Conversation: 333-008
Prev: 333-007 Next: 333-009Start Date: Wednesday, April 26, 1972 3:29 PM
End Date: Wednesday, April 26, 1972 4:36 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Sanchez, Manolo; Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); [Unknown person(s)]; Butterfield, Alexander P.Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:07:15
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:09:06
NARA Description:
On April 26, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Manolo Sanchez, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, unknown person(s), and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 10:29 am and 11:36 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 333-008 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 333-8
Date: April 26, 1972
Time: Unknown after 10:29 am - 11:36 am
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Manolo Sanchez.
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H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered and Sanchez left at 10:30 am.
The President’s forthcoming speech
-The President's suits
-Color
-Selection by Mark I. Goode
-Style
-Color
-Importance
-Television reception
-Goode
-William H. Carruthers
-Selection
-Ties
Vietnam
-Soviets
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Henry A. Kissinger
Soviet Union
-The President's trip
-Selection of reporters
-Trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
-St. Louis Post-Dispatch
-Administration's supporters
-Haldeman's task
The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 10:30 and 10:44 am.
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[Conversation No. 333-8A]
Russell A. Kirk
-New book for the President
-Florida
[End of telephone conversation]
Vietnam
-Bombing halt
-Implementation
-Kissinger's opinion
-May 2, 1972 meeting
-Preparations
-William Averell Harriman to Cyrus R. Vance cable
-Understandings with North Vietnam
-Artillery
- Demilitarized Zone [DMZ]
-Attacks on cities
-Bombing halt
-Condition
-Use in speech by Kissinger
-Bombing halt
-Conditions
-North Vietnamese position
-US reply
-Verbal agreements
-Lyndon B. Johnson's queries
-Soviet cable
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Aleksei N. Kosygin
-Resumption
-Harriman's cable
-Disclosure
-Soviets
-Philippines
-Johnson
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Resistance to halt
-Nguyen Cao Ky
-Anna C. Chennault
-Tactics
-Negotiations
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-National Liberation Front [NLF]
-Ky plot
-Cable traffic
-Narrative
-Tom C. Huston
-Harriman's cable
-Bombing halt
-North Vietnamese agreement
-Xuan Thuy
-Huston
Reception for Congressmen
-Col. Albert Shoepper
-Certificate
-Kissinger’s briefing
-Impressions of Congressmen at dinner
-Clark MacGregor
-The President's remarks
The President's forthcoming speech
-Responsibilities
-Winston Lord and John K. Andrews, Jr.
-Liberals
-Remarks about demonstrators
-United Nations [UN]
-Changes
-Personal terms
-Kissinger
Reception for Congressmen
-John Sherman Cooper
-William M. Colmer
-Cooper's joke
-MacGregor
-Army Chorus
-Unknown baritone
-The Road to Mandalay
-Modern music
-Type of music
-Audience reaction
-PRC trip
-America the Beautiful
-Turkey in the Straw
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-Nostalgia
-Performance
-Marine Band
-Performances
-Gridiron
-The President’s schedule
-The President’s knowledge of guests
-George H. Mahon
Texas Tech University Red Raiders
-Press coverage
-Neglect
-Ziegler
-Herbert G. Klein
The President's career
-Memory of places visited
-Amarillo, Texas
Reception for Congressmen
-Effect
The Presidency
-Credibility
-Vietnam War
-Impact
-Speech
-Andrews's and Lord's draft
-Passage
-PRC and Moscow trips
-Wording
-First person singular
-UN
-“Silent Majority”
The President's speeches
-Cambodia [April 30, 1970]
-Effectiveness
-Kent State University
-Winston S. Churchill
-Statement on British Empire
-Andrews's draft
-Changes
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
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-Speechwriters
-Deficiencies
-Use of first person singular
-April 26, 1972 speech
-Changes
-Presidential election
-The President’s forthcoming trip to Texas
-Length
-Review with Kissinger
-Troop announcement
-Stories in press
-Peace talks
Kissinger's Moscow trip
-Press reports
-News summary
-Thomas E. Jarriel
-Summit
-Errors
-Misstatements to press
-Ziegler
Kissinger
-Trip to Moscow
-Television coverage
-Washington Post editorial
-Kissinger's conversation with Katharine L. Graham
Vietnam
-The President's speeches and policies
-Washington Post criticism
-Vietnamization
-Johnson
-Offensive
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams
-Briefing policy
-John W. Vogt, Jr.
-Refugees
-Press reports
-John A. Scali
-Press
-Battle stories
-Reports on perspective
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-Refugees
-South Vietnam
-Population centers
-Control
-Reports on Kissinger trip
-Time cover
-Washington Post
-Life cover
-Time cover
-Washington Post
-Kissinger and John B. Connally
Haldeman's schedule
-The President's speech
-Follow-up work
-The President's trip
-Kissinger’s trip
-Charles W Colson
Press
-Madam Nguyen Tri Binh letter
-Publicity
-Barry M. Goldwater's speech
-Colson follow-up
-Circulation
The President’s forthcoming speech
-Publicity
-Reasons
-Vogt
-Follow-up
-Attacks on "Dove Democrats"
-The President's memorandum for Patrick J. Buchanan
-George H. W. Bush
-Haldeman's role
-Florida trip
-Arrangements
Stock market
-Colson's analysis
-C. Jackson Grayson, Jr.
-Vietnam
-Grayson
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-Prices
-Correction
-Articles
-Biases of writers
-Jewish left-wing
-Economic indicators
Frank T. Bow
-Appointment as ambassador to Panama
-Qualifications
-Canal treaty
-[Robert M. Sayre?]
-Conversation with Peter M. Flanigan
-William P. Rogers
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Public relations
-White House staff
-Television commentators
-Vietnam
Manolo Sanchez entered and left at an unknown time before 11:22 am.
Refreshments
-Scali
-Colson's staff
-Thomas C. Korologos
-Kenneth Khachigian
-Buchanan
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-Washington Post
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-Scali
-Republican National Committee [RNC]
-Committee to Reelect the President [CRP]
-Volunteers
-Letter writing operation
-Unknown female staff member
-Distribution
-Forthcoming speech
-Calls
Vietnam
-US troop withdrawals
-Army of the Republic of South Vietnam [ARVN]
-Left wing critics
-Problems
-Kissinger's trip
Press
-Ziegler
-Contacts with reporters
-Fears of the President's policies
-Kissinger
-Trip
-Handling of foreign policy
-Soviets
-Hanoi
-Public opinion
-Role of press
The President’s schedule
-John D. Ehrlichman [?]
The President's speech
-Draft
-Kissinger
-Completion
-The President's review
The President's schedule
-Meeting with Herbert F. De Simone
-Photograph opportunity
-Meeting with Korean Foreign Minister Kim Yong-Sik
-Time
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Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 10:30 and 11:22 am.
[Conversation No. 333-8B]
-Scheduling
-Preparations
-Location
-Time
[End of telephone conversation]
-Photograph opportunity
Vietnam
-The President's opponents
-Effectiveness
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-Demonstrations
-University of California at Los Angeles [UCLA]
-Haldeman's conversation with son, Harry
-Size
-Problems
-Reaction
-Defacement of library building
-Property damage
-Damage to antiwar movement
-John F. Osborne
Instruction for Haldeman
Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 11:22 am.
The President's schedule
-Meeting with Kim Yong-sik
-Time
-Kissinger
-Length
-Change in time
-Kissinger
Butterfield left at 11:23 am.
-Meeting with foreign ministers
-Rogers
-Meeting with De Simone
-Time
-Speech draft
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-Place
Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 11:23 and 11:36 am.
[Conversation No. 333-8C]
The President's schedule
-Meeting with De Simone
-Photograph opportunity
-Time
-Place
[End of telephone conversation]
Vietnam
-The President's policies
-Briefings
-Vogt
-Scali
-White House staff
-Refugees
-North Vietnamese attacks
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] news report
-An Loc
-Highway 13
-Return to Quang Tri
-Battlefield reports
-National Security Study Memorandum [NSSM]
-Vietnamization
-Cable from Harriman
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Haldeman left at 11:36 am.