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756–3
- President Richard M. Nixon
- H. R. Haldeman
- Henry A. Kissinger
- UNKNOWN
- Stephen B. Bull
- Ronald L. Ziegler
July 28, 1972
Conversation No. 756-3
Date: July 28, 1972
Time: 10:03 am - 11:04 am
5
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar-02)
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
The President's schedule
-Allen J. Ellender's funeral
-Wives of officials
-Accommodations on plane
-Very important person [VIP] section
-William E. Timmons, Thomas C. Korologos
-Richard K. Cook
-Bryce N. Harlow
-John D. Ehrlichman
Henry A. Kissinger entered at 10:04 am.
Vietnam
-Study on bombing dikes in North Vietnam
-Forthcoming State Department briefing
-Photographs
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-The President’s recent statement
-William P. Rogers
-U. Alexis Johnson, William H. Sullivan
-Rogers's views
-Defense Department
-Controversy
-Compared to possible Defense Department briefing
-Rogers
-Meeting with the President
-Possible telephone call
-Facts
-The President’s recent statement
-Compared to possible Defense Department briefing
Kissinger left at 10:06 am.
State Department
-Dispute with Defense Department
-Rogers
Rogers
-Conflict handling
6
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar-02)
The President's schedule
-Ellender's funeral
-Politicking
The President's recent press conference, July 27, 1972
-Subjects
-Foreign policy and politics
-Domestic topics
-Busing
-Environment
-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
-Child care
-Legal services
-Veto strategy
-National economy
Thomas Eagleton
-Forthcoming press conference
-Continuance on ticket
-Jack N. Anderson
-George S. McGovern's statement
-Public attitude
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 20s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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Senate
Anderson
-Story about Eagleton
-White House response
-Haldeman’s possible conversation with Herbert G. Klein
-Story
-The President’s recent conversation with [Thomas] Hale
7
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar-02)
Boggs and Gerald R. Ford
-Purpose
-Anderson papers
-Veracity
-Washington Post
-Radio broadcast
Los Angeles Newspaper Guild
-Endorsement of McGovern
-George Putnam’s possible action
Alexander M. Haig, Jr.'s forthcoming briefings
-George C. Wallace
-Nelson A. Rockefeller, Ronald W. Reagan
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 1m 13s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
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Wallace’s health
-Health
-Unknown person
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 1m 49s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
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8
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar-02)
Space shuttle
-Contract
-Notifications
-Peter M. Flanigan’s role
-The President's conversations
-John N. Mitchell
-Ehrlichman
-Rockefeller
-Politically subtle projects
-Ehrlichman
-Computers
-Mitchell
Flanigan
-Usefulness in political matters
-Soviet grain deal, trade
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 4m 35s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
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An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 10:06 am.
New York Times, Washington Post
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:35 am.
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 51s ]
9
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar-02)
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
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An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 10:06 am.
Newspapers
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:35 am.
Newspaper coverage
-Eagleton
-Photograph
-The President’s recent press conference
-New York liberals
-Kurt Waldheim
-Eagleton
-Photograph
-Herbert L. (“Herblock”) Block
-[Washington Post story]
-Yolanda Gomez
-Financial aid
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 2m 53s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
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Watergate
-Grand jury
-Henry E. Petersen's conversation with John W. Dean III
-Forthcoming indictments
-Timing
-Forthcoming indictments
-E. Howard Hunt, G[eorge] Gordon Liddy
10
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar-02)
-Possible statement
An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time before 10:35 am.
-Timing of trials
-1972 election
-Timing
-Dean's view
-Effect
-Republican National Convention
-Television coverage
The President's schedule
-Ellender's funeral
-Timing
-Departure
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:06 am.
Request for a meeting with Ronald L. Ziegler
Bull left at an unknown time before 10:35 am.
The President's schedule
-Ellender's funeral
-Transportation
-Planes
-Boeing 707
-New Orleans
-Helicopter
-Length
An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 10:06 am.
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 3s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9
11
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar-02)
*****************************************************************
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:35 am.
The President's schedule
-Ellender's funeral
-Transportation
-Helicopter
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Attendance
-Richard B. Russell
Ziegler entered at 10:35 am.
Ellender's funeral
-Ziegler's forthcoming announcement
-The President’s attendance
-Senate leadership
-Transportation
-Michael J. Mansfield, Boggs
-Russell’s funeral
-President Pro Tem
-The President’s frienship with Ellender[?]
-Ellender's luncheons
-The President’s attendance
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Soviet Union trip
-Quote
-Louisiana’s power
-Russell B. Long, Otto E. Passman, F. Edward Herbert, Mansfield, Hugh
Scott, Joe D. Waggonner, Jr., Boggs
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 10
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 1m 37s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 10
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12
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar-02)
The President's schedule
-Press conferences
-Patrick J. Buchanan's views
-Points on foreign policy, politics
-Jerrold L. Schecter's conversation with Ziegler
-Tone in Oval Office
-Garnett D. (“Jack”) Horner's conversation with Ziegler
-Horner
-Travel with the President
-Florida, California, Hawaii
-Washington Star's finances
Horner
-Age
-Health and lifestyle
Newsmen
-Health and lifestyle
-Frank Cormier
-John F. Osborne
-California
-Merriman Smith
-Work
-Work
-Cormier
-Horner
-Dictation from notes
The President's press conferences
-Newsmen
-Methods of work
-Wire service news leads
-Dictation from notes
-Typing
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 12
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 3m 32s ]
13
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar-02)
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 12
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An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 10:35 am.
The President's schedule
-Meeting with Ehrlichman
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 11:00 am.
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 13
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 34s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 13
*****************************************************************
The President’s recent press conference
-Vietnam
-Bombing of dikes
-State Department
-Conventional compared to nuclear power
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 14
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 6m 23s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 14
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14
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar-02)
The President's recent press conference
-Absence of cameras
-Network mention
-Photographs
-Absence
-Future occasions
-Wire services
Ziegler left at 11:00 am.
Watergate
-Grand jury
-Forthcoming indictments
-Hunt, Liddy and burglars
-Timing of trials
-1972 election
-Civil suit
-Timing
-Status
-Possible trials
-Timing
-1972 election
-Pleas
-Hunt
-Possible leaks
-Justice Department, Federal Bureau of Investigations [FBI]
-Cover-up
Weather
-The President's schedule
Haldeman left at 11:04 am.
Date: July 28, 1972
Time: 10:03 am - 11:04 am
5
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar-02)
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
The President's schedule
-Allen J. Ellender's funeral
-Wives of officials
-Accommodations on plane
-Very important person [VIP] section
-William E. Timmons, Thomas C. Korologos
-Richard K. Cook
-Bryce N. Harlow
-John D. Ehrlichman
Henry A. Kissinger entered at 10:04 am.
Vietnam
-Study on bombing dikes in North Vietnam
-Forthcoming State Department briefing
-Photographs
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-The President’s recent statement
-William P. Rogers
-U. Alexis Johnson, William H. Sullivan
-Rogers's views
-Defense Department
-Controversy
-Compared to possible Defense Department briefing
-Rogers
-Meeting with the President
-Possible telephone call
-Facts
-The President’s recent statement
-Compared to possible Defense Department briefing
Kissinger left at 10:06 am.
State Department
-Dispute with Defense Department
-Rogers
Rogers
-Conflict handling
6
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar-02)
The President's schedule
-Ellender's funeral
-Politicking
The President's recent press conference, July 27, 1972
-Subjects
-Foreign policy and politics
-Domestic topics
-Busing
-Environment
-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
-Child care
-Legal services
-Veto strategy
-National economy
Thomas Eagleton
-Forthcoming press conference
-Continuance on ticket
-Jack N. Anderson
-George S. McGovern's statement
-Public attitude
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 20s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
*****************************************************************
Senate
Anderson
-Story about Eagleton
-White House response
-Haldeman’s possible conversation with Herbert G. Klein
-Story
-The President’s recent conversation with [Thomas] Hale
7
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar-02)
Boggs and Gerald R. Ford
-Purpose
-Anderson papers
-Veracity
-Washington Post
-Radio broadcast
Los Angeles Newspaper Guild
-Endorsement of McGovern
-George Putnam’s possible action
Alexander M. Haig, Jr.'s forthcoming briefings
-George C. Wallace
-Nelson A. Rockefeller, Ronald W. Reagan
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 1m 13s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
*****************************************************************
Wallace’s health
-Health
-Unknown person
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 1m 49s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
*****************************************************************
8
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar-02)
Space shuttle
-Contract
-Notifications
-Peter M. Flanigan’s role
-The President's conversations
-John N. Mitchell
-Ehrlichman
-Rockefeller
-Politically subtle projects
-Ehrlichman
-Computers
-Mitchell
Flanigan
-Usefulness in political matters
-Soviet grain deal, trade
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 4m 35s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
*****************************************************************
An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 10:06 am.
New York Times, Washington Post
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:35 am.
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 51s ]
9
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar-02)
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
*****************************************************************
An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 10:06 am.
Newspapers
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:35 am.
Newspaper coverage
-Eagleton
-Photograph
-The President’s recent press conference
-New York liberals
-Kurt Waldheim
-Eagleton
-Photograph
-Herbert L. (“Herblock”) Block
-[Washington Post story]
-Yolanda Gomez
-Financial aid
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 2m 53s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
*****************************************************************
Watergate
-Grand jury
-Henry E. Petersen's conversation with John W. Dean III
-Forthcoming indictments
-Timing
-Forthcoming indictments
-E. Howard Hunt, G[eorge] Gordon Liddy
10
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar-02)
-Possible statement
An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time before 10:35 am.
-Timing of trials
-1972 election
-Timing
-Dean's view
-Effect
-Republican National Convention
-Television coverage
The President's schedule
-Ellender's funeral
-Timing
-Departure
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:06 am.
Request for a meeting with Ronald L. Ziegler
Bull left at an unknown time before 10:35 am.
The President's schedule
-Ellender's funeral
-Transportation
-Planes
-Boeing 707
-New Orleans
-Helicopter
-Length
An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 10:06 am.
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 3s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9
11
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar-02)
*****************************************************************
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:35 am.
The President's schedule
-Ellender's funeral
-Transportation
-Helicopter
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Attendance
-Richard B. Russell
Ziegler entered at 10:35 am.
Ellender's funeral
-Ziegler's forthcoming announcement
-The President’s attendance
-Senate leadership
-Transportation
-Michael J. Mansfield, Boggs
-Russell’s funeral
-President Pro Tem
-The President’s frienship with Ellender[?]
-Ellender's luncheons
-The President’s attendance
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Soviet Union trip
-Quote
-Louisiana’s power
-Russell B. Long, Otto E. Passman, F. Edward Herbert, Mansfield, Hugh
Scott, Joe D. Waggonner, Jr., Boggs
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 10
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 1m 37s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 10
*****************************************************************
12
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar-02)
The President's schedule
-Press conferences
-Patrick J. Buchanan's views
-Points on foreign policy, politics
-Jerrold L. Schecter's conversation with Ziegler
-Tone in Oval Office
-Garnett D. (“Jack”) Horner's conversation with Ziegler
-Horner
-Travel with the President
-Florida, California, Hawaii
-Washington Star's finances
Horner
-Age
-Health and lifestyle
Newsmen
-Health and lifestyle
-Frank Cormier
-John F. Osborne
-California
-Merriman Smith
-Work
-Work
-Cormier
-Horner
-Dictation from notes
The President's press conferences
-Newsmen
-Methods of work
-Wire service news leads
-Dictation from notes
-Typing
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 12
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 3m 32s ]
13
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar-02)
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 12
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An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 10:35 am.
The President's schedule
-Meeting with Ehrlichman
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 11:00 am.
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 13
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 34s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 13
*****************************************************************
The President’s recent press conference
-Vietnam
-Bombing of dikes
-State Department
-Conventional compared to nuclear power
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 14
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 6m 23s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 14
*****************************************************************
14
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar-02)
The President's recent press conference
-Absence of cameras
-Network mention
-Photographs
-Absence
-Future occasions
-Wire services
Ziegler left at 11:00 am.
Watergate
-Grand jury
-Forthcoming indictments
-Hunt, Liddy and burglars
-Timing of trials
-1972 election
-Civil suit
-Timing
-Status
-Possible trials
-Timing
-1972 election
-Pleas
-Hunt
-Possible leaks
-Justice Department, Federal Bureau of Investigations [FBI]
-Cover-up
Weather
-The President's schedule
Haldeman left at 11:04 am.