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- President Richard M. Nixon
- H. R. Haldeman
- White House operator
- Ronald L. Ziegler
- Charles W. Colson
- Gordon C. Strachan
June 22, 1972
Conversation No. 344-14
Date: June 22, 1972
Time: 9:40-11:25 am
Location: Old Executive Office Building
The President met with H. R. Haldeman.
Press conference
-Campaign
-National Educational Association [NEA] celebration
-Congressmen
The President's schedule
-NEA
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-The President’s view
-Cabinet officers
Media
-Use of First Family
-Patricia Nixon Cox's wedding
-Performance
-Celebrity value
Watergate
-White House involvement
-Statement
-Staff involvement
-Haldeman's views
The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:40 and 9:45
am
[Conversation No. 344-14A]
[See Conversation No. 25-114]
[End of telephone conversation]
Watergate break-in
-Involvement of E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
11
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
-Work with White House
The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 9:40 and 9:45
am
[Conversation No. 344-14B]
[See Conversation No. 25-115]
[End of telephone conversation]
Watergate break-in
-White House involvement
-Former aides
The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler between 9:45 and 9:50 am
[Conversation No. 344-14C]
[See Conversation No. 25-116]
[End of telephone conversation]
Watergate
-Press conference
-Hunt
-Charles W. Colson
-Ziegler's response
-Coverage by press
-Accuracy
-Story
-Aide to W. Averell Harriman
-Public interest
-Extent
-New York Times story
-Cuban involvement
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Bank
-Lawsuit
-Jack N. Anderson
-Lawsuit
-Article discussed
-Contents
12
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
-Libel
-Possible suit
-Civil suit
-Judge Charles R.J. Richey
-Democrats
-Nature of suit
-Richey
-The President’s view
-William P. Rogers
-Haldeman’s view
-Edward Bennett Williams
-Tactics
-Richey
-Trial
-Republican National Committee
-Security
-Problems
-Washington Post story
-Bugging
-Lawrence F. O'Brien, Jr.
-Anderson
-Papers
-Pulitzer Prize
-Colson
-Capitol Hill
-Strategy
-Anderson
-Bugging of Democratic National Committee
-Circumstances of break-in
-Cubans
-Hunt
-Involvement
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] knowledge
-Disappearance
-Evidence
-Address books
-Rebozo
-Relationship to Cubans
-[First name unknown] Suarez
-Currency
-Source of funds
-South American money order
-Cubans
13
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
-Involvement
-White House knowledge
-Press coverage
-Cubans
-Attitude toward George S. McGovern
-Burglars
-Political affiliations
-G. Gordon Liddy
-Removal from US
-European fund-raising
-James W. McCord
-Detention
-Scripps-Howard story
-Fidel Castro
-Security of campaign
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 1m 31s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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The President's schedule
-Rebozo
-Schedule
-Robert H. Abplanalp
-Visit
-Personality
-Nellie L. Yates [?]
The President left and re-entered at an unknown time between 9:40 and 11:25 am.
-Rehoboth Beach, Delaware
-Ocean City, Maryland
-Florida White House
-Problems
-Chesapeake Bay
14
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-Security
-Haldeman's experiences
-Problems
-Chesapeake Bay
-Sequoia
-Swimming
-Key Biscayne
-Houseboat
-Sequoia
-Trip
-Estate
-San Clemente
-Camp Pendleton
-Oceanside, California
-Pictures
Preparation for press conference
-Strategic Arms and Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-Melvin R. Laird
-Position on SALT
-Trident submarine
-B-1
-State Department position
-President's position
-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-Laird
-Supplemental appropriation announcement
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB] and National
Security Council [NSC] position
-Size of appropriation
-Impact on election
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr's view
-Henry A. Kissinger’s view
Meeting with Wilbur D. Mills, Clark MacGregor, Russell B. Long, and John N. Byrnes
-Debt ceiling bill
-Mills
-Social Security amendment
-Frank F. Church
-Mills's view
-Mills’s view
-Social Security increase
15
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
-Increase in funding
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 44s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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Revenue sharing
-House vote
-Outcome
-Publicity
-Senate vote
-Outcome
US Mayor's Conference
-Richard J. Daley
-Pete Wilson
-Role
-Coverage by New York Times
-Daley speech
-Vietnam
-Support for President
-Frank L. Rizzo
-Democratic support for the President
-Republicans
-Daley and McGovern meeting
-Significance
-Vietnam
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 1m 45s ]
16
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
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Michael J. Mansfield
-The President’s previous telephone call
-Health
George H. Gallup Poll
-Presidential popularity
-Significance
-Post-Soviet Union trip
-New York primary
-McGovern
Louis P. Harris Poll
-Post-Soviet Union trip
-Comparison with Gallup
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 4m 9s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
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The President's schedule
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
Integration
-Roy Wilkins
-Meeting with John D. Ehrlichman
-1972 campaign
17
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
-Busing
-Welfare
-View of McGovern
-Motives for statement
-Busing
-Housing
-Integration
-Administration's accomplishments
-Busing
-Jobs
-Movie The Cardinal
-Catholic schools
-George C. Wallace's candidacy
-Busing
-The President’s view
-Response of blacks
-Demagogues
-Education
-Problems
-Busing
-Blacks
-Preparation
-Genetics
-Slavery
-Boston Irish
-Response to prejudice
-Jews
-Rebozo
-Response to discrimination
-Blacks
-Development
-Reason
-Prejudice
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 40s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
18
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
*****************************************************************
Watergate
-Maurice H. Stans
-Fund raising
-Caspar W. Weinberger
-Business contributions
-10 million dollars
-Importance
-[Unintelligible]
-Bethlehem Steel
-Business support for the President
-George S. McGovern
Parochial school aid
-John Cardinal Krol
Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 9:40 and 10:20 am.
[Conversation No. 344-14D]
Unidentified materials
-Preparation of materials
-President's signature
-Delivery
[End of telephone conversation]
Parochial school aid
-Opposition
-Domestic Council
-President's support
-Opposition
-Motives
-President's position
-Opposition
-Weinberger
-OMB letter
-Ehlichman
-Memorandum
-Colson
-Release
19
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
-Contents
Tax reform legislation
-Mills’s view
-The President’s view
-Merits
-President's political decision
Domestic Council staff
-Political judgment
-Busing
-Parochial schools
-Catholic opinion
-Importance
-Krol
-Terence Cardinal Cooke
-Support for President
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 8m 4s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9
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People in the arts
-The President’s view
-Sumner Welles
-Adlai E. Stevenson, II
-Bisexuality
-Extent
Homosexual marriages
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20
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 10
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 5m 2s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 10
*****************************************************************
Press conference
-Foreign policy
-Laird's views
-Ziegler's statement
Haldeman talked with an unknown person [Haig?] at an unknown time between 9:40 and 10:20
am.
[Conversation No. 344-14E]
The President's press conference
-Vietnam
-Laird's statement
-President's comments
-Appropriations
-Laird's statement
[End of telephone conversation]
The President's press conference
-The President's comments
-Unknown person's [Haig?] advice
-SALT
-Phase II negotiations
-Conditions
-Vietnam
-Costs of North Vietnamese invasion
-Laird's estimate
-Questions
-SALT
-Ziegler's comments
-Questions
-President's responses
21
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
-SALT
-Ziegler’s possible response
Ziegler's schedule
-Return time
Ziegler
-Ability
Gordon C. Strachan entered at 10:20 am.
Material
-Content
Strachan left at 10:21 am.
Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:21 and 11:10
am.
[Conversation No. 344-14F]
[See Conversation No. 25-117]
[End of telephone conversation]
Haldeman talked with Colson at an unknown time between 10:21 and 11:10 am
[Conversation No. 344-14G]
[See Conversation No. 25-117]
Weinberger's letter
-Revisions
[End of telephone conversation]
School aid
-Termination
-Tax credits
-Weinberger's letter
-Colson's analysis
-Commitments
-George P. Shultz
22
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Weinberger's letter
-Value
Domestic Council
-Staff
-Size
-The President’s view
-Activities
-Size
Ziegler's capabilities
-The President’s view
-Herbert G. Klein
-Kissinger
-Ehrlichman
-Support of Ziegler
Kissinger
-Role
-Relations with press
-Style
-Comparison with Ziegler
-Knowledge of press
Press
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Press secretaries
-Unknown person [James C. Hagerty?]
-Ziegler
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 12
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 3m 55s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 12
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23
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
Haldeman left at 11:25 am.
Date: June 22, 1972
Time: 9:40-11:25 am
Location: Old Executive Office Building
The President met with H. R. Haldeman.
Press conference
-Campaign
-National Educational Association [NEA] celebration
-Congressmen
The President's schedule
-NEA
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-The President’s view
-Cabinet officers
Media
-Use of First Family
-Patricia Nixon Cox's wedding
-Performance
-Celebrity value
Watergate
-White House involvement
-Statement
-Staff involvement
-Haldeman's views
The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:40 and 9:45
am
[Conversation No. 344-14A]
[See Conversation No. 25-114]
[End of telephone conversation]
Watergate break-in
-Involvement of E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
11
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
-Work with White House
The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 9:40 and 9:45
am
[Conversation No. 344-14B]
[See Conversation No. 25-115]
[End of telephone conversation]
Watergate break-in
-White House involvement
-Former aides
The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler between 9:45 and 9:50 am
[Conversation No. 344-14C]
[See Conversation No. 25-116]
[End of telephone conversation]
Watergate
-Press conference
-Hunt
-Charles W. Colson
-Ziegler's response
-Coverage by press
-Accuracy
-Story
-Aide to W. Averell Harriman
-Public interest
-Extent
-New York Times story
-Cuban involvement
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Bank
-Lawsuit
-Jack N. Anderson
-Lawsuit
-Article discussed
-Contents
12
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
-Libel
-Possible suit
-Civil suit
-Judge Charles R.J. Richey
-Democrats
-Nature of suit
-Richey
-The President’s view
-William P. Rogers
-Haldeman’s view
-Edward Bennett Williams
-Tactics
-Richey
-Trial
-Republican National Committee
-Security
-Problems
-Washington Post story
-Bugging
-Lawrence F. O'Brien, Jr.
-Anderson
-Papers
-Pulitzer Prize
-Colson
-Capitol Hill
-Strategy
-Anderson
-Bugging of Democratic National Committee
-Circumstances of break-in
-Cubans
-Hunt
-Involvement
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] knowledge
-Disappearance
-Evidence
-Address books
-Rebozo
-Relationship to Cubans
-[First name unknown] Suarez
-Currency
-Source of funds
-South American money order
-Cubans
13
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
-Involvement
-White House knowledge
-Press coverage
-Cubans
-Attitude toward George S. McGovern
-Burglars
-Political affiliations
-G. Gordon Liddy
-Removal from US
-European fund-raising
-James W. McCord
-Detention
-Scripps-Howard story
-Fidel Castro
-Security of campaign
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 1m 31s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
*****************************************************************
The President's schedule
-Rebozo
-Schedule
-Robert H. Abplanalp
-Visit
-Personality
-Nellie L. Yates [?]
The President left and re-entered at an unknown time between 9:40 and 11:25 am.
-Rehoboth Beach, Delaware
-Ocean City, Maryland
-Florida White House
-Problems
-Chesapeake Bay
14
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-Security
-Haldeman's experiences
-Problems
-Chesapeake Bay
-Sequoia
-Swimming
-Key Biscayne
-Houseboat
-Sequoia
-Trip
-Estate
-San Clemente
-Camp Pendleton
-Oceanside, California
-Pictures
Preparation for press conference
-Strategic Arms and Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-Melvin R. Laird
-Position on SALT
-Trident submarine
-B-1
-State Department position
-President's position
-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-Laird
-Supplemental appropriation announcement
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB] and National
Security Council [NSC] position
-Size of appropriation
-Impact on election
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr's view
-Henry A. Kissinger’s view
Meeting with Wilbur D. Mills, Clark MacGregor, Russell B. Long, and John N. Byrnes
-Debt ceiling bill
-Mills
-Social Security amendment
-Frank F. Church
-Mills's view
-Mills’s view
-Social Security increase
15
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
-Increase in funding
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 44s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
*****************************************************************
Revenue sharing
-House vote
-Outcome
-Publicity
-Senate vote
-Outcome
US Mayor's Conference
-Richard J. Daley
-Pete Wilson
-Role
-Coverage by New York Times
-Daley speech
-Vietnam
-Support for President
-Frank L. Rizzo
-Democratic support for the President
-Republicans
-Daley and McGovern meeting
-Significance
-Vietnam
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 1m 45s ]
16
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
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Michael J. Mansfield
-The President’s previous telephone call
-Health
George H. Gallup Poll
-Presidential popularity
-Significance
-Post-Soviet Union trip
-New York primary
-McGovern
Louis P. Harris Poll
-Post-Soviet Union trip
-Comparison with Gallup
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 4m 9s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
*****************************************************************
The President's schedule
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
Integration
-Roy Wilkins
-Meeting with John D. Ehrlichman
-1972 campaign
17
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
-Busing
-Welfare
-View of McGovern
-Motives for statement
-Busing
-Housing
-Integration
-Administration's accomplishments
-Busing
-Jobs
-Movie The Cardinal
-Catholic schools
-George C. Wallace's candidacy
-Busing
-The President’s view
-Response of blacks
-Demagogues
-Education
-Problems
-Busing
-Blacks
-Preparation
-Genetics
-Slavery
-Boston Irish
-Response to prejudice
-Jews
-Rebozo
-Response to discrimination
-Blacks
-Development
-Reason
-Prejudice
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 40s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
18
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
*****************************************************************
Watergate
-Maurice H. Stans
-Fund raising
-Caspar W. Weinberger
-Business contributions
-10 million dollars
-Importance
-[Unintelligible]
-Bethlehem Steel
-Business support for the President
-George S. McGovern
Parochial school aid
-John Cardinal Krol
Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 9:40 and 10:20 am.
[Conversation No. 344-14D]
Unidentified materials
-Preparation of materials
-President's signature
-Delivery
[End of telephone conversation]
Parochial school aid
-Opposition
-Domestic Council
-President's support
-Opposition
-Motives
-President's position
-Opposition
-Weinberger
-OMB letter
-Ehlichman
-Memorandum
-Colson
-Release
19
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
-Contents
Tax reform legislation
-Mills’s view
-The President’s view
-Merits
-President's political decision
Domestic Council staff
-Political judgment
-Busing
-Parochial schools
-Catholic opinion
-Importance
-Krol
-Terence Cardinal Cooke
-Support for President
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 8m 4s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9
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People in the arts
-The President’s view
-Sumner Welles
-Adlai E. Stevenson, II
-Bisexuality
-Extent
Homosexual marriages
*****************************************************************
20
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 10
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 5m 2s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 10
*****************************************************************
Press conference
-Foreign policy
-Laird's views
-Ziegler's statement
Haldeman talked with an unknown person [Haig?] at an unknown time between 9:40 and 10:20
am.
[Conversation No. 344-14E]
The President's press conference
-Vietnam
-Laird's statement
-President's comments
-Appropriations
-Laird's statement
[End of telephone conversation]
The President's press conference
-The President's comments
-Unknown person's [Haig?] advice
-SALT
-Phase II negotiations
-Conditions
-Vietnam
-Costs of North Vietnamese invasion
-Laird's estimate
-Questions
-SALT
-Ziegler's comments
-Questions
-President's responses
21
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
-SALT
-Ziegler’s possible response
Ziegler's schedule
-Return time
Ziegler
-Ability
Gordon C. Strachan entered at 10:20 am.
Material
-Content
Strachan left at 10:21 am.
Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:21 and 11:10
am.
[Conversation No. 344-14F]
[See Conversation No. 25-117]
[End of telephone conversation]
Haldeman talked with Colson at an unknown time between 10:21 and 11:10 am
[Conversation No. 344-14G]
[See Conversation No. 25-117]
Weinberger's letter
-Revisions
[End of telephone conversation]
School aid
-Termination
-Tax credits
-Weinberger's letter
-Colson's analysis
-Commitments
-George P. Shultz
22
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Weinberger's letter
-Value
Domestic Council
-Staff
-Size
-The President’s view
-Activities
-Size
Ziegler's capabilities
-The President’s view
-Herbert G. Klein
-Kissinger
-Ehrlichman
-Support of Ziegler
Kissinger
-Role
-Relations with press
-Style
-Comparison with Ziegler
-Knowledge of press
Press
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Press secretaries
-Unknown person [James C. Hagerty?]
-Ziegler
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 12
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 3m 55s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 12
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23
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
Haldeman left at 11:25 am.
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