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Start Date: 17-May-1972 10:15 AM

End Date: 17-May-1972 10:32 AM

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

189a.mp3

189b.mp3

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