Conversation: 773-009
Prev: 773-008 Next: 773-010Start Date: Friday, September 8, 1972 3:32 PM
End Date: Friday, September 8, 1972 3:39 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Tower, John G.; Baker, Howard H., Jr.; Timmons, William E.; Atkins, Oliver F. ("Ollie")Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On September 8, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, John G. Tower, Howard H. Baker, Jr., William E. Timmons, and Oliver F. ("Ollie") Atkins met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:32 am and 11:39 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 773-009 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 773-9
Date: September 8, 1972
Time: Unknown between 11:32 am and 11:39 am.
Location: Oval Office
The President met with John G. Tower, Howard H. Baker, Jr., William E. Timmons and Oliver
F. (“Ollie”) Atkins.
[Photograph session]
-1972 campaign
Congressional action
-Edward W. Brooke amendment
-Debt ceiling
-Senate
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Vietnam
-Bombing and mining
-Poll results
-Barry M. Goldwater
Congressional candidate [Robin L. Beard, Jr.]
-Timmons
-6th Congressional district, Tennessee
Polls
-Nashville, Tennessee
-George S. McGovern
-Votes
-Norman Thomas
Harold (“Barefoot”) Sanders
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-McGovern
-Loyalty to Democratic Party
Vietnam War
-Campaign issue
-Candidates
-Louis P. Harris poll
-US position
-Soviet Union
-Defense
-Jobs
-Unemployment
-Tennessee
The President and Tower left at 11:36 am.
1972 campaign
-The President's schedule
-Knoxville
-Memphis
-1968, 1970
[This conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 11:39 am.]
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