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 39 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Nov-03) -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon -Thank you letter -Importance -Schedule ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal returnable] [Duration: 6m 20s ] H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 3:39 pm.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 END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ***************************************************************** Poll -The President’s general approval and disapproval rating -Vietnam -Economy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 ***************************************************************** 40 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Nov-03) BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2 [Personal returnable] [Duration: 7m 1s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2 ***************************************************************** Poll -US-Soviet Union trade agreement -Soviet Jews -Exit tax -Awareness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 41 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Nov-03) -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 ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4 [Personal returnable] [Duration: 8m 48s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4 ***************************************************************** Kissinger -Possible trip to Hanoi -Paris -Saigon -North Vietnamese -Peking, Moscow -Arrival back to White House -Haig -Vietnam 42 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Nov-03) -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 43 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Nov-03) -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 ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6 [Personal returnable] [Duration: 10m 25s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6 ***************************************************************** 44 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Nov-03) 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. ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7 [Personal returnable] [Duration: 2m 53s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7 ***************************************************************** The President and Haldeman left at 4:34 pm.