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Conversation: 743-002

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Start Date: 27-Jun-1972 9:37 AM

End Date: 27-Jun-1972 10:06 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Ziegler, Ronald L.Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")Bull, Stephen B.Ehrlichman, John D.

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:51:11

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:21:45

NARA Description:

On June 27, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Ronald L. Ziegler, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Stephen B. Bull, and John D. Ehrlichman met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:37 am to 10:06 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 743-002 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 743-2

Date: June 27, 1972
Time: 9:37-10:06 am.
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

     The President's schedule
          -Forthcoming press conference
                -Timing
                -Congressional adjournment
                -Ziegler’s comments to press
                      -Congressional adjounrment
                      -Social Security bill
                      -Television

     Ziegler’s press briefing
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                        NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. Feb-02)


           -Appointments
                 -Military Assistance Command, Vietnam [MACV]
                      -Gen. Frederick C. Weyand
                           -Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
           -Clark MacGregor
           -Caspar W. Weinberger
                 -Debt ceiling briefing
           -Donald H. Rumsfeld
                 -Raw agricultural products
           -Forthcoming meeting with John D. Ehrlichman

      Baseball greats list
          -Hugh Casey
          -The President's article
                 -Distribution
                 -Associated Press [AP]
                 -Radio
                 -Rowland Evans
                 -AP
                 -Timing of release
                 -AP

H. R. Haldeman entered at 9:40 am.

      Television audio problems
           -Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
           -American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
           -National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]
           -The President's filmed statement

Stephen B. Bull entered at 9:41 am.

      The President's schedule
           -Meeting with Ehrlichman

Bull left at 9:42 am.

Ziegler left at 9:42 am.

      Television audio problems

      The President’s schedule
           -Association of Counties
                                            3

                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                    Tape Subject Log
                                      (rev. Feb-02)


              -Statement by the President
                    -Revenue sharing
                    -Spiro T. Agnew
              -Flood
                    -Ehrlichman
              -Size
              -Relations with Administration
              -Vietnam War
              -Statement by the President
                    -Welcoming remarks
                    -Foreign policy compared with domestic policy
                        -Revenue sharing
                        -Vietnam
                        -Administration spokesman
              -Meeting schedule

    John N. Mitchell
         -Location
         -Richard A. Moore
         -Martha (Beall) Mitchell
              -Necessity for control
                   -Access to press
              -Health
                   -Press coverage
                        -Jack Lynn(?)'s call to Moore
                        -Helen A. Thomas
                   -Moore’s comments to editor
                        -Editor’s response
                   -Immediate future

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     Martha Mitchell
         -John Mitchell
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                      NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                          Tape Subject Log
                                            (rev. Feb-02)


     Watergate

     Edward C. Nixon's schedule
         -Visit to black church
               -Leonard P. Garment
               -The President’s previous visit in 1960
                     -John F. Kennedy
         -Appearance at church convention
               -Militants
               -Edward Nixon’s remarks

     Scheduling of public appearances
         -Black audiences
               -The President's view
         -Hispanics
               -Cesar E. Chavez
         -The President's view
               -The President's family
         -Robert H. Finch
         -Edward Nixon’s public activities

     Henry A. Kissinger's activities
         -Congress

     The President's schedule
          -Cost of Living Council [COLC]

Ehrlichman entered at 9:58 am.

                 -George W. Romney
                 -John A. Volpe
                 -George P. Shultz
                 -John B. Connally, Jr.

Haldeman left at 9:58 am.

          -Meeting with Republican senators
               -Debt ceiling
                    -Shultz, Caspar W. Weinberger
               -Revenue sharing
                    -Shultz
                    -Ehrlichman's meeting with Jacob K. Javits
                         -Nelson A. Rockefeller
                                                5

                      NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. Feb-02)


                    -House formula
                -House Resolution [HR] 1
                    -Work requirement
                    -Senators' philosophy
                    -Agreement with the President
                    -Russell B. Long's proposal
                    -Senate bill
                        -Administration view
                        -Administration's role in preparing
                        -Wallace F. Bennett
                        -Criticism
                                -Elliot L. Richardson and James D. Hodgson
                        -Cost
                                -Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
                                -Robert Meyers
                                -Long
                                -Compared to HR 1
                                      -Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
                                -The President's position
                                      -Support for legislation

Ehrlichman left at 10:06 am.