Conversation: 725-035
Prev: 725-034 Next: 725-036Start Date: 16-May-1972 4:58 PM
End Date: 16-May-1972 5:05 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); MacGregor, Clark; Hoopes, David C.; Bull, Stephen B.;Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 04:17:57
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 04:23:56
NARA Description:
On May 16, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Clark MacGregor, David C. Hoopes, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:58 pm and 5:05 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 725-035 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 725-35
Date: May 16, 1972
Time: Unknown between 4:58 pm and 5:05 pm.
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Clark MacGregor; this recording began at an
unknown time while the meeting was in progress.
Congress
-Pressures on delegations
-Polls
-Louis P. Harris poll
-Copy from MacGregor to Senators
-Results on Haiphong harbor mining
-Robert A. Taft, Jr.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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-Meeting with MacGregor
-Final vote
-Lowell P. Weicker
-Meeting with Henry A. Kissinger
-Press reports
-White House news summary
-Tone
-Foreign policy
-Ability
-Specter of Senate negotiations with Madame Nguyen Thi
Binh
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Proposed U.S. agreement with National Liberation
Front [NLF]
-North Vietnam takeover of Cambodia, Laos, and
South Vietnam
-Today's vote
-Lack of understanding
-Weicker
-Frank F. Church amendment vote
-Today's vote
-Breakdown
-Action by President
David Hoopes entered at 5:03 pm.
President's schedule
-Meeting with unknown person(s)
-Invitation
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Possible meeting with Senator Robert C. Byrd
-Black lung bill
-Recommendations on possible veto
-MacGregor’s view
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:03 pm.
-Ray C. Bliss
-Boat trip with John Cardinal Krol
-Other
-Time
Bull left at an unknown time before 5:05 pm.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
John B. Connally
-Resignation as Secretary of Treasury
-George P. Shultz
George C. Wallace
-Shooting
-President's actions
-Contrasted with Hubert H. Humphrey's actions
-Call to Cornelia Wallace
-Increased Secret Service protection
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Shirley Chisholm
-Others
-Offer of Presidential suite at Bethesda Naval
Hospital
-Call to Mrs. Wallace
-Evaluated
-Contrasted with Humphrey
-Meeting with doctor
Vietnam
-President's decision to blockade
-The President’s view
-Support
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:03 pm.
Material for President's signature
-Hoopes
Vietnam
-North Vietnam
-Reason for cease-fire proposal
MacGregor, Hoopes, and Bull left at 5:05 pm.