Conversation: 785-002
Prev: 785-001 Next: 785-003Start Date: 22-Sep-1972 8:58 AM
End Date: 22-Sep-1972 9:08 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Colson, Charles W.; Bull, Stephen B.;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On September 22, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Charles W. Colson, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 8:58 am to 9:08 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 785-002 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 785-2
Date: September 22, 1972
Time: 8:58 am - 9:08 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Charles W. Colson.
The President's schedule for September 22, 1972
-Trip to Texas
-Helicopter passengers
-John G. Tower
-White House staff, senators, congressmen
-Tower
-Dinner at John B. Connally's ranch
-Harlingen to San Antonio flight
-Republican meeting
-Meeting an airplane
George S. McGovern
-Patrick J. Buchanan's analysis
Vietnam War
-Media coverage
-War casualties
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Networks
-Washington Post, New York Times
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 36s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 8:58 am.
The President's schedule
Bull left at an unknown time before 9:08 am.
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 1m 48s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
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McGovern's campaign
-Vietnam War as issue
-Media coverage
-Buchanan
-Democratic Party nomination
3
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
1972 election
-Effects of US-Soviet Union grain deal
-Iowa farmers' concern
-Poll analysis
-Grain prices
-Robert J. Dole
-Economy
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Report on personal incomes
-Improvements in take home pay
-Durable good orders
-Milton Pitts, White House barber
-Louis P. Harris poll
US-Soviet Union trade deal
-1972 election
-Jews
-Israel
-Political conditions
-Public relations
-Henry A. Kissinger’s talk with Yitzhak Rabin
-Max M. Fisher
-US public opinion
-Liberal
-Burundi deaths
-Troop movement in Middle East
-McGovern
1972 election
-McGovern campaign
-Aid to parochial schools
-Strategy
-Vietnam War as an issue
-Media coverage
-Colson’s conversation with the President, September 22,
1972
-September 20, 1972 incident
-The President's campaign
-Connally
-National defense
-William P. Rogers
-Foreign policy
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Andrei A. Gromyko's visit
-Signing of Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
agreement and SALT II announcement
-Trade deals
-Media coverage
-Tax reform bill
-Vietnam War
The President's schedule
-Ku Klux Klan [KKK]
-Masons
-Colson
-[Wendell B. Colson]
-Patricia (Hughes) Colson
-Catholicism
Haldeman and Colson left at 9:08 am.