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744–1

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744–1
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • H. R. Haldeman
  • UNKNOWN
June 30, 1972
Conversation No. 744-1

Date: June 30, 1972
Time: 8:06-8:50 am
Location: Oval Office

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

[This recording began at an unknown time while the conversation was in progress]

The President's schedule
-Meeting with unknown man [John N. Mitchell?]
-Tailor


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 3m 43s ]


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The President's previous press conference
-Robert Pierpoint
-The President's quips
-Helen Thomas, Mrs. Douglas B. Cornell
-Dan Rather
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-02)
Conv. No. 744-1 (cont.)

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 6m 36s ]


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News leads
-Death penalty
-George S. McGovern
-Food prices
-Administration action
-Timing of press conferences
-McGovern, George C. Wallace


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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[Duration: 1m 22s ]


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-The President's conversation with Paul Keyes
-Tom Brokaw
-McGovern
-The President’s comments to press

The President's previous press conference
-Pierpoint's question
-Frequency of press conferences
-Patrick J. Buchanan
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-02)
Conv. No. 744-1 (cont.)

-Henry A. Kissinger
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-The President's style of answering questions
-Haldeman’s view
-Questions
-Vice Presidency
-Spiro T. Agnew
-John B. Connally
-The President’s comments
-Death penalty
-Supreme Court's decision
-Opinions
-William O. Douglas, Potter Stewart, Byron R. White
-Kidnapping, hijacking
-The public
-Rape, assassination
-Stewart
-The President’s position
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Popular opposition
-Warren E. Burger
-Killing of policemen
-Life in prison
-Cruelty, cost, parole
-Haldeman’s view
-Recidivism
-Format
-Sammy Davis, Jr.’s call
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Opinion of the President's performance
-French missing in action [MIAs] in Indochina
-Arms control
-Soviet Union's military expenses
-Anti-ballistic missiles [ABM], B-1 bombers, submarines
-Costs
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-US position in world
-The President's style
-Length of answers
-Length
-The President’s response
-The President’s view
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-02)
Conv. No. 744-1 (cont.)

-Frank Cormier
-Troop withdrawal from Vietnam
-Press conference format
-The President's activities in foreign policy
-Questions
-Draftees in Vietnam
-Food prices and domestic issues
-Buchanan
-Welfare
-Child care
-Social security
-Agnew
-Unemployment
-British pound
-Vietnam
-Agnew
-The economy
-Unemployment
-Inflation
-The President's style
-The President’s view
-Domestic Council
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Haldeman’s view
-Questions
-The President’s responses
-Effect
-The public
-Delores Higby
-Lawrence M. Higby
-Charles W. Colson
-Pierpoint
-Thomas (Mrs. Cornell)
-Quip
-Knowledge of reporters' names
-Rather
-Quips
-Relations with press
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Buchanan
-Attacks by others
-Colson, Kenneth W. Clawson, Buchanan
-Factual accuracy
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-02)
Conv. No. 744-1 (cont.)

-Richard A. Moore
-The President's answer to Pierpoint
-Commentary
-Donald Oberdorfer, Jr.
-Vietnam
-The President’s comments
-Advisors' feeling toward press
-Relations with press
-John A. Scali's memorandum
-Press's opinion
-Attacks on media
-Buchanan, Agnew, Ehrlichman, Colson, Clawson
-Press fear of McGovern
-Washington Post
-Comparisons
-Chicago Tribune
-Orlando Sentinal
-Support for the President
-Santa Monica Outlook
-Copley Chain
-Nashville Banner
-Frank van der Linden
-Support for the President
-Haldeman’s view
-The President's style
-Agnew
-Ronald W. Reagan
-The President's 1962 statement
-Dwight D. Eisenhower's 1964 statement at convention
-The President's supporters
-Scali
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-02)
Conv. No. 744-1 (cont.)

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
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[Duration: 59s ]

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The President's previous press conference
-Terence F. Smith
-Press comment
-Podium

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 8:06 am and 8:50 am.

[Conversation No. 744-1A]

Haldeman’s briefcase

[End of telephone conversation]

Julie Nixon Eisenhower's speech
-Press coverage
-The President's coverage as Vice President
-Compared to Tricia Nixon Cox


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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-02)
Conv. No. 744-1 (cont.)

Colson

William L. Safire
-Meatloaf comments
-Meat prices

The President's private office

McGovern
-Statement on bombing in Vietnam
-Adolf Hitler
-Buchanan's response for Agnew

Alexander P. Butterfield [?] entered at an unknown time after 8:06 am.

Document for the President’s signature

Public broadcasting appropriation
-Instructions for Ehrlichman
-Possible veto
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Sander Vanocur's salary

The President, Haldeman and Butterfield left for the President's private office at 8:50 am.
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