Conversation: 328-014
Prev: 328-013 Next: 328-015Start Date: 29-Mar-1972 12:57 PM
End Date: 29-Mar-1972 3:07 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Sanchez, Manolo; Alvarez, Luis Echeverria; Westmoreland, William (Gen.); Peale, Norman Vincent; Kissinger, Henry A.;Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:37:42
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:52:39
NARA Description:
On March 29, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Manolo Sanchez, Luis Echeverria Alvarez, Gen. William Westmoreland, Norman Vincent Peale, and Henry A. Kissinger met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 12:57 pm and 3:07 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 328-014 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 328-14
Date: March 29, 1972
Time: Unknown between 12:57 pm and 3:07 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Manolo Sanchez.
Recording machine
-Problems with operation
The President dictated a letter to Luis Alvarez Echeverria.
The President’s appreciation
-Courtesy to Henry A. Kissinger in Acapulco
-Kissinger’s work
-Amount
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Tape Subject Log
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-Hospitality of Mexicans
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:07 pm.
Latin America
Echeverria’s forthcoming visit to US
-Invitation
-Camp David
-Reception
-Time of year
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
The President dictated a letter to Gen. William C. Westmoreland.
Army chorus
-Performance at a dinner
-The President’s attendance
-Singing
-Stout-Hearted men
-Impact on audience
-The President’s appreciation to “The Singing Sergeants”
The President dictated a letter to Norman Vincent Peale.
The President’s previous conversation with H. E. Ahmad Toukan
-Former Prime Minister of Jordan
-Knowledge of Huseein ebn-Talal’s [Hussein, King of Jordan] family
-Huseein’s early hardships
-Assassination of grandfather
-Father’s health
-Hussein’s achievements
-Toukan’s view
-Hussein’s good temper
-Hussein’s mother
Motherhood
-The President’s view
The President’s conversation with Ahmad Toukan
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Conv. No. 328-14 (cont.)
The President replayed part of the dictation.
The President continued dictating.
Mother’s Day sermon
The President’ dictated a memorandum to Kissinger.
Robert Amory,Jr.
-Attendance at previous dinner for Hussein
-Former assistant to Allen W. Dulles
-Previous conversation with the President
-Incident in 1954-44
-Joseph McCarthy’s investigation of Dulles
-White House staff
-The President’s defense of Dulles
-Amory’s view
-George Ball
-1968 attack on the President
-Amory’s letter to the New York Times
-Editing of letter
-Eastern Establishment
-Possible appointment to a board