Conversation: 744-016
Prev: 744-015 Next: 744-017Start Date: 30-Jun-1972 11:38 AM
End Date: 30-Jun-1972 11:50 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Evans, Clifford; Ziegler, Ronald L.;Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:44:38
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:56:29
NARA Description:
On June 30, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Clifford Evans, and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:38 am to 11:50 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 744-016 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 744-16
Date: June 30, 1972
Time: 11:38-11:50 am.
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Clifford Evans and Ronald L. Ziegler.
The President’s schedule
-Tailor
The President's article on baseball greats
-Stan Musial
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 744-15 (cont.)
-Evans's question
-The President's methodology
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-The President's interest in sports
-Team concept
-Most courageous baseball players
-Lou Gehrig
-Movie [The Pride of the Yankees]
-Mrs. Gehrig's letter to the President
-Vietnam
-Red Schoendienst
-The President's late brother [Harold Nixon]
-Greatest event
-Bill Mazeroski's home run in 1960 World Series
-The President's conversation with Pittsburgh Pirates' owner
-Pie Traynor
-Bobby Thompson's home run in 1951
-Sandy Koufax's strike-out record
Floyd Patterson
-Memories of conversation with the President
-Funeral of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
-Wilt Chamberlain
Ziegler and Evans left at 11:50 am.