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Conversation: 194-014

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Start Date: 24-Jun-1972 2:29 PM

End Date: 24-Jun-1972 3:50 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")Camp David OperatorStein, Herbert

Recording Device: Camp David Hard Wire

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:47:23

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:39:53

NARA Description:

On June 24, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Camp David operator, and Herbert Stein met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David from 2:29 pm to 3:50 pm. The Camp David Hard Wire taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 194-014 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 194-14

Date: June 24, 1972
Time: 2:29 pm – 3:50 pm
Location: Camp David Hard Wire

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

     President's forthcoming press conference
          -Film
          -Television
          -Arrangements
          -Announcements

The President talked with the Camp David operator at an unknown time between 2:29 and 2:45
pm

[Conversation No. 194-14A]

[See also Conversation No. 134-10]

The President talked with Herbert Stein between 2:45 and 2:46 pm [Conversation No. 194-14B]

[Conversation No. 194-14B]
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                                         Tape Subject Log
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[See also Conversation No. 134-11]

[End of telephone conversation]

     President's forthcoming press conference
          -Television cameras in non-televised conference
          -Radio
          -Location
                 -Executive Office Building [EOB]
                 -Press room
                 -Oval Office
          -Announcement
                 -The President’ sview
          -Television
          -Helen A. Thomas
                 -United Press International [UPI]

     President's previous trip to Pennsylvania
          -Wire services
                 -Reports
                 -Photographs
                 -Networks
          -Black child
                 -The President's comments

     Press conferences
          -Small groups of reporters
          -Cameras
                -Movie
                -Still
                -Television
                       -Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
                       -Still cameramen

     President's statements
          -Length
                 -Meat prices
                      -Quotas
                            -Necessity
                      -Supply
                      -Statement
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                                   Tape Subject Log
                                     (rev. Jan-02)
                                                      Conv. No. 194-14 (cont.)


Press conferences
     -Length
     -Number of questions
     -Length of President's responses
           -Patrick J. Buchanan
                 -Busing
           -Henry A. Kissinger
           -Preparation
           -Length of responses
           -William L. Safire to Buchanan
           -Kissinger

President's forthcoming press conference
     -East Room
     -Relations with press
     -Timing
            -Democratic convention
     -Oval Office
            -Advantages
            -Political questions
     -"Three-on-one" format
            -Haldeman’s view
     -East Room
     -Length of answers
            -Haldeman’s view
     -Thomas
     -Camp David
     -California
            -Ronald L. Ziegler
     -Press pool
            -Size
                  -Optimum size
                        -Wire service reporters
            -Sound recording
                  -Risks

Hurricane Agnes
     -President's trip
           -Public relations efforts
                 -The President’s view
           -News coverage
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                                   Tape Subject Log
                                     (rev. Jan-02)
                                                              Conv. No. 194-14 (cont.)

                     -Print media
         -Destruction
               -Deaths
                     -News coverage
               -Richmond, Virginia
                     -James River
         -President's response to disaster
               -First Family efforts
                     -Julie Nixon Eisenhower [?]
                     -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
                           -South Dakota
               -Compared with Lyndon B. Johnson's responses
                     -The President’s view
                           -Craig S. Campbell's plan
               -John D. Ehrlichman's plan


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    Watergate break-in
        -Message to Vernon A. Walters
              -Director
        -Guilty pleas
        -Grand jury
              -Indictments
        -Civil suit
              -Judge Charles R. J. Richey
              -Depositions
              -John N. Mitchell, Charles W. Colson
        -White House involvement
              -Cubans
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                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. Jan-02)
                                                                   Conv. No. 194-14 (cont.)


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     Supreme Court ruling on labor's expenditures in politics
          -American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organization [AFL-CIO]

     The President’s forthcoming press conference
          -Length of answers
               -Ziegler
               -The President’s instructions

     Renovations at Camp David
         -Unknown books

The President and Haldeman left at 3:50 pm.