Conversation: 419-018
Prev: 419-017 Next: 419-019Start Date: Wednesday, March 14, 1973 1:59 PM
End Date: Wednesday, March 14, 1973 2:25 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President)Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
NARA Description:
On March 14, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 8:59 am and 9:25 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 419-018 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 419-18
Date: March 14, 1973
Time: Unknown between 8:59 am and 9:25 am
Location: Executive Office Building
The President dictated a letter to Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis.
Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Capt. Jeremiah A. Denton, Jr.
-Remarks
-Letter to President
-Meeting with President
-Admiration by President
-Ordeal in prison
-Suffering
-Solitary confinement
-Book
-Concern for moral state of US
-deterioration
-Letters
-Theme
-Peace
Contact with someone [?]
Denton
-Article in Reader’s Digest
-Respectability
-Praise for POWs
-John D. Ehrlichman
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sept-2010)
Conversation No. 419-18 (cont’d)
Government spending
-Publicity
-Historical examples
-Philadelphia magazine article
-Washington Post article
-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
-Distribution
-Congress
-Public reaction
-Antidote
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