Audio for this conversation has not yet been released by the National Archives.
NARA DescriptionOn June 30, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, unknown person(s), and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House from 8:06 am to 8:50 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 744-001 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 744-1
Date: June 30, 1972
Time: 8:06-8:50 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
[This recording began at an unknown time while the conversation was in progress]
The President's schedule
-Meeting with unknown man [John N. Mitchell?]
-Tailor
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The President's previous press conference
-Robert Pierpoint
-The President's quips
-Helen Thomas, Mrs. Douglas B. Cornell
-Dan Rather
(rev. Feb-02)
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News leads
-Death penalty
-George S. McGovern
-Food prices
-Administration action
-Timing of press conferences
-McGovern, George C. Wallace
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-The President's conversation with Paul Keyes
-Tom Brokaw
-McGovern
-The President’s comments to press
The President's previous press conference
-Pierpoint's question
-Frequency of press conferences
-Patrick J. Buchanan
(rev. Feb-02)
-Henry A. Kissinger
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-The President's style of answering questions
-Haldeman’s view
-Questions
-Vice Presidency
-Spiro T. Agnew
-John B. Connally
-The President’s comments
-Death penalty
-Supreme Court's decision
-Opinions
-William O. Douglas, Potter Stewart, Byron R. White
-Kidnapping, hijacking
-The public
-Rape, assassination
-Stewart
-The President’s position
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Popular opposition
-Warren E. Burger
-Killing of policemen
-Life in prison
-Cruelty, cost, parole
-Haldeman’s view
-Recidivism
-Format
-Sammy Davis, Jr.’s call
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Opinion of the President's performance
-French missing in action [MIAs] in Indochina
-Arms control
-Soviet Union's military expenses
-Anti-ballistic missiles [ABM], B-1 bombers, submarines
-Costs
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-US position in world
-The President's style
-Length of answers
-Length
-The President’s response
-The President’s view
(rev. Feb-02)
-Frank Cormier
-Troop withdrawal from Vietnam
-Press conference format
-The President's activities in foreign policy
-Questions
-Draftees in Vietnam
-Food prices and domestic issues
-Buchanan
-Welfare
-Child care
-Social security
-Agnew
-Unemployment
-British pound
-Vietnam
-Agnew
-The economy
-Unemployment
-Inflation
-The President's style
-The President’s view
-Domestic Council
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Haldeman’s view
-Questions
-The President’s responses
-Effect
-The public
-Delores Higby
-Lawrence M. Higby
-Charles W. Colson
-Pierpoint
-Thomas (Mrs. Cornell)
-Quip
-Knowledge of reporters' names
-Rather
-Quips
-Relations with press
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Buchanan
-Attacks by others
-Colson, Kenneth W. Clawson, Buchanan
-Factual accuracy
(rev. Feb-02)
-Richard A. Moore
-The President's answer to Pierpoint
-Commentary
-Donald Oberdorfer, Jr.
-Vietnam
-The President’s comments
-Advisors' feeling toward press
-Relations with press
-John A. Scali's memorandum
-Press's opinion
-Attacks on media
-Buchanan, Agnew, Ehrlichman, Colson, Clawson
-Press fear of McGovern
-Washington Post
-Comparisons
-Chicago Tribune
-Orlando Sentinal
-Support for the President
-Santa Monica Outlook
-Copley Chain
-Nashville Banner
-Frank van der Linden
-Support for the President
-Haldeman’s view
-The President's style
-Agnew
-Ronald W. Reagan
-The President's 1962 statement
-Dwight D. Eisenhower's 1964 statement at convention
-The President's supporters
-Scali
(rev. Feb-02)
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The President's previous press conference
-Terence F. Smith
-Press comment
-Podium
Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 8:06 am and 8:50 am.
[Conversation No. 744-1A]
Haldeman’s briefcase
[End of telephone conversation]
Julie Nixon Eisenhower's speech
-Press coverage
-The President's coverage as Vice President
-Compared to Tricia Nixon Cox
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Colson
William L. Safire
-Meatloaf comments
-Meat prices
The President's private office
McGovern
-Statement on bombing in Vietnam
-Adolf Hitler
-Buchanan's response for Agnew
Alexander P. Butterfield [?] entered at an unknown time after 8:06 am.
Document for the President’s signature
Public broadcasting appropriation
-Instructions for Ehrlichman
-Possible veto
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Sander Vanocur's salary
The President, Haldeman and Butterfield left for the President's private office at 8:50 am.No transcript is available for this conversation.