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Start Date: 17-Nov-1972 1:07 PM

End Date: 17-Nov-1972 1:15 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Harlow, Bryce N.

Recording Device: Camp David Study Table

153-046.mp3

NARA Description:

On November 17, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Bryce N. Harlow talked on the telephone at Camp David from 1:07 pm to 1:15 pm. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 153-046 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 153-46

Date: November 17, 1972
Time: 1:07 pm - 1:15 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Bryce N. Harlow.

[See Conversation No. 226-13]

       Greetings


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       1972 election
            -Final figures
                   -Absentees
                   -Percentages
                                           -50-

                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                    Tape Subject Log
                                     (rev. Mar.-08)

                                                           Conversation No. 153-46 (cont’d)

                 -The President’s conversation with John B. Connally
                 -Absentees
                 -Secretaries of State

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      Second term reorganization
           -Melvin R. Laird
                 -Forthcoming meeting with the President
                 -Plans
                       -Departure


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      Second term reorganization
           -Political activities
                  -White House
                        -Transfer to Republican National Committee [RNC]
                               -Public relations

      RNC
            -[Frederick James] Marquis Woolton
            -Laird
                  -Tenure at Defense Department
                        -Politics
                               -1972 campaign
                  -RNC Chairman
                        -Salary
                        -Rebuilding Republican Party
                               -Senate and House of Representatives campaign committees
                                     -Reorganization
                                     -William E. Brock, III
                                     -Jack. F. Kemp
                        -Wealth
                        -Job offer incentives
                               -Harry S. Dent’s departure
                                           -51-

                 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                    Tape Subject Log
                                     (rev. Mar.-08)

                                                           Conversation No. 153-46 (cont’d)

                             -Access to the President
                                  -1974 election
                                  -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
                                  -Connally
                             -Responsibilities
                             -Acceptance

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      Second term reorganization
           -Dwight D. Eisenhower administration
           -Second terms
                 -Mistakes
           -Changes in staff
                 -Sherman Adams
                       -Harlow’s suggestions in 1955
           -White House staff
                 -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
                 -John D. Ehrlichman
                 -Henry A. Kissinger
                 -Changes
                       -Robert H. Finch
                       -Herbert G. Klein
                       -Donald H. Rumsfeld
                             -Senate race
                       -Charles W. Colson
                             -Timing
                             -Outside work
                                   -Legal
                                   -Foundation
                                   -Polling
                       -Necessity
                 -Congressional relations
                       -William E. Timmons
                       -Defeated members of Congress
                             -Gordon L. Allott and Jack R. Miller
                             -Miller’s recent conversation with Harlow
                                             -52-

                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                       Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. Mar.-08)