Secret White House Tapes

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592–10
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • H. R. Haldeman
  • Charles W. Colson
  • Alexander P. Butterfield
October 14, 1971
Conversation No. 592-10

Date: October 14, 1971
Time: 11:16 am - 12:25 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

Charles W. Colson's schedule

Hobart D. Lewis

Neal B. Freeman

Edith Efron's book
-Freeman
-DeVan L. Shumway
-William F. Buckley
-Bookstores
-Possibility of making book a best seller
-Controversy

Colson entered at 11:19 am.

-Broadcast magazine
-Clifford P. Hansen
-House of Representatives
-Clarence J. (“Bud”) Brown, Jr.
-Torbert H. MacDonald
-Harley O. Staggers
-Buckley
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
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-\"Firing Line\"
-Mike Douglas show
-Television stations
-Congressmen
-Dean G. Acheson
-\"Accuracy in Media\"
-Views
-Network concerns
-Efron
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Distribution of book
-Louis Harris
-Poll
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Blacks
-John P. Roche
-New York Times
-Forthcoming review
-Washington Post

Book by Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak
-Donald Oberdorfer, Jr.'s review
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Colson’s view
-Melvin R. Laird
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Foreign policy
-Footnote
-Colson
-Massachusetts primary
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Colson
-[Forename unknown] McCarthy
-Evans

[Forename unknown] Pierce

Evans and Novak
-William L. Safire
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 592-10 (cont.)


-Efforts
-Robert H. Finch
-Donald H. Rumsfeld

Efron book
-Freeman
-Irv Kupeiner's show
-George Putnam
-Los Angeles
-Finances for Efron's travels

George Meany
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Chappaquiddick

Campaign practices
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Campaign strategy
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Kennedy

Laird's activities

John N. Mitchell's activities

The President's previous meeting with Harris
-National economy
-John B. Connally
-Ehrlichman
-Peace
-Kissinger
-Administration issues
-Colson

The President's schedule
-Aircraft hijacking convention
-John A. Volpe

The President's previous meeting with Harris
-Poll
-Haldeman
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 592-10 (cont.)


-Popular view of President
-Laos
-Campaign
-Peace
-Vietnam War
-Networks
-CBS
-JoAnne Haldeman
-Washington Star
-Unnamed Prisoner of War [POW]
-Manolo Sanchez
-POWs

Television networks
-Sam J. Ervin, Jr. Committee hearings
-Fred W. Friendly
-Strom Thurmond
-Performance
-Media
-Motorcycle accidents
-Vietnam

Comments on the President's Soviet Summit announcement
-Kissinger
-War in Vietnam
-Television
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Democrats
-Article by James Doyle
-Democratic National Committee
-Wage and price controls
-Stock market
-Trip to USSR
-Trip to PRC
-Birch Bayh
-Harold E. Hughes
-Supreme Court nominees
-Robert C. Byrd
-Clement F. Haynesworth, G. Harrold Carswell
-George S. McGovern
-Muskie
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 592-10 (cont.)


-Byrd


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 40s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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-Mike Royko's column
-Comparison of Nixon and Kennedy
-Posters
-Campaign practices
-Kennedy

Royko's column
-The President
-Kennedy

News summary remarks
-Boston Globe
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Kennedy
-Radio
-Impact on popular opinion
-Humphrey
-Democrats

George H. Gallup's poll
-Timing of release
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 6m 34s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

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The President's accomplishments
-Vietnam
-PRC
-USSR

Networks
-Ziegler, Herbert G. Klein
-New York Times
-Washington Star
-Washington Post
-Vietnam
-David Brinkley
-Haldeman
-Vietnam
-Soviet Summit announcement
-Doyle

Republicans in Congress
-Goldwater
-Kennedy
-Administration involvement
-Edward W. Brooke
-Hugh Scott
-Gerald R. Ford
-National figures
-Michael J. Mansfield amendment
-Head count
-Clark MacGregor
-[Unintelligible name]
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
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-United Press International [UPI]
-[Forename unknown] Smith
-Rumsfeld's views
-Congress
-Richard B. Russell
-William Proxmire
-Staff

The President's legislative accomplishments

Spiro T. Agnew
-Visit to Greece

National economy
-Stock market
-Labor
-Phase II
-Retail sales
-Paul W. McCracken
-Sales
-Harry Reasoner
-Dan Rather
-Jacob K. Javits

Cabinet
-Connally
-Agnew
-William P. Rogers
-[Unintelligible name]
-Kissinger
-Laird
-Edward M. Kennedy
-John A. Scali
-Maurice H. Stans
-John A. Volpe
-George Romney
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Harold L. Ickes
-Connally
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 592-10 (cont.)


-Democrat background
-Rumsfeld, Finch

Robert J. Dole
-Franklin C. Nofziger
-Networks
-Talk show
-Wichita, Kansas

Republican spokesmen
-The President's schedule
-California
-Cabinet
-Dole
-POWs
-Vermont
-Governor
-Federal Housing Administration [FHA]
-Becker Poll
-Importance
-Finch
-California
-Patricia R. Hitt
-Rose Mary Woods
-Arkansas
-Missouri
-Gladys O'Donnell
-Mary Roebling
-Romana A. Banuelos
-MacGregor
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Samuel L. Devine
-Brown
-Senators
-Brooke
-Javits
-Charles H. Percy
-Javits
-Kissinger
-Effect of polls
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 592-10 (cont.)


The President's schedule
-Connally
-Instructions to Haldeman
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Kissinger

Ehrlichman

Colson left at 12:18 pm.

Camp Hoover

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 12:19 pm.

The President's schedule
-Executive Office Building

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:24 pm.

Colson
-Compared to Mitchell

Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 12:19 pm.

The President's schedule
-Kissinger's schedule
-Woods
-Mr. and Mrs. Frank Jorgensen

Butterfield left at 12:24 pm.

Haldeman left at 12:25 pm.
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Tape Subject Log
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