Conversation: 350-034
Prev: 350-033 Next: 350-035Start Date: Wednesday, July 26, 1972 1:02 PM
End Date: Wednesday, July 26, 1972 3:05 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.; Sanchez, Manolo; Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Bush, George H. W.; Higby, Lawrence M.; Butterfield, Alexander P.Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
NARA Description:
On July 26, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Charles W. Colson, Manolo Sanchez, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, George H. W. Bush, Lawrence M. Higby, and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 9:02 am to 11:05 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 350-034 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 350-34
Date: July 26, 1972
Time: 9:02 am - 11:05 am
Location: Old Executive Office Building
The President met with Charles W. Colson, Manolo Sanchez and H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
Room temperature
-Curtains
Refreshments
Room temperature
-Air conditioning
Refreshments
Sanchez left at an unknown time after 9:02 am.
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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[Duration: 10m 36s ]
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The President talked with George H.W. Bush.
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[Conversation No. 350-34A]
[See Conversation No. 27-71]
[End of telephone conversation]
State Department
Bush
United Nations [UN]
-The President's schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Kurt Waldheim
-Bush's view
-Treatment of US
-Compared to Ghana
-The President’s view
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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[Duration: 3m 24s ]
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The White House response to Thomas F. Eagleton story
The President's schedule
-Call to Golda Meir
-Camera
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Eagleton's health
-Republican and White House response
-The President's instructions
-Robert J. Dole, Clark MacGregor
-Leaks
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[Duration: 5m 27s ]
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White House staff
-Herbert G. Klein
-Kenneth W. Clawson's role
-Colson
-Carlos D. Conde, Stanley S. Scott
-Meir telephone call
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.’s staff
-Loyalty to the President
-Colson's staff
-Joe McGinniss's book [The Selling of the President]
-Today Show
-Leonard Garment
-Frank J. Shakespeare
-Price
-Staff
-Management style
-Compared to Colson
-Accuracy of work
-Eloquence of work
-Compared to Lyndon B. Johnson's and Dwight D. Eisenhower's speeches
-Responses to letters
-Richard M. Scammon's theory
-Republican woman in Illinois
-George S. McGovern
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[Duration: 32m 30s ]
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Lawrence M. Higby entered at 10:05 am.
Instruction
Higby left at 10:06 am.
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
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[Duration: 1m 30s ]
Colson left at 10:08 am.
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The President's schedule
-Press conference
-Eagleton's health
-The President's possible press conference
-Press coverage
-McGovern’s possible action
-Haldeman's conversation with John D. Ehrlichman
-The President's meeting with mayors July 25, 1972
-Ehrlichman
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-Revenue sharing
-Effect
-Democrats
-President’s leadership
-The President's conversation with mayor [E.J. Garn] of Salt Lake City
-Motorcade
-1970
-Pierre Rinfret
-John Connally's conversation with Haldeman
-John W. McCormack
-Saturday Evening Post
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins's pictures
-Possible statement by the President
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Price
-Instruction for Haldeman
-Business Week
The President's schedule
-Event at Connally's ranch
George C. Wallace
-Contact
-Haldeman's possible conversation with MacGregor
-Timing
-Possible call from Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
The President's schedule
-Unknown person
Wallace
-Contribution to discussion of issues
-Busing
-News summary
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
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[Duration: 7m 20s ]
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Presidency
-Health of candidates
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-[Eagleton]
-Stress
-The President
-Credibility
-Ehrlichman
-[Eagleton]
-1966
-Press
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
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[Duration: 1m 23s ]
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Campaign practices
-Possible Republican actions
-Eagleton
-Veracity
-As issue
-McGovern
-Compared to Howard Hughes loan
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[Duration: 6m 30s ]
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The President's schedule
-1972 election
-Thomas F. Railsback
-Railsback
-Donald W. Riegle, Jr.
-Unknown boy
-Price
-Brazilian Finance Minister [Antonio Delfin Neto]
-Kissinger
-Emilio Garrastuzu Medici
-Letter
-Brazilian economy
-Schedule
-Connally, Robert C. Seamans, Arthur F. Burns
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Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 10:40 am.
The President's veto message
-Spending ceiling
Butterfield left at an unknown time before 11:09 am.
The President's schedule
-UN
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Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 10:40 am.
The President's veto message
-Timing of release
Air conditioning
-Engineer
Butterfield left at an unknown time before 11:05 am.
The President's schedule
-Call to Meir
-Public relations
-Johnny Cash
-Wife [June Carter Cash]
-Drugs
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[Duration: 20m 55s ]
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The President's schedule
-Forthcoming press conference
-Briefing books
-Kissinger
-Format
-Television
Air conditioning
Haldeman left at 11:05 am.
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