Conversation: 337-024
Prev: 337-023 Next: 337-025Start Date: 10-May-1972 3:35 PM
End Date: 10-May-1972 3:55 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose Mary;Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 03:54:37
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 04:10:46
NARA Description:
On May 10, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 3:35 pm to 3:55 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 337-024 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 337-24
Date: May 10, 1972
Time: 3:35-3:55 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Rose Mary Woods.
Gifts
-Official party, unofficial party, technicians
-Cufflinks, tiebars
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Conv. No. 337-24 (cont.)
Duke Law School reunion
Gifts
-Cufflinks
-Placement
-President's use
Manolo Sanchez
-Health
-Telephone call from the President
Dinner for law school classmates
-Appearance of classmates compared to President
-Entertainment
-President's remarks
-Caspar W. Weinberger's comments
Vietnam
-Blockade
-President's speech
-Public response
-Polls
-Protests
-Violence
-Public response
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 337-24 (cont.)
President's previous speech on Vietnam blockade and mining
-Drafting
-Walter H. Annenberg
-Call
President's schedule
-Camp David
-Miami
-Camp David
Vietnam
-President's previous speech on blockade and mining
-Response
-John F. Kennedy
-Initial US involvement
-Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes
-Tonkin Gulf incident
-President's comments
-American soldiers
-Congress
-Lack of support for General infantry [GIs]
-President's policies
-US role in the world
-Critics
-Communists and left-wing
-Joseph McCarthy
American society
-Schools
-Religion
-Protestants
-Catholics
-Presbyterians
Camp David
-Bowling
-Birch Lodge
Ernest F. Hollings
-Future
People's Republic of China [PRC] ping-pong team
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A Chinese artifact
Woods left at 3:55 pm.