Conversation: 799-006
Prev: 799-005 Next: 799-007Start Date: 16-Oct-1972 8:50 AM
End Date: 16-Oct-1972 9:29 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob");Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On October 16, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Oval Office of the White House from 8:50 am to 9:29 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 799-006 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 799-6
Date: October 16, 1972
Time: 8:50 am - 9:29 am
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Location: Oval Office
The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
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Watergate
-White House response to news story charges
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-The President’s involvement
-Donald H. Segretti
-Watergate connection
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr., Dwight L. Chapin
-White House position
-Ziegler
-Chapin
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Segretti
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Source
-Time magazine
-Department of Justice [DOJ], the Federal Bureau of Investigation
[FBI]
-Kalmbach
-University of Southern California [USC]
-Chapin, Segretti
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon, O.J. Simpson
-Ziegler
-Media presentation
-The President
-Issues
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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-Campaign practices
-Clark MacGregor
-Democrat’s campaign tactics
-Press coverage
-Violence
-Demonstrators
-The President’s family
-Mrs. Nixon
-Vermont
-White Paper
-1972 primaries
-Ehrlichman
-Hubert H. Humphrey, Edmund S. Muskie, George S. McGovern, Henry
M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Segretti's activities
-Rally disruption, spying, meeting disruption
-Chapin
-Personal attacks
-Ziegler's response
-President's instructions
-Disruptions, heckling
-President’s knowledge
-Funds
-Ziegler, MacGregor's response
-Chapin subpoena
-Ehrlichman's response
-Executive privilege
-Eastern establishment
-McGovern
-Charles W. Colson
-Editorial
-Time story
-Life editorial board’s endorsement of the President
-News summary
-Ehrlichman’s statement
-Bob Clark
-Editorial staff endorsement of McGovern
-Newspaper Guild endorsement
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Watergate
-Campaign practices
-Colson
-MacGregor
-Distribution of material to surrogates
-Edward R.F. Cox
-White House connection
-Ziegler
-William E. Timmons
-White House intelligence gathering
-Haldeman involvement
-McGovern, R. Sargent Shriver campaign
-Sources
-Press
-Legality
-1968 campaign
-Frederic V. Malek
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Response to leaks
-Segretti
-John W. Dean, III
-Conversation with lawyer
-Kalmbach
-Grand jury
-Time
-Washington Post
-Newport
-Kalmbach
-The President's California property
-Ehrlichman
-International Brotherhood of Teamsters
-Trousdale Estates
-Comparison of campaigns
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Tone
-MacGregor
-Press and media coverage
-Eastern Establishment
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Ehrlichman
-Washington Post, New York Times, Newsweek, Life,
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
-Networks
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Issues
-Meeting with Ehrlichman, John B. Connally
-Property tax relief
-Parochial schools
Media relations
-Pentagon Papers and India-Pakistan war coverage
-Use of spies, leaks
-Double standard
-Washington Post, New York Times
-Jack N. Anderson Pulitzer Prize
Possible speech
-Attack on media rather than McGovern
-Ziegler
-Perspective in coverage
-Irresponsibility
-Break-in, bugging
-Bombings of the President's headquarters
-Comparison
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Violence
-Bugging
-Source
White House staff
-Henry A. Kissinger
-The President’s schedule
-Award to Chapin
-Timing
-The President's possible conversation with Chapin
Haldeman left at 9:29 am.