Conversation: 794-014
Prev: 794-013 Next: 794-015Start Date: 9-Oct-1972 3:35 PM
End Date: 9-Oct-1972 4:34 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose Mary; Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); [Unknown person(s)]; Bull, Stephen B.;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On October 9, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, unknown person(s), and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 3:35 pm to 4:34 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 794-014 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 794-14
Date: October 9, 1972
Time: 3:35 pm - 4:34 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Rose Mary Woods.
Gift from Mitzi (Epstein) Newhouse
-Vogue
-Samuel I. Newhouse
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Tape Subject Log
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-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Thank you letter
-Importance
-Schedule
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 6m 20s ]
H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 3:39 pm.
Woods left at 3:39 pm.
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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Poll
-The President’s general approval and disapproval rating
-Vietnam
-Economy
-Corruption in Federal Government
-Examples
-Effect on the 1972 election
-Handling
-George S. McGovern compared to the President
-The President's visibility
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT] signing
-Television
-Corruption
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 7m 1s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
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Poll
-US-Soviet Union trade agreement
-Soviet Jews
-Exit tax
-Awareness
-Government subsidies of the shipping industry
-Credit
-Soviet Union
-Most Favored Nation [MFN] status
-Soviet Union
-Lend-lease
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Peter G. Peterson
-Japan
-The administration’s foreign policy progress
-Intellectuals
-Compared to the People’s Republic of China [PRC] initiative
Kissinger
-Schedule
-Timing of meetings
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Col. Richard T. Kennedy
-Hanoi
-The need for Kissinger to report to the President
-Hanoi
-Paris
-Saigon
-Settlement timing
-Saigon
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-North Vietnamese
-Peking
-Moscow
-Possible message to Kissinger
-The president’s possible conversation with Kissinger
-Progress report
-Kennedy
Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 3:39 pm and 4:34 pm.
[Conversation No. 794-14A]
Request for Kennedy
[End of telephone conversation]
Vietnam negotiations progress report
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 8m 48s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
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Kissinger
-Possible trip to Hanoi
-Paris
-Saigon
-North Vietnamese
-Peking, Moscow
-Arrival back to White House
-Haig
-Vietnam
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-Possible cease-fire
-Compared to Suez cease-fire
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Bombing, mining
-Military, political settlement
Stewart J.O. Alsop article
-Newsweek
-Vietnam War
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Settlement
-South Vietnamese
-Senate
-Haig
-PRC
-Level of US support
-McGovern
-Soviet Union and PRC aid to North Vietnam
-Level of military advisors
-John F. Kennedy
-Bombing, mining
-Negotiations
-Thieu
-POWs
-Vietnamization
-McGovern
-Bombing
-Thieu’s future
William P. Rogers’s possible press conference
-Haldeman’s conversation with Rogers
-Negotiations
-Kissinger
-Three possible scenarios
-Cancellation of press conference
-Repeating the President’s stance
-No chance to quit war
-McGovern
-Speech
-PRC
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-Asia
-Cancellation
-Charles W. Colson
-Kissinger
-Paris
-Colson
McGovern
-Possible press conference
-Kissinger’s negotiations
-Partisanship compared to statesmanship
-Rogers’s possible press conference
-Negotiations
-Sensitivity
Foreign steel imports
-John N. Mitchell’s previous conversation with Haldeman
-The President’s schedule
-Ralph Guy, Jr.
-US Steel
-I[lorwith] W[ilbur] Abel
-US Steelworkers
-Administration influence on issue
-Mitchell’s view
-Foreign problems
-Post-1972 election
-Steel companies
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 10m 25s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
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Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:39 pm.
The President's schedule
-Photograph session for candidates
-Lighting
Bull left at an unknown time before 4:34 pm.
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 2m 53s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
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The President and Haldeman left at 4:34 pm.