Conversation: 735-013
Prev: 735-012 Next: 735-014Start Date: Thursday, June 15, 1972 6:30 PM
End Date: Thursday, June 15, 1972 7:03 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Bull, Stephen B.; Kissinger, Henry A.Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 03:59:52
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 04:30:52
NARA Description:
On June 15, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Stephen B. Bull, and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House from 2:30 pm to 3:03 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 735-013 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 735-13
Date: June 15, 1972
Time: 2:30-3:03 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
John D. Ehrlichman
-Return from trip
Chairs at the Congressional briefing on the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
Hugh Scott
-Health
Ehrlichman
-Meeting with the President
US domestic policies
-Busing
-Detroit decision
-Higher Education Act
-Administration's plan
-Stephen J. Roth’s order
-Provision
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 6m 18s ]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-02)
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Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-William R. Codus
-Constance M. Stuart
-Rose Mary Woods
-Stuart
-Instructions from Haldeman
-Advance staff
-Codus
-Personality
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 3m 3s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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Environment
-Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethene [DDT]
-Ehrlichman
-William D. Ruckelshaus
-The President’s position
-Effects in Ceylon [Sri Lanka]
-Statement by Nobel laureate
-Effect
-Ruckelshaus's associates
-Political leanings
-Frederic V. Malek study
-Ford Motor Company study
-The President’s position
-Ehrlichman, John C. Whitaker
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-02)
-Judgment
-Sugar
US Government personnel
-Liberals
-Effect of Washington on White House staff
-Daniel P. Moynihan, Robert H. Finch, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Ehrlichman,
William P. Rogers
-Youth
Public relations
-Spiegel filming
-Haldeman
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 2m 49s ]
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Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:30 pm.
The President's schedule
-Sultan ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz
-Melvin R. Laird
-Photographs
Bull left at an unknown time before 3:02 pm.
John Paul Vann's funeral
-Vann's family
-Medal of Freedom presentation
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Vann's letter to Joseph W. Alsop
-The President’s policy
-Bombing
-Vo Nguyen Giap's offensive
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-02)
-North Vietnamese military situation
-Medal of Freedom presentation
-Haig
-The President's schedule
-Family
The President's schedule
-Presentation of Medal of Freedom
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Sequoia
-Walker's Cay, Florida
-Logistics
Vann
-Haig
-Medal of Freedom
The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger at an unknown time between 2:30 and 3:03 pm.
[Conversation No. 735-13A]
Possible message to Nguyen Van Thieu
-Defense of An Loc
[End of telephone conversation]
The President's schedule
Haldeman left at 3:03 pm.