Conversation: 708-002
Prev: 708-001 Next: 708-003Start Date: 13-Apr-1972 4:10 PM
End Date: 13-Apr-1972 4:28 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Dively, Michael A.; Garcia, Christiane; Cameron, Alan; Hess, Stephen; Cole, Kenneth R., Jr.; Hanzlik, Rayburn D.; Cohen, Howard A.; Bull, Stephen B.; White House photographer; [Unknown person(s)];Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:04:47
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:21:45
NARA Description:
On April 13, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Michael A. Dively, Christiane Garcia, Alan Cameron, Stephen Hess, Kenneth R. Cole, Jr., Rayburn D. Hanzlik, Howard A. Cohen, Stephen B. Bull, White House photographer, and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:10 pm and 4:28 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 708-002 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 708-2
Date: April 13, 1972
Time: 4:10 pm - unknown before 4:28 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Michael A. Dively, Christiane Garcia, Alan Cameron, Stephen Hess,
Kenneth R. Cole, Jr., Rayburn D. Hanzlik, Howard A. Cohen and Stephen B. Bull; members of
the press and the White House photographer were present at the beginning of the meeting.
Greetings and introductions
-Hanzlik
-Garcia
-Cameron
-Age
Photographs
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 708-2 (cont.)
-Arrangements
[General conversation]
Movie
Photographs
-Individual conferees
Presidential gifts
-Gold pens
-Congressmen
Bull left at an unknown time before 4:27 pm.
The President's trip to Canada
Hess
Conference report
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 4:10 pm.
-Delivery somewhere
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 4:27 pm.
-Concern for young people
-Recommendations
-Responses
-Hess
-Officers of conference
-Budget of conference
-Breakdown of expenditures
-Grants
-Priority topics
-University of Michigan
-Recommendations
-Memorandum
-Unknown governor's report
-Republican platform
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 708-2 (cont.)
-Presentation to committee
-The President's membership in 1948
-Publicity value
-TV coverage
-John J. Rhodes
-Democratic platform
-Richard E. Neustadt
-Equal time
Garcia
-Plans for future
-College
-Birthplace
-Home state
Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Birthplace
Cameron
-Job
-Background
-Military service
Army
-All-volunteer
-Draft
Political conventions
-Value
-Friendship
-Dialogue
White House conference reports
-White House library and Library of Congress
-Number
-Value
-Youth report
-Grants
-Platform committees
-Publicity
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 708-2 (cont.)
Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:10 pm.
The President's schedule
White House Conference on Youth
-Conferees
-Future trips to People's Republic of China [PRC]
Dwarf tree
-Age
-PRC
White House Conference on Youth
-Conferees
-Age
White House staff
-Cole
-Age
-Winston S. Churchill
Miami and San Diego conventions
Dively et al., left at 4:27 pm; Bull remained.
Photograph
-Conference on Youth report
The President's meeting with Hess
-Gifts
-Hess's children
Bull left at an unknown time before 4:28 pm.