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Conversation: 215-004

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Start Date: 4-Oct-1972 5:00 PM

End Date: 4-Oct-1972 5:30 PM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Camp David Hard Wire

215-004.mp3

NARA Description:

On October 4, 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 5:00 pm and 5:30 pm. The Camp David Hard Wire taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 215-004 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 215-4
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                      NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. Oct-06)


Date: October 4, 1972
Time: Unknown between 5:00 pm and 5:30 pm
Location: Camp David Hard Wire

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

        The President's schedule
            -Political meeting

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 5:00 pm.

        Refreshment

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:30 pm.

        The President's schedule
            -Meeting, October 5, 1972
                -Participants
                     -John B. Connally
                     -Robert J. Dole
            -Radio speeches
                -Raymond K. Price, Jr.
                     -Foreign policy
                -Economic issues
                     -Taxes, debt ceiling and fiscal responsibility
                -Timing
                     -Congressional adjournment
                     -Foreign policy
                          -George S. McGovern
                     -Washington, DC
                     -Camp David
            -Columbus Day
            -New York
            -Peter Fosco
                -Charles W. Colson's view
            -Atlanta
                -Local press coverage
                     -Press pool

        News summary
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                      NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. Oct-06)

            -Questions and answers [Q & A] on issues

An unknown person [Sanchez?] entered at an unknown time after 5:00 pm.

        Instruction

An unknown person [Sanchez?] left at an unknown time before 5:30 pm.

        News summary
           -Q & A on issues
               -Amnesty, busing, Vietnam
               -Taxes
               -The press
                   -Comparison to 1968
                   -Creation of issues
                       -The White House
                            -Haldeman's view
                                 -Public opinion of the President
                                     -The President's schedule
               -McGovern
                   -Position on issues
                       -Comparison to the President
                            -Nomination acceptance speech
                            -Foreign policy, national defense
                                 -Differences

        Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
            -Request for television appearance by the President
                -Possible motivation
                     -McGovern
                -Recent telephone conversation
                -Ronald L. Ziegler
                -Other television networks
                     -McGovern
                          -Interview scheduling
                               -Order of appearance
                          -Equal time
                -Connally
                -McGovern's appearance
                     -Network coverage
                     -Ziegler
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                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                    Tape Subject Log
                                      (rev. Oct-06)


        Issues
            -Vietnam
                -Negotiations
                    -Henry A. Kissinger's schedule
                         -McGovern's forthcoming speech
                         -Paris
                             -Announcement
                    -Settlement
                         -Roscoe Drummond
                             -Column
                         -Timing
                             -1972 election
                         -Kissinger's concerns
                             -Nguyen Van Thieu
                                 -Attitude towards proposals
                                       -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
                             -North Vietnamese
                                 -Acceptance of proposals
                             -Thieu's perspective
                                 -Establishment of Council of National Concord
                             -Timing
                                 -1972 election
                                 -Possible offer
                                       -New York Times
                                 -US public attitude
                                       -Imposition of communist government
                             -Future military options
                                 -Possible bombing
                                 -Thieu
                                       -Government of South Vietnam [GVN]
                             -Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 5:30 pm.