756–20

Conversation No. 756-20

Date: July 28, 1972
Time: 1:57 pm -2:09 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield. This recording began at an unknown time
while the conversation was in progress.

Tricia Nixon Cox
-Secret Service protection
-Announced public events
-Compared to unannounced public activities
-Instructions for Butterfield
-Legal requirements
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower

H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 2:00 pm.

-Visibility
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Whistle
-George S. McGovern
-Airplane
-Andrews Air Force Base
-The President
-Signal
-Legal requirements
-Shopping


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-Secret Service protection
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-Shopping
-National security interests
-Kidnapping
-Instruction for Butterfield
-Telephone call

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 2:04 pm.

Thomas F. Eagleton
-Press conference
-Continuance on Democratic Party presidential ticket
-News reports
-Radio
-Call from Edward M. Kennedy
-McGovern's staff
-McGovern's schedule
-Press briefing
-Democratic Party strategy

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:00 pm.

The President's schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger’s schedule
-Sir Burke Trend
-George R.S. Baring [Earl of Cromer]
-Edward R.G. Heath
-Kissinger
-Olver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Press photograph
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:04 pm.

-Lord Chief Justice of Great Britain
-Possible dinner
-John D. Ehrlichman's forthcoming conversation with Warren E. Burger
-Wife

Kissinger entered at 2:04 pm.

-Trend
-Heath’s messages
-George P. Shultz
-The President’s appreciation
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-Press photograph
-Dobrynin
-Previous meeting with Dobrynin
-Kissinger’s meeting with Dobrynin
-Letter
-[Egypt’s expulsion of Soviet military advisers]
-US foreknowledge
-The President’s press conference, July 27, 1972
-US-Soviet relationship
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Dobrynin
-Kissinger’s office
-San Clemente

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Kissinger’s meeting with Dobrynin
-Technical issues
-Gerard C. Smith
-Senate

The President’s schedule
-Previous meeting with Dobrynin
-Middle East
-Kissinger’s schedule
-1972 election

Soviet Union
-Relationship with US
-Importance
-Compared to Israel
-Proposal
-Trend’s[?] awareness
-Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting

Kissinger's schedule
-Paris
-Ronald L. Ziegler's statement
-Trend[?]

Kissinger left at 2:07 pm.

White House staff
-Press conference statements
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The President's schedule
-James O. Eastland
-Allen J. Ellender's funeral
-Selection as President Pro Tem

The President talked with the White House operator at 2:07 pm.

[Conversation No. 756-20A]

[See Conversation No. 28-10]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-Ellender funeral
-Russell B. Long
-Call from William E. Timmons
-Long
-F. Edward Herbert

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Call to Haldeman
-The President's recent press conference
-The President’s recent press conference
-Vice President
-Selection process
-New York Times

The President talked with Eastland between 2:08 pm and 2:09 pm.

[Conversation 756-20B]

[See Conversation No. 28-11]

[End of telephone conversation]

Eastland

Bull entered and left at an unknown time before 2:09 pm.

The President’s schedule
-Cromer and Trend

John L. McClellan
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The President's schedule
-Congressional leaders
-Eastland

Haldeman left at 2:09 pm.