Conversation: 379-011
Prev: 379-010 Next: 379-012Start Date: 1-Nov-1972 10:04 AM
End Date: 1-Nov-1972 10:43 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Price, Raymond K., Jr.;Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
NARA Description:
On November 1, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Raymond K. Price, Jr. met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 10:04 am to 10:43 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 379-011 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 379-11
Date: November 1, 1972
Time: 10:04 am - 10:43 am
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Raymond K. Price, Jr.
Greetings
The President’s schedule
-Request for Price to wait
-Completion of work
[Pause]
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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]
1972 campaign
-The President’s speeches
-Busing
-Television [TV]
-Vermont Royster
-Concern
-Need for major speeches
[End of segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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1972 campaign
-Hecklers
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar.-08)
Conversation No. 379-11 (cont’d)
-George S. McGovern
-Compared to Britain
-Shouting questions at rostrum
-Tone
-Organized attempts to shout speakers down
-The President’s appearance at Westchester - Nassau rally, October 23, 1972
-Speech
-Reasons for not delivering
-Microphones
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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]
-Rallies
-Disadvantages
-Agnew
-Size of crowds
-McCormick Place
-Astrodome
-Radio speeches
-Advantages
-Larger audience
-Live speeches
-Economics, love, war
-Disadvantages
-Impersonality
-Importance
-Rally
-Obsolescence
-Selective audiences
-Opinion-makers
-College campuses
-Hecklers
-McGovern
-Radio speeches
-Format characterized
-Record of administration
-Hecklers
-Objections
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar.-08)
Conversation No. 379-11 (cont’d)
-1968 campaign
-Press reports
-Press
-The President’s record
-Mass transit
-Presidential speeches
-Quality
-Media coverage
-Philosophy
-Style
[End segment reviewed under deed of gift ]
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The President’s forthcoming radio and television speech, “Look to the Future”
-Length
-Henry A. Kissinger's memorandum
-Vietnam War
-Introduction
-Revisions
-Peace with honor
-Compared to peace with surrender
-Public support
-1972 election
-World leaders
-Kremlin, Peking, Hanoi
-Settlement agreement
-1972 election
-Deadline
-Concessions
-Conditions
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Cease-fire
-South Vietnam self-determination
-Imposition of communist or coalition government
-Status
-Remaining problems
-Details
-Importance
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar.-08)
Conversation No. 379-11 (cont’d)
-1968 Bombing halt
-Collapse of settlement
-Permanence
-Peace
-Compared to armistice
-1972 election
-Deadline
-Permanence
-Peace
-Compared to armistice
-Progress
-Timing
-December 1, 1972
-Public expectations
-Prospects for success
-Peace with honor
-Remaining problems
-Continuation of war
-Request for public support
-Peace with honor
-Compared to peace with surrender
-1972 election
-Deadline
-World leaders
-Hanoi
-Revisions
-World politics
-Kissinger
-Memorandum
-Importance
-Settlement agreement
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Reassurance
-Domestic politics
-Settlement agreement
-Settlement agreement
-Timing
-1972 election
-Progress
-Details
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar.-08)
Conversation No. 379-11 (cont’d)
-Importance
-Temporary peace
-Laotian settlement of 1962
-1968 bombing halt
-1972 election
-World leaders
-Hanoi
-Saigon
-Permanence
-Fairness
-Imposition of communist or coalition government on South
Vietnam
-South Vietnam self-determination
-Peace with honor
-Compared to peace with surrender
-US public support
-Revisions by Price
-Vietnam War
-Appeal for public support
-Price’s forthcoming conversation with Charles W. Colson
-Albert E. Sindlinger
-Louis P. Harris
-1972 election
-Emphasis
-Six states
-Negotiations
-Status
-Inflation
-Soviet Union
-Effect
-Inflation
-Ending
-Number of words
-Vietnam War
-Revisions by the President
-Delivery of draft
-Timing
-The President’s forthcoming meeting with John Cardinal Krol
-Price’s forthcoming meeting with Kissinger
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar.-08)
Conversation No. 379-11 (cont’d)
Radio address on foreign policy, November 4, 1972
-The President’s schedule
-The President’s forthcoming speech, “Look to the Future”
-Delivery
-Timing
Radio address, “The Brightest of an American Child,” November 5, 1972
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Goals
-Ehrlichman’s materials
-Wrap-up
-Delivery
-Timing
-Ziegler’s view
-November 4, 1972 radio
-November 5, 1972 newspapers
Radio address on foreign policy
-Timing
-Health policy
-November 3, 1972
-The President’s previous statements on foreign policy
-Health policy
-The President’s schedule
-Campaign tour
Domestic policy statements
-Health policy
-November 3, 1972
-Substance
-Style
-Importance
-Environment
-John C. Whitaker
-Foreign policy
-Kissinger
-Health policy
-Story
-November 3, 1972
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar.-08)
Conversation No. 379-11 (cont’d)
Radio address on foreign policy
-The President’s previous statements on foreign policy
-PRC, Soviet Union
-Originality
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Draft completion
-Choice
The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Price
-The President’s forthcoming speech, “Look to the Future”
-Delivery
-Preparation
-White House library
-Reading
-Radio address on foreign policy
-Timing
-November 5 and 6, 1972
-California
-Price’s schedule
-Secretary
Price left at 10:43 am.