Secret White House Tapes

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722–9
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • H. R. Haldeman
May 9, 1972
Conversation No. 722-9

Date: May 9, 1972
Time: 4:42 pm - 5:06 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

Vietnam
-Blockade
-Poll
-Release

Duke Law School dinner
-Photograph book
-President
-Resemblance to Edward C. Nixon
-President's comments
-Classmate in Colorado

Vietnam
-Blockade
-Poll
-Release of results
-Support for President
-Henry A. Kissinger’s forthcoming statement
-Criticism
-Impeachment resolution
-Bella S. Abzug
-Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.
-United Nations [UN]
-Kurt Waldheim
-Ceasefire
-Abzug
-Response
-Statements
-Carl B. Albert
-F. Edward Hebert
-Samuel L. Stratton
-Hugh Scott
-George D. Aiken
-Dante B. Fascell
-House resolution
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
Conv. No. 722-9 (cont.)
-President's peace offers
-Congress
-Democrat caucus
-Resolution
-Similarity to President's proposals
-Ceasefire, prisoners of war [POW], withdrawal
-Statements
-Jack Miller
-John C. Stennis
-Strom Thurmond
-Republicans
-William M. Colmer
-William Ryan
-Abzug
-Margaret Chase Smith
-Challenge to opponents
-Support for President
-Edward W. Brooke
-Resolution
-Ceasefire
-Political settlement
-Clark MacGregor
-Support for President
-President's peace offers
-Democrats' response
-Attacks on Democrats
-The President’s instructions
-Timing
-Patriotism
-Comparison with the 1962 Cuban missile crisis
-Intensity
-Edmund S. Muskie
-George S. McGovern
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Kennedy
-Role of Charles W. Colson
-Intensity
-John B. Connally
-Press conference
-Timing
-Melvin R. Laird
-Press conference
-William P. Rogers
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
Conv. No. 722-9 (cont.)
-Connally
-Comments on Democratic partisanship
-Effectiveness

Swimming pool
-Location
-Blair House

Vietnam
-Blockade
-Support
-Spontaneity
-White House staff work
-Poll results
-Kissinger

President's dinner for Duke Law School alumni
-List for introductions
-Lewis F. Powell
-William P. Rogers
-Robert H. Finch

Haldeman left at 5:06 pm.
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