Secret White House Tapes

206–9

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206–9
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Charles W. Colson
  • Henry A. Kissinger
August 20, 1972
Conversation No. 206-9

Date: August 20, 1972
Time: 12:27 pm - unknown before 1:00 pm
Location: Camp David Hard Wire

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.
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Tape Subject Log
(rev.Oct-06)


[See Conversation No. 140-50; two items have been withdrawn]

Henry A. Kissinger entered at an unknown time after 12:27 pm.

Kissinger talked with Colson at an unknown time after 12:27 pm.

[End of telephone conversation]

Staff morale

The President’s forthcoming acceptance speech
-Kissinger’s proposed changes
-US strength
-George S. McGovern stance
-Defense capacity of South Vietnam
-Soviet Union
-US defense spending
-Compared to food stamps spending
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s view
-Arms limitation
-US intentions
-US strength
-Effect on negotiations
-Communists
-McGovern
-Kissinger’s view
-“Peace dividend”
-Speechwriters’ views
-Leonard Garment
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-William L. Safire
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Placement of sentences
-Aspirations of American people
-Speechwriters’ view
-Kissinger’s speeches
-Vietnam

Kissinger's schedule
-Swimming
-Departure time

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming dinner
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Tape Subject Log
(rev.Oct-06)


-Kissinger
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Haig
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Benefits

Kissinger left at an unknown time before 1:00 pm.
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