Secret White House Tapes

328–14

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328–14
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Manolo Sanchez
  • Luis Echeverria Alvarez
  • William Westmoreland
  • Norman Vincent Peale
  • Henry A. Kissinger
March 29, 1972
Conversation No. 328-14

Date: March 29, 1972
Time: Unknown between 12:57 pm and 3:07 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Recording machine
-Problems with operation

The President dictated a letter to Luis Alvarez Echeverria.

The President’s appreciation
-Courtesy to Henry A. Kissinger in Acapulco
-Kissinger’s work
-Amount
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-Hospitality of Mexicans

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:07 pm.

Latin America

Echeverria’s forthcoming visit to US
-Invitation
-Camp David
-Reception
-Time of year
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

The President dictated a letter to Gen. William C. Westmoreland.

Army chorus
-Performance at a dinner
-The President’s attendance
-Singing
-Stout-Hearted men
-Impact on audience
-The President’s appreciation to “The Singing Sergeants”

The President dictated a letter to Norman Vincent Peale.

The President’s previous conversation with H. E. Ahmad Toukan
-Former Prime Minister of Jordan
-Knowledge of Huseein ebn-Talal’s [Hussein, King of Jordan] family
-Huseein’s early hardships
-Assassination of grandfather
-Father’s health
-Hussein’s achievements
-Toukan’s view
-Hussein’s good temper
-Hussein’s mother

Motherhood
-The President’s view

The President’s conversation with Ahmad Toukan
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Conv. No. 328-14 (cont.)

The President replayed part of the dictation.

The President continued dictating.

Mother’s Day sermon

The President’ dictated a memorandum to Kissinger.

Robert Amory,Jr.
-Attendance at previous dinner for Hussein
-Former assistant to Allen W. Dulles
-Previous conversation with the President
-Incident in 1954-44
-Joseph McCarthy’s investigation of Dulles
-White House staff
-The President’s defense of Dulles
-Amory’s view
-George Ball
-1968 attack on the President
-Amory’s letter to the New York Times
-Editing of letter
-Eastern Establishment
-Possible appointment to a board
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