Conversation: 778-005
Prev: 778-004 Next: 778-006Start Date: 15-Sep-1972 8:36 AM
End Date: 15-Sep-1972 9:58 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Connally, John B.; Haig, Alexander M., Jr.;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On September 15, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, John B. Connally, and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 8:36 am and 9:58 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 778-005 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 778-5
Date: September 15, 1972
Time: Unknown between 8:36 am and 9:58 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H.R. ("Bob") Haldeman.
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Sale of wheat to the People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Earl L. Butz disclosure
-Department of Agriculture
-Leak
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Fact-finding attempt
-Charles W. Colson's knowledge
-Butz's knowledge
-Propriety of sale
-Possible problem
-Butz
-Administration's knowledge
-Circumstances
-The President's view
-Butz
-Colson
The President talked with John B. Connally between 9:02 am and 9:04 am.
[Conversation No. 778-5A]
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Alexander M. Haig, Jr. entered at 9:05 am.
Foreign policy
-William P. Rogers's statement
-Contact with Europeans
-State Department's attitude
-European Security Conference
-Announcement
-Soviet Union proposal for meetings
-European view
-State Department
House Armed Service Committee hearings
-Gen. John D. Lavelle
-Unauthorized North Vietnamese bombings
-Administration's stance
-Protective reaction
-Falsified reports
-Bombing of North Vietnam
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Testimony
Vietnam peace negotiations
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Status
-Schedule
-Meeting with Georges J. R. Pompidou
-Edward R. G. Heath's meeting with Kissinger
-Kissinger's meeting with Willy Brandt
-Status of negotiations
-State Department representative
-Meeting
-Rogers's reaction
Vietnam military situation
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-Quang Tri invasion
-Viet Cong
-Marine battalions
-Casualties
-Viet Cong offensive
-Haig's view
-Viet Cong military strength
-Food
-Sickness
-Military Region [MR] 1 area
-Hue
-Ammunition
-Effect of US military tactics
-Mining
-Bombing
-Blockade's effect
-World War I
-Civil War
Foreign policy
-Soviet Union grain deal
-New York Times article
-Soviet attitude toward Jews
-Effect
-American public opinion
-Value of trade agreement
-Most Favored Nation [MFN] status
-Congress filibuster
-Forthcoming meeting with Kissinger
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Vote
Haig left at 9:12 am.
Grain deal
-Public opinion
-Efforts by administration opponents
-John D. Ehrlichman's view
-Profit making
-Grain dealers
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Democratic Party press release
-Possible bugging of telephones
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] investigation
-Circumstances
-Fingerprints
-FBI view
-Type of device
-Jean Westwood
-Little red box discovery
-Edward Bennett Williams
-FBI investigation
-Little red box
-Possible bugging
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew's view
Watergate
-Indictments
-John N. Mitchell's meeting with Dwight L. Chapin
-Grand Jury testimony
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Watergate
-New report of bugging at Democratic Headquarters
-FBI inquiry
-Maurice H. Stans's libel lawsuit
-Demeanor
-Effectiveness
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Foreign policy
-Possible US-Soviet Union summit
-Press coverage
-Trade deal with Soviet Union
-Butz
-European Security Conference
-SALT II announcement
-Haldeman's view
-SALT I
-Timing
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Haldeman left at 9:58 am.