Conversation: 205-002
Prev: 205-001 Next: 205-003Start Date: 19-Aug-1972 9:40 AM
End Date: 19-Aug-1972 11:25 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob");Recording Device: Camp David Hard Wire
NARA Description:
On August 19, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David from 9:40 am to 11:25 am. The Camp David Hard Wire taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 205-002 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 205-2
Date: August 19, 1972
Time: 9:40 am - 11:25 am
Location: Camp David Hard Wire
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
The President’s forthcoming acceptance speech
-Ronald L. Ziegler's schedule
-Return to Camp David
-The President's schedule
-Writers and staff
-Ziegler
-The President’s view
Camp David
-Accommodations
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Birch Lodge
-Rose Mary Woods, Marjorie P. Acker
-Dogwood Lodge
-Speech writers
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-Recreation room
-Birch Lodge
-Kissinger
The President's forthcoming acceptance speech
-The President’s schedule
-Lines from previous speeches
-Writers
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-William L. Safire
-Richard A. Moore
-Repetition of lines
-The President’s People’s Republic of China [PRC] speech
-The President’s televised address to the Soviet Union
-Safire
-Price
-Woods
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-Price
-Phrasing
-Pace of work
-Content
-The President’s reading of a draft of the speech
-Price
-The President’s view
-George S. McGovern
-Republican National Convention
-Thomas E. Dewey
-Press reaction
-Campaign
-Democratic strategy
-Attack on the President
-Compared to attack on Richard M. Nixon
-McGovern's statement
-Rebuttal by the President
-The President’s reading of a draft of the speech
-The President’s view
-Instruction for Moore
-Price
-Price's role
-Quotations
-The President’s past speeches
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-Press
-Moore
-Ziegler's view
-Haldeman’s view
-“Hawks”
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The President's forthcoming acceptance speech
-Content
-Ziegler
-Price
-Andrews
-Rodney C. Campbell [?]
-Mention of God
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Haldeman’s view
-PRC trip
-Inaugural and nomination acceptance speeches
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Objectives
-Appeal to supporters
-Republican Convention
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Documentary film
-Effect on press
-Mary McGrory column
-New York Times
-Appeal to television audience
-Exposure
-Tanya Savisheva story
-Haldeman’s view
-Footage from the President’s Soviet Union trip
-Tricia Nixon Cox’s view
John D. Ehrlichman’s view
-The President’s view
-Domestic Council
-“Jess” story [Harrisburg Pennsylvania tour, June 24, 1972]
-Coast Guard
-Bill Elliott
-Marine salute
-Television show
-Speech
-Price
-Leonard Garment
-Evidence of the President's concern for people
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Possible meeting on narcotics
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-Clint Eastwood
-The President’s televised address to the Soviet people
-Tanya story
-Appeal
Elmer H. Bobst
-Staff strength
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-The President’s view
-Professionalism
-Domestic Council
-Professionalism
-Sales ability
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Ehrlichman
-Godfrey Sperling, Jr.
-John F. Osborne
-New Republic
-Kissinger
-Tanya story
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Compared to "Checkers" speech
-Ziegler
-Safire
-Reality of story
-Leningrad
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The President’s forthcoming acceptance speech
-Vietnam negotiations as a topic
-Ziegler
-Price
-Garment
-Andrews
-Ziegler
-Haldeman’s view
-Supreme Court
-W. Ramsey Clark
-"New Majority" theme
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-Place in speech
-Wording
-Belief in principles
-Coalition of interests
-Ehrlichman
-Reception by intellectuals
-Compared to use of "Silent majority"
-William P. Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-Popular perception
-Wording
-Price’s draft
-The President’s previous trip to the Soviet Union
-Tanya Savicheva
-Adolf Hitler
-Kissinger
-Meetings
-Public relations
-The President’s efforts
-Call by the President to Charles W. Colson
-Colson’s schedule
-Louis P. Harris
-Perception of candidates by electorate
-Popular trust in McGovern compared to the President
-Staff morale
-Washington press
-John B. Connally
-Buchanan
-Kevin P. Phillips
-Joseph C. Kraft
-Support for the President
-Samuel Lubell
-The President's PRC trip
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Mail
-The President's Soviet Union trip
-Other presidents
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Harry S. Truman
-John F. Kennedy
-Johnson
-The President’s trips to PRC and the Soviet Union
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-Use of prime time
-Reports on Vietnam
-Economic speeches
-Interest of people
-May 8, 1972 speech, PRC and Soviet Union trips speeches
-State of the Union speech
-The President’s view
-The President's ability to enliven audience
-Press reaction
-McGovern compared to the President
-Ziegler's view
-Need for substance
-Economic questions
-Andrew
-Taxes
-Cut
-Effect on net Gross National Product [GNP]
-Democratic spending proposals
-Effect on net GNP
-McGovern’s $1000-per-person welfare proposal
-Effect on net GNP
-Ehrlichman
-Praise for platform
-Contrast with Democrats
-Haldeman’s view
-Renomination of Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Reference to Democrats
-Possible use of lines by Ronald W. Reagan
-Robert J. Dole
-Call for unity
-Quotas
-Discrimination
-Ending
-Quotas
-William S. White article
-Call to dissatisfied Democrats
-"New Majority" theme
-The President's record
-Vietnam
-Inflation
-Tax cuts
-Reduction in crime
-Environment
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-Peace
-Completion of task
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham's view
-The President’s belief in the American system
-Possible reaction by crowd
-The President's travels abroad
-Benefits of US system
-Rate of growth, employment, inflation
-Unemployment
-Inflation
-Tax cuts
-Goals
-Property taxes
-Inflation
-Unemployment
-Goals
-Number of jobs
-1980
-Perception
-Contrast of the Administration’s methods with alternative methods
-Harris's position
-Colson's view
-Kennedy
-Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
-Jews
-Richard N. Goodwin
-Ziegler
-Use of “opponents”
-Sending programs
-Senior citizens
-Welfare
-Welfare
-Inequities
-Russell B. Long
-Elderly
-Source of text
-Council of Retired Persons
-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
approach
-Veterans, elderly and welfare recipients
-Peace
-Price of peace
-Previous presidents
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-Tone
-Democrats
-Barry M. Goldwater campaign
-Tone
-Type of attack
-Compared to administration’s campaign style
-McGovern
-Handling by administration
-Peace, national defense
-Political practice
-Semantics
-$1000-per-person welfare proposal
-Ehrlichman
-Taxes
-Labor plank in platform
-Right to work
-Youth differential
-Democrats’ welfare proposal
-Reference to Democrats
-Use of “opponents”
-Price
-Mention of McGovern
-Voters’ choice
-Competence compared to radicalism
-The President's conversation with [Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Kissinger
-Liberals’ view
-Price
-Harris
-Media
-Perception by voters
-Goldwater
-Tennessee Valley Authority [TVA]
-Social Security
-The President's approach
-Agnew
-Changes by McGovern
-Foreign policy section
-Rogers [?], Kissinger
Rogers
-Kissinger
-State Department
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-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Kissinger’s and Connally’s view
The President's forthcoming meeting with Rogers
-Haldeman
-Kissinger
-Number of guests
-Haig
-Relationship with Rogers
-Ziegler
-Price
-Ziegler
-Benefits
-Public relations
-Emphasis
-The President’s possible meeting with Kissinger
-The President's schedule
-Speechwriting
-Possible later meeting
-California
-Haldeman, Haig, Ziegler
-Rogers
-Relationship with Kissinger
-Kissinger’s behavior
-The President’s view
-Kissinger's arrival
-Dinner schedule
-The President’s possible meeting with Kissinger
Haldeman left at 11:25 am.
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