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Conversation: 754-006

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Start Date: 26-Jul-1972 12:05 PM

End Date: 26-Jul-1972 12:22 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Cash, JonnyBrock, WilliamTimmons, William E.White House photographerCash, JuneHancock, Reba CashJohn, Bobbie

Recording Device: Oval Office

754-006.mp3

NARA Description:

On July 26, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Jonny Cash, William Brock, William E. Timmons, White House photographer, June Cash, Reba Cash Hancock, and Bobbie John met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:05 pm to 12:22 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 754-006 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 754-6

Date: July 26, 1972
Time: 12:05 pm - 12:22 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Johnny Cash, William E. Brock III and William E. Timmons. White
House photographer and members of the press were present at the beginning of this meeting.

     Greetings

     Arrangements for photograph
[Photograph session]

          -Testimony
          -Background

     Prison reform
          -Cash's testimony, July 26, 1972
                -Marlow W. Cook
          -The President's schedule
                -Possible prison visit
                      -Secret Service
                      -Compared to the Soviet Union
                      -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
                          -Secret Service
                      -George C. Wallace

     Prison reform
          -Brock's schedule
                -Tennessee State Prison
                     -Warden
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                       NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                         Tape Subject Log
                                           (rev. Oct-06)


                       -Meeting with prisoners
            -Attica Correctional Facility
            -Recidivism
                  -Reduction
            -Cash's conversation with William F. (“Billy”) Graham
                  -Possible television special
                       -Concert, speech

     Cash
            -Schedule
                 -Dallas [Explo ‘72]
            -Music
                 -The President’s view
                 -Glen Campbell


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal returnable]
[Duration:     25s    ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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     [June Carter Cash]

     [Reba Cash Hancock, Bobbie John]

     [June Cash]
          -Camp David

     Unknown man

     John W. Rollins
          -Home in Jamaica
               -Johnny Cash’s concerts

June Cash, Hancock, and John entered at 12:14 pm.

     Oval Office furnishings
                                                8

                        NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                        Tape Subject Log
                                          (rev. Oct-06)


           -Arrangements for photograph
                  -Flags
                       -President’s
                           -Presidential seal
                       -Armed services
           -[Photograph session]
           -Walter H. Annenberg's gift
                  -Steuben glass
           -Item from the People's Republic of China [PRC]
           -Music box
           -Gift from Prime Minister of Australia
           -Forthcoming presidential library
           -Julie Nixon Eisenhower's crewel work
                  -1968 election

      Johnny Cash’s work

      Presentation of gifts by the President
           -Cufflinks, bow pins, ash tray

      Johnny Cash's schedule
          -Los Angeles
          -Nashville

      Families of Cash, Hancock, and John
          -Gifts

      Oval Office furnishings
           -Painting of the White House by British artist
                 -Potomac River
                 -White House renovation
                      -Theodore Roosevelt
                      -Truman Balcony

      [General conversation]
          -Photographs
                 -Unknown Nixonette

Cash, et al. left at 12:22 pm.