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748–7
- President Richard M. Nixon
- Stephen B. Bull
- H. R. Haldeman
- Armand Hammer
- Alexander P. Butterfield
July 20, 1972
Conversation No. 748-7
Date: July 20, 1972
Time: Unknown between 10:38 am and 12:02 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Stephen B. Bull.
The President's schedule
-Meeting with Armand Hammer
-Off-the-record basis
-Compared to on-the-record bases
-Henry A. Kissinger's possible objection
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Kissinger's possible objection
H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 10:59 am.
-Hammer
-Quotes
-Staff
-Business deal with Soviet Union
Bull left at an unknown time before 11:00 am.
-Haldeman’s schedule
[The following portion of the conversation is included in RG 460; there is no transcript for this
portion.]
Hammer entered at 11:00 am.
9
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)
Hammer's trip to Soviet Union
-The President’s trip to the Soviet Union
-Hammer’s statement
-Business deal
Hammer's meeting with Peter G. Peterson in Morocco
Arrangements for photograph session
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy
Hammer's meeting with Peterson
-Taft Schreiber
Soviet Union
-Dealings with businessmen
-Possible trade center
-Hammer's conversation with Stephen D. Bechtel
-Time interview
-Russian word
-The President's and Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's previous trip
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin's trip to California
-Henry Kissinger's dinner
-Col. Robert M. Behr [?]
-June Haver's singing
-Fred MacMurray
-Russian language
-Spanish language
-Russian word
-The President’s efforts
-Hammer's contacts with Vladimir I. Lenin
-Farm concession
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Letter
-Henry Ford
-Franklin D. Murphy
-Date
-Kissinger
-Press release after signing of agreement
-Peterson
-White House cooperation with Hammer
-Peterson
-Book [Quest of the Romanoff Treasure]
-Mrs. Nixon
10
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)
-Hammer's relations with Lenin
-Correspondence
-Photographs of Hammer during Soviet famine
-White House cooperation with Hammer
-Peterson
-Kissinger
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Helmut (“Hal”) Sonnenfeldt
-Kissinger
-Vietnam
Hammer’s art collection
-[Quest of the Romanoff Treasure]
-Hammer's acquisition of Russian crown jewels
-Peter Karl Faberge
-Art galleries in New York
-Hammer
-Frances (Tolman) Hammer
-Knodler
-Dorothy B. Chandler
Hammer's trip to Soviet Union
-Soviet Minister of Culture [Ekaterina A. Furtseva]
-Exchange of art exhibits
-Royal Academy
-Hermitage
-Pushkin
-The Netherlands
The President's trip to Soviet Union
-Pavlovsky
Catalog of Hammer's art collection
-Royal Academy
-Los Angeles
-National Gallery of Art
John A. (“Jack”) Mulcahy
-Exhibit in Dublin of Hammer's collection
-Invitation to Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Date
Ireland
11
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)
-Violence in north
-Great Britain
Irish ancestry of the President and Mrs. Nixon
-Mrs. Hammer’s view
Hammer's lunch with Katharine L. Graham
-Mrs. Hammer
-Graham
-The President’s view
Article for Mrs. Nixon
Anna (“Grandma”) Moses
-Gift for Mrs. Nixon
-Portfolio
San Clemente
-Statue
-Invitation to Hammer and Mrs. Hammer
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Adele (Langston) Rogers
Soviet Union
-Nikolai Patolichev
-Pencil-making
-Hammer’s enterprises
-Compared to other efforts
-Missiles, moon missions
The President's conversation with Chou En-Lai
-Pencil-making
Hammer's trip to Soviet Union in 1961
-Nikita S. Khrushchev
-Kennedy
-Trade
-Luther Hodges, Sr.
-Anastas Mikoyan
-Conversation with Hammer
-Khrushchev
-Conversation with Hammer
-Meeting with Khrushchev
12
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)
-India
-Jawaharlal Nehru
-Mikoyan
-Trade ban on crab meat
-Slave labor
-Hammer's subsequent meeting with Kennedy and Hughes
-C. Douglas Dillon
-Secret Service
-Japanese fishermen
-Josef V. Stalin
-Dobrynin
-Presentation of pencil
-Visit to pencil factory
-Mrs. Hammer
-Moscow River
-Meeting with staff members and Khrushchev
-Khrushchev's subsequent speech
-Hammer's pencil concession from Lenin
Hammer's last trip to Soviet Union
-Art collection
-Climate of relations
-Congress
US foreign policy
-Soviet Union
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
Democrats for Nixon
-The President’s conversation with John B. Connally
-Marvin Watson
-Relationship with Hammer
-1972 election’s importance
-Watson
-Connally
-Hammer’s view
-Occidental Petroleum’s success
-Libyan investment
-Muammar Qaddafi, Abdul Salam Jalud
-Hammer’s call of July 19, 1972
-Connally’s call to Hammer
-Role in Lyndon B. Johnson administration
-Relationship with Johnson
13
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)
-Johnson’s view of the President and his policies
-The President’s possible call to Johnson
-Possible results of a McGovern victory
-Mrs. Hammer
-Frank L. Rizzo
-Australia
-Role with Occidental
-Soviet Union
-Connally
-The President’s possible call to Johnson
-Haldeman
-Role with Occidental
-Neil Colby
-Colby
-Role in Johnson administration
-McGovern
-Relationship with Hammer
-The President’s possible call to Johnson
-Timothy Babcock
-Role with Occidental
-Soviet Union trip
-Washington, DC
-Watson
-Connally
-Johnson
-Contract
-Stock options
Hammer's trip to Soviet Union
-Effect on Occidental's stock price
-The President
-Tankers
-Libya
-Tanker losses
-Restriction on New York Stock Exchange trading
-New York Times
-Hammer's possible conversation with Soviets
-Size of lots
-Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union [TASS] reporter
-Lotus Club
-Puss `N' Boots Bar
Painting
14
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)
-Howard [Surname unknown]
Hammer’s political contributions
-Maurice H. Stans
Presentation of gifts by the President
-Photograph of Nixon family
-Cufflinks
Soviet Union
-William P. Rogers
-Cultural exchange with US
-Furtseva
-Sonnenfeldt
Mrs. Hammer
Los Angeles
Art show in Dublin, Ireland
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Irish votes
-Mulcahy
Hammer left and Bull entered at 11:39 am.
[End of RG 460 Portion]
Bull left at an unknown time before 11:50 am.
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 10
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[Duration: 1m 32s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 10
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15
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)
Hammer
-Flanigan's opinion
-Memorandum
-Financial situation
-Compared to other oil companies
-Standard Oil of Jersey
-Compared to Business Council members
-Henry E. Ford, II
-Flanigan
-Marvin Watson's role with Occidental
-Timothy Babcock
-Watson
-Wealth
-Stock
-Compared to Norton Simon
-David J. Mahoney, Jr.
-Compared to H. Ross Perot
Irving Kristol
-View on stock options
-Taxes
-Reading file
-Business managers
-Risk
-Risk
-Investors
Business managers
-Recruitment
-Supply and demand
-Watson
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 11
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[Duration: 39s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 11
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16
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)
Polls
-News summary of July 20, 1972
-Handling
-Selectivity
Hammer
John B. Connally’s schedule
Butterfield entered at 11:50 am.
Cabinet meeting July 21, 1972
-Breakfast July 21, 1972
-John N. Mitchell
-Stans
-Connally
Butterfield left at 11:52 am.
Mitchell
-Forthcoming meeting with Haldeman
-Martha Mitchell
Watergate
-Haldeman's forthcoming meeting with John W. Dean, III
-Dean's role
-Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman
-Charles W. Colson
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Tenure
-Mitchell
-Possible statement
-Hugh W. Sloan, Jr.
-Possible testimony
-Immunity
-Role
-Knowledge
-Campaign Spending Act
-Possible testimony
-Fifth Amendment
-Magruder
17
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)
-Possible immunity
-Haldeman conversation with Dean
-Burglars
-G[eorge] Gordon Liddy
-Immunity
-Possible effects
-Magruder
-Public expression of participants' motives
-George S. McGovern
-Immunity
-Magruder
-Removal from position
-Hugh Sloan
-Herbert L. (“Bart”) Porter
-Possible witnesses
-Magruder
-Mitchell
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 12
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[Duration: 1m 21s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 12
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Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 11:52 am.
Robert Warnecke
Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:02 pm.
Meeting
-Connally
-Colson
-White House staff
-Haldeman
-Colson
18
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)
Haig
-Briefing of McGovern July 21, 1972
-The President's presence
-Location
Press coverage
-Kissinger
-Meany
Watergate
-Ehrlichman's view
Haldeman left at 12:02 pm.
Date: July 20, 1972
Time: Unknown between 10:38 am and 12:02 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Stephen B. Bull.
The President's schedule
-Meeting with Armand Hammer
-Off-the-record basis
-Compared to on-the-record bases
-Henry A. Kissinger's possible objection
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Kissinger's possible objection
H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 10:59 am.
-Hammer
-Quotes
-Staff
-Business deal with Soviet Union
Bull left at an unknown time before 11:00 am.
-Haldeman’s schedule
[The following portion of the conversation is included in RG 460; there is no transcript for this
portion.]
Hammer entered at 11:00 am.
9
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)
Hammer's trip to Soviet Union
-The President’s trip to the Soviet Union
-Hammer’s statement
-Business deal
Hammer's meeting with Peter G. Peterson in Morocco
Arrangements for photograph session
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy
Hammer's meeting with Peterson
-Taft Schreiber
Soviet Union
-Dealings with businessmen
-Possible trade center
-Hammer's conversation with Stephen D. Bechtel
-Time interview
-Russian word
-The President's and Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's previous trip
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin's trip to California
-Henry Kissinger's dinner
-Col. Robert M. Behr [?]
-June Haver's singing
-Fred MacMurray
-Russian language
-Spanish language
-Russian word
-The President’s efforts
-Hammer's contacts with Vladimir I. Lenin
-Farm concession
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Letter
-Henry Ford
-Franklin D. Murphy
-Date
-Kissinger
-Press release after signing of agreement
-Peterson
-White House cooperation with Hammer
-Peterson
-Book [Quest of the Romanoff Treasure]
-Mrs. Nixon
10
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)
-Hammer's relations with Lenin
-Correspondence
-Photographs of Hammer during Soviet famine
-White House cooperation with Hammer
-Peterson
-Kissinger
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Helmut (“Hal”) Sonnenfeldt
-Kissinger
-Vietnam
Hammer’s art collection
-[Quest of the Romanoff Treasure]
-Hammer's acquisition of Russian crown jewels
-Peter Karl Faberge
-Art galleries in New York
-Hammer
-Frances (Tolman) Hammer
-Knodler
-Dorothy B. Chandler
Hammer's trip to Soviet Union
-Soviet Minister of Culture [Ekaterina A. Furtseva]
-Exchange of art exhibits
-Royal Academy
-Hermitage
-Pushkin
-The Netherlands
The President's trip to Soviet Union
-Pavlovsky
Catalog of Hammer's art collection
-Royal Academy
-Los Angeles
-National Gallery of Art
John A. (“Jack”) Mulcahy
-Exhibit in Dublin of Hammer's collection
-Invitation to Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Date
Ireland
11
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)
-Violence in north
-Great Britain
Irish ancestry of the President and Mrs. Nixon
-Mrs. Hammer’s view
Hammer's lunch with Katharine L. Graham
-Mrs. Hammer
-Graham
-The President’s view
Article for Mrs. Nixon
Anna (“Grandma”) Moses
-Gift for Mrs. Nixon
-Portfolio
San Clemente
-Statue
-Invitation to Hammer and Mrs. Hammer
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Adele (Langston) Rogers
Soviet Union
-Nikolai Patolichev
-Pencil-making
-Hammer’s enterprises
-Compared to other efforts
-Missiles, moon missions
The President's conversation with Chou En-Lai
-Pencil-making
Hammer's trip to Soviet Union in 1961
-Nikita S. Khrushchev
-Kennedy
-Trade
-Luther Hodges, Sr.
-Anastas Mikoyan
-Conversation with Hammer
-Khrushchev
-Conversation with Hammer
-Meeting with Khrushchev
12
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)
-India
-Jawaharlal Nehru
-Mikoyan
-Trade ban on crab meat
-Slave labor
-Hammer's subsequent meeting with Kennedy and Hughes
-C. Douglas Dillon
-Secret Service
-Japanese fishermen
-Josef V. Stalin
-Dobrynin
-Presentation of pencil
-Visit to pencil factory
-Mrs. Hammer
-Moscow River
-Meeting with staff members and Khrushchev
-Khrushchev's subsequent speech
-Hammer's pencil concession from Lenin
Hammer's last trip to Soviet Union
-Art collection
-Climate of relations
-Congress
US foreign policy
-Soviet Union
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
Democrats for Nixon
-The President’s conversation with John B. Connally
-Marvin Watson
-Relationship with Hammer
-1972 election’s importance
-Watson
-Connally
-Hammer’s view
-Occidental Petroleum’s success
-Libyan investment
-Muammar Qaddafi, Abdul Salam Jalud
-Hammer’s call of July 19, 1972
-Connally’s call to Hammer
-Role in Lyndon B. Johnson administration
-Relationship with Johnson
13
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)
-Johnson’s view of the President and his policies
-The President’s possible call to Johnson
-Possible results of a McGovern victory
-Mrs. Hammer
-Frank L. Rizzo
-Australia
-Role with Occidental
-Soviet Union
-Connally
-The President’s possible call to Johnson
-Haldeman
-Role with Occidental
-Neil Colby
-Colby
-Role in Johnson administration
-McGovern
-Relationship with Hammer
-The President’s possible call to Johnson
-Timothy Babcock
-Role with Occidental
-Soviet Union trip
-Washington, DC
-Watson
-Connally
-Johnson
-Contract
-Stock options
Hammer's trip to Soviet Union
-Effect on Occidental's stock price
-The President
-Tankers
-Libya
-Tanker losses
-Restriction on New York Stock Exchange trading
-New York Times
-Hammer's possible conversation with Soviets
-Size of lots
-Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union [TASS] reporter
-Lotus Club
-Puss `N' Boots Bar
Painting
14
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)
-Howard [Surname unknown]
Hammer’s political contributions
-Maurice H. Stans
Presentation of gifts by the President
-Photograph of Nixon family
-Cufflinks
Soviet Union
-William P. Rogers
-Cultural exchange with US
-Furtseva
-Sonnenfeldt
Mrs. Hammer
Los Angeles
Art show in Dublin, Ireland
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Irish votes
-Mulcahy
Hammer left and Bull entered at 11:39 am.
[End of RG 460 Portion]
Bull left at an unknown time before 11:50 am.
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 10
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 1m 32s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 10
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15
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)
Hammer
-Flanigan's opinion
-Memorandum
-Financial situation
-Compared to other oil companies
-Standard Oil of Jersey
-Compared to Business Council members
-Henry E. Ford, II
-Flanigan
-Marvin Watson's role with Occidental
-Timothy Babcock
-Watson
-Wealth
-Stock
-Compared to Norton Simon
-David J. Mahoney, Jr.
-Compared to H. Ross Perot
Irving Kristol
-View on stock options
-Taxes
-Reading file
-Business managers
-Risk
-Risk
-Investors
Business managers
-Recruitment
-Supply and demand
-Watson
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 11
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 39s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 11
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16
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)
Polls
-News summary of July 20, 1972
-Handling
-Selectivity
Hammer
John B. Connally’s schedule
Butterfield entered at 11:50 am.
Cabinet meeting July 21, 1972
-Breakfast July 21, 1972
-John N. Mitchell
-Stans
-Connally
Butterfield left at 11:52 am.
Mitchell
-Forthcoming meeting with Haldeman
-Martha Mitchell
Watergate
-Haldeman's forthcoming meeting with John W. Dean, III
-Dean's role
-Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman
-Charles W. Colson
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Tenure
-Mitchell
-Possible statement
-Hugh W. Sloan, Jr.
-Possible testimony
-Immunity
-Role
-Knowledge
-Campaign Spending Act
-Possible testimony
-Fifth Amendment
-Magruder
17
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)
-Possible immunity
-Haldeman conversation with Dean
-Burglars
-G[eorge] Gordon Liddy
-Immunity
-Possible effects
-Magruder
-Public expression of participants' motives
-George S. McGovern
-Immunity
-Magruder
-Removal from position
-Hugh Sloan
-Herbert L. (“Bart”) Porter
-Possible witnesses
-Magruder
-Mitchell
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 12
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 1m 21s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 12
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Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 11:52 am.
Robert Warnecke
Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:02 pm.
Meeting
-Connally
-Colson
-White House staff
-Haldeman
-Colson
18
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)
Haig
-Briefing of McGovern July 21, 1972
-The President's presence
-Location
Press coverage
-Kissinger
-Meany
Watergate
-Ehrlichman's view
Haldeman left at 12:02 pm.