Conversation 419-003

On March 12, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 12:46 pm and 1:16 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 419-003 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 419-3

Date: March 12, 1973
Time: Unknown between 12:46 pm and 1:16 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum for the file.

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       Introduction
             -Location
             -Date

       US foreign policy
            -Patrick J. Buchanan
                  -News summary
                  -Analysis
                         -President’s trip to People’s Republic of China [PRC]
                         -Overemphasis on negatives
                               -Impact on staff
                               -Domestic issues
                         -Problem solving
                               -Observations
                               -Exploiting opportunities
                         -Charles W. Colson’s viewpoint
                               =Domestic policy
                               -Howard J. Phillips
                               -Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO] [?]
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           NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

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                                                     Conversation No. 419-3 (cont’d)

                       -Media
                       -Overstatement

Law enforcement
     -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
           -President’s speech on crime, drugs
     -Presentation of Hank Manfredi Award to Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous
     Drugs [BNDD]
           -Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Tummillo
           -Thomas Devine
                 -Paraplegic
                       -Franklin D. Roosevelt
                             -Wheelchair access
                             -Executive Order
           -Mother of slain agent
           -Father
           -Wives
           -Wheelchair
           -Louisiana [?]

Food prices
     -Possible decline [?]
     -Impact on public
            -Mothers of Those Who Served in Vietnam [?]
            -Middle class
            -Character and strength
     -Impact on middle and lower middle classes

Public perception of President’s policies [?]
      -Need for action [?]
            -Meeting with George P. Shultz [?]
            -Prices [?]
                  -Impact on farms
                  -Budgets
                        -Relief
      -Racial integration
            -Suburbs [?]
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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                        (rev. Sept-2010)
                                                           Conversation No. 419-3 (cont’d)

      Ambassadors
          -President’s meeting with Haldeman
          -Pakistan
          -Germany [?]

      US foreign policy
           -Meeting with Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft
           -President’s exploration
           -Qualifications
           -Responsibility of White House

      Press
              -Leverage

      Haldeman

      Ervin Committee [?]
            -Written interrogatories
                  -Appearances

      Republican Party

      White House military aides

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[This memorandum continues as Conversation No. 419-5]