Secret White House Tapes

725–35

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725–35
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Clark MacGregor
  • David C. Hoopes
  • Stephen B. Bull
May 16, 1972
Conversation No. 725-35

Date: May 16, 1972
Time: Unknown between 4:58 pm and 5:05 pm.
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Clark MacGregor; this recording began at an
unknown time while the meeting was in progress.

Congress
-Pressures on delegations
-Polls
-Louis P. Harris poll
-Copy from MacGregor to Senators
-Results on Haiphong harbor mining
-Robert A. Taft, Jr.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)


-Meeting with MacGregor
-Final vote
-Lowell P. Weicker
-Meeting with Henry A. Kissinger
-Press reports
-White House news summary
-Tone
-Foreign policy
-Ability
-Specter of Senate negotiations with Madame Nguyen Thi
Binh
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Proposed U.S. agreement with National Liberation
Front [NLF]
-North Vietnam takeover of Cambodia, Laos, and
South Vietnam
-Today's vote
-Lack of understanding
-Weicker
-Frank F. Church amendment vote
-Today's vote
-Breakdown
-Action by President

David Hoopes entered at 5:03 pm.

President's schedule
-Meeting with unknown person(s)
-Invitation
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Possible meeting with Senator Robert C. Byrd
-Black lung bill
-Recommendations on possible veto
-MacGregor’s view

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:03 pm.

-Ray C. Bliss
-Boat trip with John Cardinal Krol
-Other
-Time

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:05 pm.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)


John B. Connally
-Resignation as Secretary of Treasury
-George P. Shultz

George C. Wallace
-Shooting
-President's actions
-Contrasted with Hubert H. Humphrey's actions
-Call to Cornelia Wallace
-Increased Secret Service protection
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Shirley Chisholm
-Others
-Offer of Presidential suite at Bethesda Naval
Hospital
-Call to Mrs. Wallace
-Evaluated
-Contrasted with Humphrey
-Meeting with doctor

Vietnam
-President's decision to blockade
-The President’s view
-Support

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:03 pm.

Material for President's signature
-Hoopes

Vietnam
-North Vietnam
-Reason for cease-fire proposal

MacGregor, Hoopes, and Bull left at 5:05 pm.
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725–35

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