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Conversation: 398-001

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Start Date: 19-Jan-1973 3:07 PM

End Date: 19-Jan-1973 4:10 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Price, Raymond K., Jr.

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

398-001.mp3

NARA Description:

On January 19, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Raymond K. Price, Jr. met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 3:07 pm and 4:10 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 398-001 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 397-25/398-1

Date: January 19, 1973
Time: Unknown between 3:07 pm and 4:10 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Raymond K. Price, Jr.; the recording began at an unknown time while
the meeting was in progress.

[An unknown portion of the conversation was not recorded at this time while the tape was
changed.]

       President's Inaugural speech
             -Content and wording
                    -Revisions
                    -Last paragraph
                    -Sense of responsibility
                           -Public understanding
                           -Omitted lines [?]
                           -President’s suggestions
                           -Overlong sentence
                    -Government's role
                    -Quotability
                    -First paragraph
                    -Conclusion
                           -1969 Inaugural speech
                                 -Text
                                 -Reading copies
                           -Price’s suggestions
                           -Revisions
                           -Hallowing references
                                 -Previous presidents
                           -Reliance references
                                 -Appeal to deity
                                 -Appeal to American people
                    -Future of US
             -Typing of draft
             -Length
                                                -2-

                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                        Tape Subject Log
                                          (rev. Jan.-09)

                                                      Conversation No. 397-25/398-1 (cont’d)

                    -John F. Kennedy
              -Central theme
                    -Sense of responsibility
                           -President’s views [?]
              -Revisions
                    -Length
              -Final draft
                    -Delivery
                    -Ronald L. Ziegler
              -Hugh Scott

Price left at 4:10 pm.