Conversation: 758-006
Prev: 758-005 Next: 758-007Start Date: 1-Aug-1972 8:39 AM
End Date: 1-Aug-1972 10:09 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Bull, Stephen B.; Colson, Charles W.;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On August 1, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Stephen B. Bull, and Charles W. Colson met in the Oval Office of the White House from 8:39 am to 10:09 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 758-006 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 758-6
Date: August 1, 1972
Time: 8:39 am - 10:09 am
Location: Oval Office
H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman met with Stephen B. Bull.
The President's request for Charles W. Colson
Photographs
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Timing
Colson entered at 8:40 am.
Bull left at 8:40 am.
John D. Ehrlichman’s previous meeting with John B. Connally [?]
-Unknown matter [Jake Jacobsen?]
The President entered at an unknown time after 8:40 am.
1972 election
-Timing
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 27m 14s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
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Campaign-related issues
-British Labor Party compared to Conservative Party
-Economics
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Foreign policy
-Defense
-Law enforcement
-Compared to Great Britain
-Economics
-Inflation
-Strategy
-Haldeman’s recent comment at an economic meeting
Inflation
-Polls
-Change in public confidence
-Compared to January 1972
-August 15, 1971
-Herbert Stein
-George P. Shultz
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-As an issue
-Public perception
-Shultz
-Possible freeze on food prices
-Economists
-Shultz
-Tariffs on farm products
-Removal
-Reaction by farmers
-Consumers
-Reaction to price freeze in 1971
-CPI
-Food prices
-Compared to casualties in Vietnam
-Shultz
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Stein
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Shultz
-Louis P. Harris poll
Vietnam
-Policy statement
-Instruction for Colson
-Surrogate speakers
George H.W. Bush
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Role at the United Nations [UN]
-Kurt Waldheim
-Example of Henry Cabot Lodge
-Defense of US position
-Soviet Union
-Today show appearance
-State Department
-Pauline Frederick
-Relations with Waldheim
-Role at UN
-Defense of US positions
-Concerns about perception of the President
-UN
UN
-Bush’s schedule
-Waldheim
-Previous conversations with Bush
-North Vietnamese
-Bush’s schedule
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 8m 43s ]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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Campaign finance
-Contributions
-Questionable sources
-Foreign sources
-Hypothetical Saudi Arabian oilman
-George S. McGovern donors
-Foreign sources
-Organized crime sources
-Administration strategy
-Possible inquiry into McGovern donors
-Timing
-Vice presidential nominee issue
-Compared to questions in a trial
-Jury reaction
-Value of questions
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 31m 51s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
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Press relations
-Memorandum from the President
-Price
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Ehrlichman
-Robert J. Dole
-Clark MacGregor
-Washington Post
-MacGregor
-Haldeman’s view
-Lou Cannon
-Conversations with Haldeman
-Ehrlichman
-Cannon compared to Kenneth W. Clawson
-Criticism of staff and campaign
-MacGregor
-Criticisms
-MacGregor’s position on the White House staff
-Bryce N. Harlow
-William E. Timmons
-MacGregor’s position at the Committee to Re-elect the President
[CRP]
-John N. Mitchell
-Possible rationale behind MacGregor’s criticism
-CRP
-Mitchell
-Harlow
-Appearance at the National Press Club
-Nature
-Taping
Taping of staff members during press interviews
Haldeman and Colson left at 10:09 am.