Conversation: 226-024
Prev:  226-023 Next: 226-025Start Date: 18-Nov-1972 7:45 AM
End Date: 18-Nov-1972 9:39 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Recording Device: Camp David Hard Wire
NARA Description:
On November 18, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David at an unknown time between 7:45 am and 9:39 am. The Camp David Hard Wire taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 226-024 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 226-24 Date: November 18, 1972 Time: Unknown between 7:45 am and 9:39 am Location: Camp David Hard Wire The President dictated a memorandum for the file. ***************************************************************** [Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift] Second term reorganization -Cabinet -William P. Rogers -Confrontation -Melvin R. Laird and Peter G. Peterson -Henry A. Kissinger -Reaction -Difficulties -Rogers -Problems -Intelligence, background -Competence -Ego -Rogers -Problems -Career -16- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. Feb.-08) Conversation No. 226-24 (cont’d) -Personality -Press, television [TV] -Charm -Kissinger -Prominence in foreign policy -Conflicts with Rogers -State Department role -Downgrading -Dwight D. Eisenhower -John Foster Dulles’s role -State Department -Problems with bureaucracy -Laird -Departure -Terms -Elliot L. Richardson -Blue Ribbon Panel -Defense Department -Deputy Secretary of Defense -William R. Hewlett -David Packard -Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW] -Elliot Richardson -Capabilities -Public relations [PR] -Goals -Budget cuts -Loyalty -Deficiencies -Members of the Establishment -Opposition to staff and budget cuts -Higher education -George P. Shultz -George H. W. Bush -Report -George S. McGovern’s comments on George Meany -Role in Democratic Party -Meany -Attitude toward the President -Peter G. Peterson -17- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. Feb.-08) Conversation No. 226-24 (cont’d) -Relation with Charles H. Percy -Loyalty -Job offer -Qualifications -Commerce Department -Charles W. Colson -Retention -Role in second term -Vulnerabilities -Departure -Replacement -Retention -Problems -Watergate -Congress -John B. Connally’s advice -Attacks on White House -Executive Privilege -John D. Ehrlichman -Peter F. Flanigan -Departure -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman -Weakness of defense -Problems -Protecting the Presidency -Eisenhower -Harold E. Talbott -Secretary of the Air Force -Removal -Reasons -Death -Sherman Adams case -The President’s role -Eisenhower’s role -Scandals -Caution -Questions about the President -Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Kissinger -Political issue -Carl Vinson [?] -18- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. Feb.-08) Conversation No. 226-24 (cont’d) -Joseph McCarthy -Issues versus individuals -Role in Watergate -Donald H. Segretti -Innnocence -Ehrlichman -Confirmations -Political attacks -Earl L. Butz -Walter J. Hickel -Richard G. Kleindienst The President’s schedule -Meeting with Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo -San Clemente -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon -Julie Nixon Eisenhower ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal returnable] [Duration: 17s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Meeting with Paul W. Keyes [End segment reviewed under deed of gift] *****************************************************************