Conversation: 763-015
Prev: 763-014 Next: 763-016Start Date: 7-Aug-1972 11:24 AM
End Date: 7-Aug-1972 1:18 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ehrlichman, John D.; Sanchez, Manolo;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On August 7, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, John D. Ehrlichman, and Manolo Sanchez met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:24 am and 1:18 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 763-015 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 763-15
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
Date: August 7, 1972
Time: Unknown between 11:24 am and 1:18 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.
Council on Environmental Quality [CEQ]
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Russell E. Train
-Management of CEQ
-Philosophy on environment
-Park usage
Environment
-Washington, DC
-Neighborhood cleanup program
-Use of local citizens
-Press coverage
-Walter E. Washington
-Blacks
-Ehrlichman’s view
-The President’s view
-Comer S. Coppie
-Personal pride
-Sense of family
-The President’s view
Blacks
-Living conditions
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Integration proposal
Daniel Ellsberg
-Delay of trial
-Timing of trial
-1972 election
-Ehrlichman’s previous conversation with Chief Justice [Warren E. Burger]
-Inclination of Supreme Court to maintain summer vacation
-Possible indictment of Neil Sheehan
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
Jack N. Anderson
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-[Charles E. Radford]
-Wiretap
-Surveillance
Lawrence F. O'Brien, Jr.
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS] audit
-Invitation for audit
-O’Brien’s failure to appear for audit
-George P. Shultz
-Subpoena
-Joseph N. Napolitan’s testimony
-Howard R. Hughes money
-Division of money
-O'Brien
-IRS investigation
-Income
-Report to IRS
-Sources
-Napolitan
-Hughes money
-Receipt
-Report to IRS
-Hughes
-Potential problems
-F. Donald Nixon
-John H. Meier
-Proposed contribution to Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-1968 Campaign
-Maurice H. Stans and Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Receipt of funds
-Rebozo
-John N. Mitchell
-Contributions
-Reporting
-Napolitan
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Shultz
Robert D. (“Bobby”) Baker
-Rose Mary Woods’s previous call to the President
-Baker’s previous call to Woods
-Rebozo
-Edmund S. Muskie
-The President’s request for Rebozo to call Baker
-Unknown secretary
-Rebozo’s previous conversation with Baker
-Baker’s attitude toward George S. McGovern
-Information
-Muskie
-O'Brien
-Baker’s meeting with Rebozo
-George A. Smathers
-Work with Lyndon B. Johnson
-Compared to Victor A. Johnston
-Information about Muskie, O'Brien
-Gaylord Nelson
O'Brien
-Money from Hughes
-Reasons
-Amount
Napolitan
-Information about Democrats
-Taxes
-Payment
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 11:24 am.
Refreshments
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:18 pm.
Napolitan
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Taxes
Legislation
-Assistance to railroads
-Smathers
-Mitchell
-Supporters of bill
-International Brotherhood of Teamsters
-Truckers
-Surface carriers
-Water carriers
-Smathers
-Truckers
-Contributions
-Teamsters
-Charles W. Colson
-Smathers
-Harley O. Staggers
Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 11:24 am.
Refreshments
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:18 pm.
Railroad assistance legislation
-Drawbacks
-Trade-off of reforms
-Deregulation
-Smathers
-Contributions
-Truckers
-Railroads
-John A. Volpe
-Support on merits of bill
-Reforms
-Smathers
-Opposition to bill
-Staggers
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Smathers
-Smathers
-Contributions
-Appearance of bailout for railroads
-Railroad unions
-Lobbyists
-Benjamin F. Biaggini
-Railroad problems
-Southern Pacific
-Union Pacific
-Biaggini
-McGovern
-Possible statement
-Possible value to administration
-John B. Connally
-Political impact of labor unions
-George Meany
-Contributions
-Votes
-Labor Unions
Water quality bill
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Baker’s possible meeting with the President
-Baker’s pending reelection
-Pressure for passage
-Timing of vote
-Republican National Convention
-Ehrlichman's view
-Veto
-Higher taxes
Economy
-Shultz's analysis
-Growth
-Effect on revenues
-Department of Treasury
-Deficit
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
Federal blue-collar workers
-Ehrlichman's option paper
-Wage Board
-Meany
-Federal employee unions
-Kenneth R. Lyons
-John F. Griner
-Proposed pay raise
-Amount
-Budget impact
-Fiscal Year [FY] 1973
-FY 1974
-Comparability
-The President’s veto of previously proposed pay raise
-Union responses
-Colson
-Passage of pay raise
-Griner's public endorsement of the President
-Veto of pay raise
-Griner's tacit support fr the President
-Colson’s view
-Griner
-Lyons
-Impact of pay raise
-States
-Maryland
-California
-District of Columbia
-Texas
-Virginia
-Maryland and California
-Hawaii
-Alaska
-The President's view
-Veto
-Chances for sustainment in Congress
-Senate
-House of Representatives
-Union reaction
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Impact on election
Ehrlichman left at an unknown time before 1:18 pm.