Conversation: 758-011
Prev: 758-010 Next: 758-012Start Date: Tuesday, August 1, 1972 2:33 PM
End Date: Tuesday, August 1, 1972 3:50 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Ziegler, Ronald L.; White House operator; Colson, Charles W.; Bull, Stephen B.Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On August 1, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Ronald L. Ziegler, White House operator, Charles W. Colson, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 10:33 am to 11:50 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 758-011 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 758-11
Date: August 1, 1972
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Time: 10:33 am - 11:50 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
Roger O. Egeberg
US exchanges of health information with other nations
-Interest
-Public
-Chou En-Lai
-Cancer research
-Soviet Union
-Hungarians
-Poles
Ronald Ziegler entered at 10:34 am.
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Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:34 am and
11:03 am.
[Conversation No. 758-11A]
[See Conversation No. 28-28]
[End of telephone conversation]
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Haldeman talked with Charles W. Colson.
[Conversation No. 758-11A]
[See Conversation No. 28-28]
[End of telephone conversation]
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Vietnam negotiations
-Henry A. Kissinger’s trip to Paris
-News story
Ziegler left at 11:03 am.
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[Duration: 1m 58s ]
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Campaign practices
-Possible call to George S. McGovern's office
-Thomas F. Eagleton
-Lawrence F. O'Brien, Jr.
-Howard R. Hughes
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[Duration: 3m 39s ]
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Intelligence gathering
-O'Brien
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-Hughes
-Financial matters
-Hughes
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Joseph N. Napolitan
-Hughes
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Son
-Napolitan
-Public relations
-Work in political campaigns
-Charles Guggenheim
-Commercials for Lyndon B. Johnson campaign
-“Daisy” ad
-Barry M. Goldwater
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[Duration: 5m 8s ]
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Watergate
-John W. Dean, III
-Money
-Committee to Re-elect the President
-Grand jury
-Justice Department
-Leaks
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Grand jury appearance
-Dean's efforts
-Indictments
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-G[eorge] Gordon Liddy
-Special calendar placement
-Hunt
-Motions
-Civil liberties
-Lawyers
-Dean's views
-Effect on elections
-Liddy, Hunt
-Civil case
-Criminal case
-Charles R. Richey
-Roger Robb
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Tape Subject Log
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-Subpoena
-Maurice H. Stans
-Justice Department
-Magruder
-Conversation with Dean
-Statute of limitations
-Hugh W. Sloan, Jr.
-Testimony
-Magruder's view
-Money
-Immunity
-Justice Department
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-[Paul O’Brien and Kenneth W. Parkinson]
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Administration's efforts
-John N. Mitchell
-White House involvement
-Cubans
-Bail for those arrested
-Hunt
-Money
-Payment to defendants
-Watergate break-in
-Hunt
-Liddy
-Magruder
-Liddy
-Termination
-FBI
-Hunt
-Termination
-O'Brien
-Press
-Clark MacGregor's position
-Colson
-Civil suit
-Motion to suspend
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-Indictments
-Unknown veterans group
-Florida
-Question of pardons
-Republican National Convention
-Justice Department
-Cooperation
-FBI
-Henry E. Petersen
-MacGregor
-Kleindienst
-Meeting with Ehrlichman July 31, 1972
-Indictments
-Timing
-Republican convention
-Magruder
-Views re Sloan
-Money
-Committee to Re-Elect the President
-Mitchell
-Dean
Jake Jacobsen
-John B. Connally meeting with Ehrlichman
-Ehrlichman’s previous conversation with Kleindienst
-Transcript of conversation
Kleindienst
-Connally's view
-Compared to Walter J. Hickel
-Confirmation
-Possible speeches
FBI Director
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-W. Mark Felt
O'Brien
-Hughes
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-Funds
-Hughes
-Association with the President
-Association with O'Brien
-Funds
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS] records
-Ehrlichman
-Income
-Napolitan
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Scandals in the executive branch of government
-Watergate
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Sherman Adams
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Robert D. (“Bobby”) Baker
-Walter W. Jenkins
-Harry S Truman
-Harry H. Vaughan
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Children
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Robert C. Wilson
-Robert H. Finch
Watergate
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-Sloan
-Possible job
-Wife [Deborah Sloan]
-Possible indictment
-Role
The President's schedule
-Chief Justice [Warren E. Burger]
-Lord Chief Justice of Great Britain
-Ehrlichman’s previous conversation with Burger
-William Allen Jowitt
-Alger Hiss
-Burger’s forthcoming dinner
-Soviet Minister of Health [Boris V. Petrovsky]
-Possible meeting with the President
-Confinement of dissidents in mental hospitals
-The President’s view
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Teachers from Ireland
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
-Education aid for Hurricane Agnes damage
-Pennsylvania
-Possible meeting with the President
-Wilkes College
-Kings College
-Wyoming Seminary
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William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Ethel Waters
-Dinner in California, October 6, 1972
-Mrs. Nixon, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Tricia Nixon Cox
-The President’s previous conversation with Graham
-California
-North Carolina
-Haldeman's forthcoming call to Graham
-[Harry B. Williams]
-Haldeman’s previous conversation with an unknown person
-O'Brien
-Waters
-Graham’s location
-Haldeman’s previous conversations with Graham
-The President’s previous conversation with Graham
-Haldeman’s forthcoming call to Graham
-Graham’s visit to California
-Golf
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Graham
-Haldeman’s forthcoming call to Graham
-Graham’s location
-California
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Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:03 am.
The President's schedule
-Samuel D. Winer
-US Jaycees
-Possible meeting with Soviet Minister of Health [Petrovsky]
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Richardson
-Haig
-Barber
-Forthcoming meeting with Winer
The President, Haldeman, and Bull left at 11:50 am.