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Conversation: 722-005

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Start Date: 9-May-1972 10:48 AM

End Date: 9-May-1972 1:57 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Woods, Rose MaryHaldeman, H. R. ("Bob")

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:47:41

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:06:03

722a.mp3

722b.mp3

NARA Description:

On May 9, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 10:48 am and 1:57 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 722-005 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 722-5

Date: May 9, 1972
Time: Unknown after 10:48 am until 10:57 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

     A letter to Wilt Chamberlain
           -Congratulations on National Basketball Association [NBA] championship
                 -Los Angeles Lakers
           -Playing skills
           -Life pictures of home
                 -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
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                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                    Tape Subject Log
                                      (rev. Jan-02)


    Vietnam
         -Blockade
              -President's previous speech
                    -Public response
                          -Telephone calls
                    -Support for President
                          -Lloyd Rain [sp?]
                          -Paul Cabot
                          -Bernard J. (“Bunny”) Lasker
                          -Fred Schluter
                          -Dr. William M. Lukash
                          -News commentators

    Manolo Sanchez
        -Knee surgery
             -Recovery time

    Letter to Chamberlain
         -Signature

    Robert C. Hill recommendation for ambassador to Spain
        -Adm. Horacio Rivero
              -Visit with Gen. Francisco Franco
        -Peter M. Flanigan
        -Hill
        -Memorandum

    George Landau
        -President's previous trip
        -Hill's recommendation for ambassador to Ceylon
        -Identified
        -President’s recommendation


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 19s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
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                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. Jan-02)                   Conv. No. 722-5 (cont.)




    Vietnam
         -Blockade
              -President's speech
                    -Adm. Thomas H. Moorer's call
                          -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman's report
                          -Woods's report

    President's schedule
         -Duke Law School dinner
                -Remarks by President
                -A reference book
                     -Alexander P. Butterfield
                -Charles S. Rhyne
                     -Wife’s health
                           -Previous Administration job offers
                -Scholarship announcement
                     -Time
                     -Richard Kiefer

    Vietnam
         -Blockade
              -President's previous speech
                    -Strain of compiling
                    -Delivery
                          -Woods’s view
                    -Emotional strain
                    -Democrats
                          -President's support for John F. Kennedy during Cuban missile crisis
                          -George S. McGovern
                          -Hubert H. Humphrey
                    -George Meany
                    -George C. Wallace
                          -Statement
                          -Compared with McGovern's statement
                    -Public support for President
                    -McGovern presidency
                          -Woods’s view

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
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                        NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                       Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. Jan-02)       Conv. No. 722-5 (cont.)

[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 45s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4

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                     -Lasker's comments
           -Liberals
                -The President’s view
                     -New York, California

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 1m 6s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5

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     Telephone calls
          -Robert H. Abplanalp
          -Perle Mesta
          -Paul Bradley

Haldeman entered at 10:54 am.

           -Earl L. Butz
                 -Report on support for President's speech

     Vietnam
          -Blockade
               -Public reaction
                    -Talking points
                    -Support for President
                    -President's personal qualities
                          -Lasker's call
                          -Publicity from White House
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                       NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                       Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. Jan-02)                 Conv. No. 722-5 (cont.)

                                   -The President’s view
                             -Lukash
                 -President's decision
                       -Risks to election
                       -Prisoner of war [POW] release
                       -Publicity
                 -Public response
                       -Publicity

Woods and Haldeman left at 10:57 am.