On December 6, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David at an unknown time between 12:56 pm and 1:07 pm. The Camp David Hard Wire taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 233-008 of the White House Tapes. Topics include: The President met with H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman. Vice President Spiro T. Agnew - Victor Gold - Memorandum for the President - Relations between the US and the People's Republic of China [PRC] - Gold's impression of Agnew's position on the 1972 ticket - Frank Cormier's article - PRC - John A. Scali - Meeting - John Roberts - Source of item - Cormier - Herbert G. Klein - Sources of rumor - Robert Pierpoint's report about Agnew's involvement in PRC - Arthur J. Sohmer's alleged receipt of unsigned White House cable - Scali - Vice President problem - Involvement - Klein - White House staff relations The press - Pentagon Papers - New morality - William P. Rogers - Letter to the editor of Newsweek from US ambassador to Kenya - Response to article about Agnew - Scali - Golf course - Meeting with Jomo Kenyatta - Use of limousines - Kakuei Tanaka - Newsweek - White House response to article - Lack of contact - Request for retraction - Ronald L. Ziegler, Scali - Henry Hubbard - Kenyatta article - White House contact cut- Off - Ziegler - Retraction of article - Presidential directive - Instructions to Cabinet members - White House staff - Circulation of background information and ambassador's letter to the editor - The Bohemian Grove - Cancellation of trip - Agnew - The President's forthcoming trip - Ohio - California - The Bohemian Grove - Telephone call to the President - The Gridiron dinner - News embargo on reporting event - Comparison to the Bohemian Grove The President's schedule - California - Ronald W. Reagan - Milk producers speech - Patrick J. Buchanan - Northern California [Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 04/26/2019. Segment cleared for release.] [Personal Returnable] [267-010- W001] [Duration: 33s] Spiro T. Agnew - President's opinion on handling Spiro T. Agnew - Continuance in office - Comparison to President's experiences during the Eisenhower administration Unidentified person - Attitude - Haldeman's view [Pause] John B. Connally - President's instructions - Haldeman Fraternal Organizations - Secrecy - Order of Elks - Masons - Lodge Newsweek - Haldeman's forthcoming staff meeting - Letter to Cabinet members - Cable - Hubbard - Call by Ziegler - White House reaction - Richard A. Moore - Letter to Cabinet members - Handling of distribution - Release of letter - Timing - Agnew The President's schedule - July 31, 1971 travel - Republican leaders meeting - Rathbun Dam dedication - Future forum The economy - Wall Street Journal article - Citation by Shultz - Automobile sales, housing starts, production output The Vietnam war - Casualty figures - Cambodia The economy - Positive stories - Great Britain's unemployment rate - Comparison with the US - Germany, Japan, Italy - Welfare recipients in the US - Per Capita Income - Latin America, Mexico - Africa - South Asia - Italy Thomas R. Shepard - Speech -"Ding- A- Ling" era - Current issues - The environment - Air and water pollution - Participants in television show - Population projections - People concerned with environmental and social issues -"Disaster lobby" - Ralph Nader - Automobile fatalities -1920's to 1961 - Automobile safety improvements - Nader - Compulsory seatbelts and shoulder harnesses - Automobile recalls - Effect on auto fatalities - The environment - Air pollution - Coal - Industry development of alternative energy sources - Amount of oxygen at present compared with 1910 - Water pollution -1900 statistics on typhoid in Chicago - Comparison to the present - Lake Erie - Municipal responsibilities - Sewage Environmental issues - John D. Ehrlichman - Dichlorodiphenyl trichloroethane [DDT] - Effect - Rachel Carson's Silent Spring - Malaria control - Ceylon - Increase in deaths after DDT ban - Gypsy moth - Copies of speech by Shepard - Distribution to Ehrlichman and John C. Whitaker - Possible future speech by the President - Speech - Population growth projections - Disaster lobby - Free enterprise system - Daniel P. Moynihan - Influence - President's view - Poll questions - Charles W. Colson - Louis Harris - Environmental issues - Jobs compared with environment - Harris' handling of questions - Compared to Thomas W. Benham Shepard - Possibility of White House job - Nader's effect on business - Consumerism - Speech - Regulation - Kingman Brewster's comments - Fair trials for Black revolutionaries - US senator - Ralph Nader - Comparison with other eras in US history - Pre- Civil War gold rush fever - Post- Civil War carpetbaggers -1920's - Senator Joseph McCarthy -"Disaster lobbyists" - Quote from the President - Appearance, abililties - Comparison of writing style with the President's speaking style - Use of the term crackpot - Consumer and environmental activists - Speech - Current attitudes in the US - Emphasis on rights of the criminal, not the victim - Universities - Draft dodgers compared with soldiers serving in the US military - Treatment of minorities compared with charges of racism - Double standards on prejudice - Liberal prejudice against hardhats, construction workers, career soldiers, southern Whites - Vietnam war - Action against cigarette smoking compared with the fight to liberalize marijuana laws - Beliefs of "disaster lobby" - Copies of speech - Distribution - Raymond K. Price, Jr. and speech writers - Ehrlichman, Whitaker - Nature of environmental issues - Comparison with the President's handling of the Vietnam war - Edmund S. Muskie, Nader Haldeman left at 4:00 pm. Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.
- Part of White House Tapes: Sound Recordings of Meetings and Telephone Conversations of the Nixon Administration, Camp David Hard Wire Sound Recordings