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Conversation: 333-030

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Start Date: 26-Apr-1972 5:50 PM

End Date: 26-Apr-1972 6:06 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")[Unknown person(s)]

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 03:36:29

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 03:46:48

333a.mp3

333b.mp3

333c.mp3

NARA Description:

On April 26, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 5:50 pm to 6:06 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 333-030 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 333-30

Date: April 26, 1972
Time: 5:50 pm - 6:06 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

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

       Henry A. Kissinger
            -Meeting with the President and Haldeman
            -Location

       William F. (“Billy”) Graham
             -Greetings
             -Support for the President's Moscow trip and bombing in
              North Vietnam
             -Press conferences
                   -Minneapolis newspaper's headlines
             -Support for the President
             -Work with presidents
                   -Lyndon B. Johnson
                   -The President
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                            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                       Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. 10/06)




       Vietnam
            -The President's speech
                 -Delivery
                 -Associated Press [AP]
                 -Time
                 -Final draft
                       -Completion
                              -John A. Scali
                 -Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
                 -Ellsworth F. Bunker
                 -Richard G. Valeriani
            -News stories
                 -Release
                 -Kissinger
                 -Soviet delegation in Hanoi
            -The President's speech
                 -Rhetoric
                 -Raymond K. Price, Jr.
                 -John K. Andrews, Jr.
                 -Deletions
                 -Troop withdrawals

The President rehearsed a speech at an unknown time between 5:50 and 6:06 pm.

       [A transcript of the final broadcast of this speech appears
       in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States,1972, pp. 550-554.]

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 5:50 pm.

       The President’s schedule

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 6:06 pm

The President resumed rehearsing his speech at an unknown time.

[End of speech]

       Vietnam
            -The President's speech
                 -Tone
                 -Haldeman's opinion
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                             NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                        Tape Subject Log
                                          (rev. 10/06)



       Walk in Rose Garden

The President and Haldeman left at 6:06 pm.