Conversation: 189-010
Prev: 189-009 Next: 189-011Start Date: Wednesday, May 17, 1972 2:15 PM
End Date: Wednesday, May 17, 1972 2:32 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")Recording Device: Camp David Hard Wire
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:41:24
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:56:34
NARA Description:
On May 17, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David from 10:15 am to 10:32 am. The Camp David Hard Wire taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 189-010 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 189-10
Date: May 17, 1972
Time: 10:15 am - 10:32 am
Location: Camp David Hard Wire
The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Preparations
-Briefing books
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Instructions for speechwriters
-Toasts
-Length
-Notes
-A speech
-Draft
-Kissinger's review
-President's review
-President's meeting with Kissinger
-Speeches
-Drafts
-Haldeman's review
-Kissinger's work
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 189-10 (cont.)
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-Duties
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Duties
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-The President’s view
-William L. Safire
-The President’s view
-Price and Safire
-Toasts and other speeches
-Method of delivery
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Translation
-Length
-Substance
-Notes
-Television coverage
-Length
-Television coverage
-Length
-Notes
Calls to Dr. William Lukash, John B. Connally, Charles W. Colson and Henry A. Kissinger
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Wallace
-Injury
-Paralysis
-Lukash's diagnosis
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 189-10 (cont.)
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Connally
-Resignation announcement
-Speculation
Michael J. Mansfield
-Colson's report
-Dealings with administration
-The President’s view
-Trip to the People's Republic of China [PRC]
Vietnam
-Robert C. Byrd Amendment
-Vote timetable
-Clifford P. Case-Frank F. Church Amendment
-Cease fire
-Case-Church Amendment
-Robert A. Taft, Jr. and Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
-Votes
-Senate role in war
-Kissinger
-Charles H. Percy
-Taft
Soviet Summit
-Plans
President's previous walk to Treasury Department
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 189-10 (cont.)
-Press coverage
-Importance
-Wallace
Vietnam War
-Critics
-Soviet Summit
Soviet Summit
-Logistics
-Arrangements
-Emil (“Bus”) Mosbacher, Jr.
-Role
-A speech
-Andrews
-Work in the Soviet Union
-Secretaries
-Beverly J. Kaye
-Marjorie P. Acker
-Typing work
-PRC trip
-Price and Safire
-Typing ability
-Rose Mary Woods
-Work on speeches
-Work on trip
Connally
-Telephone calls
-Purpose
-Ehrlichman