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- President Richard M. Nixon
- Alexander P. Butterfield
- John D. Ehrlichman
- White House operator
- Manolo Sanchez
- Sam Huff
- Stephen B. Bull
August 8, 1972
Conversation No. 765-12
Date: August 8, 1972
Time: 11:23 am - 12:05 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.
The President's schedule
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman's role
-Responsibilities
-Campaign
-White House operations
-Lawrence M. Higby
-Butterfield
-Responsibilities
-Scheduling
-Administrative matters
-Daily schedule
-Scheduling
-Dwight L. Chapin
-David N. Parker
-Example of the President’s forthcoming meeting with Miss Teenage America
-Parker
-Haldeman
-Parker
-Chapin
-Scheduling of external events
-Parker
-Example of the President’s forthcoming meeting with Miss Teenage
America
-Example of swearing-in ceremony for Dixy Lee Ray
-Haldeman's role
-Parker
-Competence
10
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Possible replacement for Haldeman
-Butterfield
-Schedule plan
-Haldeman
-Chapin
-Examples
-Swearing-in ceremonies
-Miss Teenage America
-Republican leadership meeting
-Floyd Patterson
-Possible trips to Camp David
-Haldeman
-Possible revenue sharing bill signing ceremony
-Haldeman, Butterfield, and Parker
-Higby
-Parker
-Plan for President's schedule
-Weekly plan
-Monthly plan
-Haldeman's review
-Butterfield's responsibilities
-Leadership and Cabinet meetings
-Meetings with White House staff
-Daily schedule review
-Haldeman
John D. Ehrlichman entered at 11:29 am.
The President’s schedule
-Possible daily meetings with the President
-Butterfield
-Parker
-Haldeman
-Revenue sharing bill signing ceremony
-The President's forthcoming meeting with Soviet health minister [Boris V.
Petrovsky]
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Timing
-Petrovsky’s location
11
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-The President's forthcoming trip to Camp David
-Timing
-The President’s forthcoming meeting at Camp David
-Briefing by White House staff
-George W. Romney briefing
-The President's attendance
-The President’s meeting with Petrovsky
-Timing
-Romney briefing
-Notice to William P. Rogers
-Timing
-Length of briefing
-Cocktails
-The President's meeting with Petrovsky
-Kissinger
-Number of attendees
-Robert J. Dole
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Dinner with Petrovsky
-Romney
-Return from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
-Rogers
-Transportation
-Helicopters
-Cars
-Dwight D. Eisenhower administration
-Helicopter for Eisenhower
-Cars for staff
-Haldeman's role
Butterfield left at 11:36 am.
The President's schedule
-Parker's role
-Haldeman
-Meeting with Miss Teenage America
-Swearing-in for Ray
The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 11:36 am and
12
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
11:41 am.
[Conversation No. 765-12A]
[See Conversation No. 29-39]
[End of telephone conversation]
Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO] bill
-President's position
-Congressional actions
-Authorization
-Board of directors
-Jacob K. Javits [?]
-Continuing resolution
-Rallying point for R. Sargent Shriver
-Howard Phillips
-Continuing resolution
-Possible veto
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 11:36 am.
Refreshments
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:41 am.
OEO
-Ehrlichman's previous meeting with Peter H. Dominick
Unemployment
-Michigan
-Robert P. Griffin
-Productivity of automobile industry
-William G. Milliken
-Work with automobile industry
Airline hijacking
-Ehrlichman
-Penalties
13
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Polling
-Procedures for prevention
-Ehrlichman's previous meeting with airline presidents
-Delta Airline
-Previous hijacking incident
-Airline cooperation
-Sealing of stairways
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 3m 10s ]
The President talked with Sam Huff between 11:41 am and 11:44 am.
[Conversation No. 765-12b]
[See Conversation No. 29-40; one item has been withdrawn.]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
*****************************************************************
Water quality bill
-Veto prospects
Butterfield entered at 11:45 am.
The President's schedule
-Haldeman
-Possible meeting with John B. Connally
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Connally’s forthcoming announcement
-Forthcoming Camp David meeting
14
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-John N. Mitchell
-[Martha (Beall) Mitchell]
Butterfield left at 11:47 am.
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 25s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
*****************************************************************
The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming Camp David meeting
-John Mitchell
-Martha Mitchell
Water quality bill
-Memorandum from Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Congressional conference
-Costs of bill
-President's veto
-Likelihood
-Compared with Department of Labor and Health, Education and
Welfare [HEW] bill appropriations
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Work in conference on costs
-President's signal to Congress
-Baker’s reaction
-The President’s view
-Black lung legislation
-Caspar W. (“Cap”)Weinberger
15
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
Labor and HEW appropriations bill
-Gerald R. Ford
-Forthcoming veto
End the war resolution
-Hugh Scott
-Memorandum for the President from William E. Timmons
-News summary
-William B. Saxbe
-Scott
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Kissinger
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson amendment
-Saxbe
-Criticism of White House
-Scott
-Alienation of Republicans
Jackson amendment
-Kissinger
Scott
-George D. Aiken amendment
-Dealings with William E. Timmons and Thomas C. Korologos
Unemployment issue
-Herbert Stein
-Weinberger
-William L. Safire
-Stein
-Compared to Paul W. McCracken
-Increase in jobs
-Increase in peace time jobs
-Decrease of defense related jobs
-Norris Cotton
-Publicity
-Fact sheets
-Need for slogans
-Spending ceiling
16
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Taxes
-George S. McGovern's slogans
-Need for publicity
-Safires work
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Robert H. Finch's assistant
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Negative phrases
-Safire
-Problems with phraseology
-White House staff
-Herbert G. Klein
-The President’s view
-Korologos
-Timmons
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Klein
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr. and Ehrlichman
-Weinberger
-Possible slogans
-McGovern's proposals
-Tax increases
-Publicity
-Use of White House resources
-Use of Committee to Re-elect the President [CRP] resources
Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 11:47 am.
Figs
-Shipment [from San Clemente]
-Aircraft
-Unknown military aide
-Frequency
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:05 pm.
White House kitchen renovation
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Haldeman
17
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Schedule
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 3m 27s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
*****************************************************************
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:47 am.
The President's forthcoming meeting with Miss Teenage America and
Clarence E. Miller
Bull left at an unknown time before 12:05 pm.
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 47s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
*****************************************************************
Public relations
-Slogans
-Tax reform
18
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-George P. Shultz's paper
-Ehrlichman’s view
-McGovern
-Property tax
-Treasury Department
-Need for statements
-Property taxes
-1969 reforms
-Pre-reform figures
-Use by McGovern
-Possible statement by the Administration
-Impact of reforms
Lawrence F. O’Brien, Jr. investigation
-Possible appearance for tax audit
-Timing
-Possible subpoena
Robert D. (“Bobby”) Baker
-The President’s forthcoming conversation with Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
Justice Department, Interior Department
-Files
-Henry L. Kimelman
-John Mitchell
-Shriver
-White House file
-Justice Department
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-Kimelman
-Interior Department investigation
Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 11:47 am.
Call from Tricia Nixon Cox
Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:05 pm.
Ehrlichman left at 12:05 pm.
19
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
Date: August 8, 1972
Time: 11:23 am - 12:05 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.
The President's schedule
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman's role
-Responsibilities
-Campaign
-White House operations
-Lawrence M. Higby
-Butterfield
-Responsibilities
-Scheduling
-Administrative matters
-Daily schedule
-Scheduling
-Dwight L. Chapin
-David N. Parker
-Example of the President’s forthcoming meeting with Miss Teenage America
-Parker
-Haldeman
-Parker
-Chapin
-Scheduling of external events
-Parker
-Example of the President’s forthcoming meeting with Miss Teenage
America
-Example of swearing-in ceremony for Dixy Lee Ray
-Haldeman's role
-Parker
-Competence
10
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Possible replacement for Haldeman
-Butterfield
-Schedule plan
-Haldeman
-Chapin
-Examples
-Swearing-in ceremonies
-Miss Teenage America
-Republican leadership meeting
-Floyd Patterson
-Possible trips to Camp David
-Haldeman
-Possible revenue sharing bill signing ceremony
-Haldeman, Butterfield, and Parker
-Higby
-Parker
-Plan for President's schedule
-Weekly plan
-Monthly plan
-Haldeman's review
-Butterfield's responsibilities
-Leadership and Cabinet meetings
-Meetings with White House staff
-Daily schedule review
-Haldeman
John D. Ehrlichman entered at 11:29 am.
The President’s schedule
-Possible daily meetings with the President
-Butterfield
-Parker
-Haldeman
-Revenue sharing bill signing ceremony
-The President's forthcoming meeting with Soviet health minister [Boris V.
Petrovsky]
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Timing
-Petrovsky’s location
11
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-The President's forthcoming trip to Camp David
-Timing
-The President’s forthcoming meeting at Camp David
-Briefing by White House staff
-George W. Romney briefing
-The President's attendance
-The President’s meeting with Petrovsky
-Timing
-Romney briefing
-Notice to William P. Rogers
-Timing
-Length of briefing
-Cocktails
-The President's meeting with Petrovsky
-Kissinger
-Number of attendees
-Robert J. Dole
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Dinner with Petrovsky
-Romney
-Return from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
-Rogers
-Transportation
-Helicopters
-Cars
-Dwight D. Eisenhower administration
-Helicopter for Eisenhower
-Cars for staff
-Haldeman's role
Butterfield left at 11:36 am.
The President's schedule
-Parker's role
-Haldeman
-Meeting with Miss Teenage America
-Swearing-in for Ray
The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 11:36 am and
12
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
11:41 am.
[Conversation No. 765-12A]
[See Conversation No. 29-39]
[End of telephone conversation]
Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO] bill
-President's position
-Congressional actions
-Authorization
-Board of directors
-Jacob K. Javits [?]
-Continuing resolution
-Rallying point for R. Sargent Shriver
-Howard Phillips
-Continuing resolution
-Possible veto
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 11:36 am.
Refreshments
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:41 am.
OEO
-Ehrlichman's previous meeting with Peter H. Dominick
Unemployment
-Michigan
-Robert P. Griffin
-Productivity of automobile industry
-William G. Milliken
-Work with automobile industry
Airline hijacking
-Ehrlichman
-Penalties
13
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Polling
-Procedures for prevention
-Ehrlichman's previous meeting with airline presidents
-Delta Airline
-Previous hijacking incident
-Airline cooperation
-Sealing of stairways
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 3m 10s ]
The President talked with Sam Huff between 11:41 am and 11:44 am.
[Conversation No. 765-12b]
[See Conversation No. 29-40; one item has been withdrawn.]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
*****************************************************************
Water quality bill
-Veto prospects
Butterfield entered at 11:45 am.
The President's schedule
-Haldeman
-Possible meeting with John B. Connally
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Connally’s forthcoming announcement
-Forthcoming Camp David meeting
14
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-John N. Mitchell
-[Martha (Beall) Mitchell]
Butterfield left at 11:47 am.
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 25s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
*****************************************************************
The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming Camp David meeting
-John Mitchell
-Martha Mitchell
Water quality bill
-Memorandum from Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Congressional conference
-Costs of bill
-President's veto
-Likelihood
-Compared with Department of Labor and Health, Education and
Welfare [HEW] bill appropriations
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Work in conference on costs
-President's signal to Congress
-Baker’s reaction
-The President’s view
-Black lung legislation
-Caspar W. (“Cap”)Weinberger
15
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
Labor and HEW appropriations bill
-Gerald R. Ford
-Forthcoming veto
End the war resolution
-Hugh Scott
-Memorandum for the President from William E. Timmons
-News summary
-William B. Saxbe
-Scott
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Kissinger
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson amendment
-Saxbe
-Criticism of White House
-Scott
-Alienation of Republicans
Jackson amendment
-Kissinger
Scott
-George D. Aiken amendment
-Dealings with William E. Timmons and Thomas C. Korologos
Unemployment issue
-Herbert Stein
-Weinberger
-William L. Safire
-Stein
-Compared to Paul W. McCracken
-Increase in jobs
-Increase in peace time jobs
-Decrease of defense related jobs
-Norris Cotton
-Publicity
-Fact sheets
-Need for slogans
-Spending ceiling
16
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Taxes
-George S. McGovern's slogans
-Need for publicity
-Safires work
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Robert H. Finch's assistant
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Negative phrases
-Safire
-Problems with phraseology
-White House staff
-Herbert G. Klein
-The President’s view
-Korologos
-Timmons
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Klein
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr. and Ehrlichman
-Weinberger
-Possible slogans
-McGovern's proposals
-Tax increases
-Publicity
-Use of White House resources
-Use of Committee to Re-elect the President [CRP] resources
Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 11:47 am.
Figs
-Shipment [from San Clemente]
-Aircraft
-Unknown military aide
-Frequency
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:05 pm.
White House kitchen renovation
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Haldeman
17
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Schedule
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 3m 27s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
*****************************************************************
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:47 am.
The President's forthcoming meeting with Miss Teenage America and
Clarence E. Miller
Bull left at an unknown time before 12:05 pm.
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 47s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
*****************************************************************
Public relations
-Slogans
-Tax reform
18
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-George P. Shultz's paper
-Ehrlichman’s view
-McGovern
-Property tax
-Treasury Department
-Need for statements
-Property taxes
-1969 reforms
-Pre-reform figures
-Use by McGovern
-Possible statement by the Administration
-Impact of reforms
Lawrence F. O’Brien, Jr. investigation
-Possible appearance for tax audit
-Timing
-Possible subpoena
Robert D. (“Bobby”) Baker
-The President’s forthcoming conversation with Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
Justice Department, Interior Department
-Files
-Henry L. Kimelman
-John Mitchell
-Shriver
-White House file
-Justice Department
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-Kimelman
-Interior Department investigation
Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 11:47 am.
Call from Tricia Nixon Cox
Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:05 pm.
Ehrlichman left at 12:05 pm.
19
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)