Secret White House Tapes

206–18

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206–18
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • H. R. Haldeman
August 20, 1972
Conversation No. 206-18

Date: August 20, 1972
Time: Unknown between 6:25 pm and 9:45 pm
Location: Camp David Hard Wire

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

Rose Mary Woods's schedule
-Marjorie P. Acker
-Laurel Lodge
-Manolo Sanchez
-Speech draft [?]

The President’s forthcoming acceptance speech
-Content
-Tanya Savicheva story
-Abraham Lincoln
-The President’s reading of draft
-US defense budget
-US negotiating stance
-Arms limitation
-Opportunity for peace
-US
-Soviet Union
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Domestic programs
-Poverty
-Cities
-Rural areas
-Environment
-Welfare reform
-Revenue sharing
-“Peace dividend”
-The President's televised speech in the Soviet Union
-Lincoln
-Religious reference
-The President’s trip to the Soviet Union
-Leningrad
-Tanya story
-“New majority”
-Haldeman’s view
-Revisions
-Lincoln quote
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Tape Subject Log
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-Use by the President in 1960
-Use of passage from previous speeches
-Compared to other religious references
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-John K. Andrews, Jr.

The President's schedule

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 9:45 pm.
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