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Conversation: 215-001

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Start Date: 3-Oct-1972 6:00 PM

End Date: 3-Oct-1972 7:19 PM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Camp David Hard Wire

215-001.mp3

NARA Description:

On October 3, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and Manolo Sanchez met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David at an unknown time between 6:00 pm and 7:19 pm. The Camp David Hard Wire taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 215-001 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 215-1

Date: October 3, 1972
Time: Unknown between 6:00 pm and 7:19 pm
Location: Camp David Hard Wire

The President met with H.R. ("Bob") Haldeman.

        The President's schedule
            -Camp David
                -Frequency of visits
                -Meetings, dinners
                     -Timing
                     -Key Biscayne, Florida
                     -White House


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 2m 51s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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        Issue poll
            -Massachusetts results
                 -Compared with national results
                    -George S. McGovern's welfare proposals
                        -$1000 per person
                    -Defense budget cuts
                        -Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
                        -Effectiveness of issue
                    -Amnesty
                    -Vietnam War
                                              2

                       NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. Oct-06)

                          -Withdrawal of US troops
                              -Prisoners of war [POWs]
                              -Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
                              [MIT]
                     -Marijuana legalization
                 -Targeting of the President's television advertisements
                     -Issues
                          -Welfare, marijuana legalization, Vietnam
                     -Possible trip to Boston
                          -Haldeman's view
                              -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 6:00 pm.

        Refreshments

        Agnew
           -Conservatism
               -Sanchez's view
               -The press
                   -Impact on country

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 7:19 pm.


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 11m 52s ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

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        Philip Potter
             -Administration of Food for Peace program by McGovern,
              1960-62
                  -Grain shipments abroad
             -Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT] signing ceremony
                                             3

                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                    Tape Subject Log
                                      (rev. Oct-06)

               -Hugh S. Sidey’s and Potter's opinion


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 35s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3

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       Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
           -Request for telephone call from the President
           -Note from Ronald L. Ziegler
           -Previous conversation from Camp David
           -Cronkite's schedule



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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 1m 28s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4

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       The Presidency
           -Sidey
               -[McGovern]
           -Charges about corruption
               -The President's administration
                   -Watergate
                   -US-Soviet grain deal
                                              4

                      NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. Oct-06)

                     -Teapot Dome scandal
                         -Comparisons
                     -Personal aggrandizement
                         -Previous administrations
                             -Dwight D. Eisenhower

        Polls on issues
            -Use

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 7:19 pm.