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Start Date: 24-Jul-1972 1:03 PM

End Date: 24-Jul-1972 2:24 PM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

350-018.mp3

NARA Description:

On July 24, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, John B. Connally, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 1:03 pm to 2:24 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 350-018 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 350-18

Date: July 24, 1972
Time: 1:03 pm - 2:24 pm
Location: Old Executive Office Building

The President met with John B. Connally.

     The President's memorandum to Connally
          -Rose Mary Woods

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 1:04 pm.

     Schedule

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 1:25 pm.

     The President's previous conversation with Lyndon B. Johnson, July 24, 1972
          -Ranch
          -1972 campaign
               -Memorandum to Connally
               -Marvin Watson
                      -The President’s previous meeting with Armand Hammer
               -Johnson's letter
                      -Secretary
                      -Support for the President’s policies
               -George S. McGovern
                      -Forthcoming visit to Johnson
                      -Endorsement by Johnson
                      -View of Johnson family
                      -Johnson's treatment
                      -Johnson’s position
                      -Comments of July 23, 1972
                          -Possible visits to Harry S. Truman and Johnson
                                 -The President's visit to Dwight D. Eisenhower
                          -Tone
                          -Briefings by Henry A. Kissinger
                      -Comments about North Vietnamese
                          -Prisoners of war [POWs] for troop withdrawal
               -Democrats for Nixon
                      -Watson
                                            11

                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                    Tape Subject Log
                                      (rev. Oct-06)


                     -George Christian, Dwayne O. Andreas, Jake Jacobsen

     Connally's schedule
         -Memorandum
         -Maurice H. Stans, Charles W. Colson
         -Johnson
         -George C. Wallace

     Wallace

     Secretaries

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 1:03 pm.

     Request that Haldeman be asked to join them

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 2:24 pm.

     Wallace

Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 1:03 pm.


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 3m 15s ]


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     Dr. George R. Davis, National Christian Church
          -Democrats for Nixon
          -Johnson
          -Position on Vietnam War
                -Letter to the President
                     -Bombing of Haiphong
          -Attendance at church in San Clemente
                -William F. (“Billy”) Graham [?]
          -Johnson
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                      NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. Oct-06)


                 -Ranch


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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[Duration: 2m 31s ]

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Connally left at 1:25 pm.

     Schedules of Claudia A. (Taylor) (“Lady Bird”) Johnson, Luci B. (Johnson) and Pat
         Nugent
         -Airline security
               -Memorandum
                     -John D. Ehrlichman
                         -Justice Department
                     -Kissinger
               -Embassies


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 4m 12s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5

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     White House staff
         -Leonard Garment, Max M. Fisher, Stans
               -Kissinger's schedule
         -Kissinger's schedule
               -Kissinger's conversation with Haldeman, July 24, 1972
               -Jewish group
                                           13

                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                    Tape Subject Log
                                      (rev. Oct-06)


         -Jews
               -Votes
         -Briefings by Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
         -Johnson
               -Treatment by McGovern
                    -Democratic National Convention

    Watergate
        -John W. Dean, III
        -Ehrlichman


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 22m 46s ]


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    Issues
         -Poll
                -Democrats
         -Raymond K. Price, Jr., Patrick J. Buchanan
         -National defense
                -Soviet Union
         -Polls
                -Death penalty
                     -Ehrlichman
         -Leaks of story
                -Haldeman's forthcoming conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler
                     -Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak
         -Backgrounders by White House staff
                -Ehrlichman
                     -National television


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
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                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. Oct-06)


[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 1m 7s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8

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     White House staff
         -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon’s talk with the President, July 23, 1972
               -William R. Codus
         -Constance M. (“Connie”) Stuart
         -Forthcoming conversations with Haldeman
               -Stuart, Codus
         -Codus's role
               -Meetings
               -Women
                    -Loyalty
               -Haldeman's forthcoming meeting with East Wing staff


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 25s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9

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     John S.D. Eisenhower's role as spokesperson
          -National defense and national security
                -Speeches
                     -California
                -Background
                     -Ambassador to North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
                -Clark MacGregor
                -Surrogate list

     Memoranda from the President to Haldeman
                                           15

                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                   Tape Subject Log
                                     (rev. Oct-06)


         -Haldeman's secretary, Patricia B. McKee
         -Handling and distribution
              -Rose Mary Woods and the President's dictabelts
                    -Kissinger, Connally
         -The President's procedures with dictabelts
              -Separation of private and public dictations


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 10
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 3m 42s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 10

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    Presentation of the President's position on issues
         -Magazines' and Associated Press [AP] questions for the President
               -Views of Colson, Bryce N. Harlow, Ehrlichman, MacGregor
               -George R. Hearst, Jr.
               -Format
               -1960 campaign
                     -Bill Elliott
                     -Herbert G. Klein
               -Staff
                     -Size
               -Buchanan's role
         -Need for catchy phrases
               -The President's previous meeting about drug abuse law enforcement
                     -Praise for efforts
                     -Chart
               -Buchanan, William L. Safire
               -Unknown man from Look
               -The President's previous meeting about drugs
                     -Arrests
                     -Football analogy
               -Ehrlichman's staff
                     -Writing

    The President's schedule
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                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                    Tape Subject Log
                                      (rev. Oct-06)


          -Price’s staff
          -Buchanan's staff
                -Lyndon K. (“Mort”) Allin
          -Letter writers
          -Cufflinks
          -Price's staff
                -Buchanan
          -Buchanan

Haldeman left at 2:24 pm.