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Conversation: 783-015

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Start Date: Tuesday, September 19, 1972 4:16 PM

End Date: Tuesday, September 19, 1972 4:25 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President); Reserve Officers Association; Upp, Robert D. (Brig. Gen.); Crawford, B. Hayden (Rear Adm.); Boyles, Eugene H. (Col.); Craig, James C. (Col.); Rhatican, William F.; Stephens, Melvin; Bull, Stephen B.; White House photographer

Recording Device: Oval Office

783-015.mp3

NARA Description:

On September 19, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and members of the Reserve Officers Association, including Brig. Gen. Robert D. Upp, Col. John T. Carlton, Rear Adm. B. Hayden Crawford, Col. Eugene H. Boyles, Col. James C. Craig, William F. Rhatican, and Melvin Stephens, Stephen B. Bull, and the White House photographer, met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:16 pm and 12:25 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 783-015 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 783-15

Date: September 19, 1972
Time: Unknown between 12:16 pm and 12:25 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Brig. Gen. Robert D. Upp, Col. John T. Carlton, Rear Adm. B. Hayden
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Crawford, Col. Eugene H. Boyles, Col. James C. Craig, William F. Rhatican, and Mel L.
Stephens; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

             Greetings and introductions
                 -Crawford, Boyles, Craig, Carlton

             [Photograph session]
                 -Service flags
                     -Marine Corps

             Southern California
                 -1972 campaign
                 -Los Angeles City College

             National defense issue
                 -Reserve Officers Association's support for Administration
                      -Meetings
                      -Vietnam War
                           -Mining of Haiphong harbor
                 -Respect for service men and women
                      -All-volunteer army
                      -1972 election

             Presentation of gifts by the President
                 -Cuff links
                      -Presidential seal
                 -Golf balls
                      -Donald McI. Kendall
                          -Wilson Co.

Upp et al. left and Stephen B. Bull entered at 12:22 pm.

             The President's schedule
                 -Presidential gifts
                     -Golf balls
                          -Display

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:25 pm.
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