Conversation: 700-007
Prev: 700-006 Next: 700-008Start Date: 3-Apr-1972 10:23 AM
End Date: 3-Apr-1972 11:35 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob");Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:50:57
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 03:05:05
NARA Description:
On April 3, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Oval Office of the White House from 10:23 am to 11:35 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 700-007 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 700-7
Date: April 3, 1972
Time: 10:23 am - 11:35 am
Location: Oval Office
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 700-6 (cont.)
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
The President's meeting with Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Impact
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Orders
Vietnam
-Gen. Robert E. Pursley’s and Melvin R. Laird's actions
-Delays
-Manipulation of figures
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Propaganda
-Henry A. Kissinger
-John A. Scali
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Robert J. McCloskey
-Anticipated losses
-Concentration of strength
-Scali
-Involvement
-Kissinger
-Meetings With Scali, Ziegler and Herbert G. Klein
-Handling
-Macv [Military Assistance Command, Vietnam]
-Defense Department
-Problems
-Kissinger
-Press reports
-Adverse news
-US response
-Timing
-Kissinger
-William P. Rogers and Laird
-Crossing of Demilitarized Zone [DMZ]
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Kissinger
-Public relations efforts
-Cambodia
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 700-7 (cont.)
-Laos
-Problems
-Compared with Cambodia and Laos
-US losses
-Public relations problems
-Helicopter
-Bomber
-Casualties
-US casualties
-Significance
-Vietnamization
-Public relations efforts
-Haldeman, Kissinger, Scali, Ziegler and Klein
-Scali and Ziegler
-Problems
-Compared with Laos
-Robert Elegant
-Kissinger's participation in public relations group
-Daily review
-Importance of issue
-Compared with meat prices issue
Foreign policy
-Achievements
-Laos
-Forthcoming Soviet trip
-Announcements
Vietnam
-Moorer
-North Vietnamese Offensive
-Air strikes
-Weather
-Intensity
-Use of tanks
-Targets
Easter egg roll
-Attendance
-Work
-Army Band
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 700-7 (cont.)
-Marine Band
-Weather
-Importance
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Vietnam
-Public relations efforts
-Cambodia
-Laos
-Daily review
-Haldeman
-Washington Special Action Group [WSAG] meetings
-Kissinger
-Work with Ziegler and Scali
-Work with Haldeman
-Press
-Removal
-Sense Of Crisis
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Diversion from other problems
-George P. Shultz
-Media distortions
-South Vietnam
-Possible settlement
-Areas of strength
-Delta, Saigon
-Chances of peace
-Kissinger's negotiations
-Paris
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 700-7 (cont.)
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Bombing
-Suspension
-Kissinger's meeting with People's Republic of China [PRC] officials
-Negotiation breakthrough
-Kissinger
-Congress
-Rogers and State Department
-US handling of war
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Call from Haldeman
-Trip to Kentucky
-Laird
-Rogers
Vietnam
-Rogers and Laird
-Possible meeting with the President
-Proposals
-Rogers
-Bangladesh
-US relations
-State Department
-Conflict with White House
-Leak
-Public opinion
-Kissinger
Foreign policy
-Leaks
-Use by administration
Education
-Statements for the President on Catholic education
-John B. Connally
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Timing
-Limitations
-Trip to Philadelphia
-Trip to Florida
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 700-7 (cont.)
The President's schedule
-Camp David
-Ziegler's statement
-Weather
-Vietnam situation
-The President's image
-Control of events
-Florida
-California
-Situation Room
-Camp David
-Meeting with Robert S. Ingersoll
-Length
-Another meeting
-Kissinger's recommendation
-Rogers and Marshall Green
-Kissinger's trip to Japan
-Rogers and Green
-Kissinger's presence
-Length
-Vietnam problems
-Meetings with ambassadors
-Appointments
-Earl L. Butz
-Trip to Soviet Union
-US agricultural exports
-Meeting with the President
-Problems
-Food prices
-Meeting with John H. Chafee
-Farewell visit
-John N. Mitchell's views
-A primary
-Call to Mitchell
-Federal Reserve Board [FRB] appointment
-Arthur F. Burns
-Choices
-Younger candidate
-Advantage
-Problems
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 700-7 (cont.)
-Burns's objections
-Connally
-Meeting with Ingersoll
-Scheduling
-Japan
-Kissinger
-Explorer scouts
-Environmental awards
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Problems
-"Peaceniks"
-Vietnam
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower's handling
-Advisory committee
-School principal and science teacher
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Handling in Oval Office
-Environmentalists
-Vietnam
Bands on White House lawn
-Audience
-Number
-Afternoon performance
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 34m ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
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International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Department of Justice
-Mitchell, Kleindienst and Richard W. McLaren
-Hard line against ITT
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 700-7 (cont.)
-Connally, the Vice President and Peter M. Flanigan
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Pressure to ease off
-White House
-Antitrust policy
-Conflict with White House
-McLaren, Mitchell and Kleindienst
-Connally, Stans, Peter G. Peterson, Flanigan and Ehrlichman
-Opposition to antitrust action
-George S. McGovern
-Statement
-Taxes
-Problems
-Staff
-Edward M. Kennedy's supporters
-Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC] files
-Candidacy
Easter egg roll
-Audience
-Number
-Children
-Easter Bunny
-Bands
-Temperature outside
The President's schedule
-Executive Office Building [EOB] office
-Trip to Philadelphia
-Trip to Kentucky
-Publicity
-Agnew
-EOB office
Haldeman left at 11:35 am.