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Conversation: 772-006

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Start Date: 7-Sep-1972 10:32 AM

End Date: 7-Sep-1972 10:40 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")Bull, Stephen B.Ehrlichman, John D.

Recording Device: Oval Office

772-006.mp3

NARA Description:

On September 7, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Stephen B. Bull, and John D. Ehrlichman met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 10:32 am and 10:40 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 772-006 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 772-6

Date: September 7, 1972
Time: Unknown between 10:32 am and 10:40 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
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        NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                        Tape Subject Log
                          (rev. Oct-06)

Murder of Israeli athletes at Olympic Games in Munich, Germany
   -Interfaith church service
        -Reflecting Pool
             -Time
        -Sponsors
             -Catholic Diocese of Washington
             -Jewish Community of Churches
             -Washington Council of Churches
        -Attendance
             -Leonard Garment, Herbert Stein
        -Question of the President's appearance
             -Vietnam issue
                  -Demonstrators
        -Attendance
             -William P. Rogers
             -Garment
             -Stein
             -The President's appearance
                  -Possible problems
                       -The President’s view
             -Rogers
   -Question of moment of silence
        -White House
   -US victim [David Berger]
        -The President’s telephone call to parents
             -Publicity
        -Position on draft
        -Search for identity in Israel
   -Publicity of call by the President
        -Rogers
        -Berger family

1972 election campaign
    -Murder of Israeli athletes at Olympic Games in Munich
        -George S. McGovern
             -Lebanon and Egypt
        -Israel
        -US response
        -Terrorists
        -US response
             -Rogers
                 -Hijacking convention
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                      NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                          Tape Subject Log
                                            (rev. Oct-06)


             Killings
                  -Golf course in St. Croix, Virgin Islands
                      -Shooting and robbery
                          -Responsibility
                               -The President’s view
                                    -Blacks


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             John W. Gardner
                 -Common Cause suit
                     Dismissal

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:32 pm.

             George P. Shultz

             Meeting with Robert D. Gordon and police officials

             Ronald L. Ziegler's office
                -John D. Ehrlichman

             Shultz

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:40 am.

             Common Cause
                -Gardner
                    -The President’s view
                    -Tax advantages
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                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. Oct-06)

                 -Robert J. Dole
                     -Complaints
                          -Common Cause
                              -McGovern
                 -Common Cause

Ehrlichman entered at 10:32 am.

            The President's meeting with Shultz
                -The President's speech

            1972 Presidential campaign
                -Edward M. Kennedy
                    -Secret Service protection
                    -George C. Wallace
                        -Assassination attempt
                        -Protection of Kennedy
                              -Charls E. Walker
                                  -Acting Secretary of Treasury
                                    -Restoration of protection
                    -Question of Kennedy as a candidate
                    -Threatening mail statistics in comparison to other public figures
                    -Lynda Byrd Johnson Robb
                        -Trip to Europe
                              -Secret Service protection
                    -Shooting possibility
                        -Protection
                              -The President’s view

            Campaign practices
               -Kennedy
                   -Secret Service protection
                       -White House selection
                            -James J. Rowley
                            -The President’s instructions
                       -Type of coverage
                       -Intelligence gathering
                            -Alfred Wong
                            -Robert Newbrand
                       -Instructions
                            -Haldeman
                       -Shultz
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                      NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                        Tape Subject Log
                                          (rev. Oct-06)

                              -Lawrence F. O’Brien, Jr.’s taxes
                              -Conversation between Roger O. Barth and Ehrlichman
                          -Shultz’s forthcoming conversation with the President
                          -Haldeman
                          -Alexander P. Butterfield
                          -Shultz
                          -Political issues

             Press story on Kennedy
                 -William Loeb
                 -Sailing with John V. Tunney
                      -Female companions
                           -Amanda Burden
                      -Length of trip
                      -Kennedy's behavior
                      -Wine bottles
                      -Press situation
                           -Robert F. Kennedy
                      -Secret Service protection for Edward Kennedy
                           -Newbrand
                           -Coverage
                                -The President’s view
                                -Tricia Nixon Cox
                           -Newbrand
                                -Forthcoming conversation with Haldeman
                                -Directorship

             Directorship of United States Secret Service
                 -The President’s view

Haldeman and Ehrlichman left at 10:40 am.