Secret White House Tapes

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  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • William F. "Billy" Graham
February 21, 1973
Conversation No. 43-161

Date: February 21, 1973
Time: 8:10 pm - 8:30 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Billy Graham.

Graham’s schedule
-Travel
-1973 Inauguration
-Lyndon B. Johnson’s funeral
-Vacation
-California

Prisoners of War [POWs] return
-National mood
-Graham’s view
-The President’s role
-Franklin Graham

Israel
-Shooting down of passenger airplane
-The President’s view
-Munich Olympic Games
-Killings of Israeli athletes
-Golda Meir
-The President’s view
-Compensation
-Anwar el-Sadat
-Effect
-Meir’s visit to Washington DC
-The President’s view
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Aug.-08)

Conversation No. 43-161 (cont’d)

-Effect
-Jewish attacks on evangelism
-Israel
-US Jews
-Article in Atlantic Constitution
-Rabbi Mark Tannenbaum
-Antisemitism
-The President’s view

POWs return
-Reaction of nation
-Heroes
-Support for the President

Mark O. Hatfield’s comments at Prayer Breakfast
-Graham’s letter
-Graham’s view
-George S. McGovern
-Graham’s comments to Douglas Coe
-Harold E. Hughes
-Action at John C. Stennis prayer service

Hughes and Hatfield
-Position on Vietnam War
-Inflexibility

Graham’s health

White House Head of State dinner
-Meir
-Graham’s possible attendance
-Rose Mary Woods
-Shootdown of passenger airplane

Tannenbaum
-Antisemitism
-New York Times
-Graham
-Support for the President
-Prayer at Republican Convention
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Aug.-08)

Conversation No. 43-161 (cont’d)


Antisemitism in world
-The President’s view
-Spain, Germany, United States
-Biblical reference to Jews
-Jews and pornography
-Articles in Time and Newsweek
-Ruth Graham
-The President’s view

1973 Inauguration
-News media coverage
-Time magazine
-Graham’s view
-Henry Luce
-Life
-Graham’s conversation with Bernard J. (“Bunny”) Lasker
-Time
-Advertising

The President’s schedule
-Press reports
-Dinner at Trader Vic’s
-Herbert J. (“Jackie”) Gleason
-South Carolina

Israel Head of State dinner
-Graham’s attendance
-Meir
-The President’s view

Antisemitism
-Graham’s conversation with Tannenbaum
-The President’s view
-John Birch Society
-Israel’s actions
-Christians
-Graham’s view

Conversion of young Jews
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Aug.-08)

Conversation No. 43-161 (cont’d)

-Christians
-Jews for Jesus
-Rabbi’s reactions
-Episcopalians

1974 Lausanne Conference
-Graham’s role
-World Council of Churches
-Eugene Carson Blake
-Indecency
-Pacifism
-Compared to communists
-South Africa, Greece
-Graham’s view
-Anglican participation
-Great Britain
-Lutheran participation
-Germany
-US church participation
-Latin American, Far East participation
-Roman Catholic participation
-Southern Baptists
-John Krol, Terence Cooke
-Jesuits
-John J. McLaughlin
-Graham’s view
-Trip to Vietnam
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