Conversation: 348-010
Prev: 348-009 Next: 348-011Start Date: Wednesday, July 19, 1972 6:42 PM
End Date: Wednesday, July 19, 1972 9:53 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.; Bull, Stephen B.; [Unknown person(s)]; Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Ziegler, Ronald L.; Sanchez, ManoloRecording Device: Old Executive Office Building
NARA Description:
On July 19, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Charles W. Colson, Stephen B. Bull, unknown person(s), H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Ronald L. Ziegler, and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 2:42 pm to 5:53 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 348-010 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 348-10
Date: July 19, 1972
Time: 2:42 pm - 5:53 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Charles W. Colson.
Telephone call
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:42 pm.
The President's schedule
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Buzzer on telephone
Bull left at an unknown time before 3:27 pm.
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The President's call to Francis A. (“Frank”) Sinatra
-Entertainment for Giulio Andreotti visit
-Scheduling
-John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
-White House
-South Lawn
Entertainment for Andreotti
-White House
-Television
Sinatra
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-Relationship with Kennedy
-Previous trip to White House
-Relationship with Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
Colson's forthcoming call to Agnew
-The President's call to Sinatra
-Purpose
-Congratulations on testimony
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An unknown person talked with the President at an unknown time between 2:42 pm and 3:27
pm.
[Conversation No. 348-10A]
Call to someone
-Buzzer system
[End of telephone conversation]
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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[Duration: 4m 56s ]
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Watergate
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-John N. Mitchell
-Judge
-Colson's summons in civil case
-E. Howard Hunt
-View of previous activities
-Possible testimony
-Relationship to William F. Buckley, Jr.
-Brown University
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Daniel Ellsberg
-Criminal case
-Compared to civil case
-Democratic National Committee
-Grand jury
-Magruder
-Ehrlichman
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-Politics
-Burglars
-Actions
-Possible sentences
-Gray
-Democrats' portrayal
-Hunt, G[eorge] Gordon Liddy, Magruder
-White House
-Magruder
-Haldeman
-Herbert G. Klein
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-Vietnam Veterans against the War
-Charges
-Pardons
-Timing
-Grounds
-Corruption in administration
-McGovern
-International Brotherhood of Teamsters
-Cubans' motives
-New York Times story
-Tad Szulc
-McGovern
-Money
-As an issue
-The President's forthcoming press conference
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] and big business
-Labor support for the President
-Frank L. Rizzo
-“Mattie” Ryan
-Boston
-Washington Post
News summary
-White House staff work
-Contents
-Indexing
-Lead stories
-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC], Columbia Broadcasting
System [CBS], American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC]
-Lyndon K. (“Mort”) Allin
-Possible role
-Contents
-Distribution
-Washington Post
Watergate
-The President’s request of Colson
-California
-Finance Committee
-Republican National Committee
-Robert J. Dole
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
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[Duration: 4m 15s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
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Watergate
-Staff's feelings toward Magruder and Mitchell
-Dole
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
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[Duration: 14m 49s ]
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Cabinet breakfast meeting
Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 3:27 pm and 3:45 pm.
[Conversation No. 348-10C]
Cabinet breakfast meeting
-Timing
[End of telephone call]
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Cabinet meeting
-Arrangements
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Budget
The President's schedule
-Armand Hammer
Stock market
-Hammer
-John B. Connally's comment
-McGovern's capital gains proposal
-Borrowing money with stock as security
The President schedule
-Connally
-Cabinet meeting
-Colson, Haldeman, Clark MacGregor
-Connally
-William E. Timmons
Labor relations
-George P. Shultz, James D. Hodgson
-Harry Bridges
-Teamsters
-The President’s schedule
-Shultz, Hodgson
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Shultz
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-Story
-Conversation with Colson
-Teamsters
-Vote
-Robert Holmes
-James R. (“Jimmy”) Hoffa
-Einar O. Mahon
-Harold J. Gibbons
-Forthcoming conversation with Colson
-Victor Riesel
-Statement on Meany
-Forthcoming conversation with Colson
-The President's golf game
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-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-Golf
-Unknown people
-Texas Tech University
-San Francisco 49ers
Colson left at 3:45 pm.
NBC's forthcoming All-Star game coverage
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-American League
-Frank F. Manckiewicz
-National League
-McGovern
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The President's speech to the American Legion
-Length
-US defense issues
-Amnesty
-Political rhetoric
-Use of words “Democrat” and “Republican”
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
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Agnew
-Haldeman's conversation with Mitchell
-The President's forthcoming conversation with Connally
Watergate
-The White House response
-The President’s talk with Mitchell [?]
-Bart Porter
-Grand jury testimony July 19, 1972
-Effect
-Magruder
-Mitchell
-Magruder
-John W. Dean, III
-Mitchell
-Henry E. Petersen
- White House staff
-Ehrlichman's view
-Democratic National Convention
-Magruder
-The President’s view
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
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[Duration: 2m 52s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
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The President's call to Sinatra
-The President's call to Frank L. Rizzo
-View of law enforcement
-Testimony before congressional committee
-Plans for Andreotti visit
-White House
-East Room
-Television
-Timing
-Kennedy Center
-Farewell performance
-News conference
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 4:10 pm..
Weather
-California
Vietnam negotiations
-Kissinger
-Paris
-The President's conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Richard M. Helms, Haig, Kissinger
-Possible briefings for McGovern
-Haig’s talk with Fred Dutton
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1972 campaign
-Meany's statement
-Support for the President or McGovern
-Daniel L. Schorr
News leads
-Kissinger, American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations
[AFL-CIO] endorsement vote, Egyptian expulsion of Soviet advisers
Teamsters
-Washington Post story
-Katharine L. Graham
-Franklin D. Roosevelt's political speech (“Fala Speech”) of September 23, 1944
McGovern
-Newsmen's views
-Policies
-National defense
-Compared to Hubert H. Humphrey
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:10 pm.
Refreshments
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:33 pm.
McGovern
-Newsmen's views
-Democratic Party
Treatment by campaign people
-Mankiewicz
-Pierre Salinger
-Mankiewicz and Salinger
-Treatment of press
-John F. Kennedy
The President left at an unknown time after 4:10 pm.
Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 4:10 and 5:33 pm.
[Conversation No. 348-10B]
Baseball
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-David N. Parker
[End of telephone conversation]
All Star game
-David Eisenhower's role
-Mankiewicz
Weather
The President entered at an unknown time before 5:33 pm.
The President's press relations
-1968 campaign
-The President's press relations
-Arguments
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Douglas L. Hallett
-Unavailability, staff hostility, dullness
-Bias toward Humphrey
-Compared with 1972
-Possible anti-Nixon bias by press
-The President's accomplishments in office
-McGovern
-Press conferences
-Possible press conferences
-Confidence
-John A. Scali's memorandum
-Attacks on press
-Monday magazine
-Contacts with the President
-Air Force One
-Wall Street Journal
-Radio
-Social events
-Press conferences
-Possible changes
-Contacts with press by the White House staff
-Ehrlichman, Haldeman, Kissinger
-MacGregor
-Connally
-The President’s schedule
-Interviews
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-Associated Press [AP]
-Wall Street Journal
-Kissinger
-Comparison with Ehrlichman
-John Hart
-Columnists
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr., John Chancellor, David Brinkley, [Arnold] Eric
Sevareid
-ABC
-Harry Reasoner, Howard K. Smith, Thomas E. Jarriel
-Groups
-CBS, NBC, ABC
-Ehrlichman
-Haldeman
-Kissinger
-On the record compared to off the record
-Connally
-Press conferences
-Democrats
-Cronkite
-Kissinger
-Marvin L. and Bernard Kalb, Chalmers Roberts, Murrey Marder, Joseph
C. Kraft
-Joseph W. and Stewart J.O. Alsop, Rowland Evans
-Cronkite, Chancellor, Smith, Reasoner, Brinkley, Dan Rather, Herbert E.
Kaplow, Richard G. Valeriani, Robert B. Semple, Jr., unknown person,
James J. Kilpatrick, Jr., unknown people, Helen A. Thomas, Stewart M.
Hensley, Evans
-Herb Kaplow, Frank Cormier, Richard Valeriani
-Los Angeles Times
-Ehrlichman
-The President's press contacts
-Press conferences
-Oval Office
-AP
-Television
-Cronkite
-Timing
-Republican National Convention
-California
-Social event
-Spontaneity
-Cronkite
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-Eugene V. Risher
-Frank Cormier
-Pace of changes
-Off the record
-Thomas
-Western White House
-Republican National Convention
-Kissinger, Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-Klein, Robert H. Finch
-MacGregor
-On the record
-Klein, Finch, Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Issues
-Editorial boards
The President's schedule
-Vietnam issue
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9
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[Duration: 52m 35s ]
ZIEGLER LEFT AT 5:33 PM.
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Watergate
-Magruder
-Forthcoming meeting July 19, 1972 with Mitchell and Haldeman
-Cover-up
-Possible indictment
-Effects
-Hugh W. Sloan,Jr.
-Porter
-Testimony July 19, 1972
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-Role at the Committee to Re-elect the President
-Mitchell
-Compared to Magruder and Porter
-Possible subpoena
-Grand jury's interests
-Colson
-Civil suit
-John Ehrlichman
-Hunt's testimony about Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-Washington Post
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-Petersen
-Opinion about Mitchell
-Mitchell
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[Duration: 1m 35s ]
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Haldeman left at 5:53 pm.
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