Conversation: 351-009
Prev: 351-008 Next: 351-010Start Date: Thursday, July 27, 1972 8:57 PM
End Date: Thursday, July 27, 1972 9:50 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.; Clawson, Kenneth W.; Scali, John A.; Sanchez, ManoloRecording Device: Old Executive Office Building
NARA Description:
On July 27, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Charles W. Colson, Kenneth W. Clawson, John A. Scali, and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 4:57 pm to 5:50 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 351-009 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 351-9
Date: July 27, 1972
Time: 4:57 pm - 5:50 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Charles W. Colson, Kenneth W. Clawson, and John A. Scali.
The President’s schedule
-Senators
Press contacts
-Evaluation by Scali and Clawson
-Handling by administration
8
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar-02)
-Thomas F. Eagleton withdrawal
-Contacts with Harry Reasoner, Frank Reynolds, and Howard K. Smith
-Reactions to George S. McGovern by press
-Reasoner's analysis
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:57 pm.
Refreshments
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:50 pm.
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 21m 29s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
*****************************************************************
Issues
-Controversy over residual force in Thailand
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-McGovern’s comments
-Thais' reaction
-News summary
-Treaty with Thailand
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Japanese
-Israelis
-Press reactions
-Middle East policy
-Aid to Greece
-NATO
-Henry A. Kissinger's meeting in New York City
-Staging area
-Lebanon, Jordan
-Cyprus
-Yitzhak Rabin
-Jewish Communities
9
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar-02)
-Talk with Clawson
-Golda Meir
-Meir
-The President's July 26, 1972 telephone conversation
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 6m 24s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
*****************************************************************
Media relations
-Second administration
-Reaction to McGovern
-Sense of resignation
-Neutrality
-Success of the President's foreign policy
-Reaction to the President's foreign policy
-Sympathy
-People's Republic of China [PRC], Soviet Union
-Anwar el-Sadat's expulsion of Soviet advisers
-Greek-Turkish aid program after World War II
-The President’s recent press relations
-Henry A. Wallace
-Compared to McGovern campaign
-New York Times
-Television
-John W. Chancellor
-Scali
-Call to Colson
-Fairness
-Miami
-Unfair stories
-Air time
-Media staff
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
10
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar-02)
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 7m 32s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
*****************************************************************
Leaders
-Abraham Lincoln
-Mental problems
-Julius Caesar, [Napoleon, King of France] Napoleon [Bonaparte]
-Power of president
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-International
-Gen. Charles A.J.M. DeGaulle
-Konrad Adenauer, Nikita S. Khrushchev
-Johnson
-Consultants
-Marianne H. Means
-Everett M. Dirksen anecdote about Johnson during Dominican Crisis, 1965
-US embassy
-Ambassador [W. Tapley Bennett, Jr.]
-US Marines
Liquor and performance of job duties
-Consumption
-Dwight E. Eisenhower
-Winston S. Churchill
-Speeches
-The President
-Speeches
-Reporters
11
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar-02)
-Decision-making, speech-making
-The President
-Toasts
-Scali [?]
-The President
The President’s schedule
-Sequoia
Press relations
-Scali and Clawson
-Agnew
-Agnew
-Appearances on television shows
-Statements
-“New Agnew”
-American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC] news
-Rhetoric
-Tone
-McGovern
Colson et al. left at 5:50 pm.