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.
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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
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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
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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 [?]
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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
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