Conversation: 234-015
Prev: 234-014 Next: 234-016Start Date: 7-Dec-1972 9:04 PM
End Date: 7-Dec-1972 9:12 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President);Recording Device: Camp David Hard Wire
NARA Description:
On December 7, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David at an unknown time between 9:04 pm and 9:12 pm. The Camp David Hard Wire taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 234-015 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 234-15
Date: December 7, 1972
Time: Unknown between 9:04 pm and 9:12 pm
Location: Camp David Hard Wire
The President dictated a memorandum for the file.
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Dictation
-Date
-Location
-Time
Vietnam negotiations
-Henry A. Kissinger’s message
-Progress of talks
-The President’s conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Options
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Breakdown
-Kissinger’s state of mind
-Responsibility
-The President’s television [TV] appearance
-Risk
-Hope of settlement
-Cambodia and Laos
-May 8, 1972 decision
-Meeting with [David] Kenneth Rush
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The President talked with the Camp David operator at an unknown time between 9:12 pm and
10:00 pm.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-08)
Conversation No. 234-15 (cont’d)
[Conversation No. 234-15A]
[See Conversation No. 157-23]
[End of telephone conversation]
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Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Location
-Letter
-Quality
-The President’s appreciation
Vietnam negotiations
-Kissinger
-Settlement track
-Breakdown
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Relations
-Options
-Breakdown
-Rush and Adm. Thomas H. Moorer recommendations
-US bombing of North Vietnam
-Kissinger’s recommendation
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Risk
-Congressional reaction
-Cut off of funds for South Vietnam
Cost of Living Council
-George P. Shultz
-John D. Ehrlichman’s conversation with the President
-Personnel recommendations
-Labor people
-Arthur F. Burns
-Floyd E. (“Red”) Smith
-Loyalty
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-08)
Conversation No. 234-15 (cont’d)
-Naiveté
-Bureaucracy
Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-George D. Webster appointment
-Loyal personnel
-Investigations
-Foundations
Vietnam negotiations
-The President’s discussion with Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Opinions
The President’s telephone conversation with Julie Nixon Eisenhower
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Manolo Sanchez
-The President’s conversation with Haldeman
-Personality
-George E. Allen
Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Effect on the President
The President’s conversation with Charls E. Walker
-Appointment as Deputy Secretary of the Treasury
-Tax law changes
-Congress
-The President’s call to Colson
Meeting on budget
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Appointment of deputies
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-08)
Conversation No. 234-15 (cont’d)
Justice Department
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-The President’s conversation with Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Appointments
-Deputy Attorney General
-Dean of Duke Law School
-Robert H. Bork
-Haldeman’s role
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