Conversation: 315-014
Prev: 315-013 Next: 315-015Start Date: Monday, January 17, 1972 6:50 PM
End Date: Monday, January 17, 1972 7:15 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Acker, Marjorie P.; Woods, Rose MaryRecording Device: Old Executive Office Building
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:44:06
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:06:10
NARA Description:
On January 17, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Marjorie P. Acker, and Rose Mary Woods met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 1:50 pm to 2:15 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 315-014 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 315-14
Date: January 19, 1972
Time: 1:50 pm - 2:15 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
Denmark
-Death of King Frederik IX
-Henry A. Kissinger memorandum
-William P. Rogers
-John S. D. Eisenhower
-John D. Ehrlichman
-State Department
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Conv. No. 315-14 (cont.)
-Danes
-US constituency
-California
-Compared to Swedes
-Death of King Frederik IX
-Eisenhower
-Rogers
-Guilford Dudley, Jr.
-Fred J. Russell
-Valley Knudsen
-Health
-Possible call from Haldeman
-Lauritz Melchior
-Victor Borge
-Dudley, Russell and Eisenhower
Appointments
-Peter M. Flanigan
-John B. Connally
-Peter G. Peterson
-Personality
-Possible working relationship with Connally
-Haldeman’s possible talks with Flanigan and Connally
-Flanigan’s possible talk with Connally
-Haldeman’s role
-Compared to Kissinger
-Possible conversation with Haldeman
-The President’s views
-Haldeman’s possible talk with Connally
-Doubts
-White House staff
-Support of Connally
-Ehrlichman
-Connally's role with administration
State of the Union speech
-Advance draft review
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.’s call to Connally
-Ehrlichman's report
-Connally's suggestions
-Instruction for Haldeman
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Conv. No. 315-14 (cont.)
-Tone
-Ehrlichman's role
-Draft
-Completion
-Timing
-Review
-Kissinger
-Additions
-Tone
-Conciliation
-Non-partisanship
-Length
Connally
-Position in Cabinet
-Relations with Democrats
-Relations with Cabinet
-Relations with White House staff
-Ehrlichman, George P. Shultz and Kissinger
-Connally's staff
-Forthcoming conversation with Haldeman
-State of the Union speech
-The President’s schedule
-Connally’s review
White House staff
-Unknown man
-Quote
-Herbert Stein
-Ehrlichman, Shultz
-Connally
-Relations with other staff
-Compared to Rogers
-Ehrlichman, Shultz
-Haldeman’s effort
-Work
Marjorie P. Acker entered at 2:10 pm.
The President's forthcoming speech
-Length
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
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Conv. No. 315-14 (cont.)
Acker left at 2:11 pm.
Haldeman's schedule
-Flanigan
-Paul A. Volcker
[The President talked with an unknown person [Rose Mary Woods?] at an unknown time
between 2:11 pm and 2:15 pm.]
[Conversation No. 315-14A]
The President's speech draft
-Copy
-The President's style
-Delivery to Connally
-Haldeman
-Price
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Time of release
-Reproduction
[End of telephone conversation]
-The President's reading copy
-Delivery to Connally
-Press copy
Haldeman's schedule
-Forthcoming conversation with Flanigan
-Forthcoming conversation with Connally
-Call to the President
Haldeman left at 2:15 pm.
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