Conversation: 331-010
Prev: 331-009 Next: 331-011Start Date: Monday, April 17, 1972 8:55 PM
End Date: Monday, April 17, 1972 9:48 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.; Sanchez, Manolo; Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:40:36
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:10:34
NARA Description:
On April 17, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Ronald L. Ziegler, Manolo Sanchez, and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 3:55 pm to 4:48 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 331-010 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 331-10
Date: April 17, 1972
Time: 3:55 pm - 4:48 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler and Manolo Sanchez.
Refreshment
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:00 pm.
Vietnam
-Ziegler’s recent press conference
-William P. Rogers
-Talks with the President
-Melvin R. Laird
-Meeting with the President
-An announcement
-Testimony
-Rogers's testimony
-Press reaction to Ziegler's statements
-Negotiations with North Vietnam
-January 25, 1972 proposal
-Xuan Thuy
-Negotiations
-Ziegler's statements
H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 4:00 pm.
-A resolution
-Condemnation of North Vietnam
-Message to Soviet Union
-Release of US and Soviet texts
-Henry A. Kissinger's and Rogers's advice
-The President's approval
-Timing
-Rogers's television appearance
-Newspapers
-Contents
-US air attacks on North Vietnam
-Anti-aircraft fire
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 331-10 (cont.)
-Hanoi and Haiphong
-Ziegler’s talk with Robert J. McCloskey
-Release of texts
-Timing
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Confirmation hearings
-Congress
-A resolution
-Democrats
-Press conference
-Ziegler's handling of questions about the President's policies
-North Vietnam
-Nature of US air attacks
-Targeting
-Hanoi, Haiphong
-Antiwar Democrats
-Patriotism
-Charges of supporting North Vietnam
-Rogers’s comments
-Press conference
-Invasion
-Responsibility
-Vietcong [VC]
-Enemy troop build-up
Rogers's statements
-Television coverage
Ziegler left at 4:10 pm.
Vietnam
-Congress
-Republicans
-Resolution to condemn North Vietnam
-The President's conversation with Kissinger
-Charles W. Colson and Clark Macgregor
-News story
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Democratic support
-House of Representatives
-F. Edward Hebert
-Democratic support for the President
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 331-10 (cont.)
-Resolution against North Vietnam
-MacGregor
-William E. Timmons
-Gerald R. Ford
-Muskie resolution
-Location in congress
-Foreign Relations Committee
-Congressional resolution
-Colson
-Hebert
-The President
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Democratic resolution
-Partisanship
-Congressional resolution
-John B. Connally
-American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE], April 22, 1972 meeting
-Wording
-Agnew
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Rogers
-North Vietnamese invasion
-Soviet Union
-South Vietnam
-Soviets
-North Vietnamese invasion
-Communists
-Senators
-South Vietnam
-George P. Shultz
-Statements
Ziegler
-State Department
Kissinger
-Work with Administration
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
Vietnam
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 331-10 (cont.)
-Soviet summit
-Congress
-Senate
Connally
-Testimony
-Possible resignation
-Timing
-Soviet summit
-Vietnam
Secretary of the Treasury
-Confirmation
-Acting Secretary
-World economy
-Confidence
-Possible nominations
-Connally’s staff
-[William P. Pannill?]
-Wallace H. Johnson
-The President's schedule
-Trip
-Texas
-A dinner
Connally
-Possible resignation
-Timing
-Soviet summit
-Timing
-Democratic National Convention
-Delays
-Shultz
-Summit
-Tour
-Democratic Nomination
Vietnam
-Summit
The President's schedule
-Trip to Florida
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 331-10 (cont.)
-Dinner for retiring congressmen
-Time
International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] hearings
-Conclusion
-Schedule
-Vietnam War issue
-Written interrogatories
-House of Representatives
-Busing
-Jay Lovestone
-Texas
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Rogers's schedule
-Television
The President and Haldeman left at 4:48 pm.