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Conversation: 206-009

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Start Date: 20-Aug-1972 12:27 PM

End Date: 20-Aug-1972 1:00 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Colson, Charles W.Kissinger, Henry A.

Recording Device: Camp David Hard Wire

206-009.mp3

NARA Description:

On August 20, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Charles W. Colson, and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David at an unknown time between 12:27 pm and 1:00 pm. The Camp David Hard Wire taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 206-009 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 206-9

Date: August 20, 1972
Time: 12:27 pm - unknown before 1:00 pm
Location: Camp David Hard Wire

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.
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                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev.Oct-06)


[See Conversation No. 140-50; two items have been withdrawn]

Henry A. Kissinger entered at an unknown time after 12:27 pm.

Kissinger talked with Colson at an unknown time after 12:27 pm.

[End of telephone conversation]

     Staff morale

     The President’s forthcoming acceptance speech
          -Kissinger’s proposed changes
                -US strength
                     -George S. McGovern stance
                -Defense capacity of South Vietnam
                -Soviet Union
                -US defense spending
                     -Compared to food stamps spending
                -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s view
                -Arms limitation
                     -US intentions
                     -US strength
                          -Effect on negotiations
                                 -Communists
          -McGovern
                -Kissinger’s view
          -“Peace dividend”
                -Speechwriters’ views
                     -Leonard Garment
                     -Raymond K. Price, Jr.
                     -William L. Safire
                     -Patrick J. Buchanan
                -Placement of sentences
                -Aspirations of American people
                -Speechwriters’ view
                -Kissinger’s speeches
                     -Vietnam

     Kissinger's schedule
          -Swimming
          -Departure time

     The President's schedule
          -Forthcoming dinner
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                      NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev.Oct-06)


                -Kissinger
                     -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
                     -Haig
                     -Ronald L. Ziegler
                         -Benefits

Kissinger left at an unknown time before 1:00 pm.