Conversation: 892-016
Prev: 892-015 Next: 892-017Start Date: 10-Apr-1973 3:56 PM
End Date: 10-Apr-1973 4:42 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Goodling, George A.; Devine, Samuel L.; White House photographer; Woods, Rose Mary;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On April 10, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, George A. Goodling, Samuel L. Devine, White House photographer, and Rose Mary Woods met in the Oval Office of the White House from 3:56 pm to 4:42 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 892-016 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 892-16
Date: April 10, 1973
Time: 3:56 pm - 4:42 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Congressmen George A. Goodling and Samuel L. Devine. The White
House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.
Greetings
Vote to sustain veto
Photographs
Vote to sustain veto
-US Senate’s action
-US House’s action
Photographs
-Meeting with Lee Kuan Yew
Vote to sustain veto
-Margin of victory
-Vote count
-Importance
-Effect of President’s speech
-Mail
-Pennsylvania Congressmen
-Joseph M. McDade
-Edward G. Biester, Jr.
-E. G. (“Bud”) Shuster
-President’s speech
-Taxation
-Mail volume
-Constituents’ views
-Rural Electrification and Telephone Service
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Conversation No. 892-16 (cont’d)
-Statement
Freshman Congressmen
-President’s advice
-Veto
Devine’s conversation with Preston Wolfe
-Wolfe’s retirement
-Support for President
-1952 and 1956 elections
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[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Plans
-President’s discussions
-Hugh Scott
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Pennsylvania Congressional District 19
-Goodling’s plans
-Age
-1976 election
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Meeting with Goodling
-Candidates
-Martin G. Hamburger
-Hugh Scott
-Administrative assistant
-Residency
-Liberal
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Conversation No. 892-16 (cont’d)
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Conservative
-Goodling’s voting record compared to Devine
-Goodling’s plans
-Retirement
-Compared to Joseph W. Martin, Jr.
-Charles P. Halleck
-Margin of victory
-Devine’s viewpoint
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[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Political views
-Experience
Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Political experience
-Campaign management
-Speeches
-Charm, humility
Pennsylvania Congressional District 19
-1976 election
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II’s candidacy
-Hamburger
-Goodling
-Goodling’s office
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-1976 election
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Maryland residence
-Hamburger
-Goodling’s 1974 opponent
-Experience
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Conversation No. 892-16 (cont’d)
-Committee to Reelect the President [CRP]
Refreshments
Pennsylvania Congressional District 19
-Goodling
-Retirement
-Announcement
-1976 election
-Hamburger
-William Goodling
-Superintendant of schools
-Goodling’s retirement
-Effect on primary
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II, William Goodling
-Timing
-Announcement
-1976 election
-Filing date
-Opponents
-1976 election
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II’s plans
-Federal employment
-President’s advice
-Residency
-Candidacy
-Goodling’s retiremenet
-Public appearances
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Goodling
-Goodling’s retirement
-Endorsements
-William Goodling
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Residence
-Public opportunities
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-Campaign
-Candidacy
-Experience
-Wallace H. Johnson
-Legal residence
-Dwight D. Eisenhower’s farm
-Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
-Possible apartment
-Gettysburg
-Washington, DC
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Goodling
-Location of farm
-Loganville, Pennsylvania
-District
-Number of towns in Goodling’s Congressional District
-York, Pennsylvania
-Population
-Comparison with President’s old district
-Amherst, California
-Downy, California [?]
-Whittier, California
-Marital status
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[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Possible Congressional committee employment
-Education and skills
-US Navy
-Communication Committee, Transportation Committee
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-Education and skills
-Law
-Naval service
-Amherst College
-Armed Services Committee
-Intelligence
-Agricultural Committee, Commerce Committee, Transportation
Committee, Communication Committee, Health Committee
-Naval experience
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Robert F. Kennedy
-Nepotism law
-Dwight D. Eisenhower and son
-Possible future employment
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-CIA
-Robert H. Michel
-Speaking ability
-Colleges and universities
-Campaign committee
-Need for speakers
-Colleges in Goodling’s district
-Meeting with Devine
-Goodling’s meeting with President
-Forthcoming meeting with Devine
Pennsylvania Congressional District 19
-1976 election
-Goodling’s retirement
-Meeting with President
-Photograph
-Endorsements
-Devine’s meeting with [Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
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FBI
-Devine’s interest in Directorship
-Depoliticization
-Top officials
-Rivalry
-Legacy of J. Edgar Hoover
-Clyde A. Tolson
-Possible candidates for Director
-Frank L. Rizzo
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Devine
-Statement
-Future service in Congress
-Background as a lawyer
-Criticism of John F. Kennedy [?], George S. McGovern
-Confirmation
-Compared to L[ouis] Patrick Gray
Congressional leadership
-Leslie C. Arends’s age
-Goodling’s age
-George D. Aiken
Arends
-Golf
Gifts for secretaries
Rose Mary Woods
-Goodling’s acquaintance
-Harry McLaughlin
-Nellie L. Yates
-President’s private secretary
-Duties
-Staff
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[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Meeting with Devine
-Meeting with Clifford J. Jones
-Pennsylvania Republican Party chairman
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Rose Mary Woods entered at 4:36 pm.
Introduction
-McLaughlin
-Mutual friend of Woods and Goodling
-Work with Woods
Gifts
-Goodling’s office, Devine’s office
-Description
-Cufflinks
-Paperweight
-Cufflinks
-New design
Woods left at an unknown time after 4:36 pm.
Gifts
-Wife of Devine
-Tie clasp
Woods entered at an unknown time before 4:42 pm.
Gifts
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-Tie clasp
Envelope
Gifts
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Newly designed cufflinks
-Richardson
The White House photographer entered at an unknown time before 4:42 pm.
Transportation
Photographs
-Instructions
Woods
-McLaughlin
-President’s regards
-Photograph appointment for Oval Office
President’s schedule
-Party
-Meeting with [Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
Vote sustaining veto
-Letter from President
-Members of Congress
-Letter for Goodling
-Goodling’s transportation
-Devine’s retrieval of Goodling’s car
Goodling, Devine, Woods, and the White House photographer left at 4:42 pm.
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Conversation No. 892-17 (cont’d)