Conversation: 756-020
Prev: 756-019 Next: 756-021Start Date: Friday, July 28, 1972 5:57 PM
End Date: Friday, July 28, 1972 6:09 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Butterfield, Alexander P.; Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Bull, Stephen B.; Kissinger, Henry A.; White House operator; Eastland, James O.Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On July 28, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander P. Butterfield, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Stephen B. Bull, Henry A. Kissinger, White House operator, and James O. Eastland met in the Oval Office of the White House from 1:57 pm to 2:09 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 756-020 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 756-20
Date: July 28, 1972
Time: 1:57 pm -2:09 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield. This recording began at an unknown time
while the conversation was in progress.
Tricia Nixon Cox
-Secret Service protection
-Announced public events
-Compared to unannounced public activities
-Instructions for Butterfield
-Legal requirements
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 2:00 pm.
-Visibility
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Whistle
-George S. McGovern
-Airplane
-Andrews Air Force Base
-The President
-Signal
-Legal requirements
-Shopping
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 39s ]
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-Secret Service protection
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar-02)
-Shopping
-National security interests
-Kidnapping
-Instruction for Butterfield
-Telephone call
Butterfield left at an unknown time before 2:04 pm.
Thomas F. Eagleton
-Press conference
-Continuance on Democratic Party presidential ticket
-News reports
-Radio
-Call from Edward M. Kennedy
-McGovern's staff
-McGovern's schedule
-Press briefing
-Democratic Party strategy
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:00 pm.
The President's schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger’s schedule
-Sir Burke Trend
-George R.S. Baring [Earl of Cromer]
-Edward R.G. Heath
-Kissinger
-Olver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Press photograph
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
Bull left at an unknown time before 2:04 pm.
-Lord Chief Justice of Great Britain
-Possible dinner
-John D. Ehrlichman's forthcoming conversation with Warren E. Burger
-Wife
Kissinger entered at 2:04 pm.
-Trend
-Heath’s messages
-George P. Shultz
-The President’s appreciation
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar-02)
-Press photograph
-Dobrynin
-Previous meeting with Dobrynin
-Kissinger’s meeting with Dobrynin
-Letter
-[Egypt’s expulsion of Soviet military advisers]
-US foreknowledge
-The President’s press conference, July 27, 1972
-US-Soviet relationship
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Dobrynin
-Kissinger’s office
-San Clemente
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Kissinger’s meeting with Dobrynin
-Technical issues
-Gerard C. Smith
-Senate
The President’s schedule
-Previous meeting with Dobrynin
-Middle East
-Kissinger’s schedule
-1972 election
Soviet Union
-Relationship with US
-Importance
-Compared to Israel
-Proposal
-Trend’s[?] awareness
-Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting
Kissinger's schedule
-Paris
-Ronald L. Ziegler's statement
-Trend[?]
Kissinger left at 2:07 pm.
White House staff
-Press conference statements
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar-02)
The President's schedule
-James O. Eastland
-Allen J. Ellender's funeral
-Selection as President Pro Tem
The President talked with the White House operator at 2:07 pm.
[Conversation No. 756-20A]
[See Conversation No. 28-10]
[End of telephone conversation]
The President's schedule
-Ellender funeral
-Russell B. Long
-Call from William E. Timmons
-Long
-F. Edward Herbert
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Call to Haldeman
-The President's recent press conference
-The President’s recent press conference
-Vice President
-Selection process
-New York Times
The President talked with Eastland between 2:08 pm and 2:09 pm.
[Conversation 756-20B]
[See Conversation No. 28-11]
[End of telephone conversation]
Eastland
Bull entered and left at an unknown time before 2:09 pm.
The President’s schedule
-Cromer and Trend
John L. McClellan
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar-02)
The President's schedule
-Congressional leaders
-Eastland
Haldeman left at 2:09 pm.