Conversation: 767-016
Prev: 767-015 Next: 767-017Start Date: Friday, August 11, 1972 1:35 PM
End Date: Friday, August 11, 1972 2:36 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Bull, Stephen B.; Ehrlichman, John D.; Ziegler, Ronald L.; Kissinger, Henry A.; [Unknown person(s)]Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On August 11, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Stephen B. Bull, John D. Ehrlichman, Ronald L. Ziegler, Henry A. Kissinger, and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 9:35 am and 10:36 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 767-016 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 767-16
Date: August 11, 1972
Time: Unknown between 9:35 am and 10:36 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Stephen B. Bull.
The President’s forthcoming acceptance speech
-Suggestions from staff members
-Arrangement of suggestions
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
Bull left at an unknown time before 9:44 am.
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John D. Ehrlichman entered at 9:44 am.
[Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan]
-Activities
-Article in The Public Interest
-The President’s veto of the Departments of Labor and Health,
Education and Welfare [HEW] appropriations bill
-Newsweek column
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC] appearance
-Busing
-Administration position
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R. Sargent Shriver
-Resignation letter
-William P. Rogers
-Forthcoming publication of letter
-Moynihan's reaction to speech
-Campaign for governorship
-Rogers
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Tape Subject Log
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-Previous meeting with Ehrlichman
-Possible job with administration
The President’s forthcoming meeting with Peter G. Peterson
Media relations
-Article on the Administration’s media strategy
-Source of article
-The President’s view
-John A. Scali
-Charles W. Colson
-Proposed tough stance with the press
-Scali
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Scali and Clawson
-Buchanan
-Colson
-Clawson
-Scali
-Buchanan
-Détente with press
-Détente with press
-The President’s view
-Statement on the media in general
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Response to individual stories
-Haldeman’s view
-Robert B. Semple, Jr.
-Cabinet meeting at Camp David, August 8, 1972
-Portrayal as economic discussion
-Presence of Republican National Committee member
-Fred J. Agnich
-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming conversation with Semple
-Ronald L. Ziegler’s response
-The President’s view
-[Edith] “Efron Syndrome”
-News summaries
-Example of John Dancy’s report
-Buchanan
-George S. McGovern crowds in New England
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-Dancy’s description of crowds
-Size of crowds
-Associated Press [AP] reports
-Hartford, Connecticut
-Compared to the President's campaign crowds
in 1966
-Press coverage of the President’s crowds
in Maine
-“Efron Syndrome”
W. Ramsey Clark
-White House response strategy
-Robert J. Dole
-Buchanan
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Anti-communist figure
-McGovern’s plan for Clark to assume Hoover’s position
-McGovern’s description of Hoover
-Clark’s relationship with the North Vietnamese
-Agnew’s forthcoming speeches
-Press reaction
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Dole
-The President’s view
-Colson
-Desire to force McGovern to confirm or deny plan to appoint Clark to
FBI
-Jane Fonda's trip to North Vietnam
-Connection to Clark
-Clark’s address on Radio Hanoi
-MacGregor’s previous speech at the National Press Club
-Fonda and Clark
-Agnew
-News summary
-Colson’s previous conversation with the President
-MacGregor
-Dole
-Press reaction
-MacGregor’s other comments at the National Press Club
-“Come home George”
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-“Efron Syndrome”
-Network coverage
-Watergate
-“Come home George”
Ziegler entered at 9:58 am.
Shriver
-The Administration’s release of resignation letter
-Ziegler’s forthcoming conversation with Rogers
-Possible release by the State Department
-Possible release by the White House
-State Department’s reluctance to release the letter
-Haldeman’s possible conversation with Rogers
-Possible release by the White House
-The President’s view
-Release by the State Department
-Rogers
-Possible call by Ziegler
-Possible release by the White House
-Possible statement by Rogers
-Quotation from Shriver’s letter
Ziegler left at 10:00 am.
-Request for job in the Administration
-Publicity
-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming meeting with Jerrold L. Schecter
-Possible letter from Ehrlichman to Shriver
-Ehrlichman's forthcoming visit to Florida
-Television appearances
-Time magazine
-Schecter
-Previous meeting with the President
-Desire to run for governor
-Statements on Vietnam
-Service as ambassador to France
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Possible article by Schecter
-Ehrlichman’s response to Shriver’s statements
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Revenue sharing
-John L. McClellan
-Appropriations Committee
-Wallace F. Bennett
-Russell B. Long
-Appropriations Committee
-Senate Finance Committee
-Thomas C. Korologos
-Delays
-George H. Mahon
-McClellan
Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
-The President’s previous conversation with Gerald R. Ford
-The President's veto
-Shriver
Busing
-As an issue
-Ehrlichman’s view
-House of Representatives
-Senate
Handgun bill
-Administration support
White House staff
-Colson
-Conflict with Scali
-Conflicts
-Colson
Automobile pricing
-The President’s memorandum
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Impact on Consumer Price Index [CPI]
The President’s forthcoming meeting with George W. Romney
-Other attendees
-Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania flood situation
-Request for additional staff
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-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
Labor and HEW appropriations bill veto
-Timing
-Republican National Convention
-Television time
Lawrence F. O'Brien, Jr.
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS] investigation
-Delays
-George P. Shultz
-Johnnie M. Walters
-Delays
-Shultz
Investigations of McGovern contributors
-Rose Mary Woods
-Max Palevsky
-Unreported contributions to McGovern
-Palevsky
-Henry L. Kimelman
-Virgin Islands
-Income tax audit
-Results
-Interior Department
-Justice Department
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-Interior Department
-Rogers C.B. Morton
-Morton’s location
-Alaska
-Cabinet meeting at Camp David, August 8, 1972
-Newspaper article
The President's schedule
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Possible meeting with Clark MacGregor and John N. Mitchell
-Reasons
-Guidance
-Report to the President
-Republican National Convention
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-Meeting with Ronald W. Reagan
-MacGregor
-Camp David
-Revenue sharing
-Veto [of Labor and HEW appropriations bill]
-Camp David
Watergate
-Grand jury investigation
-Reports
-Sources
-Alger Hiss case
-Maurice H. Stans
-Newspaper investigation
-Minnesota person [Kenneth H. Dahlberg]
-Mexican lawyer [Manuel Ogarrio Daguerre]
-Sources
-Burglars
-Florida
-Investigators
-Post election plans
-Henry E. Peterson
-Personnel changes
Civil Rights Division [of the Justice Department]
-Personnel changes
-John B. Connally
-Lawsuit in Los Angeles
-Samuel W. Yorty
-Administration disapproval
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Yorty's response
-Kevin D. White
Cabinet
-Shultz
-The President’s possible conversation with Shultz
-Investigation of O’Brien
-Romney
-Ehrlichman’s note to Romney
-Previous call from wife [Lenore L. Romney] to Ehrlichman
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-The President’s view
-Rogers
-Release of Shriver’s resignation letter
-Shultz
-Treasury Department
-IRS
Civil Rights Division
-Kleindienst
-Cases
-Boston
-White
-Birmingham, Chicago, and Los Angeles
-Reversal of suits
Henry A. Kissinger entered at 10:15 am.
Vietnam briefings for McGovern
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Butterfield
-The Administration’s letter to McGovern
-Kissinger
-Paul C. Warnke
-Paris negotiations
-McGovern’s refusal to receive briefings
-Haig
-Publicity
-The Administration’s letter to McGovern
-Possible question at press conference
-Ziegler
-Warnke
-Haig
Shriver
-Publicity for Shriver’s resignation letter
-Rogers
-Ziegler
-Release by the White House
-Rogers
-Shriver’s cables while ambassador to France
-Vietnam
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-Shriver’s knowledge
-Compared to Ehrlichman’s knowledge
-Rogers
-Publicity for Shriver’s resignation letter
-Rogers’s reluctance to release
-Haldeman’s view
-Ziegler
-Robert J. McCloskey
Haldeman left at 10:16 am.
The President's schedule
-Forthcoming trip to Camp David
-Meeting with Reagan
-Republican National Convention
-Report on Europe
-Reagan’s comments on West Germany
-The President’s previous meeting with Sir Burke St. John Trend
-Trend’s response
-Belgian Foreign Minister, Pierre C.J.M. Harmel
-Forthcoming meeting with Kissinger
-Kissinger’s forthcoming foreign trips
-News items
-Platform Committee
-Camp David
Automobile manufacturers
-The President's memorandum
-Relationship with administration
-Rumsfeld
-News summary
Ehrlichman left at 10:24 am.
Vietnam
-Poland
-Shipment to North Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Kissinger’s forthcoming trip to Paris
-North Vietnamese proposal
-Political element
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-Kissinger's forthcoming trip to Saigon
-Announcement
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 10:24 am.
Acknowledgement
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:36 am.
-Possible resignation of Nguyen Van Thieu
-Kissinger’s previous cable to the North Vietnamese
-North Vietnamese reply
-Xuan Thuy
-Presence of substitute at meeting
-Possible publicity of North Vietnamese plan
-Effect on US domestic situation
-Kissinger’s view
-Possible US proposal
-The President’s instruction
-Possible US proposal at next meeting
-North Vietnamese rejection
-McGovern
-US proposal
-North Vietnamese rejection
-Kissinger’s memorandum to the President
-Political convention
-Possible US withdrawal
-North Vietnamese reluctance
-Thieu
-Strength
-Kissinger’s new proposal
-Continued US military presence
-1972 election
-Ceasefire contrasted with withdrawal
-Possible post-election bombing
-Release of prisoners of war [POWs]
-Political settlement
-Possible North Vietnamese negotiations with Thieu
-Basic agreement
-Ceasefire
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-McGovern
-Clark
-McGovern's plan to appoint Clark FBI director
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The President's meeting with Peter G. Peterson
-Kissinger’s memorandum
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Kissinger's forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Lend-Lease proposal
-Peterson’s knowledge of trip
-Gas deal
-Flanigan's knowledge of the trip
-Kissinger’s view
-The President’s view
-Announcement of agreement
Arms control negotiations
-US-Great Britain collaboration
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Draft of agreement
-Soviet Union reaction
-Kissinger’s sharing of Soviet Union proposal with People’s Republic of China
[PRC] officials
-Negotiations with the Soviet Union
Foreign policy
-Major issues
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-Grain sales to the Soviet Union
-Vietnam
-Importance
-US-Soviet Union relations
-Brezhnev
-Vietnam
-Middle East
Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:24 am.
The President’s forthcoming meeting with Peterson
-Photograph
Bull left at an unknown time before 10:36 am.
Arms control agreement
-Great Britain
-NATO
-PRC
-Soviet Union
-Middle East issue
The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Peterson
-Bull
-Forthcoming meeting with Romney
Kissinger left at an unknown time before 10:36 am.