Conversation: 758-011
Prev:  758-010 Next: 758-012Start Date: 1-Aug-1972 10:33 AM
End Date: 1-Aug-1972 11:50 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Ziegler, Ronald L.; White House operator; Colson, Charles W.; Bull, Stephen B.; Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On August 1, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Ronald L. Ziegler, White House operator, Charles W. Colson, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 10:33 am to 11:50 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 758-011 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 758-11 Date: August 1, 1972 14 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Nov-03) Time: 10:33 am - 11:50 am Location: Oval Office The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman. Roger O. Egeberg US exchanges of health information with other nations -Interest -Public -Chou En-Lai -Cancer research -Soviet Union -Hungarians -Poles Ronald Ziegler entered at 10:34 am. ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2 [Personal returnable] [Duration: 8m 27s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2 ***************************************************************** Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:34 am and 11:03 am. [Conversation No. 758-11A] [See Conversation No. 28-28] [End of telephone conversation] 15 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Nov-03) ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 13 [Personal returnable] [Duration: 19m 5s ] Haldeman talked with Charles W. Colson. [Conversation No. 758-11A] [See Conversation No. 28-28] [End of telephone conversation] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 13 ***************************************************************** Vietnam negotiations -Henry A. Kissinger’s trip to Paris -News story Ziegler left at 11:03 am. ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3 [Personal returnable] [Duration: 1m 58s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3 16 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Nov-03) ***************************************************************** Campaign practices -Possible call to George S. McGovern's office -Thomas F. Eagleton -Lawrence F. O'Brien, Jr. -Howard R. Hughes ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4 [Personal returnable] [Duration: 3m 39s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4 ***************************************************************** Intelligence gathering -O'Brien -Internal Revenue Service [IRS] -Hughes -Financial matters -Hughes -John D. Ehrlichman -Joseph N. Napolitan -Hughes -Hubert H. Humphrey -Son -Napolitan -Public relations -Work in political campaigns -Charles Guggenheim -Commercials for Lyndon B. Johnson campaign -“Daisy” ad -Barry M. Goldwater 17 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Nov-03) ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6 [Personal returnable] [Duration: 5m 8s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6 ***************************************************************** Watergate -John W. Dean, III -Money -Committee to Re-elect the President -Grand jury -Justice Department -Leaks -Jeb Stuart Magruder -Grand jury appearance -Dean's efforts -Indictments -E. Howard Hunt, Jr. -G[eorge] Gordon Liddy -Special calendar placement -Hunt -Motions -Civil liberties -Lawyers -Dean's views -Effect on elections -Liddy, Hunt -Civil case -Criminal case -Charles R. Richey -Roger Robb 18 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Nov-03) -Subpoena -Maurice H. Stans -Justice Department -Magruder -Conversation with Dean -Statute of limitations -Hugh W. Sloan, Jr. -Testimony -Magruder's view -Money -Immunity -Justice Department -Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] -Richard G. Kleindienst -[Paul O’Brien and Kenneth W. Parkinson] -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew -Administration's efforts -John N. Mitchell -White House involvement -Cubans -Bail for those arrested -Hunt -Money -Payment to defendants -Watergate break-in -Hunt -Liddy -Magruder -Liddy -Termination -FBI -Hunt -Termination -O'Brien -Press -Clark MacGregor's position -Colson -Civil suit -Motion to suspend 19 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Nov-03) -Indictments -Unknown veterans group -Florida -Question of pardons -Republican National Convention -Justice Department -Cooperation -FBI -Henry E. Petersen -MacGregor -Kleindienst -Meeting with Ehrlichman July 31, 1972 -Indictments -Timing -Republican convention -Magruder -Views re Sloan -Money -Committee to Re-Elect the President -Mitchell -Dean Jake Jacobsen -John B. Connally meeting with Ehrlichman -Ehrlichman’s previous conversation with Kleindienst -Transcript of conversation Kleindienst -Connally's view -Compared to Walter J. Hickel -Confirmation -Possible speeches FBI Director -L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III -W. Mark Felt O'Brien -Hughes 20 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Nov-03) -Funds -Hughes -Association with the President -Association with O'Brien -Funds -Internal Revenue Service [IRS] records -Ehrlichman -Income -Napolitan ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8 [Personal returnable] [Duration: 1m 34s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8 ***************************************************************** Scandals in the executive branch of government -Watergate -Dwight D. Eisenhower -Sherman Adams -Lyndon B. Johnson -Robert D. (“Bobby”) Baker -Walter W. Jenkins -Harry S Truman -Harry H. Vaughan -Franklin D. Roosevelt -Children -International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] -Robert C. Wilson -Robert H. Finch Watergate 21 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Nov-03) -Sloan -Possible job -Wife [Deborah Sloan] -Possible indictment -Role The President's schedule -Chief Justice [Warren E. Burger] -Lord Chief Justice of Great Britain -Ehrlichman’s previous conversation with Burger -William Allen Jowitt -Alger Hiss -Burger’s forthcoming dinner -Soviet Minister of Health [Boris V. Petrovsky] -Possible meeting with the President -Confinement of dissidents in mental hospitals -The President’s view -Elliot L. Richardson -Alexander M. Haig, Jr. -Teachers from Ireland -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon -Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania -Education aid for Hurricane Agnes damage -Pennsylvania -Possible meeting with the President -Wilkes College -Kings College -Wyoming Seminary ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 10 [Personal returnable] [Duration: 57s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 10 22 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Nov-03) ***************************************************************** William F. (“Billy”) Graham -Ethel Waters -Dinner in California, October 6, 1972 -Mrs. Nixon, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Tricia Nixon Cox -The President’s previous conversation with Graham -California -North Carolina -Haldeman's forthcoming call to Graham -[Harry B. Williams] -Haldeman’s previous conversation with an unknown person -O'Brien -Waters -Graham’s location -Haldeman’s previous conversations with Graham -The President’s previous conversation with Graham -Haldeman’s forthcoming call to Graham -Graham’s visit to California -Golf ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 11 [Personal returnable] [Duration: 1m 9s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 11 ***************************************************************** Graham -Haldeman’s forthcoming call to Graham -Graham’s location -California 23 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Nov-03) Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:03 am. The President's schedule -Samuel D. Winer -US Jaycees -Possible meeting with Soviet Minister of Health [Petrovsky] -Kenneth R. Cole, Jr. -Richardson -Haig -Barber -Forthcoming meeting with Winer The President, Haldeman, and Bull left at 11:50 am.