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Tape Subject Log (rev. Feb-02)
Conversation No. 739-1
Date: June 21, 1972 Time: Unknown between 9:05 and 9:10 am Location: Oval Office
The President talked with the White House operator.
[See Conversation No. 25-95]
Conversation No. 739-2
Date: June 21, 1972 Time: 9:10 am Location: Oval Office
The President talked with the White House operator.
[See Conversation No. 25-96]
Conversation No. 739-3
Date: June 21, 1972 Time: 9:23 - 9:25 am Location: Oval Office
The President talked with Louie Welch.
[See Conversation No. 25-97; one item has been withdrawn]
Conversation No. 739-4
Date: June 21, 1972 Time: 9:30 - 10:38 am Location: Oval Office
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Tape Subject Log (rev. Feb-02)
The President met with H. R. Haldeman.
The President's schedule -Arthur F. Burns -John B. Connally, George P. Shultz -Schedule
Economic indicators -Consumer Price Index [CPI] -Food prices -Price Commission meeting -Donald H. Rumsfeld
Debt ceiling bill -Frank F. Church -Social Security -Russell B. Long -Michael J. Mansfield -Timing of vote in Senate -William P. Rogers, Clark MacGregor -Robert W. Packwood, Charles McC. Mathias, Jr. -Henry A. Kissinger -Timing of vote
Watergate break-in -Staff meeting -Haldeman's conversation with John N. Mitchell -Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] -John D. Ehrlichman -L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III -G. Gordon Liddy -Role in Committee to Reelect the President [CRP] -Mitchell's knowledge -Charles W. Colson -White House consultant -John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson -Colson's involvement -Other involvement -Need for strategy -Ehrlichman -Civil suit -Depositions -Liddy 3
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log (rev. Feb-02)
-Summary judgement -White House involvement -E. Howard Hunt, Jr. -Colson -Bay of Pigs -Colson's projects -International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] -Dita D. Beard -Disappearance -White House strategy -Ehrlichman -Admission of guilt -Implications by press -Dan Rather -Republicans -George S. McGovern -Hubert H. Humphrey -White House staff reaction -Colson's conversation with the President -Jack N. Anderson's commentary -Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo -Republican convention arrangements -Miami, Florida -Cubans -Hunt -James W. McCord, Jr. -Hiring -Hunt -Cubans -Plans to bug McGovern headquarters -Doral Hotel -Republican National Committee -Colson -Washington Post story -Hunt, Colson -Five burglars -Lawyer -Liddy -Colson -Defense by administration -Activities -As an issue -Nationally 4
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log (rev. Feb-02)
-Washington -Liddy -White House strategy -Tom C. Huston -Nathan Hale -Admission of guilt -White House reaction -Burglary -Sentencing -Mitchell -Involvement -Ehrlichman -Liddy -Hunt -Disappearance -Cubans -FBI -Names in notebooks -Policemen and FBI agents -Joseph A. Califano, Jr. -Lawsuit -Edward Bennett Williams -Depositions -Ehrlichman -Gray -Colson -Hunt -Depositions -Liddy -Mitchell -Democrats' reaction -Ehrlichman's strategy for White House
The President's schedule -Press meeting -McGovern -Ronald L. Ziegler -Watergate break-in -Economic Quadriad meeting -Shultz -Nelson A. Rockefeller, James L. Buckley, Jacob K. Javits, John A. Volpe -Rapid Transit grant to New York City -Mitchell 5
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log (rev. Feb-02)
Watergate -Colson -Democrats -Operations against the President -Reaction -Colson, Hunt
The President's schedule -Press meeting -The President’s view -Primary results -McGovern -Bella S. Abzug -Emanuel Celler -Allard K. Lowenstein -Reasons for defeat in primary -Republicans -John J. Rhodes -Press -Charles W. Colson -Abzug -Impeachment efforts
Common Cause -Suit -Impeachment efforts -Campaign efforts Colson
An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 9:30 am.
Request to meet with Colson
The unknown person left at a unknown time before 10:12 am.
The President's schedule -Economic meeting -Quadriad -Council of Economic Advisors [CEA] -Caspar W. Weinberger -Shultz -Ehrlichman 6
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log (rev. Feb-02)
-Peter M. Flanigan -Rumsfeld -National economy -Herbert Stein -Unemployment -Food prices -Employment -Haldeman’s view
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal returnable] [Duration: 5m 45s ]
Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 10:12 am.
Charles Colson entered at 10:13 am.
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Butterfield left at unknown time after 10:13 am.
The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:13 and 10:22 am.
[Conversation No. 739-4A]
[See Conversation No. 25-98]
[End of telephone conversation]
John J. Rooney
Rockefeller
Lowenstein
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Tape Subject Log (rev. Feb-02)
Watergate break-in -Washington Post story -Anderson's commentary -Rebozo -Libel -Jim Shertz (sp?) -White House strategy -Democrats -Hunt -Civil suit -Mitchell -Lawyer for burglars -Mitchell -Williams -Ehrlichman -Liddy -Shertz (sp?) -Hunt's activities -Media coverage -Washington Post -National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
The President talked with the White House operator at 10:22 am.
[Conversation No. 739-4B]
[See Conversation No. 25-99]
[End of telephone conversation]
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2 [Personal returnable] [Duration: 2m 58s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
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Watergate break-in 8
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Tape Subject Log (rev. Feb-02)
-White House involvement -Ziegler -Credibility -Ehrlichman -Vietnam -Civil rights -As an issue -National reaction -ITT -Repression, bugging -Espionage -Industrial, international, political -White House involvement
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Watergate break-in -White House strategy -Haldeman -Liddy -ITT -Ehrlichman -Haldeman -Colson's involvement -As an issue -Grand Jury -Hunt -Democrats -Convention -The President's role -Robert J. Dole -Lawrence F. O'Brien, Jr. 9
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Tape Subject Log (rev. Feb-02)
-Colson -Television coverage -Civil suit -Hunt -Career -Role -Conversation with Colson -Bay of Pigs -Novels
Colson left at an unknown time after 10:22 am.
The President's schedule -Quadriad -Schultz -Burns -Reports on trips -Burns -Connally -Flanigan -Burns -Cabinet meetings
Haldeman left at 10:38 am.
Conversation No. 739-5
Date: June 21, 1972 Time: Unknown between 10:38 and 10:40 am Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.
Stephen B. Bull
The President's schedule
Butterfield left at an unknown time before 10:40 am.
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Tape Subject Log (rev. Feb-02)
Conversation No. 739-6
Date: June 21, 1972 Time: 10:40 am - 12:30 pm Location: Oval Office
The President met with George P. Shultz, Arthur F. Burns, Caspar W. Weinberger, and Herbert Stein.
[Members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting]
Greetings
Arrangement for photograph
Alexander M. Haig, Jr.'s office
Haig -Instructions from the President -John B. Connally's conversations -Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Venezuela -Emilio Garrastazu Medici
National economy
Edward R. G. Heath -House of Commons -Currency problems -Burns’s view -Anthony P. L. Barber
The President talked with John J. Rooney between 10:44 and 10:45 am.
[Conversation No. 739-6A]
[See Conversation No. 25-100; one item has been withdrawn]
[End of telephone conversation]
Heath 11
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log (rev. Feb-02)
US economy -Status -George Meany's visit -Previous visit to Great Britain -Heath -National economy -Economic indicators -Stein’s report -Gross National Product [GNP] -Rate of expansion -Effect on unemployment in 1972 -Consumer Price Index [CPI] -Food -Used cars -Beef prices -Cattle prices -Labor -Unemployment -Administration policy -Effect -The President's experience in 1960 -Food prices -Leasing bill -Construction of government buildings -Private companies -General Services Administration [GSA] -Wall Street Journal article -Military -Vietnam -Troop withdrawal -Procurement -Retirements -Lay-off rate -Teenagers, part-time workers -Manpower funding through September 1972 -Employment without inflation or war -Real spendable weekly earnings -Rate of increase per year -1960-1970 -Current -Effects of the President's economic policy -Hourly rate increases 12
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log (rev. Feb-02)
-The President's economic policy -Restraint on prices -Weinberger’s speeches -Structure of unemployment -Income levels -Effect -Business leaders -Peter M. Flanigan -Effect of George S. McGovern's program -Business leaders -Taxes -Inflation -Increasing price of wheat -Wage guidelines -Effect on profits -Burns’s view -Consumer prices -Profit margins -Effect on economic recovery -Burns’s view -C. Jackson Grayson, Jr. -Freeze on meat prices -Timing -Hog market's cycle -Burns’s view -Import quotas -Shultz’s view -State Department -Wholesale prices in US -Weinberger’s view -Quotas -Textiles and oil -Iraq and Alaska -State Department -Price freezes -Statistics -Chain stores -Connally -Winn-Dixie grocery store -Food distribution -McGovern’s plan -Anti-trust action -Instructions for Burns 13
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log (rev. Feb-02)
-John N. Mitchell -Charles W. Colson -Quotas -Meat prices -Possible administration action -Retail chain stores -Military stockpile -Rises -Stein’s view -CPI -Marina von N. Whitman -Briefing -Chain store margins -Instructions for Burns -Mitchell -Memorandum for the President -Price freeze -Profit margins -Shultz’s view -Business leaders’ possible reaction -Price freeze -The President’s view -Environment -Legislative action -Higher education bill -Clean Water bill -Child care bill -Rural affairs bill -Administration actions -Meany -Colson -Louis P. Harris -Foreign policy -Domestic policy -Connally -Business -Environment -Environmental Protection Agency [EPA] -Tax reform -Anti-trust efforts -Quotas -Meatpackers -Cattle growers 14
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log (rev. Feb-02)
-McGovern’s policies -Effects of price freeze on economic growth -Political contributions -Administration's actions in fighting Congressional legislation -Removal of controls -Staff views -The President's schedule -H.R. Haldeman -California -Time and location of next Quadriad meeting -Camp David -Laurel Cabin -Colson, John D. Ehrlichman
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The President's schedule -Nelson A. Rockefeller -Photograph opportunity -John A. Volpe
An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 10:45 am.
-Rockefeller’s arrival
The unknown women left at 11:56 am.
Stein and Weinberger left at 11:56 am.
Burns's schedule -Meetings during forthcoming foreign trip 15
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Tape Subject Log (rev. Feb-02)
-Finance ministers -Central bankers -Haig -Medici, Juan Velasco Alvarado, Venezuela -Background notes from Connally's trip -Henry A. Kissinger -Instructions from the President -Velasco -Public aid -Medici -The President's conversation with Luis Echeverria Alvarez -Private capital -Example of Chile -Requirements -Competition from other areas of the world -Southeast Asia -Indonesia -Latin America -The President’s view -Need for stability -Economic policy -Brazil -Medici -Government -Argentina -Peru -Venezuela -Marcos Perez-Jimenez -Iraq -Need for stability -Chile -State Department -Protectionism in US -Congress -The President -Trade preferences -Connally's trip -Latin Americans -The President’s view -Argentina -Juan Domingo Peron -Pre-World War II economic strength -Italy 16
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log (rev. Feb-02)
-Czechoslovakia -Peron -Economic strength -Racial mix -Allejandro A. Lanusse -Vernon A. Walters -Meeting with Burns -Experience -Dwight D. Eisenhower Administration -Translation
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BRAZIL
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-Medici -The President’s view -Argentina -Meat exports -Capabilities -Meat quotas -Burns’s discussions with Argentinians -Compared to Uruguay -Kissinger -Administration policy
Jewish people -Support for Republicans -Burns’s view -McGovern -Israel -Israel -Administration policy 17
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Tape Subject Log (rev. Feb-02)
-The President’s actions -Burns’s statements -Jewish emigration from Soviet Union -Importance to Jews -William P. Rogers -The President's discussions with Leonid I. Brezhnev -Burns’s statements -McGovern's defense program -Effect on Israel -Effect on foreign policy -John Foster Dulles -Eisenhower -Korea -Balance of military power -Importance of arms negotiations -Compared with the President’s policy -Effect on Israel -Yithak Rabin -US liberals -Support for Republicans -Spiro T. Agnew -The President’s policy -Israel -Phantom fighter jets -Soviet Union intervention -Surface-to-air missile [SAM] sites -United Arab Republic [UAR] -Importance of US President -Nixon compared with McGovern -Brezhnev -The President’s view -Israel -Soviet Union -Comparison to mining of Haiphong harbor -Burns’s statements -Israel -Soviet Union -Vietnam -Catholic issue -John F. Kennedy
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Tape Subject Log (rev. Feb-02)
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4 [Personal returnable] [Duration: 2m 7s ]
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The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 12:26 and 12:28 pm.
[Conversation No. 739-6B]
[See Conversation No. 25-101]
[End of telephone conversation]
US foreign policy -Effect of world situation -Great Britain -France -Winston S. Churchill -US role in World
The President talked with Walters between 12:28 and 12:29 pm.
[Conversation No. 739-6C]
[See Conversation No. 25-102]
[End of telephone conversation]
Walters -Linguistic ability -Translation in Eisenhower Administration
President's schedule
Burns and Shultz left at 12:30 pm.
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Tape Subject Log (rev. Feb-02)
Conversation No. 739-7
Date: June 21, 1972 Time: Unknown between 12:30 and 12:33 pm Location: Oval Office
The President talked with the White House operator.
[See Conversation No. 25-103]
[End of telephone conversation]
Zosimo T. Monzon entered at an unknown time after 12:30 pm.
Tobacco -Robert H. Abplanalp -Additional purchases
Monzon left before 12:33 pm.
Conversation No. 739-8
Date: June 21, 1972 Time: 12:33-12:34 pm Location: Oval Office
The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower.
[See Conversation No. 25-104; one item has been withdrawn]
Conversation No. 739-9
Date: June 21, 1972 Time: Unknown between 12:34 and 12:38 pm Location: Oval Office
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log (rev. Feb-02)
The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.
The President's schedule -Nelson A. Rockefeller
The President talked with the White House operator.
[Conversation No. 739-9A]
Cancellation of telephone call
Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:38 pm.
Conversation No. 739-10
Date: June 21, 1972 Time: 12:38-1:22 pm Location: Oval Office
The President met with Nelson A. Rockefeller, John A. Volpe, Jacob K. Javits, James L. Buckley, John D. Ehrlichman, William L. Gifford, William A. Ronan, and Alexander P. Butterfield.
[Members of the press and the White House photographer were present at the beginning of this meeting]
Greetings
Mass transit grant in New York
Bond issue
Mass transit grant -Purchase of new subway cars -New York City transit -Compared to Moscow transit system -Need for leadership -John V. Lindsay -Ronan -Business community 21
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Tape Subject Log (rev. Feb-02)
The President's previous conversation with Arthur F. Burns -Burns's trip -Importance of leadership -Relation of political stability to capital investment -Cuba -Fidel Castro -Chile -Stability -Effect on investment -Brazil -Emilio Garrastazu Medici -The President’s previous conversation with Luis Echeverria Alvarez
Grumman aircraft -F-14 fighter plane -Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr. -Contract re-negotiation -Space shuttle -Number of jobs in New York and California -McDonnell-Douglas -F-14 contract re-negotiation -Zumwalt -National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA] -James C. Fletcher -Financial condition -Lockheed -Space shuttle -Funding -Ghettos -Employment -Cooperation with Soviet Union -The President’s view -F-14 production -McDonnell-Douglas -Procurement -F-14s -Israel -Possible purchase
The President's previous conversation with Burns -Israel -Acquisition of arms 22
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log (rev. Feb-02)
-Soviet intervention -Role of US President -US policy -Defense policy -Military forces -Jordan crisis -US actions -US policy -Summit conferences -Reasoning -Chou En-Lai -Leonid I. Brezhnev -Will of the US -US interests -Burundi -Middle East -Europe -Japan
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Defense budget -Congress -People's Republic of China [PRC] and the Soviet Union -Importance of strength -Volpe’s trip to Soviet Union -Catholic church
Rockefeller’s role in New York City -Lindsay [?]
Rockefeller, Javits, Buckley, Gifford, and Ronan left at 1:08 pm. 23
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log (rev. Feb-02)
John A. Volpe, Jr. entered at 1:08 pm.
Greetings
Presentation of gifts by the President
Rockefeller
Volpe and Volpe, Jr. left at 1:10 pm.
Ehrlichman's conversation with Elliot L. Richardson -Welfare reform -Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW] -House Resolution [HR] 1 -Higher Education bill
The President left at an unknown time after 1:10 pm.
Ehrlichman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 1:10 and 1:22 pm.
[Conversation No. 739-10A]
Ehrlichman's schedule
[End of telephone conversation]
The President entered at an unknown time before 1:22pm.
Ehrlichman's conversation with Richardson -Higher education bill -Possible veto -Busing -Stephen J. Roth decision
An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time before 1:22pm.
Refreshments -Ehrlichman’s schedule
Ehrlichman’s conversation with Richardson -Higher education bill -Possible veto 24
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log (rev. Feb-02)
-Irving Kristol's book -Warren E. Burger -Education -The President -George S. McGovern -The President's conversation with Caspar W. Weinberger -Other veto possibilities -Higher education -Richardson -As an industry
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Busing -Robert P. Griffin -Richard G. Valeriani
Richardson -Welfare reform
Ehrlichman left at 1:22 pm.
Conversation No. 739-11
Date: June 21, 1972 Time: 1:24 - 3:11 Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. Haldeman.
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Tape Subject Log (rev. Feb-02)
The President's earlier meeting with Nelson A. Rockefeller, James L. Buckley and John A. Volpe -Jacob K. Javits
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal returnable] [Duration: 3m 17s ]
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Watergate -Jack N. Anderson's commentary -Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo -White House reply
The President's schedule -California -Rebozo -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's schedule -Chicago event -Rebozo and Robert H. Abplanalp -Accommodations
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2 [Personal returnable] [Duration: 3m 7s ]
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Tape Subject Log (rev. Feb-02)
The President's schedule -Camp David -Timing -Julie Nixon Eisenhower -Economic meeting -Documentary film on the President -The President's daily schedule -Footage -Donald H. Rumsfeld -Cost of Living Council [COLC] -Henry A. Kissinger -Footage -Time allotment -Photographer from Ladies Home Journal -The President’s view -1968 campaign experience -Quadriad meeting
Parochial school aid -John D. Ehrlichman
White House staff -Writers -Aram Bakshian -Background -Haldeman’s view -William E. Brock, III -Experience in Washington, DC -Robert J. Dole -Writing experience -Rodney C. Campbell -Hugh Morrow -Rockefeller -Kissinger -Background -Experience -Compared to Raymond K. Price, Jr. -Winston Lord and Kissinger -John K. Andrews, Jr. -Ronald L. Ziegler
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Tape Subject Log (rev. Feb-02)
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3 [Personal returnable] [Duration: 4m 48s ]
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Environmental Protection Agency [EPA] -Staff -Political philosophy -William D. Ruckelshaus
Richard Wilson -Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis -Book on the President's meeting with Leonid I. Brezhnev -Materials needed -National Security Council [NSC] -Cooperation by the President -Timing of book -The President’s view -Haldeman’s view
The President's relations with the press -Interviews -Wire services -US News and World Report -Readers Digest -Theodore H. White -Methods -The Making of a President 1960 -Effects of book on 1972 election -Image of John F. Kennedy -The President’s trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
Watergate break-in -John N. Mitchell -Charles W. Colson -Role -George S. McGovern 28
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Tape Subject Log (rev. Feb-02)
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4 [Personal returnable] [Duration: 6m 8s ]
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-Maurice H. Stans -Contributors -McGovern's expenses in primaries -Watergate -Administration's public response -Ehrlichman and International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] -Mitchell -Clark MacGregor -Colson
Ziegler
Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 1:24 and 2:11pm.
[Conversation No. 739-11A]
Forthcoming meeting with Ziegler
[End of telephone conversation]
The President left and re-entered at an unknown time between 1:24 and 2:11pm.
The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 1:24 and 2:11 pm.
[Conversation No. 739-11B]
[See Conversation No. 25-105]
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Tape Subject Log (rev. Feb-02)
[End of telephone conversation]
Weather in Washington
The President talked with Colson between 2:11 and 2:15 pm.
[Conversation No. 739-11C]
[See Conversation No. 25-106; one item has been withdrawn]
[End of telephone conversation]
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6 [Personal returnable] [Duration: 1m 23s ]
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 2:15 pm.
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:11 pm.
Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 2:15 pm.
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The President's forthcoming press conference -Topics -Foreign policy -Vietnam -Troop withdrawal -Timing -Domestic issues -Vietnam -Kissinger -Future press conferences -Foreign policy -Legislation -Vietnam 30
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log (rev. Feb-02)
-Melvin R. Laird -Press focus
Public relations -The President’s prime time television appearances -Vietnam -Busing speech -The President’s trip to the PRC -The President’s trip to the Soviet Union -State of the Union -American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO] convention -Coverage of trips to PRC and Soviet Union -Network time allotment -Prayer breakfast -Arrival of Luis Echeverria Alvarez -Swearing-in ceremonies -Question and answer sessions -Patrick J. Buchanan -John B. Connally's Texas ranch -Role of press -Representation of American people -Ziegler’s view -Press conferences -The President’s view -Dan Rather interview -State of Union -Presidential trips -PRC and Soviet Union -Television coverage of the President's trips -Comparison -Lyndon B. Johnson trips -Kennedy trips -Effect of television -Future press conference -The President's response to questions -Vietnam -Political issues -Effect of television -The President’s view -Possible responses -McGovern -Welfare reform 31
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log (rev. Feb-02)
-The President's programs -The President's press conference compared to Johnson’s and Kennedy's -Press conference -Length -Watergate break-in -Press coverage -Possible comments -Pulitzer Prize -New York Times -Pentagon Papers comparison -Network coverage -The President's forthcoming press conference -The President’s comments -Ziegler’s view -Mitchell -Investigation
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Revenue sharing bill -House vote -Senate
Rockefeller -Statement on meeting with the President
Press -Connally -Rockefeller -Ronald W. Reagan -Spiro T. Agnew -Connally -Questions -The President’s treatment of press 32
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log (rev. Feb-02)
-Kennedy -Dwight D. Eisenhower -Feelings toward the President -Questioning in briefings and press conferences -Coverage of the President's trips -Reporting -Advocacy -The President’s view -Strategic Arms Limitations Talks [SALT] -Chou En-Lai -Feelings toward the President -Six Crises -The President's reaction -Laos -Cambodia -Demonstrations -News summaries -Kennedy -Eisenhower, Johnson, the President -Concerns about press reporting -Reporting -Effect on Administration policy -The President’s view -Biases -The President’s view -Policies -Johnson -Relations with press -Respect for the President -Attitude toward McGovern -Sander Vanocur -Predilections of press -Paul L. Martin -Compared to Kennedy -Jim Doyle (Washington Star) -Marty Knowland (Boston Globe) -Raymond W. Apple (New York Times) -James J. Kilpatrick, Jr., Robert B. Semple, Jr., [First name unknown] Fulsom -Wire services -Forrest Boyd -Peter Lisagor, Hugh S. Sidey, George Sherman -Ziegler’s view -Television coverage 33
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log (rev. Feb-02)
-Martin Z. Agronsky show -Sidey -Ziegler’s view -Agnew, Reagan -Relations with the President
The President, Haldeman, and Ziegler left at 3:11 pm.