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Conversation 025-073

TapeTape 25StartTuesday, June 20, 1972 at 10:51 AMEndTuesday, June 20, 1972 at 10:54 AMTape start time03:10:26Tape end time03:12:24ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Morgan, Edward L.Recording deviceWhite House Telephone
AI Summary

President Nixon updates CIA Director Richard Helms regarding a recent meeting with Mexican President Luis Echeverría. Nixon confirms that he has authorized a private discussion between Echeverría and Helms, intending to facilitate a high-level intelligence channel. The President also instructs Helms to brief the Mexican leader on U.S. foreign policy perspectives concerning the Soviet Union and China.

Richard HelmsLuis EcheverríaInternational relationsCIAForeign policyIntelligence channels
AudioNARA Description

On June 20, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Edward L. Morgan talked on the telephone from 10:51 am to 10:54 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 025-073 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 25-73

Date: June 20, 1972
Time: 10:51-10:54 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Edward L. Morgan.

[See Conversation No. 342-12B]

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[Previous archivists categorized this section as unintelligible. It has been rereviewed and
released 10/30/2017.]
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[025-073-w001]
[Duration: 1m 57s]
     Edward L. Morgan memorandum
         -Questions raised

     Civil rights division
           -Lawyers
                 -Presidential appointees
                 -Potential transfers
           -Delay
           -Reason why

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Transcript (AI-Generated)

This transcript was generated automatically by AI and has not been reviewed for accuracy. Do not cite this transcript as authoritative. Consult the Finding Aid above for verified information.

Could you get me Director Helms, please?
Yes, Mr. President.
Hello.
Director Helms, Mr. President.
Hello.
Good morning, Mr. President.
Dick, I just left President Echeverria.
He took me aside.
He doesn't speak much.
I speak in English, but he says, I'm seeing Director Helms this afternoon.
I said, good.
I said, you can, you know, he has authorized it.
directly to you from me.
So you should tell him that I talked to you and so forth.
I don't know what games we're playing there, but he's strong.
He wants to play the right games.
I had told him, I gave him a little fill in Russia and China.
I said, no, we've had all these initiatives, but let me make one thing clear.
I have no reason to believe that both nations are going to continue their support of subversion in other countries.
I said, we have agreed on
no overt confrontations in effect but i said this is what you've got to expect and i think uh so uh that's the way i sort of i we didn't go in any other domestic things he has but uh so uh well thank you very much sir i will uh we are dick walters is going with me and we're going to have about an hour's chat with him
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