Conversation: 808-010
Prev: 808-009 Next: 808-011Start Date: 27-Oct-1972 2:54 PM
End Date: 27-Oct-1972 3:16 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.; Dole, Robert J.; Bull, Stephen B.;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On October 27, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Charles W. Colson, Robert J. Dole, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 2:54 pm to 3:16 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 808-010 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 808-10
Date: October 27, 1972
Time: 2:54 pm - 3:16 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Robert J. Dole and Charles W. Colson. The conversation began at an
unknown time while the meeting was in progress.
Dole’s efforts
Dole’s schedule
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[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 2m 32s ]
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Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:54 pm.
The President's schedule
-Cabinet Room
Bull left at an unknown time before 3:16 pm.
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[Duration: 22s ]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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1972 campaign
-Funds
-Carpet industry gift charges
-Milk fund
-George S. McGovern
-Right to Strike fund
-Teachers' contributions
-Watergate
-Charges against H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Response to charges
-McGovern's campaign tactics
-Violent radicals
-Demonstrations
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon, [Julie Nixon Eishenhower, Tricia
Nixon Cox]
-San Francisco fire
-Bombings
-Republican National Convention
-Hecklers against the President
-Reluctance to act
-Press, Congress
-Press reports
-Double standard
-Campaign tactics
-Anti-President demonstrators
-Freedom of speech interference
-The President's appearance at revenue sharing signing
ceremony, Independence Hall, Philadelphia
-The President's Liberty Island, New York appearance
-Violence
-Vietnam peace negotiations
-Increase of incidents of demonstrations, hecklers
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew's Wilmington, Delaware and North
Carolina appearances
-Agnew's response
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Dec-03)
-Whistles
-Response
-Dole
-College campuses
-Vietnam war as issue
-Settlement
-Timing
-1972 election
-Post-settlement reaction of anti-war demonstrators
-Dole’s recent comment
-Campaign tactics of the President
-Conduct of campaign
-Issues
-McGovern
-Focus on future at conclusion of campaign
-The President’s recent speech
-Goals for America
-Hecklers
-McGovern
-Opponents on amnesty issue
- [Eleanor (Stageberg) McGovern]
-Freedom of speech
-The President's rights
-Agnew
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 2m 34s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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1972 campaign
-Response to McGovern's statements
-Dole
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Dec-03)
-Vietnam War settlement
-Chances for 1969 settlement
-Differences between the President's and McGovern's positions on South
Vietnam's future
-Free, non-Communist South Vietnam
-US aid to South Vietnam
-Prisoners of war [POW’s]
-Free elections
-Concept of surrender compared to honor
-Charles H. Percy, Mark O. Hatfield, Clifford P. Case
-Issues
-Vietnam War
-Voter reaction to choice of candidates
-POW’s, free elections, non-Communist government, absence of
massacre
-The President's negotiations
-Accomplishments
-POW families
-Return of POW's
-Chances
-Missing in action [MIA's]
-Television report
-Frank Stanton’s October 27, 1972 conversation with Colson
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] special on Vietnam
settlement
-Press’s views
-Support for McGovern’s view
-Forthcoming peace settlement
-Timing
-October 8, 1972 breakthrough
-South Vietnam government
-Coalition government
-US military action
-Mining, bombing
-1972 election
-Publicity
-US military options
-Bombing
-Post-1972 election
1972 campaign
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Dec-03)
-Length
-McGovern
-Vietnam War issue
Watergate
-Corruption charges
-Grain deal
-Earl L. Butz
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Case
-Federal government’s position
-Watergate break-in
-Perpetrators
-Intentions
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:02 pm.
The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Spanish-speaking surrogates
-William E. Timmons
-Phillip V. Sanchez, Henry M. Ramirez
Colson, Dole, and Bull left at 3:16 pm.