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Start Date: 17-Aug-1972 11:04 PM

End Date: 18-Aug-1972 12:45 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Woods, Rose MaryCamp David OperatorHaldeman, H. R. ("Bob")

Recording Device: Camp David Hard Wire

204-009.mp3

NARA Description:

President Richard M. Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, Camp David operator, and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David on an unknown date, sometime between 11:04 pm on August 17, 1972 and 12:45 am on August 18, 1972. The Camp David Hard Wire taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 204-009 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 204-9
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                      NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                       Tape Subject Log
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Date: Unknown between August 17 and August 18, 1972
Time: Unknown after 11:04 pm, August 17, 1972 and before 12:45 am, August 18, 1972
Location: Camp David Hard Wire

The President rehearsed his "Remarks on Accepting the Presidential Nomination of the
Republican National Convention".

[A transcript of the speech appears in Public Papers of the Presidents, 1972, pp. 787-795.]

Rose Mary Woods entered at an unknown time after 11:04 pm.

      The President’s forthcoming acceptance speech
           -Transcription of tapes
           -John K. Andrews, Jr.
           -Text changes
           -Completion of speech
                  -Woods’s residence
                       -Dogwood Lodge
           -Elmer H.Bobst’s view
                  -1968 acceptance speech
                  -The President’s televised address in the Soviet Union, May 28, 1972
                  -Effect of speech on electorate
                  -The President’s televised address in the Soviet Union
                       -Tanya Savicheva
                            -William L. Safire
           -Raymond K. Price, Jr.
           -Aram Bakshian
           -Harold J. (“Tex”) Lezar, Jr.
           -Patrick J. Buchanan
           -Price

      The President's schedule
           -Forthcoming meeting with Ronald W. Reagan
                 -Report on European trip
                       -The President’s view
           -New suits
                 -Republican National Convention
                 -The President’s televised address in the Soviet Union
                 -Anthony T. Rossi
                 -Zosimo T. Monzon

      Call to Woods from unknown person
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                NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                Tape Subject Log
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     -Support for the President
     -Brig. Gen. Daniel ("Chappie") James, Jr. television appearance
           -View of blacks in US

Letters
     -Marjorie P. Acker
     -Mamie G.D. Eisenhower and John S.D. Eisenhower
          -Thanks for statement about George S. McGovern
                -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
     -Charles W. Colson’s recent call
          -Letter to George Meany
                -The President’s telephone call to Meany
                     -Vietnam veterans

The President’s speeches
     -The President’s televised address in the Soviet Union
          -Mushroom metaphor
                -Price’s role
                -Safire
          -Savicheva story
     -Quality
     -Speechwriters' effort
          -Political orientation
                -Buchanan
                -Kenneth L. Khachigian
                -Buchanan
                     -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
                     -Question and Answer [Q&A] work
          -Andrews
          -Price
                -Pace of work
                -Wok with Andrews during the Soviet trip
                     -Woods’s view

Agnew
    -Compared to R. Sargent Shriver
          -Woods’s view
    -Domestic Council
          -John D. Ehrlichman
    -National Security Council [NSC]
    -John V. Lindsay
    -Charles H. Percy
          -Woods’s view
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                        NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                        Tape Subject Log
                                          (rev. Mar-02)


                         -Domestic Council
             -Accomplishments
             -Staff
             -Briefings for the President while he was Vice President
                    -Robert E. Cushman
                    -Agnes Waldron
                    -Colgate Prentiss
                         -Princeton University
                         -Robert C. Wilson
                    -Agnew’s staff
                         -The President’s view
                              -William A. Anders

     The President’s forthcoming acceptance speech
          -Agnew
               -Nomination
                     -John B. Connally

The President talked with the Camp David operator at an unknown time between 11:04 pm and
11:43 pm.

[Conversation No. 204-9A]

[See Conversation No. 140-33]

[End of telephone conversation]

     Price
             -Pace of work
             -Andrews
                   -Work with Price during the Soviet trip

The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman between 11:43 pm and 11:49 pm.

[Conversation No. 204-9B]

[See Conversation No. 140-34]

[End of telephone conversation]

     The President’s forthcoming acceptance speech
          -Relationship between Price and Andrews
          -Unknown person
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                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. Mar-02)


          -Previous speechwriters
                -Bryce N. Harlow
                -Bill Elliot
                -James R. Shepley
                -Arthur S. Flemming
                -Gabriel Hauge
                -Harlow
                -Shepley
                      -Wife
                -William P. Rogers
                -Flemming

     Rogers
         -Platform Committee
               -Woods’s view

     The President's schedule

Woods left at an unknown time before 12:45 am, August 18, 1972 .