Conversation: 793-009
Prev: 793-008 Next: 793-010Start Date: Friday, October 6, 1972 2:03 PM
End Date: Friday, October 6, 1972 2:06 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.; White House operator; Colson, Charles W.; Shivers, Allan; Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); [Unknown person(s)]Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On October 6, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Ronald L. Ziegler, White House operator, Charles W. Colson, Allan Shivers, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 10:03 am and 10:06 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 793-009 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 793-9
Date: October 6, 1972
Time: 10:06 am - 10:36 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.
Greetings
[Pause]
The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:06 am and
10:10 am.
[Conversation No. 793-9A]
[See Conversation No. 31-8]
[End of telephone conversation]
The President's schedule
-Radio address on Federal spending
-Timing
-Distribution
-US News & World Report
-The President’s October 5, 1972 press conference
-Press and media coverage
President’s recent press conference
-Media coverage
-Tax increase in 1973
-Second term
-Government spending limit
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Appropriations Authorization programs
-Water bill
-Congressional spending
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Involvement
-Patrick J. Buchanan’s news analysis
-Press
Charles W. Colson entered at 10:10 am.
-Lyndon K. ("Mort") Allin
-Previous conversation with Colson
-Buchanan
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-Allin
-Lead story on all major television [TV] networks
-President's points
-Corruption charges
-Jerome R. Waldie
-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]
-Voice over
The President talked with Allan Shivers between 10:14 and 10:16 a.m.
[Conversation No. 793-9B]
[See Conversation No. 31-9]
[End of telephone conversation]
The President’s recent press conference
-Press standards
-Double standard
-Carroll Kilpatrick
-Story
-Media coverage
-Press and wire services
-Points
-Tax reform
-Corruption
-Networks
-Buchanan’s news analysis
15
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-George S. McGovern
-October 5, 1972 foreign policy speech
-1972 campaign
-Response
-McGovern’s recent foreign policy speech
-Frank Reynolds
Haldeman entered at 10:26 am.
Ziegler's schedule
-Richard G. Valeriani
Valeriani
-Reporting on McGovern
-Tone
-Edward M. Kennedy’s trip to Chicago
The President’s recent press conference
-News summary
-Mailing
1972 campaign
-Attack mode
-Issues
-Foreign policy, amnesty, welfare, permissiveness
-Melvin R. Laird
-Face the Nation
-William P. Rogers forthcoming press conference
-McGovern's recent foreign policy speech in Cleveland
-Timing
-McGovern’s forthcoming TV appearance
-McGovern’s recent foreign policy speech
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Regional security
-Indians
-Chinese
-Japanese
-Koreans
-Taiwan, Republic of China
-Thailand, Cambodia, Laos
-Rogers
-Views of McGovern
16
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Europe
-Vietnam
-Laird
-Rogers
-Tone
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-South Dakota, Hanoi
-Rogers
-Rogers’s forthcoming press conference
-Schedule
-State Department
Press conferences
-Frequency
-Post-1972 election
-October 5, 1972
-Newsworthiness of comments
-Network coverage
-Lead slot for reporting
-Points on taxes, elderly, communist takeover in South Vietnam
-Allin
-Clawson
-John A. Scali
-Allin
-Jews
An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 10:26 am.
The President's schedule
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:36 am.
Network coverage
-Colson’s view
-The President’s recent press conference
-Political context
-Politcal context
-Viewing the President as candidate, not President
-Strategic Arms Limitation treaty [SALT] agreement signing
-J. William Fulbright
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Comparison with 1968
-Edith Efron's analysis [The News Twisters]
-Haldeman's view of in-office press conferences
-East Room
-Equal time for McGovern
-Audience
-Debate
-Television [TV]
-Ceremonial events
-SALT signing
-Film clips
-In-office press conference
-Impact
-President’s recent press conference
-Buchanan's analysis
-Efron
-Press relations
-Tone
-1972 compared to 1968
-McGovern
-President’s recent press conference
-Press reaction
-Questions
-Ziegler’s conversation with Diane Sawyer
-Press relations
-Tone
-Press conferences
-East Room
-Tone
-In-office
-TV
Ziegler, Colson and Haldeman left at 10:36 am.