Conversation: 023-058
Prev: 023-057 Next: 023-059Start Date: Thursday, April 20, 1972 8:36 PM
End Date: Thursday, April 20, 1972 8:43 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Rogers, William P.Recording Device: White House Telephone
NARA Description:
On April 20, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and William P. Rogers talked on the telephone from 3:36 pm to 3:43 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 023-058 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 23-58
Date: April 20, 1972
Time: 3:36-3:43 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with William P. Rogers.
Vietnam
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.'s briefing of the President
-Knowledge
-Style
-South Vietnamese morale
-US performance
-Haig's briefing of White House staff
-Arrangements
-Briefing of State Department staff
-Vietnamization
-South Vietnamese performance
-Air support
-Time
-Unknown State Department official
-Military region tours
-Cooperation between the White House and State Department
-Tour of Vietnam
-South Vietnamese commanders
-[Forename unknown]Minh
-Performance
-Haiphong bombing
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Claudia A. (“Lady Bird”) Johnson
-Conversation with Rogers
-Lyndon B. Johnson
Vietnam
-Democratic caucus resolution
-Passage of House
-Contents
-Robert F. Drinan
-Committee report
-Amendment
-Necessity
-John B. Connally
-House meeting
-Dove
-Problems
-Haig briefing
-Charles W. Colson
-Arrangements
American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE]
-Rogers's attendance at convention
-Numbers
-Chicago papers
-Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Tribune
-Ohio papers
-Cleveland Plain-Dealer and Preston Wolfe
-Pennsylvania papers
-Newhouse publications
-Los Angeles and California papers
-Texas papers
-Cultivation
-Otis Chandler
-Cultivation
-Martin S. Hayden
-Wives
-Adele Rogers
-Cabinet
-Use of White House
-Mrs. Rogers
-Attendance
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