Conversation No. 204-9
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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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     -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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                         -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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          -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 .