Conversation: 043-161
Prev: 043-160 Next: 043-162Start Date: 21-Feb-1973 8:10 PM
End Date: 21-Feb-1973 8:30 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Graham, William F. ("Billy");Recording Device: White House Telephone
NARA Description:
On February 21, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and William F. ("Billy") Graham talked on the telephone from 8:10 pm to 8:30 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 043-161 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 43-161
Date: February 21, 1973
Time: 8:10 pm - 8:30 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Billy Graham.
Graham’s schedule
-Travel
-1973 Inauguration
-Lyndon B. Johnson’s funeral
-Vacation
-California
Prisoners of War [POWs] return
-National mood
-Graham’s view
-The President’s role
-Franklin Graham
Israel
-Shooting down of passenger airplane
-The President’s view
-Munich Olympic Games
-Killings of Israeli athletes
-Golda Meir
-The President’s view
-Compensation
-Anwar el-Sadat
-Effect
-Meir’s visit to Washington DC
-The President’s view
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Aug.-08)
Conversation No. 43-161 (cont’d)
-Effect
-Jewish attacks on evangelism
-Israel
-US Jews
-Article in Atlantic Constitution
-Rabbi Mark Tannenbaum
-Antisemitism
-The President’s view
POWs return
-Reaction of nation
-Heroes
-Support for the President
Mark O. Hatfield’s comments at Prayer Breakfast
-Graham’s letter
-Graham’s view
-George S. McGovern
-Graham’s comments to Douglas Coe
-Harold E. Hughes
-Action at John C. Stennis prayer service
Hughes and Hatfield
-Position on Vietnam War
-Inflexibility
Graham’s health
White House Head of State dinner
-Meir
-Graham’s possible attendance
-Rose Mary Woods
-Shootdown of passenger airplane
Tannenbaum
-Antisemitism
-New York Times
-Graham
-Support for the President
-Prayer at Republican Convention
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Aug.-08)
Conversation No. 43-161 (cont’d)
Antisemitism in world
-The President’s view
-Spain, Germany, United States
-Biblical reference to Jews
-Jews and pornography
-Articles in Time and Newsweek
-Ruth Graham
-The President’s view
1973 Inauguration
-News media coverage
-Time magazine
-Graham’s view
-Henry Luce
-Life
-Graham’s conversation with Bernard J. (“Bunny”) Lasker
-Time
-Advertising
The President’s schedule
-Press reports
-Dinner at Trader Vic’s
-Herbert J. (“Jackie”) Gleason
-South Carolina
Israel Head of State dinner
-Graham’s attendance
-Meir
-The President’s view
Antisemitism
-Graham’s conversation with Tannenbaum
-The President’s view
-John Birch Society
-Israel’s actions
-Christians
-Graham’s view
Conversion of young Jews
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Aug.-08)
Conversation No. 43-161 (cont’d)
-Christians
-Jews for Jesus
-Rabbi’s reactions
-Episcopalians
1974 Lausanne Conference
-Graham’s role
-World Council of Churches
-Eugene Carson Blake
-Indecency
-Pacifism
-Compared to communists
-South Africa, Greece
-Graham’s view
-Anglican participation
-Great Britain
-Lutheran participation
-Germany
-US church participation
-Latin American, Far East participation
-Roman Catholic participation
-Southern Baptists
-John Krol, Terence Cooke
-Jesuits
-John J. McLaughlin
-Graham’s view
-Trip to Vietnam