Conversation 742-008

Audio for this conversation has not yet been released by the National Archives.

On June 26, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:50 am to 10:45 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 742-008 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 742-8

Date: June 26, 1972
Time: 9:50 am - 10:45 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

     Presidential cuff links
          -Possible purchase
          -Tie tac

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 9:50 am.

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Woods left at 10:00 am.

     Martha (Beall) Mitchell
         -Call to Helen A. Thomas
         -Removal of telephones
         -John N. Mitchell
         -International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
                -Richard G. Kleindienst
                -Bugging
         -Haldeman’s view
         -Possible trip abroad
                -Mexico
         -Health
         -Thomas
                -Possible conversation with the President
         -John Mitchell
         -Health
         -Telephoning

     The President's opponents' charges
          -Bugging
          -ITT
          -Harrold G. Carswell
          -Gen. John D. Lavelle
          -Effect of scandals
          -Joseph C. Kraft’s columns
                -The President
                -Carswell, Lavelle, ITT
                -Administration's credibility

     Lavelle
         -Harry S. Truman and Gen. Douglas MacArthur
         -Situation

     Carswell

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     Watergate break-in
         -Kraft's opinion
               -John Mitchell's and Nixon's morality

    The President's conversation with Henry A. Kissinger
         -Kissinger's conversation with Stewart J.O. Alsop
               -Katharine L. Graham
                     -The President’s policy
                     -The President

    Liberal press
         -Opposition to the President
               -Graham
               -Kraft
         -Ronald L. Ziegler
               -Reasons
               -Alsop

    Opposition to Franklin D. Roosevelt
        -Haldeman’s grandfather

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    The President's memorandum to Charles W. Colson
         -Response to Dwight D. Eisenhower story in Washington Post
         -Victor Lasky
         -Letters to editor
               -Gen. Alfred Gruenther
               -Gen. Omar N. Bradley

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           -Arthur W. Radford
     -John S. D. Eisenhower
           -Letter to the Washington Post
           -Patrick J. Buchanan

Speechwriting
    -Presidential statements
           -Restriction of meat imports
    -Style
    -William L. Safire, Raymond K. Price, Jr.
    -Buchanan
    -The President's rhythm

Julie Nixon Eisenhower
      -Press coverage
            -Event

Harvard University
    -Event
         -Ralph Nader
               -Adolf Hitler

Message from George H. Mahon
    -Possible response from the President

Beef prices
     -News summaries
     -Earl L. Butz
     -The President's statement
           -Price
           -Safire
           -George P. Shultz, Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger, Colson, John D.
             Ehrlichman, and John C. Whitaker
           -Clearance by the President
           -John K. Andrews, Jr.

Vera Hirshberg
     -The President’s instructions
     -Possible reassignment
           -Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]

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               -Dr. Sidney P. Marland, Jr.

    Staff appointments

    Watergate break-in
        -Ziegler
        -Lawrence F. O'Brien, Jr.'s letter to the President
               -Special Prosecutor
        -Burglars
               -Ehrlichman
               -John W. Dean III, John Mitchell, Robert C. Mardian
               -Pleas
        -Investigation's progress

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    The President's conversation with [Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
         -Story on baseball greats written by the President
         -Teams picked by the President
               -Players
         -News value
               -Radio
               -Wire services
               -Press release
               -Sports Illustrated
               -Timing of release
               -Associated Press [AP]
               -Ziegler
               -Sports Illustrated

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          -John R. (“Jackie”) Robinson's accomplishments
                -Lawrence M. Higby [?]
                -Track and field
                -Basketball
                -Football

     Pending legislation
         -Debt limit
               -Schedule
               -Frank F. Church's Social Security amendment
                      -Clark MacGregor's conversation with Robert C. Byrd
                      -House of Representatives rules
                      -Expiration of debt limit
                      -Weinberger
                      -Ehrlichman
                      -Wilbur D. Mills's position
                          -John W. Byrnes
         -1973 budget meeting
               -Ehrlichman
               -Weinberger, Shultz, Herbert Stein
               -Colson, Mitchell, MacGregor, Kenneth R. Cole, Jr., Edwin L. Harper
               -MacGregor

     The President's schedule
          -Filming of announcement
                -Location

     Rally for George S. McGovern
          -Stars
                 -Telephone calls
                 -Agents
                      -Herbert J. (“Jackie”) Gleason
          -Contract for Daughters of the American Revolution [DAR] hall
          -George D. Aiken

     John Mitchell
          -Martha Mitchell

Haldeman left at 10:45 am.

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