Conversation: 825-010
Prev:  825-009 Next: 825-011Start Date: 16-Dec-1972 10:50 AM
End Date: 16-Dec-1972 11:08 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Butterfield, Alexander P.; Ziegler, Ronald L.; White House operator; Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On December 16, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander P. Butterfield, Ronald L. Ziegler, and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House from 10:50 am to 11:08 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 825-010 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 825-10 Date: December 16, 1972 Time: 10:50 am - 11:08 am Location: Oval Office The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield. The President’s schedule -Telephone calls -Thomas G. Dunn -The President’s conversation with Thomas G. Dunn, Jr. at reception for 1972 election supporters -Health -Heart surgery -Timing Elmer H. Bobst Library dedication -Possible telephone call to Bobst -Rose Mary Woods’s view -Cabinet members’ schedules -22- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. June-08) Conversation No. 825-10 (cont’d) -Cabinet dinner -The President’s letter to Bobst -Handwriting [Signing documents] Harry S. Truman -Possible death -White House press corps [?] -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman -The President’s schedule -Church service, December 17, 1972 -John Cardinal Krol -Possible cancellation -Cabinet dinner [Signing documents] Max Lerner Ronald L. Ziegler entered and Butterfield left at an unknown time after 10:50 am. Henry A. Kissinger’s briefing -Ziegler’s conversations with Kissinger The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:50 am and 11:08 am. [Conversation No. 825-10A] [See Conversation No. 34-94] [End of telephone conversation] Kissinger’s briefing -Ziegler’s conversations with Kissinger -Timing -Posture -Press relations -Kissinger’s “peace is at hand” statement, October 26, 1972 -23- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. June-08) Conversation No. 825-10 (cont’d) -North Vietnam’s delays Second term reorganization -John A. Scali -Announcement -Leaks -Washington Star article -American Broadcasting Company [ABC] -William A. Gill, Jr. -1970 report at United Nations [UN] by Scali -Press relations -William P. Rogers’s view -Press relations -Patrick J. Buchanan’s news summary addendum -Peter J. Brennan -Scali -Brennan -Changes -The President’s conversation with Haldeman -Interior and Labor Departments -Bureaucracy, Executive branch -Franklin D. Roosevelt -Scali -Ethnicity -Religion -Catholicism -Brennan, Roy L. Ash -Scali -Ambassadorship to UN -Ash -Cabinet -Number -Haldeman -Charles W. Colson -Cabinet continuity -Rogers -Cabinet changes -Catholicism -Italian-American [Scali] -Labor leaders [Brennan] -24- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. June-08) Conversation No. 825-10 (cont’d) -Martin P. Durkin -Number -Rogers -Rogers C. B. Morton -Sub-cabinet -Rogers -Richard G. Kleindienst -Morton -George P. Shultz -Treasury Department -Departures -Number -Compared to previous administrations -Cabinet’s regional representation -Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD] -James T. Lynn -Ohio -The President’s reception for 1972 election supporters -Shultz -Illinois -Massachusetts -California -South Carolina -White House staff cuts -Haldeman -December 16, 1972 article -Timing -Ziegler’s conversation with Haldeman -Percentages -Haldeman’s possible briefing Kissinger’s briefing -Preparation -Ziegler’s role Second term reorganization -Press relations -Cabinet changes -Catholics, Italian-Americans -Under Secretaries and Assistant Secretaries changes -25- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. June-08) Conversation No. 825-10 (cont’d) -Cabinet changes -The President’s role -Haldeman -Garnett D. (“Jack”) Horner -Jerry Greene -Significance -Compared to Under Secretaries and Assistant Secretaries changes -Bureaucracy -Assistant Secretaries and Schedule C -Lyndon B. Johnson’s view -1964 election -John B. Connally -Ambassadors -Ziegler’s staff -William L. Safire Ronald Ziegler left at 11:08 am.