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Start Date: 20-Jul-1972 3:16 PM

End Date: 20-Jul-1972 5:30 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")[Unknown person(s)]White House operatorNixon, Thelma C. ("Pat") (Ryan)Colson, Charles W.Kissinger, Henry A.

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

349-012.mp3

NARA Description:

On July 20, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, unknown person(s), White House operator, Thelma C. ("Pat") (Ryan) Nixon, Charles W. Colson, and Henry A. Kissinger met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 3:16 pm to 5:30 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 349-012 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 349-12

Date: July 20, 1972
Time: 3:16 pm - 5:30 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman. Discontinuities in the conversation appear in
the original recording.


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     Sequoia
         -Schedule
              -Richard M. Scammon

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 3:16 pm and 4:02 pm.
The President can be heard in the background.
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[Conversation No. 349-12A]

     Sequoia
         -Schedule
         -Menu
         -Schedule
              -Charles W. Colson
              -Scammon
              -Haldeman's schedule
                   -Request for a call to an unknown person

[End of telephone conversation]


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[Duration: 3m 47s ]


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Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 3:16 pm and 4:02 pm.

[Conversation No. 349-12B]

     The President's schedule
          -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
                -Executive Office Building [EOB]
          -John N. Mitchell
                -EOB

[End of telephone conversation]
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    Watergate
        -Jeb Stuart Magruder
              -Possible indictment
              -Possible testimony
                    -G[eorge] Gordon Liddy
                    -Knowledge
              -Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] interrogation July 20, 1972
        -Herbert L. Porter
              -FBI interrogation
        -L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
              -Conversation with John W. Dean, III, July 20, 1972
                    -FBI inquiry
                         -Duration
                    -Grand jury
                         -Duration
                    -Interpretation by Mitchell and Dean
                         -Timing of indictments
                         -Magruder
        -Haldeman's conversation with Mitchell
              -Henry E. Petersen and Gray
                    -Conversation with Dean
                    -Handling of investigation
              -Investigation
                    -White House activities
        -[TAPE MALFUNCTION]
        -Grand jury
        -Magruder
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          -Haldeman's conversation with Mitchell
               -Paul O'Brien and [Kenneth W. Parkinson]
          -Mitchell's strategy compared to John D. Ehrlichman's strategy
               -Richard G. Kleindienst

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 3:16 pm and
4:02 pm.

[Conversation No. 349-12C]

[See Conversation No. 27-25]

[End of telephone conversation]

     Watergate

The President talked with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon between 4:02 pm and 4:04 pm.

[Conversation No. 349-12D]

[See Conversation No. 27-26; one item has been withdrawn]


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
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[Duration: 20m 27s ]


[END OF TELEPHONE CONVERSATION]


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The President talked with the White House operator at 4:28 pm.

[Conversation No. 349-12E]

[See Conversation No. 27-27]
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[End of telephone conversation]


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 59s ]


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Haldeman talked with an unknown person.

[Conversation No. 349-12F]

     Schedule
         -EOB

[End of telephone conversation]


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[Duration: 10m 27s ]


Colson entered at an unknown time after 4:28 pm.


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     James and John A. Roosevelt
         -Conversation with Rogers C.B. Morton
         -Possible ambassadorial role in administration
               -Bicentennial


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
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     McGovern
        -1962
        -Jay Lovestone
        -The President’s view
        -Handling of Food for Peace program
              -George Meany's meeting with John F. Kennedy and Lovestone in 1962
        -Meeting with Meany in 1962
        -Cartoon in Daily World
              -Meany and Lovestone
        -Lovestone
              -Trotskyism
              -View of McGovern's supporters
                   -Elitism
                        -Destruction of existing social structures

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger at an unknown time between 4:28 pm and 4:55
pm.

[Conversation No. 349-12G]

     Kissinger's schedule

[End of telephone conversation]

     The President's conversation with Kissinger
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KISSINGER ENTERED AT 4:55 PM.


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    Vietnam
         -Kissinger’s conversation with McGovern
               -The President's January 25, 1972 Vietnam speech
               -George Stevens’s party
               -Vietnam negotiations
                    -McGovern’s role
                        -Troop withdrawal for prisoners of war [POWs]


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[Duration: 11m 21s ]


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    The President's schedule
         -Meeting, July 21, 1972
              -Agenda
                     -Cabinet and congressional leaders
                     -Congress
                     -Domestic affairs, defense
                     -Melvin R. Laird
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                      -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

      Kissinger's schedule
           -McGovernites
           -Senate "Doves"
           -Press
                 -Vietnam negotiations
           -Briefing McGovern
                 -Face the Nation appearance

      Newspaper headlines

      Vietnam
           -Radio Hanoi
                 -Statement
           -Military situation
                 -Training division
                 -Joseph C. Kraft's views
           -Kissinger's meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
                 -Message
                 -Expulsion of Soviet advisors from Egypt
                 -Dobrynin's lunch with W[illiam] Averell Harriman
                       -US diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
                            -Effect on US-Soviet relations
                 -Briefing
           -Kraft
                 -Story
                 -Report to Embassy officer
                       -Democratic consultants
                       -Possible leak
                 -John A. Scali

      Meeting, July 21, 1972
          -Kissinger's possible role
          -End the war resolutions
                 -Effect on negotiations

Kissinger left at 5:25 pm.
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     Kissinger
          -Kraft
          -Conversation with the President, July 19, 1972
          -Press relations
                -Compared to the President’s

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     The President's schedule
          -Sequoia
               -Agenda for meeting
                      -Republican National Convention
                      -Scammon
               -Arrangements

     Ehrlichman

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 13
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[Duration: 15s ]


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Haldeman and Colson left at 5:30 pm.
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