Conversation: 926-018
Prev: 926-017 Next: 926-019Start Date: Wednesday, May 23, 1973 4:27 PM
End Date: Wednesday, May 23, 1973 4:55 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Dole, Robert J.; [Unknown person(s)]; Sanchez, Manolo; Bush, George H. W.; Timmons, William E.Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On May 23, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Robert J. Dole, unknown person(s), Manolo Sanchez, George H. W. Bush, and William E. Timmons met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:27 pm to 12:55 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 926-018 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 926-18
Date: May 23, 1973
Time: 12:27 pm - 12:55 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Robert J. Dole.
Dole’s schedule
-Soviet Union visit
-George H. W. Bush
Watergate
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:27 pm.
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Conversation No. 926-18 (cont’d)
Refreshment
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:35 pm.
Watergate
-Dole’s and Clark MacGregor’s role
-Political effects
Energy
-Oil companies
-Alaska Pipeline Bill
-Ted Stevens
-Pitch
Watergate
-Republican National Committee chairmanship
-George H. W. Bush
-Dole
-White House response
-White Paper
-Need for guidance for Republicans
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Bryce N. Harlow’s view
-President’s conversation with Harlow, May 21
-Popular support for the President
-Dole’s speech to dairymen in Chicago
An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time between 12:27 pm and 12:35 pm.
-Allegations against the President
-White House response
-President’s activities
-Forthcoming Illnois visit after meeting with Georges J. R.
Pompidou in Iceland
-Visit to Norfolk, Virginia, May 19
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Conversation No. 926-18 (cont’d)
-Popular opinion
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-[William] Stuart Symington
-White House response
-White Paper
Dole’s health
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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]
Dole’s political future
-Campaigning
-Robert Docking
-Senator status
-Seniority
-Centennial meeting
-Campaigning
-Midwestern states
President’s activities
-Norfolk, Virginia
-Mississippi
-Midwestern states
-Illinois
-Ohio
[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
George H. W. Bush and William E. Timmons entered at 12:35 pm.
President’s previous meeting with congressional leaders
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Conversation No. 926-18 (cont’d)
-Alaska pipeline
-John B. (“Jack”) Anderson
-Canada
-Pierre E. Trudeau
-Negotiations
-Canadian pipeline
-Amount of oil
-Alaska
-Bill
-Republican leadership meeting
-Ted Stevens
-Construction effort
-Ted Stevens
-Construction effort
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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]
Dole’s political future
-Docking
-Governorship
-Team length
-Kansas
-Fundraising
-Ewing Kaufman
-Fundraising
-Nancy Ross [?]
[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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President’s schedule
-State visits
-Iceland trip
-Economy
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Conversation No. 926-18 (cont’d)
-William R. Tolbert, Jr.
-Liberia
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Soviet Union
-Independence Day
-Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
-Pakistan
-Mohammad Reza Pahlavi [Shah of Iran]
-Iran
-Kakuei Tanaka
-Kaufman
-Invitation
-Kansas City Royals
Bhutto
-Visits
-United Nations [UN]
-Security Council
-Speaking engagements
-Crowd
-University of California
US-Pakistan relations
-Allies
-India
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Soviet Union
-India
Dole’s schedule
-Possible foreign trip
-Timing
-Congressional session
-Camp David
-Pleasure trip
-Moscow trade fair
-Jim Pearson
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Conversation No. 926-18 (cont’d)
-National Security Council [NSC]
-United States Information Agency [USIA]
-Trade fair
-US representative
-Moscow
-Support for President
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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]
Jacob K. Javits’s forthcoming election
-Conservatives
-Republicans
Joseph A. Margiotta
-Bush
-Speaking engagement
-New York
[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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Joseph A. Margiotta
-Organization of the President’s Madison Square Garden speech
-George S. McGovern
Watergate
-1972 election
-Campaign practices
-McGovern
-Congressional response
-Carl T. Curtis
-Bush’s statement to press, May 21
-White House response
-White Paper
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Conversation No. 926-18 (cont’d)
-Press coverage
-Bush’s conversation with Martin Schramm
-Press reaction
-Press reaction
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] and national security
-National security
-Public opinion
-Frank L. Rizzo and members of Congress
-Republican response
-Haldeman’s meeting with Ehrlichman, Richard M. Helms and Lt. Gen. Vernon
A. Walters
-Purpose
-Walters’s subsequent conversation with L[ouis] Patrick Gray III
-John W. Dean III
-Meeting with Walters
-Curtis’s reaction
-Press reaction
-Schramm
-Republicans’ response
-[Unintelligible congressman], [Harold?] Collins and Samuel L. Devine
-Hugh Scott’s and Gerald R. Ford’s meeting with press
-National security
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Possible statement
-National security
-Popular opinion
-President’s opponents
-Dean’s role
-White House response
-White Paper
-Republicans’ response
-Possible joint congressional conference
-Scott and Ford
-National security
-Secrecy
-Importance for foreign policy
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Conversation No. 926-18 (cont’d)
-Impact of leaks on Prisoner of War [POW] return and Vietnam
War settlement
-Daniel Ellsberg
-White House response
Bush’s schedule
-POW dinner
-Invitation
Dole et al. left at 12:55 pm.