Conversation: 838-018
Prev: 838-017 Next: 838-019Start Date: Thursday, January 11, 1973 3:20 PM
End Date: Thursday, January 11, 1973 4:03 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); White House operator; [Unknown person(s)]; Agnew, Spiro T. (Vice President)Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On January 11, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, White House operator, unknown person(s), and Vice President Spiro T. Agnew met in the Oval Office of the White House from 10:20 am to 11:03 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 838-018 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 838-18
Date: January 11, 1973
Time: Between 10:20 and 11:03 am
Location: Oval Office
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Conversation No. 838-18 (cont’d)
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman at 10:20 am.
White House
Weather
Winston S. Churchill
-World War I
-Book
-Spring 1914
-Germany
-Great Britain
-Weather
White House staff
- Haldeman
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Charles W. Colson
-George P. Shultz
-Colson
-Philosophy
-Hardhats
-Politics
President's memo on appointments to Administration positions
-Haldeman's role
-Frederic V. Malek's role
-William P. Rogers
-Ehrlichman
-Shultz
-George H. W. Bush
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Haldeman
-Malek
-Lewis A. Engman
-Federal Trade Commission [FTC]
-Qulaifications
-Engman
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Conversation No. 838-18 (cont’d)
-Shultz
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Ehrlichman
-Malek
-Colson
-Engman
-Ehrlichman
-Domestic Council
-Edwin L. Harper
-Engman
-John N. Mitchell
-Engman
-Miles W. Kilpatrick
-Departure
-Age
Appointments
-Ehrlichman's role
-Engman
-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
-United States Information Agency [USIA]
-James Keogh
-Call from Hobart Lewis
-Frank Stanton
-Harley Ranch [?]
Stanton
-USIA
-Red Cross
Red Cross appointments
-Maurice H. Stans
-Major contributors
-W. Clement Stone
-Qualifications
Stanton
-President's instructions
-Colson's role
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Conversation No. 838-18 (cont’d)
-Haldeman
-Ehrlichman
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Washington Post
-Red Cross
-USIA
-Ranch [?]
-Colson
-USIA compared to Red Cross
-Colson’s call to Stanton
President's schedule
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Haldeman
-Foreign policy
-Kissinger
-Vietnam negotiations
-Appointment with the President
-Washington Post
Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:20 and 11:03
am.
[Conversation No. 838-18A]
[See Conversation No. 35-131]
[End of telephone conversation]
President's schedule
-Agnew
Haldeman talked with an unknown person in Agnew's office at an unknown time between 10:20
and 11:05 am.
[Conversation No. 838-18A cont’d]
[See Conversation No. 35-131]
[End of telephone conversation]
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Conversation No. 838-18 (cont’d)
Haldeman talked with Agnew at an unknown time between 10:20 and 11:03 am.
[Conversation No. 838-18A cont.]
[See Conversation No. 35-131]
[End of telephone conversation]
President's schedule
-Agnew
-Middle East
-Vietnam negotiations in Paris
-Kissinger
-Vietnam
-Bombing story
-Murrey Marder
-Washington Star
-Paris
-Rumors
-Kissinger
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:20 am.
Agnew appointment
-Time
Bull left at an unknown time before 11:03 am.
Herbert G. Klein
-Ronald L. Ziegler
Frank L. Dale
Press relations
-Washington Star
-Colson’s views on Washington Post
-Richard Scaife
-Colson
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Conversation No. 838-18 (cont’d)
President's schedule
-Florida trip
-Colson
-Role
Staffing
-Klein
-Departure
- Ziegler's role
-Timing
-President's support
-California
-Copley
-Public appearances
Bugging of the President's airplane in 1968
-John N. Mitchell
-Cartha D. DeLoach
-Evidence
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Mitchell
-John W. Dean, III’s plan
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
-Washington Star story
-Johnson
-John B. Connally
-Mitchell
-George E. Christian
-Califano
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Washington Star story
-DeLoach
-Meeting with Mitchell
-Press
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Conversation No. 838-18 (cont’d)
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Privacy]
[Duration: 7s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
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Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-Colson
-George D. Webster
-Confirmation
-Colson
Film
-Dick Martin-Dan Rowan Production
-Attendance
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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift.]
[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Hugh Scott
-Harry S. Dent
-George A. Goodling
-Martin Hamburger
-William E. Brock, III
-Bush
-Dent
-Regional responsibilities
[End segment reviewed under deed of gift.]
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Stanton
-Appointment
-Charles Colson
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Conversation No. 838-18 (cont’d)
-Red Cross
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Donald M. Kendall
-Red Cross
-USIA
-Lewis
Democrat Caucus meeting
- Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
Presidential nominations
-Vietnam War
Watergate
-Bugging in the President’s place in 1968
-Christian
-DeLoach
-Califano
-Humphrey
Agency appointments
-Haldeman
-Ehrlichman
Press relations
-Staff responsibility for news summaries
-Colson
-Haldeman
-Ziegler
-Ehrlichman
-Strategy regarding anti-administration actions
-William E. Timmons
-Colson
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-Labor unions
-Letter writing campaigns
-Bombing
-Objections
-Congress
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Conversation No. 838-18 (cont’d)
-Mail count
-TV
Administration policy
-Cambodia
-Richardson
-Leadership concerns
-Colson
-Compared to Bruce A. Kehrli
-Roy L. Ash
-Qualifications
Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:20 am.
President's schedule
-Council on Environmental Quality [CEQ]
-Press photograph
Bull left at an unknown time before 11:03 am.
Environment issue in campaign
-Colorado
-Ehrlichman
-Water bill
-Question of President's veto
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-William D. Ruckelshaus
-Mrs. Nixon, Tricia Nixon Cox, Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Park dedications
Agnew
Haldeman left at 11:03 am.
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