Conversation: 848-007
Prev: 848-006 Next: 848-008Start Date: 5-Feb-1973 9:43 AM
End Date: 5-Feb-1973 9:59 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Timmons, William E.; Korologos, Thomas C.;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On February 5, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, William E. Timmons, and Thomas C. Korologos met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:43 am to 9:59 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 848-007 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 848-7
Date: February 5, 1973
Time: 9:43 am - 9:59 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with William E. Timmons and Thomas C. Korologos.
Richard K. Cook
-Attendance at meeting
-Congress
Meeting with Republican Congressional leaders
-Utility
-Roy L. Ash
-Program abuse examples
-Lincoln Day speeches, mail, newsletters
-Kits
-Vietnam
-Charles W. Colson
-Subjects
-Amnesty
-Peace
Amnesty
-Live issue
-Vote in Senate, House of Representatives
-Amendment
-Senate
-Robert A. Taft, Jr.
-Proposal
-Peace Corps
-Safety
-Reward
-Value
-Abraham Lincoln’s amnesty
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct.-09)
Conversation No. 848-7 (cont’d)
-Misconception
-Deserters compared to Southerners
-The President’s generosity to individuals
-The President’s press conference
-Consequences for mistakes
-Senate
-Opposition
-House of Representatives
-Bills
-Carl B. Albert
-Compared to busing
Budget
-Congressional relations
-Support from Republicans
-Democrats
-Pocket vetoes
-Repass bills
-Veto
-Issues
-Taxes, prices
-Compared to education, cities
-Mandatory languages
-Tax increase
-Amendments
Vietnam War
-Issue
-Republicans
-Budget
The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Republican Congressional leaders
-Length
-Briefing
-Hugh Scott
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct.-09)
Conversation No. 848-7 (cont’d)
-Gerald R. Ford
-Agenda
-Vietnam
Congress members
-Burden of work
-Mail, meetings
-The President’s experience as Congressmen
-Lincoln Day speeches
-Republican National Committee [RNC]
-Lincoln Day kits
-Quality
-Quality
-Intelligence
-Creativeness
-Elford A. Cederberg
-Appropriations committee
-Cederberg
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Herman T. Schneebli
Appointee confirmations
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Confirmation chances
-Impoundment list
-Commitments
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
-Scott
-Liberal
-Peter J. Brennan
-Earl L. Butz
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Deputy Secretary of Defense
-William P. Clements, Jr.
-Approval
-Swearing-in
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct.-09)
Conversation No. 848-7 (cont’d)
-Qualities
-Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs
-John O. (“Jack”) Marsh, Jr.
-Former Congressman
Republican Congress members
-Morale
-Defensiveness
-Vietnam War
-Scott
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Press coverage
-Opposition
-Controversy
-Aggressiveness
-Attack on Edmund S. Muskie
-Talk show appearance
-William Proxmire
-Issues
-War as an issue
-Vietnam War
-Constitutional rights
The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Republican Congressional leaders
-Scott
-Policy luncheon
-Timmons’s role
-Agenda
-Korologos’s role
-Cook
-Stephen B. Bull
-Future meetings
-Lincoln Day
Loyalist list
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct.-09)
Conversation No. 848-7 (cont’d)
-Democrats
-Supporters in House of Representatives, Senate
-Letters from the President
-Newspapers
-Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo
-Reception at White House
-Republicans, Democrats
-Speech by the President
-Support on upcoming vetoes
-Timing
-Kissinger’s trip to Vietnam and People’s Republic of China
[PRC]
-Return of Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Breadth of list
-December bombing
-William B. Saxbe
-Ohio
-Partial supporters
-Inclusion
Timmons and Korologos left at 9:59 am.