Conversation: 915-016
Prev: 915-015 Next: 915-017Start Date: 10-May-1973 12:15 PM
End Date: 10-May-1973 12:21 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Taylor, Gene; Short, Dewey J.; Timmons, William E.;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On May 10, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Gene Taylor, Dewey J. Short, and William E. Timmons met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:15 pm and 12:21 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 915-016 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 915-16
Date: May 10, 1973
Time: Unknown between 12:15 pm and 12:21 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Gene Taylor, Dewey J. Short, and William E. Timmons.
Greetings
Photographs
Congress
-Short’s experience
-Oratory
-Senate
Watergate
-Taylor’s interview in Missouri
-Administration’s accomplishments
-Vietnam War, prisoners of war [POWs], military draft, economy, and
demonstrations
-Short’s opinion
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-2012)
Conversation No. 915-16 (cont’d)
-President’s legacy
-Effects on the President’s supporters
-Taylor’s mail
-Support for President
-Congress
-President’s previous speech
-Timmons
-Support for President
-Need to respond
-Compared with Democrats’ activities
-Bombing of Republican campaign headquarters
-Republican national convention
Presentation of gifts by the President
-Cufflinks, Presidential seals
Vietnam
-Congressional vote
Taylor et al. left at 12:21 pm.