Date: September 18, 1972
Time: 4:31 pm – 5:30 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Theodore H. White.
[Photograph session]
-Oval Office
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Furnishings
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Photograph copies
White’s forthcoming book [The Making of the President, 1972]
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:31 p.m.
Refreshments
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:30 p.m.
-1960 campaign
-Political conventions
-Re-election campaigns
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-[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Secret Service protection
-Rose F. Kennedy
-Edward M. Kennedy
-George C. Wallace
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[Duration: 16m 6s ]
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Issues
-George S. McGovern
-Southern states
-Texas rallies
-Support for the President
-Race
-Work
-Patriotism
-Amnesty issue
-Vietnam speeches by the President
-Work ethic
-North
-Marijuana
-Bible belt
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[Personal returnable]
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The President’s schedule
[The Making of the President, 1968]
White’s previous book
-Conversation with the President after 1968 election
-Hotel Pierre
-1969 Presidential priorities
-Possible arms deal
-Soviet Union
-Middle East
-Vietnam War
-The People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Africa
-Plans
-Comparison to George H. (“Babe”) Ruth
-Charlie Root
-Soviet Union
-PRC
-Middle East
Domestic Affairs
Foreign policy
-Vietnam
-Negotiations
-PRC
-Soviet union
-Negotiations and cooperation
-US prestige in Europe
-Japan
-Southeast Asia
-Pakistan-India relations
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-World situation
-The President’s view
-PRC
-White’s final chapter in forthcoming book
-Great statesmen
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Trip to Soviet Union
-Meeting with Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Chou En-Lai
-The President
-Konrad Adenauer
-Charles A.J.M. De Gaulle
-Winston S. Churchill
-[Maurice] Harold MacMillan
-Eisenhower
-Soviet Union
-Brezhnev
-PRC
-Chou
-Mao Tse-Tung
-Japan
-Nobosuke Kishi
-Eisaku Sato
-Shigeru Yoshida
-Kekuei Tanaka
-Effect of 1972 election
-The President’s view
The President’s policies
-1968 election
-Effect of press
-Effect of Establishment
-Relations with PRC
-Japan
-Soviet union
-PRC
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT] II
-Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions [MBFR]
-Europe
-Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe [CSCE]
-1972 election
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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-Churchill
-Potsdam analogy
-US relations
-Japan
-PRC
-Europe
-Role of US
-Arms
-Armed forces
-Avoiding Finlandization
-Middle East
-William P. Rogers
-Commitment to Israel
-Africa policy
-Latin America policy
-Need for changes
-The President’s conversation with Kissinger on foreign policy
-Importance of mandate
-Public support at home
-News media
-Time, Newsweek, New York Times, Washington Post
-Effect
-Europe, Japan, Soviet Union, PRC
-May 8, 1972 speech on mining and bombing
-US-Soviet Union summit
Domestic policy
-The President’s view
-Role of Congress
-Harry S. Truman
-80th Congress
-Taft-Hartley bill
-Foreign aid
-Greece, Turkey
-Marshall Plan
-Vietnam
-Congressional action
-Congress
-McGovern
-Bipartisan tradition
-Welfare proposals
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-Strong national defense and foreign policy
-George Meany
-John B. Connally
-Redistribution of wealth
-Truman
-Congressional opposition
-80 Congress
th
-Truman
-Taft-Hartley bill
-Taxes
-Price controls
-The President’s accomplishments
-Post Office
-Revenue sharing
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Welfare reform, taxes, health, government reorganization
-The President’s recent meeting with Congress
-92 Congress
nd
-93 Congress
rd
-Congress
-Effect of the President’s possible mandate
-House
-Senate
-Mandate
-Truman in 1946
-Succession upon Roosevelt’s death
-Mandate
-Republicans
-Domestic policy
-1972 campaign
-Congress
-Welfare increase
-Fiscal responsibility
The President’s schedule
-[William E. Brock, III]
Domestic policy
-Changes
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-The President’s nomination by Rockefeller
-The President’s meeting with Rockefeller
-Poverty program
-1960s decade
-John D. Ehrlichman and Henry A. Kissinger
-Louis P. Harris
-“Change that works”
-American public opinion
-Government reorganization
-Constitutional change
-Cities
-Samuel Lubell
-Harris, George H. Gallup
-Rockefeller
-Transportation, housing
-Pragmatism of administration
-Congress
-Efficiency
-Responsiveness
-Goals
The President’s view of first term
-Protest
-Demonstrators
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