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Start Date: 28-Jul-1972 1:57 PM

End Date: 28-Jul-1972 2:09 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Butterfield, Alexander P.Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")Bull, Stephen B.Kissinger, Henry A.White House operatorEastland, James O.

Recording Device: Oval Office

756-020.mp3

NARA Description:

On July 28, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander P. Butterfield, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Stephen B. Bull, Henry A. Kissinger, White House operator, and James O. Eastland met in the Oval Office of the White House from 1:57 pm to 2:09 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 756-020 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 756-20

Date: July 28, 1972
Time: 1:57 pm -2:09 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield. This recording began at an unknown time
while the conversation was in progress.

     Tricia Nixon Cox
          -Secret Service protection
                -Announced public events
                     -Compared to unannounced public activities
                          -Instructions for Butterfield
                          -Legal requirements
                          -Julie Nixon Eisenhower

H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 2:00 pm.

                -Visibility
                     -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
                     -Whistle
                     -George S. McGovern
                           -Airplane
                                  -Andrews Air Force Base
                -The President
                -Signal
                -Legal requirements
                -Shopping


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 39s        ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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          -Secret Service protection
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                 -Shopping
                 -National security interests
                       -Kidnapping
                 -Instruction for Butterfield
                       -Telephone call

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 2:04 pm.

     Thomas F. Eagleton
         -Press conference
         -Continuance on Democratic Party presidential ticket
               -News reports
                    -Radio
                    -Call from Edward M. Kennedy
                    -McGovern's staff
         -McGovern's schedule
               -Press briefing
         -Democratic Party strategy

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:00 pm.

     The President's schedule
          -Henry A. Kissinger’s schedule
          -Sir Burke Trend
                -George R.S. Baring [Earl of Cromer]
                -Edward R.G. Heath
                -Kissinger
                -Olver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
                -Press photograph
                      -Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:04 pm.

           -Lord Chief Justice of Great Britain
                -Possible dinner
                -John D. Ehrlichman's forthcoming conversation with Warren E. Burger
                     -Wife

Kissinger entered at 2:04 pm.

           -Trend
                -Heath’s messages
                     -George P. Shultz
                     -The President’s appreciation
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                 -Press photograph
                      -Dobrynin
           -Previous meeting with Dobrynin
                 -Kissinger’s meeting with Dobrynin
                 -Letter
                 -[Egypt’s expulsion of Soviet military advisers]
                      -US foreknowledge
                      -The President’s press conference, July 27, 1972
                 -US-Soviet relationship
                 -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
                 -Dobrynin
                      -Kissinger’s office
                 -San Clemente

      Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
           -Kissinger’s meeting with Dobrynin
                 -Technical issues
           -Gerard C. Smith
                 -Senate

      The President’s schedule
           -Previous meeting with Dobrynin
                 -Middle East
                      -Kissinger’s schedule
                      -1972 election

      Soviet Union
           -Relationship with US
                 -Importance
                      -Compared to Israel
           -Proposal
                 -Trend’s[?] awareness
                      -Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting

      Kissinger's schedule
           -Paris
           -Ronald L. Ziegler's statement
           -Trend[?]

Kissinger left at 2:07 pm.

      White House staff
          -Press conference statements
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     The President's schedule
          -James O. Eastland
               -Allen J. Ellender's funeral
               -Selection as President Pro Tem

The President talked with the White House operator at 2:07 pm.

[Conversation No. 756-20A]

[See Conversation No. 28-10]

[End of telephone conversation]

     The President's schedule
          -Ellender funeral
                -Russell B. Long
                -Call from William E. Timmons
                      -Long
                      -F. Edward Herbert

     Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
          -Call to Haldeman
                 -The President's recent press conference
          -The President’s recent press conference
                 -Vice President
                      -Selection process
                          -New York Times

The President talked with Eastland between 2:08 pm and 2:09 pm.

[Conversation 756-20B]

[See Conversation No. 28-11]

[End of telephone conversation]

     Eastland

Bull entered and left at an unknown time before 2:09 pm.

     The President’s schedule
          -Cromer and Trend

     John L. McClellan
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     The President's schedule
          -Congressional leaders
               -Eastland

Haldeman left at 2:09 pm.