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Start Date: 28-Jul-1972 11:15 AM

End Date: 28-Jul-1972 11:37 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Ehrlichman, John D.Bull, Stephen B.

Recording Device: Oval Office

756-007.mp3

NARA Description:

On July 28, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, John D. Ehrlichman, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:15 am to 11:37 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 756-007 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 756-7

Date: July 28, 1972
Time: 11:15 am - 11:37 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.
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                      NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. Mar-02)


     Greetings

     [No conversation]


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 6m 51s     ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:15 am.

     The President's July 27, 1972 press conference transcripts
          -Tricia Nixon Cox, Julie Nixon Eisenhower
                -Questions and Answers
                      -Politics

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:37 am.

     Space shuttle
         -Announcement about Grumman Corporation
                -The President's conversation with John N. Mitchell, July 27, 1972
                     -Peter M. Flanigan
                     -Ehrlichman's conversation with Nelson A. Rockefeller
                         -Time of announcement
                                 -Flanigan’s staff

     Flanigan
          -The President’s conversation with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
          -Dale Griffin
          -John E. Nidecker
          -Usefulness in political matters
                -Irish airlines
                -Soviet grain deal
                      -Memoranda
          -Loyalty, judgment
          -[Surface Transportation Act]
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                 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                    Tape Subject Log
                                      (rev. Mar-02)


          -George A. Smathers
     -Energy policy

[Surface Transportation Act]
     -Smathers
           -Letter to the President
           -Forthcoming call from Ehrlichman

Flanigan
     -International oil situation
           -Political aspects
     -Future in administration

Grumman Corporation
    -Ehrlichman's conversation with Rockefeller
          -Possible announcement
    -The President's conversation with Mitchell
          -Mitchell's forthcoming conversation with [David] Kenneth Rush
               -F-14s
          -Mohammed Reza Pahlavi [Shah of Iran]
               -Ehrlichman’s forthcoming conversation with Henry A. Kissinger
                    -Kissinger’s schedule
                           -George R.S. Baring [Earl of Cromer]
    -Press coverage
          -New York Times
               -Photograph
                    -Layoffs
          -Subcontracts
    -Flanigan
          -Relationship with business people, McDonnell-Douglas Corporation

Flanigan

L. Nicholas Ruwe
     -Possible role with administration
           -Chief of protocol
                -Rose Mary Woods’s view
                -Relationship with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

Emil (“Bus”) Mosbacher, Jr.
     -Possible role with administration
           -Ambassadorship to the Court of St. James
                -Woods’s view
                -Phillip [Prince of England]
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                      NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                       Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. Mar-02)


                          -Sailing

     Leonard W. Hall and Robert H. Finch
         -Possible roles in campaign
               -Clark MacGregor
                    -Woods’s view

     White House staff
         -Loyalty
         -Haldeman
         -Social interaction
               -Flanigan
         -Domestic Council
               -Flanigan’s duties
                     -Oil
                          -Political sensitivity

Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:15 am.

     The President's schedule
          -Antonio D. Neto, Joao Augusto de Araujo Castro
               -Photographers
                      -US Information Agency [USIA]

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:37 am.

     Charles W. Colson
          -Thomas W. Braden's column, July 28, 1972
               -Watergate
                    -Reaction

Ehrlichman left at 11:37 am.