Conversation: 410-009
Prev: 410-008 Next: 410-010Start Date: 13-Mar-1973 2:45 PM
End Date: 13-Mar-1973 3:00 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President);Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
NARA Description:
On March 13, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 2:45 pm and 3:00 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 410-009 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 410-9
Date: February 13, 1973
Time: Unknown between 2:45 pm and 3:00 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President dictated a memorandum for the file.
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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]
President’s schedule
-Dictation
-San Clemente
-Meeting with Cabinet and White House staff
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Tape Subject Log
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Conversation No. 410-9 (cont’d)
-Breakfast
Congressional relations
-Meeting with Russell B. Long
-Productiveness
-Conversation with John D. Ehrlichman
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Finance Committee
-Long’s support for President
-Ideas
-Appreciation
-George P. Shultz
Trade and taxes
-Welfare
-Vietnam
-Support for President
-Comments on President’s critics
-President’s critics
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-1973 Inauguration, 1972 election, Vietnam settlement
-Abilities
-Personal problem
-Leadership
-Democrats
-Wife
-North Carolina
-Mother-in-law
Politics
-Support for President
-Democrats
-South
-President’s margin of victory
-Straight ticket voting
US-India relations
-Meeting with Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
-Indira Gandhi
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
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Conversation No. 410-9 (cont’d)
-Statement
-President’s conversation with William P. Rogers
-Gandhi
-Henry A. Kissinger
-India-Pakistan conflict
-Anti-white, Anti-western sentiments
-Jawaharal Nehru
-World War II
-Germany
-Bombing [?]
-Press editorial
-New York Times
-December 1972 bombing
-Arms to Pakistan
-Moynihan
-Work with Bureaucracy
-Gandhi’s suspicions
-Private communication with President
-capabilities
Congressional relations
-Moynihan’s view
-Constitutional crisis
-Taxes
-Ehrlichman
-Roy L. Ash [?]
-Haldeman [?]
President’s schedule
-Meeting with Frank E. Fitzsimmons [?]
-Golf
-Charles W. Colson
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Weather
-President’s statements
-Press conference
-Language
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
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Conversation No. 410-9 (cont’d)
-President’s conversation with Haldeman
-Veto messages
-Delivery
-Weaknesses in public relations [PR]
-Memorable lines
President’s schedule
-Rogers C. B. Morton’s meeting with President
-Jack Drown
-Physical exam
-Treatment
-Hoyt S. Vandenberg
-Jerry Persons
-Gen. Walter R. Tkach
-Operation
Personnel
-Under Secretary of Labor
-Haldeman [?]
-Cabinet
-John C. Whitaker
-Capabilities
-Meeting with Morton
-John A. Volpe
-John B. Connally [?]
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The President ceased dictating at an unknown time before 3:00 pm.
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