Conversation: 653-006
Prev: 653-005 Next: 653-007Start Date: 24-Jan-1972 10:04 AM
End Date: 24-Jan-1972 10:34 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Kissinger, Henry A.; [Unknown person(s)]; Woods, Rose Mary; Bull, Stephen B.;Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:32:07
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:21:03
NARA Description:
On January 24, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Henry A. Kissinger, unknown person(s), Rose Mary Woods, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 10:04 am and 10:34 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 653-006 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 653-6
Date: January 24, 1972
Time: 10:04 am - unknown before 10:34 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
The President’s schedule
-Budget message
-Press coverage
-Presidential statement
-George P. Shultz
-Press
-Television
-Press coverage
-Value
-Frank L. Rizzo
-John D. Ehrlichman’s conversation with Walter H. Annenberg
-Meeting with Ehrlichman, January 24, 1972
-Possible meeting
-Timing
-Ehrlichman’s staff
-Kurt Waldheim
-Subjects for discussion
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Talking points
-Length of meeting
[The President talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 10:04 am and 10:13 am.]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 653-6 (cont.)
[Conversation No. 653-6a]
-Arrangements
[End of telephone conversation]
-United Nations [UN]
-Ehrlichman’s meeting with Rizzo
-Stephen B. Bull
Budget message
-Effort at composition
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB] staff’s work
-Importance
-Recognition
Bicentennial celebration
-Responsibility
-Story
-Status
-Rizzo’s possible complaint
-David J. Mahoney, Jr.’s work
-The President’s possible involvement
-Shultz’s work
-Budget
-Ehrlichman’s involvement
An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 10:04 am.
Unknown items
-Disposition
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:13 am.
Bicentennial celebration
-Shultz
-Leonard Garment
-Robert H. Finch
-Philadelphia
-Plans
-Rizzo’s involvement
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 653-6 (cont.)
-Federal subsidy
-Fifty state parks
-Mahoney’s idea
Rose Mary Woods entered at 10:13 am.
Woods’s schedule
Budget message
-Shultz
-Typists
-The President’s gratitude
The President’s speech on Vietnam peace plan, January 25, 1972
-William L. Safire’s draft
-The President’s review
-Kissinger
-The President’s review
-Delivery to Kissinger
-Kissinger’s schedule
-The President’s schedule
-Call to Kissinger
-Meeting with Rizzo
-UN meeting
Woods left at 10:15 am.
Bicentennial
-White House staff involvement
Monday article
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
Maj. Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes
-Departure from administration
-Role in Administration
-Substantive matters
-Supersonic Transport [SST] briefing
-Desired role
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s role
-Military support facilities
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 653-6 (cont.)
-Attendance at War College
-Knowledge of military strategy
-Work with prisoner of war [POWs] wives
-Briefings
-Attendance
National Security Council [NSC]
-Kissinger’s views
-Ehrlichman’s talk with Haldeman, January 24, 1972
-Conversation with Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Ehrlichman’s work
Hughes
-Command position
-White House
-[Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft]
-Mental and Administrative ability
-Departure
-Air Force decision
-Command position
-Texas
-Asia
-Promotion
Cabinet dinner, January 20, 1972
-Harry S. Dent
-Recognition
-Support for the Administration
Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:15 am.
Mistaken request for Bull
Bull left at an unknown time before 10:30 am.
Cabinet dinner
-Attendees
-Robert J. Brown
-Charles W. Colson
-Dent
-John W. Dean III
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 653-6 (cont.)
-Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe
-Arthur S. Flemming
Forthcoming dinner for John N. Mitchell
-Dent
Invitations
-Omissions
Reader’s Digest dinner
-Woods’s coordination
-Haldeman’s office’s role
-Alexander P. Butterfield’s role
Political dinners
-Mitchell’s coordination
-Woods’s role
Reader’s Digest dinner
-Woods’s coordination
-List of possible invitees
-Haldeman’s role
-Cuts
Dinners
-Dent
-News summary
-Relations with Cabinet
-Compared with Brown
Cabinet dinner
-[Virginia H. Knauer]
Herbert G. Klein
-Attendance at Cabinet and Congressional leaders meetings
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 653-6 (cont.)
Dent
-Invitation to leaders meetings
-Loyalty
-Popularity
-Midwest
-Ability
Vietnam peace plan speech
-Public relations effort
-Possible meeting with Kissinger, Haldeman, and the President
-Previous speeches
-Peace deadlines
-Congress
-POWs
-Secret negotiations
-Kissinger
-John A. Scali
-Clark MacGregor
-Klein
-Colson
-Republican senators
-John C. Stennis group
-Melvin R. Laird
-William P. Rogers
-Kissinger’s views
-Columnists
Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:15 am.
The President’s schedule
-Budget message signing ceremony
-Pens
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Shultz
-Kissinger
-Forthcoming call from Haldeman
The President and Bull left at 10:30 am.
[Haldeman talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 10:30 am and 10:34 am.]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 653-6 (cont.)
[Conversation No. 653-6B]
The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Budget message signing ceremony
[End of telephone conversation]