Conversation: 140-023
Prev: 140-022 Next: 140-024Start Date: 17-Aug-1972 10:16 AM
End Date: 17-Aug-1972 10:54 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Camp David Operator; Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob");Recording Device: Camp David Study Table
NARA Description:
On August 17, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Camp David operator, and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman talked on the telephone at Camp David from 10:16 am to 10:54 am. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 140-023 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 140-23
Date: August 17, 1972
Time: 10:16 am - 10:54 am
Location: Camp David Study Table
The Camp David operator talked with the President.
H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman's return call
The President talked with Haldeman.
[See Conversation No. 203-13]
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Campaign practices
-Demonstrators' antics
-The President’s recent conversation with Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Administration's plans
-George S. McGovern buttons
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Personnel
-John B. Connally's view
-Wyatt Thomas Johnson, Jr.
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Possible Administration job
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Administration attitude regarding McGovern's Vietnam position
-Connally's view
-McGovern
-Pierre E.G. Salinger
-R. Sargent Shriver
-W. Ramsey Clark
-The President’s view
-Inference in foreign policy
-Harry S. Truman quote
-The President’s previous comments in 1968
-Effect on negotiations
-Connally’s view
-Attack on McGovern
-The President
-William P. Rogers
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Delivery and tone
-Gerald R. Ford
-Senate Foreign Relations Committee member
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Margaret Chase Smith
-George D. Aiken
-Tone
-Smith
-Vietnam as an issue
-Meat crisis
-Clark
-Shriver
-Forthcoming acceptance speech
-Polling
-Timing of reply
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-Republican National Convention
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Smith
-Senate Foreign Relations Committee member
-Connally's Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW] speech
-The President’s view
-Rhetoric
-Partisansip
-Democratic orator
-Tone
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Writing of speech
-Aram Bakshian
-Focus
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-White House involvement
-Herbert G. Klein
-Adolf Hitler reference by McGovern
-Administration reaction
-Clark MacGregor
-Charles W. Colson
-Ziegler
-Tone of Democratic campaign
-[Arnold] Eric Sevareid's comment
-Robert J. Dole
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Media
-Ziegler
-Rebuttal to Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon interviewer [Marya McLaughlin]
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Forthcoming interview with Henry A. Kissinger
-Barbara Walters
-Virginia Sherwood
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