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Start Date: 13-Nov-1972 3:55 PM

End Date: 13-Nov-1972 5:07 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Camp David OperatorLongworth, Alice Roosevelt

Recording Device: Camp David Study Table

153-001.mp3

NARA Description:

On November 13, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Camp David operator, and Alice Roosevelt Longworth talked on the telephone at Camp David at an unknown time between 3:55 pm and 5:07 pm. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 153-001 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 153-1

Date: November 13, 1972
Time: Unknown between 3:55 pm and 5:07 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

[See Conversation No. 224-3]

The President talked with Alice Roosevelt Longworth between 5:01 pm and 5:07 pm.

[See Conversation No. 224-3]

       Greetings

       Longworth’s health

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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]

       1972 election
            -The President’s campaign

       Longworth’s recent telephone call
           -Rose Mary Woods
           -Florida

       The President’s location
            -Camp David

[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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       Vietnam negotiations
            -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s return from Saigon [Phuom Penh and Seoul, November
             13, 1972
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                 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                    Tape Subject Log
                                     (rev. Mar.-08)

                                                             Conversation No. 153-1 (cont’d)

           -Status
                 -Progress
                 -Conclusion


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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]

      1972 election
           -Reaction of Democrats
           -The President’s victory
                  -Margin
           -Congress
           -Longworth’s friends’ reactions
           -Longworth
                  -Activities in campaign
           -Democrats
                  -Campaign tactics
                         -George S. McGovern, R. Sargent Shriver
                               -Rhetoric
                         -Theordore (“Teddy”) Roosevelt [TR]
                         -William H. Taft
                         -Bull Moose campaign
           -Longworth’s note
           -The President’s family
                  -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
                  -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
                  -Tricia Nixon Cox
                  -Campaigning
                  -1900 campaign
                         -TR’s family
                               -Role in campaign

      The President’s schedule

      Longworth’s spirits
          -Age

      TR
           -Death
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                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                      (rev. Mar.-08)

                                                        Conversation No. 153-1 (cont’d)

                -Age
           -Age as President
                -John F. Kennedy

      1972 election
           -The President’s victory
                  -States
                        -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
                        -Massachusetts
                  -Margin
                        -Percentages

[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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      Vietnam negotiations
           -Status
                 -Progress
                       -Publication of the record
                       -Henry A. Kissinger


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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]

      Vietnam negotiations
           -Criticism
                  -Democrats
                  -Press
                        -Peter Lisagor

      Longworth
          -Meeting with the President and Mrs. Nixon

[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                      (rev. Mar.-08)