Conversation: 352-026
Prev: 352-025 Next: 352-027Start Date: 2-Aug-1972 2:53 PM
End Date: 2-Aug-1972 5:36 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Connally, John B.; Acker, Marjorie P.; Bull, Stephen B.; Woods, Rose Mary;Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
NARA Description:
On August 2, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, John B. Connally, Marjorie P. Acker, Stephen B. Bull, and Rose Mary Woods met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 2:53 pm to 5:36 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 352-026 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 352-26
Date: August 2, 1972
Time: 2:53 pm - 5:36 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
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John B. Connally entered at 2:59 pm.
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John N. Mitchell
-Marriage
-Problems
-Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-Rose Mary Woods’s comment
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Appointments in the second term
-Edwin W. Pauley
-Henry Salvatori
-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
-Samuel W. Yorty
-Secretary of Defense
-Secretary of Navy
-Secretary of Army
-[Robert F. Froehlke]
-Jesse Unruh
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-Mayor of Los Angeles
-Salvatori
-Unruh
-Talk with Haldeman
-Yorty
-Previous dealings with administration
-Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense
-Secretary of Army
-Secretary of Defense
-Melvin R. Laird
-William P. Clements, Jr.
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Clements
-Deputy Secretary of Defense
-Importance
-Clements’s desire for job
-Experience
-Blue Ribbon Defense Panel (Gilbert W. Fitzhugh
Commission)
-Secretary of Defense
-Laird
-Appointments
-Cabinet
-John F. Kennedy
-Law
-Clements
-Deputy Secretary of Defense
-Rush
-Yorty
-Los Angeles Times
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George C. Wallace
-Funding assistance
-Supporters
-Meeting with Connally
-Costs of campaign
-Charles S. Snider
-Supporters
-William France
-Unknown person [Donald McI. Kendall?]
-Charles W. Colson
-France
-John O. (“Jack”) Marsh, Jr.
-Snider
-Press conference
-Connally
-France
-Hardhats
-Republican National Committee
-Snider
-Publicity for support for the President
-France
-National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing [NASCAR]
-Republican National Committee
-Desire for financing of activities
-Staff size
-Airplane
-Connally's proposal for Wallace supporters
-Organization
-New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan
-Snider
-Desire for job
-Colson
-Wallaceites for Nixon organization
-Finance
-Problems
-Jewish Democrats
-Italians
-Plans for press conference
-Republican National Convention
-Platform committee
-Snider
-Need to absorb or split up
-Committee to Re-elect the President [CRP]
-George Christian
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-Desire for separate operation
-Magazines, communications, fundraising
-France
-Part in the President's campaign
-Funding assistance
-Airplane
-Snider
-Funding assistance
-Airplane, staff
-Duration
-[American Party] convention
-Call to White House
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Briefing
-Delay
-[Sunrise at Campobello]
-Snider
-Gubernatorial ambitions
-Alabama
-Meeting with Connally
-Airplane
-Crowds
-Wallace shooting
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Connally left at 4:28 pm.
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The President talked with Marjorie P. Acker at an unknown time between 4:28 pm and 4:43 pm.
[Conversation No. 352-26A]
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Instruction for Woods [?]
[End of telephone conversation]
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:28 pm.
The President's schedule
-The President’s call to an unknown person
Bull left at an unknown time before 4:43 pm.
California supporters
-Colson, Mitchell
-Taft Schreiber
-Pauley
-Salvatori
-Deal
-Colson
-Yorty
-Position in administration
-Secretary of Army
-Pauley
-Connally
-Democratic legislators
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The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 4:28 pm and 4:43
pm.
[Conversation No. 352-26B]
Request for a return call
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[End of telephone conversation]
John D. Ehrlichman
-Meeting with the President
Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 4:28 pm and 4:43 pm.
[Conversation No. 352-26C]
Ehrlichman to come to Executive Office Building [EOB]
[End of telephone conversation]
The President’s schedule
-Peter M. Flanigan
The President talked with unknown person (Woods?) at an unkown time between 4:28 pm and
4:43 pm.
[Conversation No. 352-26D]
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[END OF TELEPHONE CONVERSATION]
Ehrlichman entered at 4:43 pm.
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Haldeman left at 4:45 pm.
Hijacking
-Robert Teeter
Connally
-Indictment of Jake Jacobsen
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-Instructions to Richard G. Kleindienst
-Connally's evaluation of effect
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Ehrlichman's investigation of files
-Help for Connally
OEO legal services bill
-Jacob K. Javits
-Meeting with John Ehrlichman
-Possible concessions
-The President's intent on signing
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew's view
-Opposition
-Ehrlichman's response to Javits
-Implications
-Advantages
-Drawbacks
-Possible signature
Railroad bill
-Letter from George A. Smathers
-Ehrlichman’s meeting with Smathers
-Unions, railroads and transportation groups
-Smathers's support for the President
-Problems of endorsement
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
Grumman Aerospace Corporation
-F-14
-Meetings with Willard F. (“Al”) Rockwell, Jr.
-Space shuttle
-Subcontracts
-Mitchell, Kleindienst
-Pressure
-Contract extension
-Rush
-1972 election
-Defense supplemental
-Timing
-Notification of Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Negotiations with Rush
-Credit for administration
-Publicity
-Rockwell
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-Subcontracts
-New York Post, New York Daily News, Newsday
-The President
-William P. Rogers [?]
-Impact on election
-Rockefeller
Food prices
-Call to Ehrlichman from D.K. Johnson
-Kleberg family
-Connally
-Prices from packers to growers
-Drop
-Administration action
-Consumers
-Reason
-Cattle surplus
-Administration action
-Dealings with packers
-George P. Shultz
-Flanigan, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Ehrlichman
-Expertise
-Ehrlichman
-Domestic Council
-The President’s possible involvement
-Possible controls
-List of leaders
-Meeting
-Leading companies
-Cudahy, Wilson, Swift, Armour
-Meeting with administration
-Earl L. Butz
-Publicity
-Price drop to consumers
-Public relations
-Ehrlichman's conversation with Teeter
-Albert E. Sindlinger
-Freeze
-Administration action
-Deadline for a freeze
-Republican National Convention
-90-day freeze
-The President’s [August 15, 1971] announcement
-Retail level
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-Impact on farmers
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA] economists
-Unknown people
-The President's power
-Necessity
-Timing
-Republican National Convention
-Announcement
-August 15, 1971
-Press conference
-Date
-Timing with convention
-Prime time
-Sense of crisis
-Purpose
-Impact
-Butz’s possible reaction
-Backlash
-Timing with 1972 election
-August 15, 1971 announcement
-Statement on inflation
-Food prices
-Supplies
-Shultz
-Impact on economic issue
-Unemployment
-Arthur F. Burns
-Support
-Impact on farmers, cattle growers
-Butz
Busing
-Constitutional amendment
-Moratorium
-William M. Colmer
-Number of votes
-John B. Anderson
-Meeting with Ehrlichman
-Opposition
-Colmer
-Support
-Vote in House of Representatives
-Marlow W. Cook
-Liberals
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-Opposition
-Cook
-Administration position
-Need for action before opening of school
-Opposition to constitutional amendment
-Moratorium
-Rules Committee
-Cook
-Administration position
-Interest in issue
-Opposition to legislation
-Anderson
-Constitutional amendment
-Dangers
-Administration opposition
-Reasons
-Congress
-Adjournment
-Delay of action
-Senate
-Issue
-Local importance
-Teeter
-Michigan
-Publicity
-Voter awareness
-William G. Milliken
-Robert P. Griffin
-Donald W. Riegle, Jr.
-Constitutional amendment
-Republican platform
-Court rulings
-Circuit courts
-Supreme Court
-Corpus Christi, Texas
-Austin, Texas
-Denver, Colorado
-Indianapolis, Indiana
-Administration response
-Controversy
-Peak
-Timing
-Moratorium
-Effectiveness
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-Constitutional amendment
-Timing
-House bill
-Moratorium
-Republican National Convention
-House action
-Senate
-Chance of passage
-Senate
-Compared to constitutional amendment and Equal Educational
Opportunities Act of 1972
-House
Water bill
-Howard H. Baker, Jr. meeting with Ehrlichman
-Baker support for bill
-The President’s schedule
-Reasons
-George S. McGovern
-Costs
-Compared to defense
-Taxes, inflation
-Edmund S. Muskie, Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Status in Congress
-George H. Mahon
-Administration position
-Problems
-Leverage
-Costs to government and industry
-Veto
-Baker
-Support
-Authorization
-Environmental standards
-Water purification facilities
-Municipalities
-Reimbursement
-Political implications
-McGovern
-Hugh Scott, Gerald R. Ford
-Veto
-Cost reduction
-Cost reduction
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Education institute
-Nominees for head
-Unknown person
-Elliot L. Richardson's recommendation
-Daniel P. Moynihan
-Civil Rights Commission
-Problems
-Busing
-Unknown person
-OEO
-James S. Coleman
-Recent position on busing
-Criticism of Supreme Court
-The Public Interest
-Moynihan
David J. Armor
-Firing from Harvard University
-Position with administration
-Possible teaching appointment
-University of Los Angeles [UCLA]
-Moynihan
-Possible call from Ehrlichman
-Busing
-Harvard University
-Liberals
Press relations
-Unknown person
-Washington Post
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The President and Ehrlichman left at 5:36 pm.