Conversation: 769-001
Prev: 768-024 Next: 769-002Start Date: 14-Aug-1972 1:47 PM
End Date: 14-Aug-1972 2:48 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Moynihan, Daniel P.;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On August 14, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and Daniel P. Moynihan met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 1:47 pm and 2:48 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 769-001 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 768-24/769-1
Date: August 14, 1972
Time: Unknown between 1:47 pm and 2:48 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman and Daniel P. ("Pat") Moynihan.
[An unknown portion of this conversation was not recorded while the tape was being changed.]
Intellectuals and the Presidents administration
-The Administration's search for writing talent
-Adequate nature of current speech writing staff
-Irving Kristol
-The President's abilities
-[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson
-Openness to discussion
-Experience
-View of foreign and domestic policy
-Interaction between intellectuals and the President
Possible national coalition
-The President's possible role as a force for unity
-Issue of current campaign compared to issues of previous campaigns
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Wendell L. Willkie
-Thomas E. Dewey
-Harry S. Truman
-Dewey
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Adlai E. Stevenson, II
-John F. Kennedy
-The President
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Similar views of opponents in previous campaigns
-Bipartisan foreign policy
-Goldwater
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-US economic system
-Differences between views of opponents in current campaign
-US role in the world
-US economic policy
-Moderate Democrats
-Stevenson
-George S. McGovern
-The Administration's moderate course
-Criticism by the right wing
-John Birch Society
-The President's role in Jewish conspiracy
-California
-Polarization of politics
-The Administration as an alternative
-Majority of US citizens
-Progress
-Democratic support for the President
-John B. Connally
-The Administration's openness to people regardless of party affiliation
Watergate
-Haldeman
-The President's joke
-Moynihan's view
-The President's view
-Democratic National Committee
-Republican National Committee
Framed copy of education bill
-Allen J. Ellender
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Ellender
-Service as Senate President pro tempore
Moynihan and Haldeman left at 2:48 pm.
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