Conversation: 761-002
Prev: 761-001 Next: 761-003Start Date: 4-Aug-1972 8:56 AM
End Date: 4-Aug-1972 10:22 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.; Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Colson, Charles W.; Ehrlichman, John D.; Monzon, Zosimo T.;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On August 4, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Charles W. Colson, John D. Ehrlichman, and Zosimo T. Monzon met in the Oval Office of the White House from 8:56 am to 10:22 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 761-002 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 761-2
Date: August 4, 1972
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Time: 8:56 am - 10:22 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.
Kissinger's schedule
-The President’s previous telephone call to Kissinger
-Kissinger’s previous briefing
News summaries
-Editorial cartoons
-George S. McGovern
-Thomas W. Braden
-The Administration’s treatment of staff members
-Thomas F. Eagleton
H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 8:56 am.
Haldeman’s schedule
-Forthcoming staff briefing
-Clark MacGregor
The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with youth
-MacGregor
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Forthcoming meeting with youth and women leaders
-Frederic V. Malek
-Youth meeting
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[Duration: 3m 40s ]
Charles W. Colson entered at 9:00 am.
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Haldeman left at an unknown time before 9:04 am.
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The President's schedule
-Forthcoming telephone call from John D. Ehrlichman
Ehrlichman talked with the President between 9:04 am and 9:05 am.
[Conversation No. 761-2A]
[See Conversation No. 29-11]
[End of telephone conversation]
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-Reservations
-J. William Fulbright, Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin's call to Kissinger
-Jackson
-Possible amendment
-Hugh Scott
-Fulbright
-Dobrynin's views
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Clause with potential to negate treaty
-Soviet Union reaction
-Kissinger’s efforts
-Jackson
-Jacob K. Javits
-Fulbright
-Possible meeting with the President
-Deletion of clause
-Fulbright
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-Kissinger's possible conversation with Soviets
-The Administration’s Congressional liaison staff
-Possible co-sponsors of treaty
-Jackson
-James L. Buckley
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Possible impact on US-Soviet Union relations
-Proposed Jackson amendment
-Scott
-Kissinger’s forthcoming conversation with Jackson
-Gerard C. Smith
Kissinger left at 9:07 am.
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Zosimo T. Monzon entered at an unknown time after 9:07 am.
Request for book
Monzon left at an unknown time before 10:22 am.
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[Duration: 1m 7s ]
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Economy
-Food prices
-Hides bill
-Ehrlichman
-Peter G. Peterson
-Possible ban on export
-Effect on shoe prices
-Consumer awareness
-Cattlemen
-Possible freeze on price of hides
-Earl L. Butz
-Herbert Stein
-George P. Shultz
-Price freeze
-View of politicians
-Previously successful tactic
-Compared to the President’s trips to the Soviet Union and the
People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Shultz
-Tariff removal
-Farmers
-Effect of farm prices on public perception
-Trend of farm prices
-Department of Agriculture
-Stein
-Meat prices
-Price freeze
-Consumer interest in food prices
-Possible speech by the President
Monzon entered at an unknown time after 9:07 am.
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The President's acknowledgement of receipt of book
Monzon left at an unknown time before 10:22 am.
Economy
-Food prices
-Example of Joseph W. Martin, Jr.
-Comparison with prices under Democrats
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Economy
-Economic indicators
-Industrial commodities
-Stein
-Reports
-Paul W. McCracken
-Stock market
-McGovern
-Possible reaction to the President’s reelection
-Second quarter profits
-Albert E. Sindlinger
-Vietnam
-McGovern
-Press
-Associated Press [AP]
-Sindlinger’s forthcoming report
-Investors' intentions
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-McGovern
-Small investors
-Effect on trading volume
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Arthur H. Bremer
-Attempt to assassinate the President in Canada, April 1972
-Possible political impact
-Bremer’s return from Ottawa
-Reaction of Patricia Colson
-PRC table tennis exhibition, April 18, 1972
-Rose Garden
-White House event compared to public appearance
-Possible punishment
-The President’s view
-Example of Robert F. Kennedy's assassin [Sirhan Sirhan]
-Death sentence
-Supreme Court decision [Furman v. Georgia]
-Imprisonment
-California
-Massachusetts
-Life imprisonment
-Kidnapping
-Hijacking
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Colson left at 10:22 am.