Secret White House Tapes

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  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • H. R. Haldeman
  • UNKNOWN
  • Stephen B. Bull
February 16, 1973
Conversation No. 858-2

Date: February 16, 1973
Time: 8:50 am - 9:08 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

The President's schedule
-Trip to Florida
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Stephen B. Bull
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower

The President's call to Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope
-New York
-Cavalcade
-Reaction to Vietnam settlement
-Relations with soldiers
-Compared with Congressional reactions
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct.-09)

Conversation No. 858-2 (cont’d)


White House social events
-Church services
-Florida trip
-Congress members and contributors
-State dinners
-Evening at the White House
-Youth
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-William E. Timmons's views
-Edward R. G. Heath and Gold Meir dinners

Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Col. Robinson Risner's statement
-Support for President and the country
-Conscientious objectors
-William P. Rogers's statement
-Risner

President's schedule
-Pentagon visit
-Peter J. Brennan
-Stephen B. Bull
-Trip to Florida

George Meany
-George P. Shultz
-Brennan
-President to attend meeting
-Announcement

President’s speech to South Carolina Legislature
-Harry S. Dent
-Timing
-President’s reception

Unknown person entered at an unknown time after 8:50 am.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct.-09)

Conversation No. 858-2 (cont’d)



Transmitter
-Location

Unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:08 am.

Frank L. Rizzo
-Political future
-Home
-Inquiry

Aid for Vietnam
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Congressional relations
-Domestic programs
-President’s role
-Henry A. Kissinger’s role

POWs

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 8:50 am.

-Statement
-Wives
-Corsages
-Calls to President
-Publicity
-Press relations
-Ronald L. Ziegler

President's schedule
-Brennan and Meany
-Florida trip
-Brennan
-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO]
Council meeting
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct.-09)

Conversation No. 858-2 (cont’d)


-Announcement
-Ziegler
-L. Patrick Gray, John D. Ehrlichman
-Shultz
-Cabinet meeting
-Meany
-Brennan
-Taxation
-Brennan
-Under secretary
-Candidate

Haldeman and Bull left at 9:08 am.
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