Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 740 › Conversation 740-007
Nixon, Haldeman & Daley on Press conferences and Media strategy
Thursday, June 22, 1972 · 4:35 PM–5:20 PM ET · Oval Office
AI Summary
President Nixon met with H.R. Haldeman and various staff members to discuss media relations, scheduling, and public policy issues, including television appearances by the Nixon family. The participants reviewed strategies for upcoming press conferences and addressed concerns regarding beef price controls and meat quotas. Additionally, the President engaged in outreach, including a phone call with Richard J. Daley to discuss Vietnam, while staff members facilitated administrative tasks regarding personnel and correspondence.
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NARA Description
On June 22, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Tricia Nixon Cox, Stephen B. Bull, White House operator, Ronald L. Ziegler, Charles W. Colson, Richard J. Daley, and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House from 4:35 pm to 5:20 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 740-007 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 740-7
Date: June 22, 1972
Time: 4:35-5:20 pm.
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
The President's meeting with John Cardinal Krol
The President talked with Tricia Nixon Cox between 4:35 and 4:36 pm.
[Conversation No. 740-7A]
[See Conversation No. 25-126; one item has been withdrawn.]
[End of telephone conversation]
Merv Griffin
David Frost's television show
-Question to Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Response
-Frost's questioning
-Intermission
-Questions from audience
-[Dwight]David Eisenhower, II
-Julie's response
-Arrangements
-Importance
-White House efforts
Julie Eisenhower
-Atlanta speech on cancer
-Press coverage
-Question on Frost's show
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Frost
-Haldeman’s view
-White House role
The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with broadcasting executives
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr., briefing
-Herbert G. Klein
-Statement by the President
-Broadcasting executives concerns
-Haldeman’s view
-Cable television
-The President’s view
-Business leaders
-Caspar W. Weinberger
-Other meetings
-Press conferences
-The President's foreign travel
-Value
-Television presentations
-Preparation
-Questions
-Campaign contributions
-Value
-Departments
-Congress
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-John D. Ehrlichman
-House Resolution [H.R.] 1
-Equal time
-Ziegler
The President's previous press conference
-Questions
-Topics
-Wire reports
-Meat quotas
-Price controls
-Quotas on meat
-The President's answer
Beef prices
-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-Quotas
-The President’s position
-Possible administrative action
-Meat substitutes
-Melvin R. Laird
-Military procurement
-Beef
-Prices of meat
-Weinberger
-Fish
-Chicken
-Supply
-Prices
-Compared with beef
-COLC
-General Services Administration [GSA]
-The President’s view
-Storage
-Earl L. Butz
-Weinberger
-The President’s view
-George A. Lincoln
-Military menus
Talk show
-Griffin
-Commentator
-David N. Parker [?]
Press conferences
-Briefing books
-Size
-Patrick J. Buchanan
Books by Henry Fairlie
-Ehrlichman
-Extra copies
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:36 pm.
Ziegler
-Press conference
The President's schedule
-Meeting in the Cabinet Room
Bull left at an unknown time before 5:02 pm.
Kristol
-Quality of writing, thinking
-Haldeman’s view
Andrew M. Greeley
-Quality of writing, thinking
Unknown person from Hagerstown, Maryland
-Charles W. Colson
Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:36 p.m.
The President's schedule
-The President’s view
-Staff suggestions
-Meeting
-The President's meeting with broadcasters
-Time
Bull left at an unknown time before 5:02 p.m.
The President's schedule
-Use of time
The President's schedule
-Press conferences
-Preparation
-Questions
-Preparation
-Length
-Trip to California
-Press conferences
-Frequency
-Lawrence M. Higby
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Trips
-Plans
-Trip to Mexico
-Weather
Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:36 and 5:02 pm.
[Conversation No. 740-7B]
[See Conversation No. 25-127]
Haldeman conferred with the President at an unknown time.
The President's schedule
-Plans
Haldeman talked with Colson.
[See Conversation No. 25-127]
[End of telephone conversation]
The President's schedule
-Time off
-Florida
-Walker’s Cay
-Presidential telephone calls
-Relaxation
Ziegler entered at 5:02 pm.
The President's previous press conference
-Press coverage
-Congressional action on weapons
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Laird
-Effect on future negotiations
-Meat quota
-Tax reform
-Timing of proposals
Colson entered at 5:04 pm.
The President's press conference
-Political questions
-Television
-Campaign ground rules
-Equal time concerns
-News conferences
Telephone
The President talked with Richard J. Daley between 5:05 and 5:07 pm.
[Conversation No. 740-7C]
[See Conversation No. 25-128]
[End of telephone conversation]
The President's conversation with Daley
-Vietnam Statement
Krol’s meeting with the President
-Statement to Philadelphia Inquirer reporter
-Support for the President
The President's schedule
-Press conferences
-Value
-Timing
-Vietnam
-Summits in Moscow and Peking
-Mining of Haiphong Harbor
-Dangers
-Importance of mining Haiphong Harbor
-Soviet Union
Press conferences
-Effect
-Possible consequences
-Administration view
-Press
-Haldeman’s view
-Congress
-Press conferences by the President
-Value
-Publicity for the President
-Timing
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Effect
-Busing issue
-Food prices
-Television coverage
-Preparation by the President
-The President's answers
William McC. Blair, Jr.
-Position
-Administrative Action
-Funding for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
-Haldeman’s role
-Replacement
-Park Service
-Salary
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Privacy]
[Duration: 5s]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
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-New position
-Responsibilities
-Abe Fortas
-Resolution of commendation
Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 5:14 pm.
Correspondence
-John Mackey
-Hays Parker
Ziegler left at 5:17 pm.
Correspondence
-Letter to Parker
-Quality of preparation
-Quality of style
-Revision
-Draft
-Information
-Revision
-The President's review
-Letter to Mackey
Butterfield left at 5:19 pm.
The President, Haldeman, and Colson left at 5:20 pm.Also recorded on June 22, 1972
- 740-004 4:06 PM — President Richard M. Nixon, John Cardinal Krol, John Gurash, Charles W. Colson, Henry C. Cashen, II, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 4:06 pm to 4:35 pm.
- 025-124 4:35 PM · 9 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 4:35 pm.
- 025-125 4:35 PM · 4 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 4:35 pm.
- 025-126 4:35 PM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Tricia Nixon Cox talked on the telephone from 4:35 pm to 4:36 pm.
- 740-005 4:35 PM — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at 4:35 pm.
- 740-006 4:35 PM — President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House at 4:35 pm.
- 025-127 5:02 PM · 25 sec — H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, White House operator, President Richard M. Nixon, and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 5:02 pm and 5:04 pm.
- 025-128 5:05 PM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Richard J. Daley talked on the telephone from 5:05 pm to 5:07 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 740-007, June 22, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/740-007 (accessed September 30, 2026).