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Start Date: 26-Jun-1972 11:07 AM

End Date: 26-Jun-1972 11:30 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Lodge, Henry CabotColson, Charles W.Kissinger, Henry A.

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:29:06

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:54:05

NARA Description:

On June 26, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry Cabot Lodge, Charles W. Colson, and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:07 am to 11:30 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 742-011 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 742-11

Date: June 26, 1972
Time: 11:07 am -11:30 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry Cabot Lodge and Charles W. Colson.

     The President’s schedule
          -Henry A. Kissinger
          -Press photograph

     The President's statement on return from trip to the Soviet Union
          -Lodge’s view
               -US News and World Report article

Henry A. Kissinger entered at an unknown time after 11:07 am.

     Washington Post article comparing George S. McGovern's national
     security policy with Dwight D. Eisenhower's
          -The President’s view

     Photograph opportunity

     Vatican
          -Lodge’s previous visit
          -Frank Stevenson from the State Department
          -Giovanni Battista Motini [Pope Paul VI]
               -Feelings toward the President
                     -Lodge’s assessment
               -American bishops
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         -Structure of Lodge's office
               -Archbishop Spinnelli (?)
               -Foreign service officer's role in Pope's attitude toward Joseph Cardinal
               Mindszenty
                    -US embassy in Rome
               -Lodge's schedule
               -Kissinger’s view
               -Oral Roberts
               -Vietnam
                    -Prisoners of war [POWs]
               -Staffing
               -Lodge's title
                    -Bryce N. Harlow
                    -Pope's brother
               -Visitors to Vatican
         -Terrance Cardinal Cooke
         -John Cardinal Krol
               -Support for the President
         -Timothy Cardinal Manning
         -James F.A. Cardinal McIntyre
         -John Cardinal Cody
         -Cardinal in St. Louis
         -Cardinal in Detroit
         -White House efforts
               -Cardinals
         -Cardinal Cooke
               -Lodge's visit
         -Cardinal Manning
         -Colson’s role
         -Lodge's visits
               -Aid to education bill


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 2m 27s     ]
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END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

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      Lodge's official roles
          -Diplomatic appointments
          -Lodge's family
          -Paris
          -Diplomatic assignments
          -Spain
                 -George Lodge's family
                 -Lodge
                 -Possible appointees
                       -Robert C. Hill
                       -Horatio Rivero
                       -John D. Lodge
                 -Political future
                       -Argentina
                            -John Lodge
                       -Gen. Francisco Franco
                       -Lopez Bravo
                       -Current Vice President of Spain
                 -Linguistic ability
                       -Lodge
                            -Germany
                 -State Department
          -Relationship with Pope
                 -Maltese ambassador

      Lodge's family

      Washington Post article
          -Colson

Lodge, et al., left at 11:31 am.
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