Conversation: 828-013
Prev:  828-012 Next: 828-014Start Date: 27-Dec-1972 11:01 AM
End Date: 27-Dec-1972 12:01 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Brennan, Peter J.; Sanchez, Manolo; Bull, Stephen B.; Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On December 27, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Peter J. Brennan, Manolo Sanchez, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:01 am to 12:01 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 828-013 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 828-13 Date: December 27, 1972 Time: 11:01 am - 12:01 pm Location: Oval Office The President met with Patrick J. Buchanan. Buchanan’s schedule -Christmas The President’s schedule -Trip to Florida -Weather -Sun -Pool -Family -Trip to Florida -Thanksgiving -Florida Buchanan’s possible book -Arrangements -Deadline -Outline -Deadline -Theme -Richard M. Nixon administration -Outline -Chapter one -1968 election -Points to make -Administration -Philosophy -Buchanan’s memorandum to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman -26- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. June-08) Conversation No. 828-13 (cont’d) -Telephone call -Buchanan’s New York Times article -Theodore H. White -Press relations -Jeffrey Hart’s book -1972 election -1972 campaign -1964 campaign and election; -1966 campaign -Effect on Republican Party -Press coverage -Attacks on Barry M. Goldwater -Nelson A. Rockefeller -Liberal and conservative Republicans -Republican Party reconstruction -The President’s role -1962 election -1960 election -Press conference -Vice Presidency -Handicaps -Lack of staff, funds, retirement benefits -Post-1962 election -New York -Travel -International -Coach flights -Lack of entourage, stenographers -Southeast Asia, Europe Africa -1967 -1963, 1964 -Republican National Convention -Goldwater -The President’s travels -Commercial flights -Goldwater, Congressmen, Senators -The President’s relationship with Goldwater -Lyndon B. Johnson -Republican Party reconstruction -27- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. June-08) Conversation No. 828-13 (cont’d) -The President’s role -1966 campaign -New York -Travel -Predictions -Congressmen, Senators, governors -Press relations -[Arnold] Eric Sevareid -Martin Z. Agronsky -James B. (“Scotty”) Reston -Predictions about the President’s career -Cambodia -The President’s May 8, 1972 decision -Chapters -Organization -Buchanan’s New York Times article -Adversity -1966 campaign and election -The President’s travels -Sevareid -Television [TV] -The President -Predictions -Rockefeller, Ronald W. Reagan, George W. Romney -News magazines -Unknown commentator -The President -Romney -Polls -The President’s travels -1967 -1968 campaign and election -1964 election -Congressmen, Senators -Johnson -Congressmen, Senators, governors, state legislators, voters -Republicans -George H. Gallup -1972 election -28- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. June-08) Conversation No. 828-13 (cont’d) -1972 election -Republican Party -Dwight D. Eisenhower -Political balance -Congress, Senate, governors -Political balance -Goldwater -1964 and 1966 elections -1970 election -Republican Party -Congressmen, Senators, governors, voters -Press relations -Editorial endorsements -Washington, DC -National TV -Liberal establishment -Johnson -Eisenhower -1968 campaign -Hubert H. Humphrey -George S. McGovern -Edith Efron -1968 campaign -Tone -The President’s career -Guts, determination, stamina -Luck -1962 -1961 – November 5, 1968 -Vice Presidency -Funds -Public -Republican Party -1966 campaign -Travel -Airplane -Earnings -Winston S. Churchill -Books -29- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. June-08) Conversation No. 828-13 (cont’d) -1932 -US lectures -Networth -1969 -Spending -1968 campaign -Republican Party -Minority status -Congress -Press relations -Opposition -Exceptions -Press relations -Opposition -Exceptions -The President’s trips to the People’s Republic of China [PRC] and the Soviet Union -First term -Edmund S. Muskie, Humphrey, McGovern -Administration reaction -Actions -TV -The President’s November 3, 1969 speech -Cambodia, the President’s May 8, 1972 decision -Chapter -Trips -Chapter Two -The President’s November 3, 1969 speech -Camp David -Tone -David S. Broder’s article “The Breaking of the President” -News magazines -Demonstrations -Confrontation -Gallup polls -New Majority -The President’s May 8, 1972 decision -Cambodia -30- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. June-08) Conversation No. 828-13 (cont’d) -Predictions -The President’s May 8, 1972 decision -World War III -US-Soviet Union summit -Criticism -Respect -Single standard -First term -The President’s lack of critical meetings or telephone calls to editors, publishers, TV commentators -The President’s supporters -Johnson -TVs -News tickers -1967 -Eugene J. McCarthy -Compared to the administration -The President’s experience -1962 election -Vice Presidency -Alger Hiss case -Post-public life [1962-1968] -The President’s view -Reading -News summary -“Puff pieces” -Self-adulation and self-pity -Press releases -Time -Covers -The President’s trip to the PRC -Effect -Personalizing issues -Detachment -Friends and foes -Substance -News summary -TV, news ticker -1968 election -31- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. June-08) Conversation No. 828-13 (cont’d) -1964 -1962 -Lack of funds, support -First term -Criticism by supporters -Cambodia -1970 campaign -1972 election -Victory margin -Press relations -McGovern -Man and ideas -Issues -Busing -Permissiveness -Drugs, crime -Vietnam War -US withdrawal -Social issue -National scope -South -Massachusetts -Southern strategy -The President’s trips to the PRC and the Soviet Union -Economy -The President’s announcement -Outline -Chapter one -1968 -Triumph -Election -Tragedy -Triumph -1962 -Tragedy -Tet Offensive -McCarthy -Robert F. Kennedy -Johnson -32- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. June-08) Conversation No. 828-13 (cont’d) -Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. -Washington, DC riots -Kennedy -Triumph -Election -Victory margin -Administration opposition -Media, universities, foundations, Congress -Supreme Court -Earl Warren -Resignation -Timing -Liberal establishment -Compared to Eastern establishment -The President’s interview with Garnett D. (“Jack”) Horner -“Washington establishment” -Chapter two -Confrontation -The President’s speech -Summer 1969 -Moon landing -Guam Doctrine -The President’s trips to Vietnam and Romania -The President’s speech on welfare reform -The President’s trip to California -Left -Demonstrators, media, Congressional relations -Press relations -News magazines -Broder -Tone -The President’s public approval rating -Chapter length -Left -Silent Majority -Chapter three -Media relations -Speechwriting -The President’s role -33- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. June-08) Conversation No. 828-13 (cont’d) -1973 Inaugural speech -Franklin D. Roosevelt -Samuel I. Rosenman -Chapter three -Media relations -Establishment -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew’s Des Moines speech -Washington Post -Networks -Sales -Syndication -Chapter length -Outlook section -Op-ed articles -Outline -Chapter four Manolo Sanchez entered and left at an unknown time after 11:01 am. Buchanan’s book -Outline -Chapter Four -Blacks on Supreme Court -Supreme Court -Philosophy -Blacks -Hostility -1972 election -The President’s personal commitment, working relationships -Busing, welfare -Liberal establishment -Supreme Court -Rockefeller -Republican Party -Eisenhower -1960 campaign and election -Catholics -John F. Kennedy’s telephone call to [Coretta Scott King] -Robert Kennedy -34- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. June-08) Conversation No. 828-13 (cont’d) -[Martin Luther King’s release from jail] -Foreign policy chapter -The President’s trip to the PRC -Photographs -Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins -Philosophy -The President’s trip to the PRC -Vietnam War -Chronology -Success -US force level -Deadline -Foreign policy chapter -Vietnam War -US bombing north of 20th Parallel -Outline -New Majority chapter -McGovern -The President’s May 8, 1972 decision -Labor relations -George Meany -The President’s Miami trip -Patriotism -Business leaders, press relations -Work ethic -Politics -Respect -Meany -1972 campaign -Neutrality, support -Final chapter -Future -Second term reorganization -Bureaucracy -Spending, taxes -Responsibility -Congressional relations -1972 election -Victory margin -35- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. June-08) Conversation No. 828-13 (cont’d) -Length -Organization -Writing -Press relations Press relations -Ronald L. Ziegler’s press conferences -Accommodations -Compared to Johnson -Press conferences -Opposition -Networks -Power -Public opinion -1968 campaign -1972 campaign -McGovern -Welfare -$1000 per person proposal -Vietnam War -Redistribution of wealth -News -Strategy -Networks -Power -Public support -Louis P. Harris poll -Polls -Reliability -Vietnam War -End -Effect -Opposition -John D. Ehrlichman’s and Henry A. Kissinger’s briefings -Administration reaction -Tone -Influence -Subscriptions -US bombing north of 20th Parallel -36- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. June-08) Conversation No. 828-13 (cont’d) -Morale -Compared to Johnson -Telephone calls -Effect -Change -Walter L. Cronkite, Jr., Dan Rather, John Chancellor -Women -Blacks -Administration -Possible actions -Buchanan’s lunch with William Small -Cable TV -License renewal -Bias -Clay T. (“Tom”) Whitehead’s speech -Local stations’ responsibility -New York -El Paso Buchanan’s book -Buchanan’s schedule -Controversy -Liberals Press relations -Bias -Efron -Effect -Networks -Public opinion -Networks -Agnew’s Des Moines speech -Networks -Public awareness -Buchanan’s book -Public relations [PR] -Washington establishment -“Intellectual incest” -The President’s conversation with unknown European ambassador -37- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. June-08) Conversation No. 828-13 (cont’d) -Presentation of credentials -Ambassador’s US trip -US -Goodness -Mental and emotional sickness -Dissipation -Commentators -1972 campaign -Robert D. Novak’s article -McGovern -Reported gains -Polls -News summary -Accuracy -Vietnam War -TV coverage -South Vietnamese -Battles -Compared to North Vietnamese -Provincial capitals -Battles -Countryside -Provincial capitals -Network requests for Hanoi photographs -Bomb damage -The President’s meeting with Col. Richard T. Kennedy -North Vietnamese atrocities against South Vietnamese civilians -Rocketing of cities -Assassination, murder -US military action -Military targets -Double standard -Spanish Civil War -American Revolution -Army -Continentals -Loyalists -Tories -Spanish Civil War -38- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. June-08) Conversation No. 828-13 (cont’d) -Communists -Loyalists -Gen. Francisco Franco -Rebels -Loyalists -Civil War -South -The War of the Rebellion -The War between the States -The President’s use of TV -1972 campaign -Press conferences -Vietnam negotiations -Breakdown -Kissinger -Resumption -Press conferences -Purpose and location -Bureaucracy -Oval Office -National audience -East Room -Single point -Desk -Questions -Guidelines -Timing -Scheduling -Programs -Congressional relations -PR -Commentators -Frequency -Eisenhower -Republican Party -John Kennedy -Johnson -Johnson -Kennedy -Kennedy -39- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. June-08) Conversation No. 828-13 (cont’d) -Wit Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:01 am. The President’s schedule -Walk from Oval Office Bull left at an unknown time before 12:01 pm. Buchanan’s book -Preparation Buchanan left at 12:01 pm.