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Start 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

140-016.mp3

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[Conversation No. 203-5; one item has been withdrawn]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
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                -Salinger’s meeting with the North Vietnames

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 9:01 am.


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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.
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               -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
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                  -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


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    Vietnam
         -McGovern’s policies
         -Rogers
         -Edmund S. Muskie
               -Haldeman
         -Kissinger
               -Saigon
         -Salinger
         -Clark
         -McGovern’s policies
               -Possible Administration reaction
                    -Timing
                         -Rogers
                         -Reagan
                         -Republican Convention
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