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Start Date: 28-Nov-1972 6:50 PM

End Date: 29-Nov-1972 8:40 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Sanchez, Manolo

Recording Device: Camp David Hard Wire

232-003.mp3

NARA Description:

President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David on an unknown date, sometime between 6:50 pm on November 28, 1972 and 8:40 am on November 29, 1972. The Camp David Hard Wire taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 232-003 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 232-3

Date: November 28 or 29, 1972
Time: Unknown between 6:50 pm, November 28, 1972 and 8:40 am, November 29, 1972
Location: Camp David Hard Wire

The President dictated a memorandum to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

       Disposition
                                      -3-

            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                               Tape Subject Log
                                (rev. Mar.-08)

                                                       Conversation No. 232-3 (cont’d)

     -File
     -Copy for Haldeman

Public relations [PR]
      -Personal aspects of the Presidency
             -The President’s previous memorandum
             -Review
                   -1972 election
                   -Effect
      -The President’s address to the nation, “Look to the Future,” November 2, 1972
             -Television [TV]
             -Effect
                   -William P. Rogers’s reaction
                   -Press relations
             -Tone
                   -Effect
                         -Public interest
      -The President’s remarks on [1972] election eve, November 6, 1972
             -Length
             -Effect
                   -Public interest
                         -Discourse
                         -Mail
      -The President’s public appearance
             -Effect
                   -Raymond K. Price, Jr.’s analysis
             -Tone
                   -Effect
                         -Second term goals
      -Second term
             -Vietnam War
                   -Conclusion
             -Significant events
                   -Ronald L. Ziegler
                   -Reorganization and Cabinet appointments
                         -Announcements
                                -Ziegler
                         -Washington, DC
                         -The President’s conversation with John D. Ehrlichman
                                -Ehrlichman’s view
                                             -4-

                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                      (rev. Mar.-08)

                                                              Conversation No. 232-3 (cont’d)

                                            -Compared to the President’s
                              -Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
                                     -Establishment and appointment of George P. Shultz
                                            -New York Times and Washington Post
                                            -Public recognition
            -The President’s public appearances
                 -The President’s remarks on 1972 election eve
                       -Effect
                              -Voters
                              -Anticlimax
                                     -Shoreham Hotel
                                     -Oval Office
                 -1972 campaign
                       -White House staff analysis
                              -The President’s remarks on election eve
                              -Press relations
                              -Tone
                                     -Intellectuals
                              -Price
                              -Demonstrators
                       -Motorcades
                       -Greensboro, North Carolina
                       -Los Angeles
                              -Rally
                                     -Timing
                                            -Effect
            -Administration actions
                 -Effect
                       -Political scientists
                       -Public interest
                              -Ehrlichman’s view
                                     -Announcements
                                            -Possible locations
                                                  -Junior high schools, supermarkets
                              -Announcements
                                     -Effect

The President replayed a portion of the memorandum.

       [Pause]
                                             -5-

                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                      (rev. Mar.-08)

                                                              Conversation No. 232-3 (cont’d)


The President resumed dictating the memorandum to Haldeman.

      Disposition
           -Copy for Haldeman
           -Tape two
           -File

      1970 campaign
           -John B. Connally’s view
                 -Press relations
                       -San Jose incident, October 29, 1970
                       -The President’s remarks in Phoenix, October 31, 1970
           -Al Capp’s view
                 -Charles W. Colson
                 -Broadcasts
                       -Phoenix speech
                       -Effect
                 -Letter
                       -Timing
                       -Harry S. Truman

      PR
            -The President’s trip to New York, November 24-26, 1972
                 -Rockefeller Center
                        -Meeting with Israeli [Moshe Harel] and Egyptian [Ismail El
                         Shamawany]
                              -TV coverage
                                     -Ziegler’s opposition
                                           -The President’s reception on Wall Street
                                           -Necessity
                                           -Henry A. Kissinger’s schedule
                                                 -Demonstrators
            -White House staff
                 -Political chemistry
                        -Understanding
                        -The President’s visit with Prisoners of War [POW] wives
                              -Ehrlichman’s analysis
                                     -Media relations
                              -Crowd reaction
                                -6-

      NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                        Tape Subject Log
                         (rev. Mar.-08)

                                                 Conversation No. 232-3 (cont’d)

           -Conflicts with the President’s style
                  -Spontaneity
                        -Contact with the peoplew
                        -Speeches
                              -Junior Chamber of Commerce
           -Appearance of contrivance
           -Overcaution
           -Foreign policy
           -Ehrlichman and William L. Safire
-The President’s public appearances
      -1972 campaign
           -The President’s nomination acceptance speech, August 23, 1972
                  -Audience
                        -TV
                        -Crowd
                        -     -Applause
                  -Effect
           -The President’s remarks to young voters rally, Miami, August 22,
            1972
                  -White House staff
                  -Spontaneity
                  -Demagoguery
                  -Personal tone
                        -Sammy Davis, Jr.
                              -Speechwriters
-Planning
      -White House staff
           -Recruitment
           -Meetings with the President in Oval Office
                  -Stephen B. Bull
                        -Relations with people
                              -Compared to Alexander P. Butterfield
                  -John E. Nidecker
                  -Dorothy Cox
                        -The President’s experience as Congressman
                  -Pete Provincio
                        -The President’s experience as Vice President
                              -Letters of commendations
                              -Relations with people
                  -Rose Mary Woods
                                             -7-

                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. Mar.-08)

                                                             Conversation No. 232-3 (cont’d)

                                    -Relations with people

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 6:50 pm, November 28, 1972.

             -Last paragraph
                   -Digression
             -Review
                   -Necessity
                         -1972 election

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 8:40 am, November 29, 1972.