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Start Date: 14-Feb-1973 8:04 PM

End Date: 14-Feb-1973 8:11 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Lewis, Hobart D.

Recording Device: White House Telephone

043-086.mp3

NARA Description:

On February 14, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Hobart D. Lewis talked on the telephone from 8:04 pm to 8:11 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 043-086 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 43-86

Date: February 14, 1973
Time: 8:04 pm - 8:11 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis.

       Vietnam War
            -Prisoners of War [POWs]
                  -Statements
            -December 1972 bombing
            -Lewis’s conversation with Joseph W. Alsop
            -Suggestions for stories
            -The President’s role in the cease-fire
            -POWs
                  -James Mulligan, Robinson Risner
            -Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
                  -Possible meeting with Lewis
                  -The President’s schedule
            -Hanson Baldwin
            -Mood of the nation
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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. Aug.-08)

                                                             Conversation No. 43-86 (cont’d)

                  -Effect of return of POWs
                        -International monetary situation
                        -Budget difficulties
             -Terms of Vietnam cease-fire
                  -Negotiations
                        -Alsop
                  -POW story
                  -Moorer
                        -Baldwin
                  -The President’s resolve