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Start Date: 30-Oct-1972 9:50 AM

End Date: 30-Oct-1972 10:25 AM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Camp David Hard Wire

222-007.mp3

NARA Description:

On October 30, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David from 9:50 am to 10:25 am. The Camp David Hard Wire taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 222-007 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 222-7

Date: October 30, 1972
Time: 9:50 am - 10:25 am
Location: Camp David Hard Wire

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

        Vietnam settlement
            -George S. McGovern’s statements
                -William P. Rogers’s forthcoming briefing
                     -Re-negotiation of terms
                         -Aid to South Vietnam
                -Response to McGovern
                -Henry A. Kissinger’s view
                     -Charles W. Colson
                     -John D. Ehrlichman
                     -Prospects of peace talks
                     -Ehrlichman’s interpretation
                     -Kissinger’s quote
                -Status of talks
                     -McGovern’s role
                         -Rogers’s forthcoming briefing
                     -The President’s remarks at forthcoming regional meetings
                         -Kissinger
                -Rogers’s briefing
                     -Haldeman’s view

        Domestic issues
           -The President’s veto of an aging bill
               -Congressional appeals
                     -Ehrlichman
               -The President’s view
           -Aging, urban issues
           -Ehrlichman
               -The President’s view
                     -Kissinger
           -The President’s vetoes
                                    5

             NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                            Tape Subject Log
                              (rev. Oct-06)

        -Water bill
        -Ehrlichman’s view
            -Signing of bills
                -House Resolution [HR] 1
            -Vetoed bills

The President’s speeches
    -Speech on aging
        -Alternatives
             -Statement
    -HR 1
    -Schedule
        -Television
        -Radio spot
             -Cancellation
             -Payment for radio time
    -TV compared with radio
        -Benefits
             -Raymond K. Price, Jr.
        -Television speech by Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
        -Schedule
             -Radio spots

Watergate
   -Washington Post story about Dwight L. Chapin
        -Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] document
            -Chapin
            -Donald H. Segretti
        -Haldeman's denial of involvement
            -Washington Post retraction
        -Chapin story
            -The President’s view
        -Battle between media and administration
            -Espionage
            -Media charges
                 -Chapin
                 -Segretti
                 -Haldeman
                     -Direction of fund
                           -Accuracy
                                            6

                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. Oct-06)

                                -Lack of evidence
               -Prominence of stories

       News reports
          -Vietnam story
               -Time magazine
                    -Story preparation
                    -Chronology
                        -1950


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[Duration: 2m 46s     ]


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       Vietnam
           -Negotiations
               [Kissinger’s?] view

       Rogers forthcoming briefing on Vietnam
          -Notification
               -Colson
          -Kissinger
          -Vietnam situation
               -Political advantages
               -Public knowledge
               -North Vietnamese
               -Kissinger’s negotiation efforts
                    -Compared with the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
                         -Soviet Union
                    -Hopes for peace
                    -Prospects for talks
                                               7

                      NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                        Tape Subject Log
                                          (rev. Oct-06)

                           -McGovern
                              -Election strategy

        Presentation of position on aging Americans
            -Compared with release of statement


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 2m 28s ]


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        [Unintelligible]

        Speech schedule
            -Urban speech
                -Price [?]
            -Foreign policy
                -Vietnam
                     -Time
                          -California

Haldeman left at 10:25 am.