
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 15
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 9m 53s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 15
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1972 campaign
-Criticism of the President's schedule
-White House
-“Hiding” charge
-TV
-Public perception
-Poll
-Congressional adjournment
-Bill signing
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 16
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 12m 5s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 16
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11
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
Media
The President's schedule
-The President’s experience as Vice President
-1956
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Vietnam War
-The President’s May 8, 1972 decision on bombing Hanoi and mining
Haiphong harbor
-Impact
-Visit to fifty states
-The President's role as President
-Head of state
-Contact with people
-Gen. Charles A.J.M. De Gaulle
-Conversation with the President
-Public perception
-Savannah
-Blacks
-Fargo, North Dakota
-Farmers and the President's farm program
-Effect of press coverage
-Mississippi visit, September 8, 1969
-Hurricane [Camille]
-James Eastland, William M. Colmer
-John N. Mitchell
-Public reaction
-Regional pride, national pride
-TV
-Unemployed
-TV
-Ambassador from Austria [Karl Gruber]
-Presentation of credentials
-Travels through US
-Impressions
-West Coast, Texas, Midwest
-Washington, DC
-Cambodian decision [1970]
-Public reaction
-Washington, DC compared to rest of country
-Media
12
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-De Gaulle
-Paris
-Previous trip to Atlanta, Georgia, 1972
-South
-Comment by unknown girl
-Southern strategy
-1970 election
-James E. (“Jimmy”) Carter
-Liberals
Haldeman, Connally et al. left at 6:24 pm.
Date: October 17, 1972
Time: Unknown after 3:03 pm - 6:24 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John B. Connally. This recording began at
an unknown time while the meeting was in progress.
[An unknown portion of this conversation was not recorded while this tape was changed.]
Issues
-George S. McGovern
-Charges against John D. Ehrlichman
-Response
-Ehrlichman’s performance on television [TV]
John N. Mitchell, Clark MacGregor and Ehrlichman entered at 4:07 pm.
Greetings
-Connally’s recent press conference
Connally’s recent press conference
George Embry
-The President’s view
-The Left
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 3m 33s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
*****************************************************************
1972 campaign television [TV] broadcasts
2
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Connally's broadcast
-Significance and impact
-The President’s view
-Foreign policy and national defense issues
-McGovern support
-George Christian's speech text
-Production
-William Drummond
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Defense
-Presidency
-Vietnam
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Timing
-World Series
-Oakland
-Delay
-Weather
-TV
-Cincinnati
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 3m 20s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
*****************************************************************
Issues
-McGovern
-Vietnam, amnesty
-Taxes on wealth
-Tax reform plan
-Timing
-The elderly
-The President’s radio address on Federal spending, October 7, 1972
3
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-McGovern's use of issue
-McGovern’s forthcoming TV address
-The President’s schedule
-Radio
-The President's schedule
-Radio
-New York
[Thomas] Hale Boggs
-Airplane crash
-Air travel in Alaska
-Anchorage
-The President’s previous experience
-Search efforts
-The President’s telephone call to Corrine (Claiborne) (“Lindy”) Boggs
-Memorial service
-Status on ballot in forthcoming election
- [Nicolas J. Begich]
-Congressional action
-The President's call to Lindy Boggs
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Lindy Boggs
-Anecdotes
-Dinner
-Peter H. Dominick
-McGovern analogy
-Gridiron Club
-Parren J. Mitchell
The President's schedule
-Radio talks
-Education
-Equal Educational Opportunities Act
-Senate
-House of Representatives
-McGovern
-Absence of vote
-Parochial school aid issue
-Busing
-Blacks
-The President's meeting with Gale E. Sayers
-Black colleges
4
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-James Brown, Sammy Davis, Jr.
-Support for the President
-Reaction
-Records, concerts
-Jim Brown
-Text release
-Use by surrogates
-Crime
-The President's voice
-The President’s meeting with prisoners of war [POWs] families, October
16, 1972
-Jo Anne (Horton) Haldeman’s view
-Roosevelt's fireside chats
-Radio compared to television
-Schedule
-Veterans
-Veterans Day
-Paternalism compared to free society address, October 21, 1972
-Education
-Address to the nation; “Look to the Future”, November 2, 1972
-Peace, economy
-Paternalism address
-Presentation of administration record
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW] and Domestic
Council drafts
-Unlimited ceiling of opportunity
-Sayers
-Jobs, business, education
-Length
-Impact
-Crime and drug abuse address, October 15, 1972
-Audience
-The President's delivery
-Timing and frequency
-Revenue sharing signing ceremony
-Independence Hall
-Hale Boggs
-Service
-John A. Love
-Richard B. Ogilvie
-Illinois
-Milton J. Shapp
5
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Frank L. Rizzo
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Rizzo
-R. Sargent Shriver
-Unknown woman
-Radio
-New York regional meeting
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Rally
-Nassau
-Partisan perception
-Advertisements
-Republican Party
-Democrats for Nixon
-Committee to Re-Elect the President [CRP]
-Republican National Committee
-Georgia
-Labor
-Atlanta
-Instruction for R. Burdell Bixby
Connally
-Schedule
-Idanell (Brill) (“Nellie”) Connally
-Receipt of Distinguished Alumni Award from University of Texas
-Oveta Culp Hobby, Claudia A. (Taylor) (\"Lady Bird\") Johnson
Football
-University of Texas vs. University of Oklahoma
-Commentator Charles B. (“Bud”) Wilkinson
-Washington Redskins
-University of Michigan
-Fielding H. Yost
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 50s ]
6
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
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The President's schedule
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) II announcement, October 19, 1972
-US-Soviet Union agreement on trade
-Treasury Department
-Lend-lease
-Henry A. Kissinger, Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Radio talks
-Vetoes
Congressional relations
-Forthcoming water bill veto
-Financial cost
-Tax increase
-1972 election
-Environmentalists
-Pork barrel
-Gerald R. Ford
-Ford’s recent telephone call to Ehrlichman
-Retroactive provision of bill
-1956-1962
-Grand Rapids, Michigan
-Mandatory spending
-Effect on credibility of the President’s tax increase position
-Environmental issue
-Congress
-Veto override
-Quorum
-Ford
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 10m 5s ]
7
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
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Jesse A. Helms
-Stand on issues compared to the President
-William L. Scott of Virginia
-Patriotism
-Scott
-North Carolina poll
-James E. Holshouser, Jr.
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 25m 58s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9
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Vietnam negotiations
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Paris to Saigon
-Announcement
-Return to [Washington, DC]
-Kissinger’s efforts
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 10
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 8m 4s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 10
8
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
*****************************************************************
Congress
-Possible help from the President's campaigning
-Support for the President
-Charles H. Percy of Illinois
-1966
-Voting record
-William B. Saxbe
-Loyalty to the President
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 11
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 2m 14s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 11
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Media relations
-SALT II announcement, revenue sharing, European security
-Effectiveness as activities
-Treaty Room signing
-Television coverage
-The President's meeting with POW families, October 16, 1972
-Television coverage
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 13
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 3m 10s ]
9
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 13
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Issues
-Vietnam
-Time required for coverage
-The President’s meeting with POW families, October 16, 1972
-Written statements
-Aid to parochial schools, busing
-Grand Rapids
-Water bill veto
-Ford
-Local tie-in
-Press releases
-Crime statement
-Preparation
-Deadline
-Speechwriters
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Research team
-Taxes and spending
-Veto
-Tax Reform Act of 1969
-Public awareness
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 14
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 14m 34s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 14
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The President's accomplishments
-Vietnam War
10
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Peace efforts
-Withdrawal of US forces
-Trips to the People's Republic of China [PRC] and Soviet Union
-Crime, narcotics interdiction and law enforcement
-Economic gains for American people
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 15
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 9m 53s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 15
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1972 campaign
-Criticism of the President's schedule
-White House
-“Hiding” charge
-TV
-Public perception
-Poll
-Congressional adjournment
-Bill signing
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 16
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 12m 5s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 16
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11
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
Media
The President's schedule
-The President’s experience as Vice President
-1956
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Vietnam War
-The President’s May 8, 1972 decision on bombing Hanoi and mining
Haiphong harbor
-Impact
-Visit to fifty states
-The President's role as President
-Head of state
-Contact with people
-Gen. Charles A.J.M. De Gaulle
-Conversation with the President
-Public perception
-Savannah
-Blacks
-Fargo, North Dakota
-Farmers and the President's farm program
-Effect of press coverage
-Mississippi visit, September 8, 1969
-Hurricane [Camille]
-James Eastland, William M. Colmer
-John N. Mitchell
-Public reaction
-Regional pride, national pride
-TV
-Unemployed
-TV
-Ambassador from Austria [Karl Gruber]
-Presentation of credentials
-Travels through US
-Impressions
-West Coast, Texas, Midwest
-Washington, DC
-Cambodian decision [1970]
-Public reaction
-Washington, DC compared to rest of country
-Media
12
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-De Gaulle
-Paris
-Previous trip to Atlanta, Georgia, 1972
-South
-Comment by unknown girl
-Southern strategy
-1970 election
-James E. (“Jimmy”) Carter
-Liberals
Haldeman, Connally et al. left at 6:24 pm.