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Start Date: 28-Jul-1972 9:40 AM

End Date: 28-Jul-1972 10:00 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")Kissinger, Henry A.

Recording Device: Oval Office

756-001.mp3

NARA Description:

On July 28, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 9:40 am and 10:00 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 756-001 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 756-1

Date: July 28, 1972
Time: Unknown between 9:40 am and 10:00 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Alexander P. Butterfield.

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 9:44 am.

     The President's schedule
          -[Antonio D. Neto]
          -Jack D. Maltester
          -David J. Mahoney, Jr.
          -Signing ceremony for Federal Crop Insurance Act
                 -Future Farmers of America [FFA]
          -Call to Michael J. Mansfield, July 27, 1972
                 -Allen J. Ellender's funeral
                      -Memorial service
                      -Effect of the President’s attendance
                           -Richard B. Russell's funeral
                           -Trip to South
                                  -Louisiana

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 9:44 am.

     The President's schedule
          -Ellender's funeral
                -Effect of the President’s attendance
                -Forthcoming call to Mansfield's office
                -Transportation
                      -The President’s plane
                -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
                -Transportation
                      -The President’s plane
                      -Campaign staff
                      -[Thomas] Hale Boggs, F. Edward Hebert
                      -Russell B. Long, Mansfield
                      -Otto E. Passman
                -The President's itinerary
                -Ronald L. Ziegler's forthcoming announcement
                -[Carl B. Albert]
                -Transportation
                      -The President’s plane
                                              2

                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. Mar-02)


                     -Louisiana delegation
                     -Joe D. Waggonner, Jr.

     Kissinger's schedule
          -Europe

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 10:00 am.

     Kissinger's schedule
          -Sir Burke Trend
                -Meeting at British Embassy
                     -Ireland
          -W[illiam] Averell Harriman
          -Trend
                -Meeting with the President
                     -Timing
                -George R.S. Baring [Earl of Cromer]
          -Harriman
                -Call to Kissinger, July 27, 1972
                -Joseph C. Kraft
                     -Trip to Hanoi
                -Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Joseph W. Alsop

     Harriman
          -Conversation with Kissinger, July 27, 1972
                -George S. McGovern
                     -Compared to Thomas F. Eagleton
          -Treatment at Democratic National Convention
                -Haldeman’s view

     McGovern
        -Views about Europe, Greece
              -The President’s recent press conference, July 27, 1972

     Vietnam
          -Negotiations
               -Prospects
                     -The President’s recent press conference
                         -Press coverage
                     -Effect of Congress
                         -Albert
               -Kissinger’s comments
               -Effect of Congress
               -Breakdown
                                        3

                 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                               Tape Subject Log
                                 (rev. Mar-02)


                -Timing
                    -Resumption of talks
          -Effect of Congress and [McGovern]
                -1972 election
          -North Vietnamese
          -Forthcoming press conference
          -The President’s recent press conference
                -Transcript
          -Kissinger's conversation with Charles McC. Mathias, Jr., Ted Stevens, Marlow
          W. Cook
          -Cook, Charles H. Percy, and Stevens
                -Reelection prospects
          -Kissinger's conversation with Cook
                -The President's recent press conference
                -Amendment
          -The President’s recent conversation with Albert
                -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
                -Kissinger’s efforts
                -Political settlement
                -US military efforts
                    -Mining
                -Timing of vote in Congress
                    -1972 election
     -Views of Boggs and Albert
     -Timing of vote in Congress
          -Disclosure of record
          -Ellender funeral
          -William E. Timmons
          -Kissinger’s schedule
                -Paris

Kissinger’s efforts

McGovern
   -Harriman's views
         -Europe, Greece
         -Longworth
         -Alsop

Vietnam
     -Harriman’s views
           -Possible US withdrawal
           -Nguyen Van Thieu
           -Possible US withdrawal
                                                4

                       NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                         Tape Subject Log
                                           (rev. Mar-02)


                      -Difficulties
                          -Prisoners of war [POWs]
                      -Possible legislation

      Kissinger’s schedule

      The President's schedule
           -Trend
           -Breakfast

Kissinger left at 10:00 am.