Conversation: 140-016
Prev:  140-015 Next: 140-017Start Date: 17-Aug-1972 9:01 AM
End Date: 17-Aug-1972 9:47 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Sanchez, Manolo; Recording Device: Camp David Study Table
NARA Description:
On August 17, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and Manolo Sanchez talked on the telephone at Camp David from 9:01 am to 9:47 am. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 140-016 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 140-16 Date: August 17, 1972 Time: 9:01 am - 9:47 am Location: Camp David Study Table The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman. [Conversation No. 203-5; one item has been withdrawn] The President's schedule -Cancellation of trip to Washington, D.C. Speech writing -Progress -Raymond K. Price, Jr. -Staff -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's material -Rose Mary Woods's trip to Camp David -Mail -Work pattern -Logistics -Weather The President’s schedule -The President’s forthcoming call to Julie Nixon Eisenhower Veto of the Departments of Labor and Health, Education and Welfare [HEW] Appropriation Act, 1973 -House of Representatives vote Lyndon B. Johnson's endorsement of George S. McGovern -Press reaction -Johnson -The President’s view -John B. Connally -Briefings News report -McGovern’s dispatch of Pierre E.G. Salinger to Paris 12 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Mar-02) -Salinger’s meeting with the North Vietnames Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 9:01 am. ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal returnable] [Duration: 13s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ***************************************************************** Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:47 am. McGovern news report -Salinger’s meeting with the North Vietnamese -Prisoners of war [POWs] release -Timing -1972 election -Media coverage -McGovern’s denial -Salinger’s view -McGovern’s qualification -Haldeman’s view -Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] -American Broadcasting Company [ABC] -Salinger’s meeting with the North Vietnamese -Result -McGovern’s involvement in foreign policy -Briefings -W. Ramsey Clark -Washington Post coverage -Television coverage Vietnam -McGovern’s policies -Possible administration reaction -Alexander M. Haig, Jr. 13 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Mar-02) -Charles W. Colson -McGovern -R. Sargent Shriver -Clark -Colson’s view -Timing -Henry A. Kissinger -Haldeman’s view -Ronald L. Ziegler's view -Connally's view -Clark MacGregor's view -Colson's view -Connally's view -Possible speech -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew -William P. Rogers -The President’s view -Timing -Negotiations -1968 -Timing -Kissinger -Republican National Convention -Ronald W. Reagan -Washington Post editorial -Clark effort -Colson -Pollsters -The President's view -Public awareness of Vietnam -Network coverage -Shriver -McGovern -Republican Convention -Speech preparation -Kissinger's return -Republican Convention -Kissinger's efforts -Public relations -Clark -Salinger -The Administrations’ possible briefings of McGovern -Carroll Kilpatrick 14 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Mar-02) -Harry S. Truman quotation -Bipartisan foreign policy -Thomas E. Dewey -Investigation of Paul C. Warnke -Security clearance -Necessity -McGovern’s refusal of briefings -Press reaction -McGovern’s policies -Possible Administration reaction -Connally's view -MacGregor's view -Ziegler's view -Bryce N. Harlow's view ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2 [Personal returnable] [Duration: 21m 58s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2 ***************************************************************** Vietnam -McGovern’s policies -Rogers -Edmund S. Muskie -Haldeman -Kissinger -Saigon -Salinger -Clark -McGovern’s policies -Possible Administration reaction -Timing -Rogers -Reagan -Republican Convention 15 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Mar-02)