Conversation: 760-009
Prev: 760-008 Next: 760-010Start Date: Thursday, August 3, 1972 1:12 PM
End Date: Thursday, August 3, 1972 2:41 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Woods, Rose Mary; Ehrlichman, John D.; [Unknown person(s)]; Bull, Stephen B.; Matson, Ollie; Matson, Ollie (Mrs.); Matson, Barbara; Matson, Bruce; Chang, Marguerite S.; Cashen, Henry C., II; White House photographerRecording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On August 3, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Rose Mary Woods, John D. Ehrlichman, unknown person(s), Stephen B. Bull, Ollie Matson, Mrs. Ollie Matson, Barbara Matson, Bruce Matson, Marguerite S. Chang, Henry C. Cashen, II, and White House photographer met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:12 am to 10:41 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 760-009 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 760-9
Date: August 3, 1972
Time: 9:12 am - 10:41 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
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The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Herbert G. Klein and his staff
-Klein’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Elaine (Schwartzenburg) Edwards
-Photograph session
-Forthcoming trip to Thomas B. McCabe, Jr.’s residence
-John N. Mitchell
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Robert H. Abplanalp
-Robert H. Finch
-Speech
-Forthcoming meeting on the Sequoia
-Finch
-Klein
-Clark MacGregor
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Bryce N. Harlow
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Charles W. Colson
-Klein
-Frederic V. Malek
-California
Rose Mary Woods entered at 9:22 am.
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Woods left at 9:24 am.
Woods
-Ability to complete certain tasks
-Stephen B. Bull
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
Ehrlichman entered at 9:44 am.
The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Ollie Matson
-Matson’s forthcoming induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame
-The President’s meeting with Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Klein
-Ziegler
-Colson
An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 9:44 am.
[Forthcoming meeting on the Sequoia]
-MacGregor
-Ziegler
The Administration’s policies
-George A. Smathers
-Ford Motor Company
-Henry E. Ford,II
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:00 am.
-Ford
-Smathers
-Support for the Administration
-Clark M. Clifford
-Passage of the Edward W. Brooke amendment
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew’s previous conversation with the
President
-The President's previous conversation with Henry A. Kissinger
-Vietnam negotiations
-Publicity of progress
-Possible effect on Brooke amendment vote
-Possible effect on negotiations
-Leonard Garment
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-James L. [?] Buckley
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Kissinger’s conversations with Senators
-Charles H. Percy
-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
-Kissinger’s previous assistance to Senators
-Agnew’s previous conversation with Kissinger
-Investigative agencies
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-Department of Justice
-Investigations of the President after his terms as Vice
President
-Investigation of income tax returns
-Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC]
-News stories about investigations
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Watergate
-Washington Post article
-Headline
Government investigations
-Democrats
-Investigations of financial contributions
-George S. McGovern
-Democratic National Committee
-IRS
-Justice Department
-Anti-trust
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Use of administration power
-Lawrence F. O'Brien, Jr.
-Strategy
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Previous investigations of the President
-1952
-Harry S. Truman
-1962
-1960
-The President’s previous meeting with Nikita S. Khrushchev
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Bureaucracy
-Tom C. Huston
-IRS
-Head [Johnnie M. Walters?]
-David M. Kennedy
-John B. Connally
-George P. Shultz
-Shultz
-The President’s view
-Connally
-Haldeman’s view
-Connally’s possible possession of IRS files
-Democrats
-McGovern
-O’Brien
-IRS
-Justice Department
-Defense Department
-Ehrlichman’s request
-McGovern's service record
-Carl S. Wallace
-Melvin R. Laird
-David R. Young, Jr.
-Daniel Ellsberg
-Cooperation
-Laird
-Shultz
-Richard G. Kleindienst
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Shultz
Personnel in government
-Abe Fortas
-Johnson
-Staffing of government positions
-IRS
-Justice Department
-Treasury Department
-Johnson
-Malek
-Need for list of administration appointees
-Phillip S. (“Sam”) Hughes
-General Accounting Office [GAO]
-Bureau of the Budget
-Retirement
-Elmer B. Staats
-Harlow
-IRS
-Possible appointment in education position
-James S. Coleman
-The education establishment
-The President’s view
-National Education Association [NEA]
-Coleman
-University of California, Los Angeles [UCLA]
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Coleman
-Need for loyalty
-Unknown man from Colorado
-Civil rights
Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:44 am.
The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Matson
-Photograph session
Bull left at an unknown time before 10:00 am.
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Tape Subject Log
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Personnel in government
-Personnel in education
-Coleman
-David J. Armor
-Harvard University
-UCLA
-Busing
-IRS
-Roger Barth
-Shultz
Ollie Matson, Mrs. Ollie Matson, Barbara Matson, Bruce Matson, Mamie S. Greene, and Henry
C. Cashen, II entered at 10:00 am. Members of the press and the White House photographer
were present at the beginning of the meeting.
Football
-California
-Washington Redskins
Introductions
-Bruce Matson
-Mrs. Ollie Matson
-Barbara Matson
-Greene
The President's previous visit to Pro Football Hall of Fame
Photograph
-Ollie Matson
-Playing weight
Football
-1969 Pro Bowl football
-[Photograph session]
-Defensive end
-Gino Marchetti
-Gene Brito
-Washington Redskins
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Loyola University
-Ollie Matson
-University of San Francisco
-The President’s view
-Ollie Matson’s view
Ollie Matson’s residence
-Los Angeles
-San Francisco
Presentation of gifts by the President
-Cufflinks
-Presidential seal
-Pin
-Bracelet
-Tie bar
-Presidential seal
-Rug
-Ceiling
Tour of the White House
The President's reminiscence
-Los Angeles
-High schools
-Los Angeles, Manual Arts, Polytechnic, John C. Fremont
-The President’s football career
Ollie Matson
-Possible anti-narcotics efforts
Mrs. Matson
-San Francisco
-Matsons’ children
-Additional gifts
Ollie Matson et al., except for Haldeman and Ehrlichman, left at 10:09 am.
The President’s meeting with Ollie Matson
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Press coverage
-The President’s schedule
-Additional meetings
-Sports coverage
-Black press
Ollie Matson
-The President’s view
Media coverage
-Black press
-Stanley S. Scott’s efforts
-Coverage of the President
-The President’s trip to Africa in 1960
Democrats
-McGovern
-Use of federal agencies
-Publicity
The President left at an unknown time after 10:09 am.
-Strategy
-O'Brien-Howard R. Hughes relationship
-Victor Riesel
-Jack N. Anderson
-Robert D. Novak
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-Bureaucracy
-Press
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Taxes
The President entered at an unknown time before 10:40 am.
-McGovern
-Image
-Price
-Thomas F. Eagleton
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Strategy
-Jack Dempsey
-Louis Firpo
-O'Brien
International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Investigations
-Staff efforts
Use of federal agencies
-Ziegler
-McGovern
-Investigation
-IRS
-Colson
-Shultz
-Strategy
-Press
-Possible external tip to Shultz
-O'Brien
-IRS report
-The President
-F. Donald Nixon
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Hughes Tool Company
-Payments
-Joseph N. Napolitan
-Income
-Status of O’Brien’s corporation
-Napolitan
-Hughes Tool payments
-Timing
-Payments to O’Brien and Napolitan compared to payments
to Donald Nixon
-Humphrey
-Strategy
-Dwayne O. Andreas
-[First name unknown] Cellucci [sp?]
-Henry L. Kimelman
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Interior Department report
-Jews
-Mafia
-IRS
-Justice Department
-McGovern organization
-Incorporation
-John W. Dean, III
-Cabinet
-Reaction to Watergate
-Investigations
-Strategy
-1970
-William O. Douglas
Supreme Court
-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming conversation with Warren E. Burger
-Ellsberg case
-Timing
-Effect on 1972 election
-Johnson
-Foreign policy
-Vietnam negotiations
-Douglas
-Strategy
-J. Edgar Hoover
Investigations
-Carl L. Shipley
-J. William Middendorf, II
-Colson
-Advertisements
-Oceanographic Fund case
-Edward C. Nixon
-SEC investigation
-William J. Casey
-Anti-trust
-Administration action
-Lawyers
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The President’s meeting with Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Colson
Governmental operations
-Spending ceiling
-Laird’s statements to the press
-Haldeman’s view
-McGovern
-Kissinger’s efforts with Laird
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Ziegler
-Press and Congress
-Effect on defense spending
-Ehrlichman’s previous Today show appearance
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Previous consultation with Laird
-Previous Cabinet meeting
Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:09 am.
The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with John S.D. Eisenhower
-John Eisenhower’s birthday
-Money clip
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
Bull left at an unknown time before 10:40 am.
Cabinet
-Laird
-List of possible successors
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Press reaction
-Connally
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Spending ceiling
-Possible statement
-Kissinger
-Weinberger
-William P. Rogers
-The President’s view
-Compared to Rush
-Haldeman’s view
-George W. Romney
-Desire to see the President
-Ehrlichman's role
-[Citizens for America]
-Barry M. Goldwater
-John W. Gardner [Common Cause]
-Future
-James D. Hodgson
-His future in the Cabinet
-Decision about second term
-John A. Volpe
-Post-election discussion
-Personnel decisions
-Romney
-Ehrlichman’s previous meeting with Hodgson
-Volpe
-Submission of resignation by entire staff
-Laird
-Spending ceiling
-Ehrlichman
-Weinberger
-Kissinger
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Romney
-Forthcoming meeting with Ehrlichman
-Cabinet reappointments
Administration efforts to investigate political opponents
The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with John Eisenhower and David R. Young, Jr.
-Ehrlichman’s possible participation
Ehrlichman left at 10:40 am.
-Forthcoming Sequoia meeting
-Finch
-Klein
-Ziegler
-Colson
-Malek
-MacGregor
-Robert J. Dole
-MacGregor
-Ehrlichman
-Kissinger
-Haldeman
-Forthcoming Youth for Nixon event
-Herbert Brownell
-Mitchell
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Forthcoming trip to McCabe residence
-Mitchell
-Florida compared to Camp David
-Golf
Haldeman left at 10:41 am.