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Start Date: 19-Jan-1973 4:40 PM

End Date: 19-Jan-1973 5:23 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")Price, Raymond K., Jr.

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

398-007.mp3

NARA Description:

On January 19, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and Raymond K. Price, Jr. met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 4:40 pm to 5:23 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 398-007 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 398-7

Date: January 19, 1973
Time: 4:40 pm - 5:23 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

       President's dictating machine
             -Operation

       President's Inaugural speech

       President's second term
             -Record
             -Ideas
             -1972 election
                    -Effort

       Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo’s schedule
            -Call from the President
            -Meeting with the President

       Second term reorganization
            -William P. Rogers
                  -Tenure as Secretary of State
            -Retirement from government service
                  -Resistance
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            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                               Tape Subject Log
                                 (rev. Jan.-09)

                                                          Conversation No. 398-7 (cont’d)


Transcribing President’s dictations
     -Staff
            -Trustworthiness
     -Rose Mary Woods
     -Marjorie P. Acker
     -Woods
            -Loyalty
            -Speed
     -Haldeman’s secretary
     -Copies

Spiro T. Agnew
      -Henry A. Kissinger
      -Responsibilities
      -Dwight D. Eisenhower
      -Possible travels
      -Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT] negotiations
            -Soviet Union
            -Possible results
      -Kissinger

Watergate
     -Charles W. Colson
     -Spokesman role
          -Kissinger
          -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
     -Executive privilege defense
          -John D. Ehrlichman
          -Republicans
          -John F. Kennedy
          -Lyndon B. Johnson
          -Staff responsibility
          -Support in Congress
          -Applicability
                -Presidential advisors
                -Kissinger's staff
                       -Relationship with the President
                             -Paper drafting
                                       -9-

            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                               Tape Subject Log
                                 (rev. Jan.-09)

                                                        Conversation No. 398-7 (cont’d)

           -Conversation with staff
     -Colson
     -L. Patrick Gray III [?]

Inaugural events
     -Concert

Nixon Foundation trustees
     -Meeting on Nixon Library
           -Site selection
                  -San Clemente
           -Scott Ebert [?]
           -Whittier College site
           -Clinton Harris
           -Site selection
                  -Meeting with President
                  -Whittier College
                        -Ehrlichman's view
                        -San Clemente
                        -Yorba Linda
                              -Compared to Eisenhower
                                    -Birthplace in Dennison, Texas
                  -Whittier College
                        -Advantages
                              -College consortium
     -William F. (“Billy”) Graham
     -Donald McI. Kendall
     -Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
     -John N. Mitchell
     -Jack Drown
     -W. Clement Stone
     -H. Ross Perot
     -Hubert Perry
     -Harris
     -Edward C. Nixon
     -Donald F. Nixon
     -Leonard K. Firestone
     -Taft Schreiber
     -Patricia R. Hitt
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                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                        Tape Subject Log
                                          (rev. Jan.-09)

                                                           Conversation No. 398-7 (cont’d)

              -Leonard Garment
              -Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope
              -Delores (Reade) Hope
              -Mitchell

       Item for President's signature

       Inaugural events
            -Sammy Davis, Jr.
                   -Health
                   -Frank Sinatra
                         -Substitution
                         -Master of ceremonies
            -President's appearance
                   -Concerts
                   -Cast party
                   -President’s Inaugural speech
                   -Press relations

Raymond K. Price, Jr. entered at 5:04 pm.

       President's schedule

Price left at 5:05 pm.

       Inaugural events
            -Appearances by President
                   -Ball
                   -Sinatra
                   -Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra
                   -Ball
                   -Cast party
                   -Concert
            -Weather
            -Parade
                   -Audience reception by President
                         -Television [TV] coverage
                   -Flags
                   -Presidential box
                                       -11-

            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                               Tape Subject Log
                                 (rev. Jan.-09)

                                                       Conversation No. 398-7 (cont’d)

                 -Lighting
                       -TV coverage

President's schedule
      -Stephen B. Bull
      -Meeting with Graham
             -Timing
      -Coming weeks
             -Other meetings
                  -John B. Connally [?]

Vietnam settlement
     -Kissinger's trip
           -Announcement
                 -Timing
                 -Press conference
                 -Prayer breakfast
                 -President’s schedule
                       -Hussein ibn Talal [Hussein, King of Jordan]
                             -Visit
     -Announcement
           -Ehrlichman
           -Ziegler
           -Presentation
                 -Ronald W. Reagan
                 -Teleprompter
                 -Taping
                 -Connally
                 -Charts, pictures

President's first term
      -Accomplishments
             -Credit
             -1972 election
                    -Vote
             -Volunteer armed forces
             -Post Office Department
      -Second term reorganization
             -Roy L. Ash
                                             -12-

                 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                    Tape Subject Log
                                      (rev. Jan.-09)

                                                        Conversation No. 398-7 (cont’d)

                -Clinton Rossiter
                      -Book

      Rossiter
            -Death
                  -Kissinger
            -Student riots
                  -Vietnam War

      Second-term reorganization
           -Rossiter
           -Value
           -Time required
           -Haldeman's work
           -Bull's work
           -Haldeman's work
                 -Morale
                 -Compared to Sherman Adams and James Hagerty
                 -Ehrlichman
           -Ash
           -George P. Shultz
           -Ehrlichman
           -Outside support
           -Mitchell


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           -George H.W. Bush
                 -Visits to White House
                       -Camp David
                 -Robert S. Dole
                 -Team player
           -Clarence J. (“Bud”) Brown, Jr.
           -Effect
           -Goldwater
           -Campaign
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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. Jan.-09)

                                                         Conversation No. 398-7 (cont’d)

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       President's schedule
             -Price
             -President’s Inaugural speech

Haldeman left at 5:23 pm.