Easy NixonAbout

Conversation: 206-018

Prev:  206-017 Next: 206-019

Start Date: 20-Aug-1972 6:25 PM

End Date: 20-Aug-1972 9:45 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")

Recording Device: Camp David Hard Wire

206-018.mp3

NARA Description:

On August 20, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David at an unknown time between 6:25 pm and 9:45 pm. The Camp David Hard Wire taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 206-018 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 206-18

Date: August 20, 1972
Time: Unknown between 6:25 pm and 9:45 pm
Location: Camp David Hard Wire

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

     Rose Mary Woods's schedule
         -Marjorie P. Acker
         -Laurel Lodge
         -Manolo Sanchez
         -Speech draft [?]

     The President’s forthcoming acceptance speech
          -Content
               -Tanya Savicheva story
               -Abraham Lincoln
               -The President’s reading of draft
                     -US defense budget
                     -US negotiating stance
                          -Arms limitation
                     -Opportunity for peace
                          -US
                          -Soviet Union
                          -People’s Republic of China [PRC]
                     -Domestic programs
                          -Poverty
                          -Cities
                          -Rural areas
                          -Environment
                          -Welfare reform
                          -Revenue sharing
                          -“Peace dividend”
                     -The President's televised speech in the Soviet Union
                     -Lincoln
                          -Religious reference
                     -The President’s trip to the Soviet Union
                          -Leningrad
                                  -Tanya story
                          -“New majority”
                     -Haldeman’s view
                     -Revisions
                     -Lincoln quote
                                               21

                      NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev.Oct-06)


                          -Use by the President in 1960
                          -Use of passage from previous speeches
                          -Compared to other religious references
                                -William F. (“Billy”) Graham
                                -John K. Andrews, Jr.

     The President's schedule

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 9:45 pm.