Conversation: 341-014
Prev: 341-013 Next: 341-015Start Date: Saturday, June 10, 1972 5:40 PM
End Date: Saturday, June 10, 1972 8:45 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); White House operator; [Unknown person(s)]; Mitchell, John N.; Ziegler, Ronald L.; Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); White House operator; [Unknown person(s)]; Mitchell, John N.; Ziegler, Ronald L.Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:07:12
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 04:43:40
NARA Description:
On June 10, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, White House operator, unknown person(s), John N. Mitchell, and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 1:40 pm to 4:45 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 341-014 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 341-14
Date: June 10, 1972
Time: 1:40-4:45 pm
Location: Old Executive Office Building
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
12
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 1m 34s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
*****************************************************************
Book [World Report]
-Possible use
-Henry A. Kissinger’s efforts
-Compared to the President’s forthcoming article
-Distribution
-US News and World Report
President's schedule
-Camp David
-Use
-The President’s view
-Swimming pool
-Weather
-Renovations
-Birch Lodge
-Compared to Aspen Lodge
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 1m 13s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
*****************************************************************
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-Possible message to Congress
13
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
-The President’s view
-Compared to People’s Republic of China [PRC] message
-The President’s conversation with Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-State Department
-William P. Rogers
-Possible benefits
-Congress
-The President’s view
-Haldeman’s view
-Views of Rogers and State Department
United Nations [UN] conference on environment
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 30m 32s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
*****************************************************************
Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 1:40 and 4:45 pm.
[Conversation No. 341-14A]
[See also Conversation No. 25-25]
[End of telephone conversation]
Charles W. Colson's location
-Son's graduation
Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 1:40 and 4:45 pm.
[Conversation No. 341-14B]
[See also Conversation No. 25-27]
14
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
[End of telephone conversation]
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 5m 45s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
*****************************************************************
Night club
-Unknown man's parties
Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 1:40 and 4:45 pm.
[Conversation No. 341-14C].
[See also Conversation No. 25-29]
[End of telephone conversation]
International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Richard G. Kleindienst's confirmation
Haldeman talked with John N. Mitchell at an unknown time between 1:40 and 4:45 pm.
[Conversation No. 341-14D]
[See also Conversation No. 25-31; one item has been withdrawn]
[End of telephone conversation]
15
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 2m 10s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
*****************************************************************
An unknown person talked with Haldeman at an unknown time between 1:40 and 4:45 pm.
[Conversation No. 341-14E]
[See also Conversation No. 25-32]
[End of telephone conversation]
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 9m 43s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
*****************************************************************
The President's schedule
-Swearing in ceremony
-Warren E. Burger
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Reception
-The President’s possible participation
-Clyde A. Tolson, Helen Gandy
-J. Edgar Hoover's funeral
-Bui Diem
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Donald F. Rodgers
-John C. Stennis
16
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
-Kissinger
-Possible press conference
-Kissinger's schedule
-Herbert Stein and George P. Shultz
-Kermit Gordon
-Brookings Institution
-Pay Board
Gordon
-Role with Administration
-Views of Shultz and Donald H. Rumsfeld
The President's schedule
-Robert Elegant, Joseph Hainesbury Smith, Peter Kahn
-Views of Kenneth W. Clawson and Herbert G. Klein
-Stewart J. O. Alsop
-Richard L. Wilson
-San Francisco Examiner
-Associated Press [AP]
-Article for US News and World Report
-Haldeman's possible conversation with Klein,
Colson, Clawson, and Ronald L. Ziegler
-American Association of Retired Persons [AARP]
-Testimonial for Omar N. Bradley
-Possible Presidential Medal of Freedom
-Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope
-Elwood R. Quesada and Frank Higgs
-Chester V. Clifton
-Possible statement on SALT
-Kissinger
-Length
-Republican leadership meeting
-Henry Cabot Lodge
-Cartoonists
-Philadelphia Police League
-Petition
-Frank L. Rizzo
-New petition
-League of United Latin American Citizens Convention
-Tricia Nixon Cox's schedule
-Service chiefs
-John B. Connally's views
-Kissinger
-Melvin R. Laird
17
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Topics of discussion
-Timing of meeting
1972 Campaign
-Campaign debates
-Haldeman
-Mitchell's view
-Raymond K. Price's view
-President’s policies
-Record
-President's article in Saturday Evening Post
-John F. Kennedy
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Price's view
-Mitchell's view
-White House response
-President's possible action
-Patrick J. Buchanan's view
-The President’s policies
-Politics
-Mitchell's previous press conference
-Rationale
The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 1:40 and 4:45
pm.
[Conversation No. 341-14F]
[See also Conversation No. 25-33]
[End of telephone conversation]
Foreign policy
-US News and World Report
Haldeman talked with Ziegler at an unknown time between 1:40 and 4:45 pm.
[Conversation No. 341-14G]
[See also Conversation No. 25-34]
[End of telephone conversation]
18
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
Ziegler's forthcoming press briefing
-The President's forthcoming article for US News and
World Report
-1972 Campaign
-Effects on participants
Foreign policy
-Reaction to the President's decisions
-The President’s trip to the Soviet Union
-Kissinger
-Actions
-The President’s May 8 decision on Vietnam
-The President and Kissinger
-Rogers
-The President’s view
-Kissinger’s action
-1969 Vietnam Peace settlement
-Soviet Union-PRC relations
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9
[National security]
[Duration: 16s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9
*****************************************************************
Kissinger
-Role in administration
-Conversations with John D. Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-The President’s May 8, 1972 Vietnam speech
-National Guard
-Consultation with Cabinet members
-Elliot L. Richardson [?]
Connally
-Public statement
-President's policy on Vietnam
Vietnam
19
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
-President's conversation with Kissinger
-The President’s policies
-Bombing
-Cancellation of US-Soviet Union summit
-Possible effect
-President's visits to Soviet Union and PRC
Public relations
-Role of President
-Connally
-Administration spokesman
-Speeches
-Effect
-Television
-Importance
-The President’s trip to PRC
-Effect
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 11
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 10m 47s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 11
*****************************************************************
Public relations
The President's trip to Soviet Union
-Return and report to Congress
-Effect
-Helicopter
-Network coverage
-Effect
-John Reagan (“Tex”) McCrary's view
-President's speech to Soviet people, May 28, 1972
-US television coverage
-Effect
20
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Unknown man's actions
-Film
Films of the President
-Hearst Corporation
-Commentary
-Use
-Schools
PRC
-Gift of book library to the President
-Storage
-Future use in Nixon Library
Soviet Union
-Gift of hydrofoil to President
-Possible uses
-Potomac
-Florida
-Walkers Key
-Gift of Cadillac to Leonid I. Brezhnev
-General Motors [GM]
-Brezhnev’s wishes
-Traffic lanes in Moscow
-Uses
-The President’s trip to Soviet Union
-Automobiles
-Rose Mary Woods's views
-Comparison with PRC
President's foreign policy
-State of World report
-Length
-The President’s view
-Kissinger
-The President’s role
-Public interest
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 13
[Personal returnable]
21
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
[Duration: 7m59s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 13
*****************************************************************
White House staff
-Size
-Budget
-Possible use
-Possible supplemental appropriation
-Use
-Speech writers
-Buchanan
-Campaign
1972 Campaign
-Domestic council
-Frederic V. Malek's role
-Responsiveness program
-Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD]
-Contracts
-Administration supporters
-Organization
-Personnel
-Personnel
-Campaign staff
-Malek
Jeb S. Magruder
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 14
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 15m 54s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 14
*****************************************************************
22
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
Connally
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 1:40 pm.
Briefcase
Unknown man left at an unknown time before 4:45 pm.
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 15
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 3m ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 15
*****************************************************************
Haldeman left at 4:45 pm.