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September 29, 1972

Introduction

This almanac page for Friday, September 29, 1972, pulls together various records created by the federal government and links to additional resources which can provide context about the events of the day.

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Schedule and Public Documents

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Archival Holdings

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Selective document listing

President's Office Files

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The H. R. Haldeman Diaries consists of seven handwritten diaries, 36 dictated diaries recorded as sound recordings, and two handwritten audio cassette tape subject logs. The diaries and logs reflect H. R. Haldeman’s candid personal record and reflections on events, issues, and people encountered during his service in the Nixon White House. As administrative assistant to the President and Chief of Staff, Haldeman attended and participated in public events and private meetings covering the entire scope of issues in which the Nixon White House engaged in during the years 1969-1973. Visit the finding aid to learn more.

  • Transcript of diary entry (PDF)
    Friday, September 29.

    The President had a busy day with Foreign Minister Schumann, the Cost of Living Council, some taping and filming, then Sir Alec Douglas Hume in the afternoon and for dinner. He did get into some thoughts on schedule shifts. Decided after he and Colson and I had a long session at noon, that it made sense to hold up one week on Atlanta, to keep this upcoming week completely clear of political activity and then to do New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Ohio, and maybe a mountain state, Denver or something like that, but drop Pennsylvania, New England and Michigan. After some considerable discussion, he made that a firm decision, and we're going ahead on that basis and therefore dropping Atlanta for next week. My argument for keeping Atlanta on was that I was afraid we were going to end up having to do all those other places and that it would pile too much up, but he seems pretty well committed to not doing them now. If he stays with that, this will be a good schedule decision.

    End of September 29.
  • Original audio recording (MP3)

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National Security Documents

The President's Daily Brief is the primary vehicle for summarizing the day-to-day sensitive intelligence and analysis, as well as late-breaking reports, for the White House on current and future national security issues. Read "The President's Daily Brief: Delivering Intelligence to Nixon and Ford" to learn more.

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Vol. VIII, Vietnam, January-October 1972

The Parties Move Toward Agreement, July 19-October 7, 1972

Vol. XV, Soviet Union, June 1972-August 1974

Economic Normalization and Soviet Jewish Emigration, September-December 1972

Vol. XXIV, Middle East Region and Arabian Peninsula, 1969-1972; Jordan, September 1970

Saudi Arabia

  • 164. Memorandum of Conversation, Washington, September 29, 1972

    Source: National Archives, RG 59, Central Files 1970–73, PET SAUD. Confidential. Drafted by Dickman and approved on October 3 by Nicholas Veliotes.

Vol. XXIX, Eastern Europe, 1969-1972

Austria

Bulgaria

Vol. XLI, Western Europe; NATO, 1969-1972

Canada

Vol. E-1, Documents on Global Issues, 1969-1972

U.S. Policy Towards Terrorism, Hijacking of Aircraft, and Attacks on Civil Aviation: The Olympic Attack and the Anti-Terrorism Initiatives, September−December 1972

  • 111. Memorandum From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger) to President Nixon, Washington, September 29, 1972

    Kissinger answered the President’s query about attacks on U.S. businesses overseas in a 3-page memorandum that summarized a longer CIA memorandum on the topic.

    Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, Subject Files, Box 310, Cabinet Committee on Terrorism. Secret. Sent for information. A notation on the memorandum indicated that the President saw it. Tab B was attached but not published.

Oceans Policy

Vol. E-5, Part 1, Documents on Sub-Saharan Africa, 1969-1972

Burundi

  • 226. Memorandum From the Presidentʼs Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger) to President Nixon, Washington, September 29, 1972

    Kissinger summarized Belgiumʼs reactions to the situation in Burundi.

    Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, Box 735, Country Files, Africa, Burundi, Vol. I. Secret; Sensitive. Sent for information. The memorandum is stamped, “The President has Seen.” The President wrote adjacent to the subject line on page one, “What have we done?” Written at the top of page one is, “HK has seen.”

Uganda

Vol. E-10, Documents on American Republics, 1969-1972

Venezuela

The Kissinger telephone conversation transcripts consist of approximately 20,000 pages of transcripts of Kissinger’s telephone conversations during his tenure as Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (1969-1974) and Secretary of State (1973-1974) during the administration of President Richard Nixon. Visit the finding aid for more information.

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Audiovisual Holdings

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White House Telephone

The White House Photo Office collection consists of photographic coverage of President Richard Nixon meeting with prominent social, political, and cultural personalities; speaking engagements and news conferences of the President and various high-ranking members of the White House staff and Cabinet; Presidential domestic and foreign travel, including Presidential vacations; social events and entertainment involving the First Family, including entertainers present; official portraits of the President, First Family, and high-ranking members of the Nixon administration; the 1969 and 1973 Inaugurals; the President’s 1972 Presidential election campaign appearances (including speeches) and other official activities of the White House staff and the President’s Cabinet from January 20, 1969 until August 9, 1974 at the White House and the Old Executive Office Building; other locations in Washington, DC, such as The Mall; and the Presidential retreats in Camp David, Maryland, Key Biscayne, Florida, and San Clemente, California. Visit the finding aid to learn more.

Roll WHPO-D0574 Photographer: Atkins, Oliver | Color or B&W: B&W

  • Frame(s): WHPO-D0574-, President Nixon meeting with the Cost of Living Council. 9/29/1972, Washington, D.C. White House, Cabinet Room. President Nixon, Shultz, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard (Dick) Cheney, Earl L. Butz, Peter Peterson, James Hodgson, Romney, Weinberger, Lincoln, stein, Knauer, Burns, Veneman, Robert M. Ball, Johnnie Walters, arthur Flemming, thomas Curtis, Edward Preston, Marina Whitman, James McLane, Geimer, Concklin, William Walker, Kosters, Donald Murdoch, William Greener Jr., Robert Lane.
  • Frame(s): WHPO-D0574-08, President Nixon meeting with the Cost of Living Council. 9/29/1972, Washington, D.C. White House, Cabinet Room. President Nixon, Shultz, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard (Dick) Cheney, Earl L. Butz, Peter Peterson, James Hodgson, Romney, Weinberger, Lincoln, stein, Knauer, Burns, Veneman, Robert M. Ball, Johnnie Walters, arthur Flemming, thomas Curtis, Edward Preston, Marina Whitman, James McLane, Geimer, Concklin, William Walker, Kosters, Donald Murdoch, William Greener Jr., Robert Lane.

Roll WHPO-D0575 Photographer: Grove, Andrew | Color or B&W: B&W

  • Frame(s): WHPO-D0575-, President Nixon seated informally with French Ambassador Jacques Kosciusko-Morizet, French Minister of Foreign Affairs Maurice Schumann, and Henry Kissinger. 9/29/1972, Washington, D.C. White House, Oval Office. President Nixon, Jacques Kosciusko-Morizet, Maurice Schumann, Kissinger.

Roll WHPO-D0576 Photographer: Knudsen, Robert L. | Color or B&W: B&W

  • Frame(s): WHPO-D0576-03-11, A student group from Grambling College. 9/29/1972, Washington, D.C. Diplomatic Entrance stairs, balcony, White House. Grambling College students.
  • Frame(s): WHPO-D0576-12-14, Closeup portraits of an unidentified lieutenant. 9/29/1972, Washington, D.C. unknown. unidentified lieutenant.

Roll WHPO-D0577 Photographer: Knudsen, Robert L. | Color or B&W: B&W

  • Frame(s): WHPO-D0577-, President Nixon in the Oval Office standing and seated at his desk during a meeting with "Saturday Evening Post" Editors Beurt and Cory SerVaas and Ollie Atkins, the presidential photographer and manager of the White House Photo Office. 9/29/1972, Washington, D.C. White House, Oval Office. President Nixon, Beurt SerVaas, Cory SerVaas, Oliver Atkins.

Roll WHPO-D0578 Photographer: Knudsen, Robert L. | Color or B&W: B&W

  • Frame(s): WHPO-D0578-, President Nixon seated informally with British Secretary of State Sir Alec Douglas-Home and Henry Kissinger. 9/29/1972, Washington, D.C. White House, Oval Office. Alec Douglas-Home, Henry Kissinger.
  • Frame(s): WHPO-D0578-07, President Nixon seated informally in the Oval Office during a meeting with British Secretary of State Sir Alec Douglas-Home and Henry Kissinger. 9/29/1972, Washington, D.C. White House, Oval Office. President Nixon, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Henry Kissinger.

Roll WHPO-D0579 Photographer: Grove, Andrew | Color or B&W: B&W

  • Frame(s): WHPO-D0579-, Weinberger meeting with unidentified persons. 9/29/1972, Washington, D.C. unknown. Weinberger, unidentified persons.

Roll WHPO-D0581 Photographer: Knudsen, Robert L. | Color or B&W: Color

  • Frame(s): WHPO-D0581-, Formal dinnerware table setting for 16, set for a dinner to honor Sir Alec Douglas-Home. May be Eisenhower dinnerware plates. Gold bowl vases hold low floral arrangements of white and yellow daisies with blue batchelor button flowers. 9/29/1972, Washington, D.C. Blue Room, White House.
  • Frame(s): WHPO-D0581-07A, Formal dinnerware table setting for 16, set for a dinner to honor Sir Alec Douglas-Home. May be Eisenhower dinnerware plates. Gold bowl vases hold low floral arrangements of white and yellow daisies with blue batchelor button flowers. 9/29/1972, Washington, D.C. Blue Room, White House.

Roll WHPO-D0583 Photographer: Schumacher, Karl | Color or B&W: B&W

  • Frame(s): WHPO-D0583-, Vice President Agnew at various sites: arriving by plane; addressing a large audience; and shaking hands individually with unidentified men. 9/29/1972, Tampa, Florida tarmac, unknown indoor sites. Agnew, audience, unidentified men.

Roll WHPO-D0584 Photographer: Schumacher, Karl | Color or B&W: B&W

  • Frame(s): WHPO-D0584-, Vice President Agnew on an airplane and addressing a large audience. 9/29/1972, air, Tampa, Florida plane, unknown indoor site. Agnew, audience, unidentified men and women.

Roll WHPO-D0585 Photographer: Schumacher, Karl | Color or B&W: B&W

  • Frame(s): WHPO-D0585-, Vice President Agnew addressing a large outdoor audience and greeting people in the crowd during a campaign trip. 9/29/1972, Jackson, Mississippi unknown outdoor location. Spiro Agnew, policemen, audience, crowd.
  • Frame(s): WHPO-D0585-11, Vice President Agnew (seen from overhead and behind) addressing a large outdoor audience gathered at the end of a street during a campaign trip. TV news cameramen and photographers stand in a group amid the crowd. 9/29/1972, Jackson, Mississippi unknown outdoor location. Spiro Agnew, policemen, audience, crowd, members of the press.

Roll WHPO-D0586 Photographer: Schumacher, Karl | Color or B&W: Color

  • Frame(s): WHPO-D0586-, Vice President Agnew addressing a large outdoor audience and greeting people in the crowd during a campaign trip. 9/29/1972, Jackson, Mississippi unknown outdoor location. Spiro Agnew, policemen, audience, crowd.

Roll WHPO-D0587 Photographer: Schumacher, Karl | Color or B&W: B&W

  • Frame(s): WHPO-D0587-, Vice President Agnew arriving by plane, addressing a large outdoor audience, and leaving by his Air Force Two (AF2) plane. 9/29/1972, Jackson, Mississippi tarmac, unknown outdoor location. Spiro Agnew, audience.

The White House Communications Agency Sound Recordings Collection contains public statements that took place between 1969 and 1974. Visit the finding aid to learn more.

H - White House Staff Member Recordings

  • WHCA-SR-H-692
    Press briefing by Donald Rumsfeld of the Cost of Living Council, Ronald Ziegler, and Richard Cheney. (9/29/1972, Press Lobby, White House)

    Runtime: 0:38:53

    Keywords: Press conferences, news conferences, interviews, media, press secretary

    Production credits: Audio feed supplied by WHCA; Recorded by CRB (initials of WHCA engineer)

    Original Format: 1/4-inch reel-to-reel audiotape. Original source type: Original. Technical notes: 57 minutes and 51 seconds of silence at end of recording removed from access copies.

L - White House Press Office Briefings

  • WHCA-SR-L-029
    Press briefing by Gerald Warren. (9/29/1972, White House Press Lobby)

    Runtime: 0:06:11

    Keywords: Press conferences, news conferences, interviews, media, press secretary, briefings, public statements to the press, SALT, S.A.L.T, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, Russia, Soviet Union, USSR, Cold War detente, treaty, treaties signing ceremony, signings

    Production credits: Audio feed supplied by WHCA; Recorded by JBA (initials of WHCA engineer)

    Original Format: 1/4-inch reel-to-reel audiotape. Original source type: Original. Technical notes: 1 hour, 30 minutes and 31 seconds of silence at end of recording removed from access copies.

P - Formal Presidential Remarks

  • WHCA-SR-P-720926
    Remarks by President Nixon for Salute to Ethel Waters dinner in DC. (9/29/1972)

    Runtime: 0:43

    Original Format: 1/4-inch reel-to-reel audiotape. Original source type: Original.
  • WHCA-SR-P-720927
    Remarks by President Nixon re Opportunities Industrialization Center. (9/29/1972)

    Runtime: 1:55

    Original Format: 1/4-inch reel-to-reel audiotape. Original source type: Original.

The White House Communications Agency Videotape Collection contains “off-the-air” recordings of televised programs produced between 1968 and 1974. Visit the finding aid to learn more.

  • WHCA-5806
    Weekly News Summary, Tape I.
    ALL NETWORKS
    Runtime: 01:37:00

    1. Smith/Jarriel: Paris peace talks; General Haig in Vietnam. Time Code Start: 00:00. Keywords: Paris Peace Talks, Vietnam War, treaty, treaties, negotiations. Network: ABC.

    2. Reasoner/Jackson/Shoumacher: POWs have returned. Time Code Start: 01:48. Keywords: Vietnam War, Vietnam Prisoner of War, releases, arrivals. Network: ABC.

    3. Smith/Koppel: Interview with Lieutenant Gartley, newly released POW. Time Code Start: 06:45. Keywords: Vietnam War, POW (Vietnam Prisoner of War). Network: ABC.

    4. Reasoner/Donaldson: Vietnam, Lavelle hearings. Time Code Start: 08:56. Keywords: Vietnam War, Air Force, military officials, bombings, Sentate, hearings, investigations, retirement, hearings, investigations. Network: ABC.

    5. Smith/Gill: Vice President Agnew heckled in Tampa, Florida. Time Code Start: 11:02. Keywords: Vice Presidents, demonstrations, rally, protesters, demonstraters, demonstrators. Network: ABC.

    6. Reasoner/Kincaid: Black vote in Columbus, Ohio. Time Code Start: 13:36. Keywords: Vote, voters, voting, Presidential elections, campaigns, campaigning, candidates, voting, registrations, African Americans. Network: ABC.

    7. Smith: Commentary on Taiwan. Time Code Start: 17:10. Keywords: People's Republic of China. Network: ABC.

    8. Chancellor: POWs return to U.S.. Time Code Start: 19:00. Keywords: Vietnam War, Vietnam Prisoner of War, releases, arrivals. Network: NBC.

    9. Chancellor/Scott/Osborne/Oliver/Davis: Military bases where POWs are hospitalized. Time Code Start: 22:55. Keywords: hospitals, Armed Forces, military, air bases, airfields, airports, troops, Vietnam War, Vietnam Prisoner of War, returning, releases, illness, health, Armed Forces, Air Force, Army, Navy, Marines. Network: NBC.

    10. Chancellor/Streithorst: Haig goes to Vietnam; Film on French peace plan for Vietnam. Time Code Start: 27:06. Keywords: Paris Peace Talks, Vietnam War, treaty, treaties, negotiations. Network: NBC.

    11. Cronkite: Wheat scandal: The Great Grain Robbery. Time Code Start: 30:25. Keywords: American, Soviet Union, USSR, Russia, agriculture, food, crops, products, sales, agreements, business, imports, exports, trade, Federal Bureau of Investigations, government, organizations, crime. Network: CBS.

    12. Cronkite/Serafin: Vice President Agnew in Tampa, Florida. Time Code Start: 38:10. Keywords: elections, campaigns, campaigning, primaries, candidates, voting, speeches. Network: CBS.

    13. Cronkite/Strauser: Lavelle hearings. Time Code Start: 40:45. Keywords: Vietnam War, Air Force, military officials, bombings, Sentate, hearings, investigations, retirement, hearings, investigations. Network: CBS.

    14. Cronkite/Schieffer/Curtis: POWs return to U.S.. Time Code Start: 42:43. Keywords: Vietnam War, Vietnam Prisoner of War, releases, arrivals. Network: CBS.

Context (External Sources)

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