Conversation: 665-011
Prev: 665-010 Next: 665-012Start Date: 3-Feb-1972 4:23 PM
End Date: 3-Feb-1972 4:42 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.; Colson, Charles W.; Woods, Rose Mary; Bull, Stephen B.;Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 06:02:22
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 06:20:51
NARA Description:
On February 3, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Ronald L. Ziegler, Charles W. Colson, Rose Mary Woods, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 4:23 pm to 4:42 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 665-011 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 665-11
Date: February 3, 1972
Time: 4:23 pm - 4:42 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler, Charles W. Colson and Rose Mary Woods.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 665-11 (cont.)
President’s previous meeting with Yevgeny Yevtushenko
-Ziegler’s forthcoming comments to press
-The President’s reading
-President’s forthcoming visits to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
and People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Yevtushenko’s visit to US
-Poetry
-Discussion of arts
-Transcending politics
Note to William P. Rogers
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Privacy]
[Duration: 10s ]
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President’s upcoming meeting with Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Timing
Woods and Ziegler left at 4:26 pm.
National economy
-Unemployment
-Administration’s statistics
-Unknown person
-Married men
-Percentage
-Compared to early 1960’s
-Colson’s conversation with James D. Hodgson
-Prospects
-Comparisons to last year
Rogers
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 665-11 (cont.)
-Comments concerning Edmund S. Muskie’s speech on Vietnam
Muskie
-Speech on Vietnam
-Possible administration response
-President’s 1968 Republican Platform Committee statement
-Negotiations
-Peace
-Muskie’s involvement
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson’s possible response
-Jackson’s forthcoming Meet the Press, February 6, 1972
-Briefing by White House staff member
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 47s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
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Muskie
-Speech on Vietnam
-Possible administration response
-President’s memorandum, February 2, 1972
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-John A. Scali
-Rogers
-Compared to John Foster Dulles
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 665-11 (cont.)
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 9s ]
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-Barry M. Goldwater
-Rogers
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:26 pm.
President’s schedule
-Moorer
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-President’s instructions
Kissinger’s schedule
-Possible delay
-Robert S. Ingersoll
President’s schedule
-Moorer
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Ingersoll
-Haig
Bull left at an unknown time before 4:42 pm.
National economy
-Unemployment
-Herbert Stein
-Status
-Income
-Inflation
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 665-11 (cont.)
-Unemployment
Rogers
-Conversation with Colson
-Relations with press
-Conversation with Colson
-Forthcoming Face the Nation, February 6, 1972
-Jackson
-Goldwater speech
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Possible Administration resposne
Muskie
-Speech on Vietnam
-Arizona and Iowa
-Press comment on Muskie speech
-Unknown reporter’s conversation with Colson, January 31, 1972
-Press conference
-Possible attacks by Democrats
-Forthcoming attacks by Jackson
-The environment, busing, and the space shuttls
-Goldwater
-Speech on Vietnam
-Possible administration response
Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Peace offer
-Reaction by Viet Cong
-Wall Street Journal editorial
-Distribution
-Administration propaganda
-Upcoming special issues of Monday
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon’s trip to Africa
-The President’s peace initiatives
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 665-11 (cont.)
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 1m 3s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
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National economy
-Stock Market
-Volume
-American Stock Exchange
-Brokers’ profits
-Comparisons to 1968
Michael J. Mansfield
Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:26 pm.
The President’s schedule
-Kissinger
Bull left at an unknown time before 4:42 pm.
The press
-Edith Efron
-Colson’s conversation with Leonard H. Goldenson, February 3, 1972
-Network coverage of Samuel J. Ervin, Jr. Committee
-Walter J. Cronkite, Jr.’s testimony
-Accuracy in Media’s challenge to Federal Communications Commission
[FCC]
-David Brinkley’s previous commentary about military state
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 665-11 (cont.)
President’s schedule
-Florida
-Preparation for forthcoming trip to PRC
-Readings
Colson left at 4:42 pm.