Conversation: 801-007
Prev: 801-005 Next: 801-008Start Date: 17-Oct-1972 10:33 AM
End Date: 17-Oct-1972 11:06 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.; Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Ziegler, Ronald L.; Haig, Alexander M., Jr.;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On October 17, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Stephen B. Bull, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Ronald L. Ziegler, and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 10:33 am and 11:06 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 801-007 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 801-7
Date: October 17, 1972
Time: Unknown between 10:33 am and 11:06 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Stephen B. Bull.
The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with representatives of the American Dental Association
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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[ADA]
-Dr. William O. Chase’s possible participation
H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 10:33 am.
-Haldeman’s view
Bull left at an unknown time before 10:48 am.
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[Duration: 1m 24s ]
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Public relations
-The President’s previous meeting with foreign labor officials
-Haldeman’s schedule
-The President's remarks on history of US labor movement
-Abraham Lincoln
-National Labor Relations Act
-Possible press reaction
-George P. Shultz
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Television [TV]
-Richard A. Moore
- [Joseph] Lane Kirkland
-The President’s analysis
-William L. Safire
-Moore
-News value
-Victor Lasky
-Victor Riesel
-Charles W. Colson
-Herbert G. Klein
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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-Mailing of the President’s radio speech transcripts to key editors
-Issues
-Taxes
-Federal spending
-Work ethic
-Paternalism [Philosophy of Government]
-Crime
- The President’s previous meeting with the National League of
Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia
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[Duration: 4m 44s ]
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The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Announcement
Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:33 am.
The President’s schedule
-Ziegler
-Haig
Bull left at an unknown time before 10:48 am.
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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[Duration: 1m 3s ]
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Tape Subject Log
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Ziegler entered at 10:48 am.
The President's previous meeting with foreign labor officials
-Analysis of US labor movement's history
-Press coverage
-Colson
-Riesel
Haig entered at 10:49 am.
-Positive nature of event
Vietnam negotiations
-Henry A. Kissinger’s forthcoming trip to Saigon
-Announcement
-State Department
-Guidance for Ziegler’s forthcoming press briefing
-Routine nature of trip
-Haig’s previous trip to Saigon
-Status of negotiations
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-The President’s previous meeting with Abrams
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Timing of decision
-Paris negotiations
-The President’s instructions
-The President’s previous meeting with prisoners of war [POWs]
families
-Previous announcement of Kissinger’s trip to Paris
-Guidance for Ziegler’s forthcoming press briefing
-Thieu
-The President’s support
-US support of South Vietnam
-US resistance to imposition of communist government in South
Vietnam
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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-Hypothetical treatment of draft evaders
-The President’s view
Ziegler and Haig left at 10:58 am.
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
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[Duration: 1m 7s ]
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Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:58 am.
The President's schedule
-National Advisory Council for Drug Abuse Prevention
-American Dental Association [ADA] representatives
-Chase
-Press photographs
-National Advisory Council for Drug Abuse Prevention
-Cabinet Room
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-Ziegler
The President, Haldeman, and Bull left at an unknown time before 11:06 am.