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Start Date: 9-May-1972 4:42 PM

End Date: 9-May-1972 5:06 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

722a.mp3

722b.mp3

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
                              30

     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
                                            31

                     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.