Secret White House Tapes

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  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • H. R. Haldeman
  • Manolo Sanchez
October 4, 1972
Conversation No. 215-4
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)


Date: October 4, 1972
Time: Unknown between 5:00 pm and 5:30 pm
Location: Camp David Hard Wire

The President met with H.R. (\"Bob\") Haldeman.

The President's schedule
-Political meeting

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 5:00 pm.

Refreshment

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:30 pm.

The President's schedule
-Meeting, October 5, 1972
-Participants
-John B. Connally
-Robert J. Dole
-Radio speeches
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Foreign policy
-Economic issues
-Taxes, debt ceiling and fiscal responsibility
-Timing
-Congressional adjournment
-Foreign policy
-George S. McGovern
-Washington, DC
-Camp David
-Columbus Day
-New York
-Peter Fosco
-Charles W. Colson's view
-Atlanta
-Local press coverage
-Press pool

News summary
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-Questions and answers [Q & A] on issues

An unknown person [Sanchez?] entered at an unknown time after 5:00 pm.

Instruction

An unknown person [Sanchez?] left at an unknown time before 5:30 pm.

News summary
-Q & A on issues
-Amnesty, busing, Vietnam
-Taxes
-The press
-Comparison to 1968
-Creation of issues
-The White House
-Haldeman's view
-Public opinion of the President
-The President's schedule
-McGovern
-Position on issues
-Comparison to the President
-Nomination acceptance speech
-Foreign policy, national defense
-Differences

Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
-Request for television appearance by the President
-Possible motivation
-McGovern
-Recent telephone conversation
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Other television networks
-McGovern
-Interview scheduling
-Order of appearance
-Equal time
-Connally
-McGovern's appearance
-Network coverage
-Ziegler
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

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(rev. Oct-06)


Issues
-Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Henry A. Kissinger's schedule
-McGovern's forthcoming speech
-Paris
-Announcement
-Settlement
-Roscoe Drummond
-Column
-Timing
-1972 election
-Kissinger's concerns
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Attitude towards proposals
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-North Vietnamese
-Acceptance of proposals
-Thieu's perspective
-Establishment of Council of National Concord
-Timing
-1972 election
-Possible offer
-New York Times
-US public attitude
-Imposition of communist government
-Future military options
-Possible bombing
-Thieu
-Government of South Vietnam [GVN]
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 5:30 pm.
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