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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar-02)
Date: Unknown between August 17 and August 18, 1972
Time: Unknown after 11:04 pm, August 17, 1972 and before 12:45 am, August 18, 1972
Location: Camp David Hard Wire
The President rehearsed his “Remarks on Accepting the Presidential Nomination of the
Republican National Convention”.
[A transcript of the speech appears in Public Papers of the Presidents, 1972, pp. 787-795.]
Rose Mary Woods entered at an unknown time after 11:04 pm.
The President’s forthcoming acceptance speech
-Transcription of tapes
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-Text changes
-Completion of speech
-Woods’s residence
-Dogwood Lodge
-Elmer H.Bobst’s view
-1968 acceptance speech
-The President’s televised address in the Soviet Union, May 28, 1972
-Effect of speech on electorate
-The President’s televised address in the Soviet Union
-Tanya Savicheva
-William L. Safire
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Aram Bakshian
-Harold J. (“Tex”) Lezar, Jr.
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Price
The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Ronald W. Reagan
-Report on European trip
-The President’s view
-New suits
-Republican National Convention
-The President’s televised address in the Soviet Union
-Anthony T. Rossi
-Zosimo T. Monzon
Call to Woods from unknown person
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar-02)
-Support for the President
-Brig. Gen. Daniel (“Chappie”) James, Jr. television appearance
-View of blacks in US
Letters
-Marjorie P. Acker
-Mamie G.D. Eisenhower and John S.D. Eisenhower
-Thanks for statement about George S. McGovern
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Charles W. Colson’s recent call
-Letter to George Meany
-The President’s telephone call to Meany
-Vietnam veterans
The President’s speeches
-The President’s televised address in the Soviet Union
-Mushroom metaphor
-Price’s role
-Safire
-Savicheva story
-Quality
-Speechwriters’ effort
-Political orientation
-Buchanan
-Kenneth L. Khachigian
-Buchanan
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Question and Answer [Q&A] work
-Andrews
-Price
-Pace of work
-Wok with Andrews during the Soviet trip
-Woods’s view
Agnew
-Compared to R. Sargent Shriver
-Woods’s view
-Domestic Council
-John D. Ehrlichman
-National Security Council [NSC]
-John V. Lindsay
-Charles H. Percy
-Woods’s view
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar-02)
-Domestic Council
-Accomplishments
-Staff
-Briefings for the President while he was Vice President
-Robert E. Cushman
-Agnes Waldron
-Colgate Prentiss
-Princeton University
-Robert C. Wilson
-Agnew’s staff
-The President’s view
-William A. Anders
The President’s forthcoming acceptance speech
-Agnew
-Nomination
-John B. Connally
The President talked with the Camp David operator at an unknown time between 11:04 pm and
11:43 pm.
[Conversation No. 204-9A]
[See Conversation No. 140-33]
[End of telephone conversation]
Price
-Pace of work
-Andrews
-Work with Price during the Soviet trip
The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman between 11:43 pm and 11:49 pm.
[Conversation No. 204-9B]
[See Conversation No. 140-34]
[End of telephone conversation]
The President’s forthcoming acceptance speech
-Relationship between Price and Andrews
-Unknown person
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar-02)
-Previous speechwriters
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Bill Elliot
-James R. Shepley
-Arthur S. Flemming
-Gabriel Hauge
-Harlow
-Shepley
-Wife
-William P. Rogers
-Flemming
Rogers
-Platform Committee
-Woods’s view
The President’s schedule
Woods left at an unknown time before 12:45 am, August 18, 1972 .