Conversation: 722-009
Prev: 722-008 Next: 722-010Start Date: Tuesday, May 9, 1972 8:42 PM
End Date: Tuesday, May 9, 1972 9:06 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:15:53
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:38:31
NARA Description:
On May 9, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Oval Office of the White House from 4:42 pm to 5:06 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 722-009 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 722-9
Date: May 9, 1972
Time: 4:42 pm - 5:06 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
Vietnam
-Blockade
-Poll
-Release
Duke Law School dinner
-Photograph book
-President
-Resemblance to Edward C. Nixon
-President's comments
-Classmate in Colorado
Vietnam
-Blockade
-Poll
-Release of results
-Support for President
-Henry A. Kissinger’s forthcoming statement
-Criticism
-Impeachment resolution
-Bella S. Abzug
-Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.
-United Nations [UN]
-Kurt Waldheim
-Ceasefire
-Abzug
-Response
-Statements
-Carl B. Albert
-F. Edward Hebert
-Samuel L. Stratton
-Hugh Scott
-George D. Aiken
-Dante B. Fascell
-House resolution
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
Conv. No. 722-9 (cont.)
-President's peace offers
-Congress
-Democrat caucus
-Resolution
-Similarity to President's proposals
-Ceasefire, prisoners of war [POW], withdrawal
-Statements
-Jack Miller
-John C. Stennis
-Strom Thurmond
-Republicans
-William M. Colmer
-William Ryan
-Abzug
-Margaret Chase Smith
-Challenge to opponents
-Support for President
-Edward W. Brooke
-Resolution
-Ceasefire
-Political settlement
-Clark MacGregor
-Support for President
-President's peace offers
-Democrats' response
-Attacks on Democrats
-The President’s instructions
-Timing
-Patriotism
-Comparison with the 1962 Cuban missile crisis
-Intensity
-Edmund S. Muskie
-George S. McGovern
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Kennedy
-Role of Charles W. Colson
-Intensity
-John B. Connally
-Press conference
-Timing
-Melvin R. Laird
-Press conference
-William P. Rogers
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
Conv. No. 722-9 (cont.)
-Connally
-Comments on Democratic partisanship
-Effectiveness
Swimming pool
-Location
-Blair House
Vietnam
-Blockade
-Support
-Spontaneity
-White House staff work
-Poll results
-Kissinger
President's dinner for Duke Law School alumni
-List for introductions
-Lewis F. Powell
-William P. Rogers
-Robert H. Finch
Haldeman left at 5:06 pm.