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Conversation: 730-003

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Start Date: 12-Jun-1972 9:09 AM

End Date: 12-Jun-1972 10:57 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")White House operatorLukash, William M.[Unknown person(s)]

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:33:24

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:13:06

NARA Description:

On June 12, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, White House operator, William M. Lukash, and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 9:09 am and 10:57 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 730-003 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 730-3

Date: June 12, 1972
Time: Unknown between 9:09 - 10:57 am.
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H.R. Haldeman.


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     George C. Wallace
          -Health
          -Visits
                -Ethel (Skakel) Kennedy
          -Health
                -Condition
          -Democratic National Convention
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          -Medical report
              -Condition
              -Dr. William M. Lukash

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:09 and 9:56
am.

           [Conversation No. 730-3A.]

     [See Conversation No. 25-45.]

[End of telephone conversation]

     Wallace
          -Medical condition statement
              -Contents


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     US economic policies
          -Arthur F. Burns
               -Suggestion
               -Bonds
                     -Interest
               -Taxes
               -George P. Shultz
               -John B. Connally
               -Shultz
               -National economy
                     -Infusion of cash

The President talked with Lukash between 9:56 and 9:58 am .
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      [Conversation no. 730-3B.]

     [See Conversation No. 25-46.]

[End of telephone conversation]


     Wallace
          -Physical condition
               -Democratic National Convention

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An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 9:58 am.

     Virginia Sherwood
          -American Broadcasting Company [ABC] correspondent
          -son's death
          -The President's note of condolence

     Barbara Walters
          -The President's note
          -National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
          -Delivery

Unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:57 am.



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     Telephone recordings
          -Instrument
                -Problems

     The President's schedule
          -The President’s trip to the Soviet Union
          -Note taking by the President

     Documentation of historic meetings
           -Henry A. Kissinger
           -Head of State dinner
           -Winston Churchill's account
                 -Franklin D. Roosevelt
                 -Josef V. Stalin
                 -Yalta conference
     -Kissinger's recollections
     -William L. Safire
     -Details of meetings
     -Kissinger
          -Notes of meetings
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     The Democratic Ideal in America by Irving Kristol
          -Copies

The President talked with unknown person at an unknown time between 9:58 and 10:57 am.

     [Conversation No. 730-3C.]

     Copies of the Kristol book

[End of telephone conversation]

     Irving Kristol
           -Raymond K. Price, Jr.
           -Political philosophy
           -Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
           -Lionel Trilling
           -Will Dofsky (sp?)
           -Robert A. Nisbet [?]
           -Political philosophy

     The President's philosophy
          -Conservatives
               -Compatibility with the President
               -Patrick J. Buchanan
          -William F. Buckley, Jr.
          -Neal Freeman [?]
          -Human Events
          -National Review
          -Hearst corporation
               -King Features Syndicate
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     -Conservatives
           -John Birch Society
           -Attitudes toward the President
           -General attitudes
     -Contacts with intellectuals
           -Motives
     -Price
           -Buchanan
           -LeonardGarment
     -Moynihan
     -George P. Shultz
           -Qualities
     -Buchanan
     -Ronald Berman [?]
           -Literature compared to philosophy
     -Kristol
           -Analysis of book
                 -The President’s view
     -Richard E. Neustadt
     -Moynihan
           -Qualities
                 -Compared with other liberal intellectuals
           -Legacy
                 -Family Assistance Plan

Urban problems
    -Moynihan's analysis
          -Riots
          -Riot control
                -Advertisement
    -Martin Luther King's death
          -Riots
                -Washington
    -Cambodia
          -Riots
          -Kent State killings
                -Significance
                -Demonstrations

White House staff
     -Soviet Union
          -Kissinger
               -Expertise
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           -Kremlinologists
                 -Discussions
     -News summary material
     -Buchanan's readings
           -Biases
     -Domestic Council
           -Biases
     -John D. Ehrlichman
           -Political leanings
     -“Left” compared with the “right”
           -Views for the President
     -Kristol book
           -The President's perusal
           -White House staff
                 -Ehrlichman
           -Censorship
                 -Price

American mores
    -Movies
         -Profanity
               -Haldeman's daughter
               -Reaction
               -Haldeman's son
    -Sexual presentation
         -Public displays
               -Movies
         -Homosexuality
               -Depictions
    -Permissiveness
         -Impact on literature and art
    -Steward at Camp David
         -Movies
               -Quality
    -Jews in publishing and motion pictures industries
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     Authors on the Presidency
         -David S. Broder
               -Hugh S. Sidey
                     -Views
          -Theodore H. White
          -James MacGregor Burns
          -Sidey
          -Broder
               -Views
               -Method of writing


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[Apparent discontinuity in the recording for an unknown length of time.]


     Yitzhak Rabin
          -Public statement
          -Issue of Israel
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[Apparent discontinutiy in the recording for an unknown length of time.]

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     Schedule
          -Kissinger
                -Press conference
                     -Timing

     Television coverage of Tricia and Edward Cox's wedding
          -National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
          -Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
          -American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
          -Quality

     The President's schedule
          -Reception


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H.R. Haldeman left at 10:57 am.
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